At one Indiana medical school, students are taught to think of their cadavers as their first patients — and may even meet …
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Doctors of the Night: Will Med Students with Debt Consider Prostitution?
Desperate times often call for desperate measures, and for students with mounting education debt, that apparently means selling themselves.
Report: Medical Students Perform Intrusive Exams on Unconscious Patients
According to a disturbing report in Australia’s Madison magazine, medical students are performing breast, rectal and genital exams on unconscious patients without their consent.
Why Depressed Medical Students Stigmatize Depression
Medical students tend to hold negative stereotypes about depression when they suffer from the disorder themselves. Why? The high-pressure, cutthroat environment of medical school may be to blame.
Still too few medical students pursuing primary care
More medical students applied for residency programs in primary care this year than last, but the future need for general practitioners still far outpaces the number of doctors opting for careers in primary care. According to data from the 2010 report from the National Residency Matching Program—the system that pairs up graduating
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Medical students don’t always report needle injuries
In the course of their training, many medical students accidentally stick themselves with needles, yet too often fail to report the incidents, according to new research published in the December issue of the journal Academic Medicine. In a survey of 699 medical residents at 17 different hospitals and medical centers, nearly two thirds
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