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New medical schools: the story so far

HEPI

In 2016, the then Health Secretary, Jeremy Hunt, promised that medical schools in England would be allowed to offer up to 1,500 extra training places a year with a view to making the NHS self-sufficient in doctors by 2025. Yet strict caps remain on the number of medical students that can be recruited. Number caps.

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Leading with Purpose: AABHE’s President Charts Path for Black Excellence

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Dr. Shewanee Howard-Baptiste After a tough love encounter with science and biology courses, she realized the medical field wasnt her calling. Her pivot from medical school aspirations to a career in health education is now a lesson she shares with young people: life is a journey, not a checklist.

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Medical College Admission Data, 2023

Higher Ed Data Stories

This is a reboot of a visualization I did in 2018, which I found fascinating, but which didn't get much traffic at the time, and thus, I've not refreshed it. Each year, the Association of American Medical Colleges publishes a lot of data about admission to medical colleges in the US.

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A new path from California community colleges to med school

Inside Higher Ed

Padilla, now a graduate of University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry and a clinical assistant professor at Stanford University School of Medicine, said the community college was a “lifeline” and “fresh slate” for him, but his success didn’t come easily. It’s streamlined and connected.”

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Billion-Dollar Gift Broadens Access to Johns Hopkins

Insight Into Diversity

The gift, directed to Johns Hopkins’ endowment, ensures that every dollar directly benefits students, and builds onto Bloomberg’s 2018 gift that expanded financial aid for undergraduates from low- and moderate-income backgrounds at Johns Hopkins. The impact of tuition-free medical school programs remains under review.

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Georgia: int’ls double amid Ukraine crisis

The PIE News

They mainly come to our medical school, but there are students in other faculties such as business, international relations, IT and psychology,” Shengelia told Belgium-based publication Equal Times. “More than 500 students have transferred to our university from Ukraine following the war.

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FTC Refunds $830K to Former Saint James Med School Students

Inside Higher Ed

percent pass rate and guaranteed that students would pass the United States Medical Licensing Examination Step 1. For example, a Saint James brochure touted a 96.77