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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.

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2023 Inspiring Programs in STEM Award Winners

Insight Into Diversity

Diversifying Our Curing Community (DOCC) Arkansas State University College of Science and Mathematics DOCC seeks to increase the number of under-represented students accepted into medical schools. Awardees receive an honorarium and are invited to present a seminar in the spring. Dreamline Pathways A.T.

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The Post-Pandemic College Campus as a Design Challenge

Inside Higher Ed

Me : Just visit a medical school and you’ll be amazed by how extensively these professional schools already make use of simulations including virtual cadavers, hearts, and brains as well as surgery simulators -- leaving those plastic toy human anatomy kits that children have played with in the dust.

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Cultural Competency & Anti-Bias Programs Address Health Disparities

Insight Into Diversity

State and federal laws and health care schools’ accreditation standards often mandate anti-bias and cultural competency education and training. Such programs might be embedded within curricula, learned in a workshop or campus seminar, be part of an internship or professional training, or shared within community outreach opportunities.

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2022 INSIGHT Into Diversity HEED Award Recipients

Insight Into Diversity

This year, it launched a new center and program to address the acute need for culturally diverse and responsive health professionals: the Health Professions Center and its signature program, the Martin Delany-Pan African Studies Pathway to Medical School Program. .