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Elena Gupta, a fourth-year student at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth (right) with her best friend Wendy Zhuo (center) and her best friend’s partner, Jeremy Tran (left), attending the Sam Houston State University College of Osteopathic Medicine Match Day ceremony on Friday, March 21, 2025.
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I’m a fourth-year medical student who responded to an in-flight medical emergency. Here’s what I learned

Clinical skills and kindness are both essential qualities of the doctor I’m becoming.

  • May 8, 2025
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Measles cases are on the rise. Here’s what you need to know

Measles is highly contagious and can be dangerous, but vaccines are safe and effective.

  • April 30, 2025
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What's at stake when clinical trials research gets cut

Federal funding cutoffs and pauses threaten studies on critical ailments. ‘Real humans are being affected.’

  • April 24, 2025
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How uncertainty around cuts to scientific research is impacting the future biomedical research workforce

Researchers worry that temporary interruptions in PhD programs could have long-term implications for the biomedical sciences.

  • April 16, 2025

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No joke: The serious role of improv in medicine

Want to be a better doctor? Medical improv transforms goofy theater games into serious skills like empathy, teamwork, and super-quick thinking.

  • Jan. 13, 2020
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Displaced Hahnemann residents and attending physicians may soon lose liability insurance

The AAMC, AMA, ECFMG, and others are working to ensure physicians’ liability insurance coverage continues after they left the now-shuttered hospital.

  • Jan. 7, 2020
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How we fail black patients in pain

An expert looks at how false notions and hidden biases fuel inadequate treatment of minorities’ pain.

  • Jan. 6, 2020
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Today’s residents, by the numbers

The AAMC’s 2019 Report on Residents provides a data-based look at trends in test scores, specialties, and professional practices.

  • Jan. 5, 2020
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Thanks, a lot

Students and doctors learn to practice gratitude to ward off burnout and rekindle their love of medicine.

  • Jan. 2, 2020
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Our top 10 news stories of 2019

From the closure of Hahnemann University Hospital to insights into why many women leave medicine early in their careers, these are 2019’s top AAMCNews stories.

  • Dec. 29, 2019
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Flying solo

How a downed photographer, a hellish flight, and a Fisher-Price quality stethoscope reminded author Danielle Ofri how much she values her medical teammates.

  • Dec. 22, 2019
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AAMC Statement on Passage of Appropriations Minibus and Health Extenders Package

AAMC President and CEO David J. Skorton, MD, issued a statement on passage of the Further Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2020.

  • Dec. 18, 2019
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21 million Americans suffer from addiction. Just 3,000 physicians are specially trained to treat them.

The Opioid Workforce Act of 2019 would add 1,000 more federally-funded residencies in addiction medicine, addiction psychiatry, and pain medicine.

  • Dec. 18, 2019
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Aiming for zero suicides

Teaching hospitals are taking bold new approaches to reduce suicide rates, including rapid identification of at-risk patients and aggressive follow-up care.

  • Dec. 17, 2019