June 30, 2011Thursday researchstudents Recognized SOMA names first Student Research Fellowship winners The five recipients will each receive $2,000 to help fund their investigations.
June 30, 2011Thursday medical school Cream of the crop Best medical schools? Profession mixed on fairness, merits of U.S. News rankings School representatives agree that the ranking methodology is flawed, but they differ on what should be done about it.
June 29, 2011Wednesday communicationmedical school Art of medicine Schools keying on writing, verbal skills to deepen students’ clinical acumen Along with teaching bedside skills, medical schools recognize the value of writing to spur reflection and understanding in students.
June 22, 2011Wednesday EHRs ‘Waiting for the perfect EHR’ EHR holdouts: Concerns still keeping some DOs away, but with good reason? Anxieties about cost, reliability, patient privacy weigh on some DOs. But one expert says many worries have been addressed in recent years.
June 17, 2011Friday In Memoriam A life in medicine In Memoriam: June 17, 2011 View the names of osteopathic physicians who have died recently.
June 3, 2011Friday social mediastudents Social savvy Writing on the Wall: Crude behavior online can jeopardize a student’s future Using profanity, posting inappropriate photos and videos invites trouble. “The things you post online are there forever,” a dean says.
June 2, 2011Thursday disaster medicinevolunteer Helping hand VCOM-VC volunteers deliver supplies to tornado-struck clinic in Alabama Three days after a tornado struck Birmingham, six students and two deans loaded a truck with medical equipment and drove south.
June 2, 2011Thursday disaster medicine ‘The town is gone’ DO recalls overnight shift at Joplin hospital during deadly tornado “MASH unit on concrete” treats hundreds of victims, patients transferred from nearby hospital.