Technology offers a way to connect, communicate, and learn more quickly than past practices. As the years move on, we see an increased use of technology at medical schools and in medical practices. This increased use of technology in medicine makes it important for prospective...
Some medical schools in the country have partnered with the American Medical Association to provide their students with hands-on experience in the practice of medicine and caring for some of the nation's must vulnerable and medically underserved communities. The Accelerating Change in Medical Education Consortium...
A physician professor at Penn State College of Medicine has devised a creative method of using comic books to teach med school students. Michael Green, MD, an internist, bioethicist and the vice chair of the department of humanities and director of the program in bioethics at...
With medicine becoming a more collaborative, interprofessional discipline, it’s no surprise that the medical schools of the future are following suit. The University of North Dakota (UND) School of Medicine and Health Sciences (SMHS) opened the doors to its new building this summer. Believing they...
Every year, scientists and researchers discover and develop new drugs, devices, and vaccines that improve the health of millions of people. These innovations range from complex inventions that take decades to develop to ingeniously simple devices that benefit the most vulnerable populations in the world. Here are...
With expanding technologies and the digitalization of information storage, modern industries and fields of research, from science to economics, now find more and more use for digital data visualization. Data visualization is the visual representation of abstract data, usually through graphs and charts, that can be...
Through an extensive renovation, Illinois Wesleyan University has aligned the physical space of its School of Nursing with the growing need of laboratory and simulation learning for the training of nursing students. The century-old Stevenson Hall was transformed into a facility with a layout that closely...
Psychiatrists Ryan C. W. Hall and Susan Hatters-Friedman discussed how they use analyses of Star Wars characters as diagnostic tools during the American Psychiatric Association's annual meeting (APA 2016) in Atlanta, Georgia. For students of psychiatry, it can be hard to take textbook definitions of psychopathology and imagine...
Coffee, the perky morning beverage so many of us rely on daily isn’t only good for boosting our energy (and possibly saving us from creating archenemies in those wee hours of the morning), its ground form has actually been found to remove harmful chemicals from contaminated...
This summer the National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced that Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) was chosen to be the Data and Research Support Center for the Precision Medicine Initiative Cohort Program, a landmark study of genetic, environmental and lifestyle factors affecting the health of a millions...
