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President Jones, Dolly Parton and the magic of ‘traditioned innovation’

University Business

Traditioned innovation is driving Belmont Universitys new medical school, which welcomed its inaugural class of 50 students this past fall. Built with a 60,000-square-foot simulation lab, school leaders will learn how to incorporate technology into stemming the countrys worsening physician shortage. Listen here.

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Best medical schools: U.S. News unveils its 2024 list—without rank

University Business

News & World Report on Tuesday published its list of the 2024 Best Medical Schools , but you won’t find where your institution ranks anywhere on the report. “A comparative rating of participating schools is more informative than having no listing at all,” according to the report’s methodology.

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Medical College Admission Data, 2023

Higher Ed Data Stories

Read about them here , whence I shamelessly stole this information. The fourth tab shows which undergraduate institutions sent applications to US Medical Schools in what quantity, based on student ethnicity.

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Veteran Healers

Insight Into Diversity

Medical School and Veterans Affairs Partnerships Advance Research, Innovation Since the end of World War II, when an overwhelming number of veterans returned from deployment in need of care, the U.S. Nearly 70 percent of all physicians have trained with the VA in at least one of its 170 medical centers.

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Funding university research “key in building innovation” in India

The PIE News

One example being from the Indian governments partnership with institutions like Indian Institutes of Information Technology. Eighty-five percent of medical equipment used in India is imported. A coalition between engineering and medical schools is now underway to drive innovation in medtech, stated Agarwal.

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Developing Story at University of Virginia Health System, UVA Medical School

Higher Education Inquirer

According to the University of Virginia's student newspaper, the Daily Cavalier , a group of 128 doctors have written a formal letter demanding that CEO of UVA Health Craig Kent and UVA Medical School Dean Melina Kibbe resign. The Higher Education Inquirer will release more information as it becomes available.

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Columbia U Drops Out of ‘U.S. News’ Undergraduate Rankings

Inside Higher Ed

The university’s law and medical schools earlier announced that they would not participate, but the undergraduate rankings get more attention. A statement noted that much of the information conveyed in the rankings may be found in the university’s Common Data Sets, which the university just released for this year.