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Scott Harris
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In the News

Fundraisers Think Globally, Act Locally for Research Support While federal funding remains flat, many leaders in academic medicine are bolstering traditional revenue streams with innovative approaches to research funding.

Battle Lines Drawn Over Specialty Hospitals Debate over for-profit specialty hospitals intensifies as federal restrictions on the construction of new specialty hospitals are set to expire in June.

A Look Inside the RWJF Health Policy Fellowships Working in the frenzied pace of Capitol Hill is just one of the many eye-opening experiences that RWJF Health Policy Fellows encounter.

In Every Issue

A Word from the President "Minting 'Good Doctors'"

Viewpoint "Steering the Ship Toward Reform: A Medical Student's View on American Health Care" by Erick Cheung, B.S.

In the Print Issue

Medical Students on the Front Line: "The Soul of a Doctor"
Where, exactly, does the soul of a doctor lie? This book indicates it resides within the medical student — floating somewhere between idealism and realism, the classroom and the exam room, and in the look on the face of a doctor's first patient.

Seismic Shift in Culture as NIH Grants Go Electronic
As the grant application process at National Institutes of Health switches to electronic submissions only, a lot of research administrators are holding their breaths.

Mental Health Education Key to Physician Development, Research
Concerned that psychiatric disorders are going unrecognized and untreated, the APA and others are calling for renewed efforts to train all medical students to spot and treat psychiatric disorders.

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