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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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The Power of Alumni Networks: Featuring Graduate Success Stories in Your Marketing Strategy?

HEM (Higher Education Marketing)

Schools can amplify this impact by encouraging alumni to tag their alma mater in their career updates, engage in school-sponsored events, and contribute to online discussions within alumni groups. Additionally, search engines favor authentic, frequently updated content.

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The Unbearable Weight of 1000 Days: Afghan girls and their Stolen Future 

HEPI

This HEPI blog was kindly authored by Naimat Zafary, a PhD researcher at the University of Sussex and a former Afghan Chevening Scholar. My sister was supposed to sit for her final medical exit exam, yet remains a doctor without a certificate. Today, 13 June 2024, marks 1,000 days since girls’ education was banned in Afghanistan.

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Leveraging European Partnerships in Medical Education

HEPI

The United Kingdom faces a critical shortage of medical professionals , a problem exacerbated by the limited availability of medical school places. The Problem: Limited Medical Education Opportunities in the UK UK medical schools are oversubscribed, with only a fraction of applicants securing a place each year.

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About That N.Y.U. Organic Chem Course

Inside Higher Ed

Blog: Just Visiting It seems life all of higher ed Twitter has been discussing the story of Maitlin Jones Jr., Organic chemistry is a necessary pre-requisite for medical school, and often serves as a high-stakes, weed-out course for students walking that path. Students felt they were being weeded out unfairly.

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Friday Fragments: Parenting Edition

Inside Higher Ed

Blog: Confessions of a Community College Dean I read last week about the Association of Community College Trustees and Head Start teaming up to place more Head Start locations on community college campuses. This job may help with medical school applications, or it may help him move in another direction if that’s what he decides to do.

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Could the medical classroom do with a healthy dose of politics?

LSE Higher Education Blog

These include opening traditional education systems to review and criticism, increasing the attention paid to the hidden curriculum, formal recognition of critical thinking as an essential dimension in the medical educational process, and increasing participatory learning throughout medical school.