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Susanna Goggans, MD, (right) poses with her fiancé, Trace Bowen (left), parents, Jennifer and Phil Goggans (center), and sister, Rebecca Goggans (front) on Match Day 2025.
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Rising above: These graduating medical students overcame immense challenges on the way to an MD

Five graduating medical students share how they made it through medical school despite extraordinary circumstances.

  • May 21, 2025
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Medical schools move from worrying about AI to teaching it

Faculty used to fret over how artificial intelligence might affect education. Now they’re training medical students how to use it for patient care and research.

  • May 15, 2025
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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Medical schools move from worrying about AI to teaching it

Faculty used to fret over how artificial intelligence might affect education. Now they’re training medical students how to use it for patient care and research.

  • May 15, 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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AAMC Statement on Amicus Brief Filed in NIH Grants Termination Lawsuit

The AAMC issued a statement regarding an amicus brief it filed with other organizations in the case of Massachusetts et al. v. Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., et al.

  • April 17, 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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National Organizations Announce Joint Effort to Develop a New Indirect Costs Funding Model

National organizations have joined to spur the development of a more efficient and transparent model for funding indirect costs on federal research grants.

  • April 8, 2025
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4 medical advances that are improving care and saving lives

A pioneering heart valve transplant, creating speech for a paralyzed patient, and more. Check out advances in academic medicine that are changing patient care.

  • April 8, 2025
Casey Harrell weeps with joy after using a brain-computer interface created at UC Davis Health that enabled him to speak for the first time in years.
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AAMC Statement on Mass Layoffs at the Department of Health and Human Services

The AAMC issued a statement on the commencement of layoffs and reorganization at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

  • April 2, 2025
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The patient gown: Ugh. No one likes it, but some teaching hospitals offer alternatives.

Traditional hospital gowns draw concerns that they dehumanize patients and make many providers uneasy. New versions offer dignity, comfort, and practicality.

  • April 2, 2025
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AAMC Statement on Confirmation of Jay Bhattacharya, MD, PhD, as Director of the National Institutes of Health

The AAMC issued a statement on confirmation of Jay Bhattacharya, MD, PhD, as Director of the National Institutes of Health.

  • March 28, 2025
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Could popular weight-loss drugs help treat addiction and dementia?

Researchers are studying how GLP-1 agonists affect the brain and may help with hard-to-treat behavioral health conditions.

  • March 13, 2025
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