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Alabama’s Acclinate Genetics Partners With National HBCU Debate Group to Tackle Minority Health Disparities

Speech and debate are skills that require study and practice, much like athletics. The mental and emotional endurance required for students participating in a national speech and debate championship rivals that of athletes on the field, but in debate the competitive advantage is words. Pair that with a meaningful problem worth solving, and a movement […]

Five FIU Medical School Administrators Leaving to Launch Medical School in Las Vegas

Five administrators at Florida International University’s medical school will depart this summer to launch another medical school in the Las Vegas area — marking a huge shift for FIU’s relatively new program during a global pandemic. Dr. Pedro “Joe” Greer, a long-serving community figurehead and Associate Dean of FIU’s Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine, will […]

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Medical Students Should Get Out of the Hospital–Now

With COVID-19 cases already numbering in the thousands and a doubling rate of three days, the United States is on track to have 100 million cases by May. To have any hope of mitigating spread, we now know that we need to practice aggressive social distancing. As a medical student who was scheduled to have patient practicum […]

Meet the Medical Students Who Launched a Program to Offer Childcare to Hospital Workers Fighting the Coronavirus Pandemic

As the war against the merciless coronavirus rages on, health care workers nationwide are on the frontline of an unpredictable battle. While working tireless hours, those in the field often forgo their own needs. Now, one group of University of Minnesota (UMN) Medical School students has decided to lend a hand — not at the […]

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In Face Of Coronavirus, Many Hospitals Cancel On-Site Training For Nursing And Med Students

Yet another casualty of the COVID-19 pandemic may be the clinical training that’s so essential for America’s future nurses and doctors. As university campuses close and disease prevention efforts intensify, hospitals, nursing homes and other health care venues in California and nationally are canceling clinical rotations for student nurses — and, in some cases, medical […]

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How Med Students Can Stay Safe From Coronavirus

Medical school is demanding regardless of the circumstances, but now is an especially challenging time to be studying medicine. The COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic has sparked public fear, and it’s understandable for a medical student to feel anxiety – especially if he or she is in clinical rotations and interacting with patients. The best course of […]

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Major Universities Suspend Most Lab Research — But Not Into Coronavirus

This week, Erin Goley froze research at her Johns Hopkins University lab — literally. With the university sending students and professors packing in the face of the coronavirus pandemic, Goley stopped experiments in the medical school lab and stored in freezers bacteria that scientists are studying. Goley, an associate professor of biological chemistry, considers herself fortunate because […]

Public Health Expert Says African Americans Are at Greater Risk of Death From Coronavirus

This week, the U.S. joined nations around the world in instituting sweeping emergency measures to combat the coronavirus pandemic. In an attempt to slow the spread of COVID-19, the disease caused by the virus, schools and universities shut down, and concerts and conventions have been canceled. The NBA suspended the remainder of its season, along […]

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AACC, Other Conferences Cancelled Amid Coronavirus Crisis

Hours after the American Council on Education (ACE) on Monday canceled its annual conference, the American Association of Community Colleges (AACC) and the University Professional & Continuing Education Association (UPCEA) followed suit, canceling or postponing their own annual events in the face of the spread of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19). This is only the third […]

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U.S. Reps Urge Relief Measures for Students Impacted by Coronavirus Closures

More and more colleges are closing their classroom doors — and in some cases, their residence halls — as epidemiologists urge people to refrain from public gatherings amid the coronavirus pandemic. However, while beneficial to public health and safety, such precautions may place the heaviest burden on those who are most vulnerable: former foster youth […]

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Community Colleges Prepare for Coronavirus, Distance Learning

With the coronavirus (COVID-19) declared a pandemic Wednesday by the World Health Organization (WHO), office spaces are taking precautions by encouraging employees to telecommute, professional sports leagues are suspending their seasons and national conferences are being canceled. A little more than 1,200 COVID-19 cases are being reported in the U.S. and there have been 36 […]

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How More Diverse Medical Schools Could Save Women of Color and Mothers

I sat down to write this with a slow crawling ache working its way, vertebrae by vertebrae, from my lower back to the base of my neck. Push through. A two-word story many Black women are all too familiar with, so when it gets excruciating we begin to bargain. Push through… and think about how […]

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