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3 Years of Med School Might Be Enough to Produce Quality Doctors

Drugs.com

15, 2024 -- It’s typically thought that medical school requires four years of study after graduating college.But doctors might be able to shave a year off their medical education and still do a great job treating patients, a new study. TUESDAY, Oct.

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The medical school trying to become anti-racist

The Pharma Data

Eva Larkai, a fourth-year medical student, led the student group demanding change. A major British medical school is leading the drive to eliminate what it calls “inherent racism” in the way doctors are trained in the UK. And he says the problem is one that all UK medical schools and the wider NHS share.

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Michael Trembley

Broad Institute

Before joining PCL, Trembley served as an instructor and research fellow at Boston Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School. During his doctoral training at the Aab Cardiovascular Institute, he utilized rodent models of heart failure to explore the signaling pathways activated by pressure overload in the heart.

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A-levels U-turn: Medical schools call for places cap to be lifted

The Pharma Data

The number of students studying to be doctors is regulated because of the cost and for NHS workforce planning. Ministers are coming under pressure to lift the limit on the number of places to study medicine in England, after changes to how A-levels are awarded.

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New JAMA Article Recommends Personal Drug Importation To Help American Patients Afford Prescription Drugs

Policy Prescription

Harvard doctors and public health experts recommend using the website PharmacyChecker.com to find international online pharmacies to order more affordable prescription drugs for personal importation when domestic savings strategies fail. They offer this advice in a new article in the Journal of the American Medical Association.

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Multi-ancestry study reveals genetic risk factors for two common pregnancy complications

Broad Institute

The scores could help doctors identify and treat at-risk individuals earlier in pregnancy with existing but underutilized strategies such as low-dose aspirin. They also developed polygenic risk scores, which distill a person’s likelihood of developing a condition down to a single number based on their genes.

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Study reveals how cancer immunotherapy may cause heart inflammation in some patients

Broad Institute

Doctors currently don’t have effective targeted treatments, so they often have to stop the anti-tumor therapy or give large amounts of steroids, which have their own undesired side effects such as lowering the efficacy of the ICI anti-tumor treatment.