Dear Health Professions Student: Like you, we are working to process and assimilate the abrupt transition we’ve all just experienced. Many of you have reached out with questions about how the shift to remote learning will impact your pre-health preparation. The short answer is that we don’t know, as the conversations between pre-health advisors and health professions programs are just beginning. We have strong, longstanding relationship with many folks in medical school admissions and know them to be reasonable and understanding. We will keep you posted as we learn any information w ..read more

Medical schools are partnering with veterinary schools and zoos on cross-species education and research. Turns out that animals and humans might be more similar than we think. For Julia Hyman, a fourth-year student at Harvard Medical School, getting accepted to work with animals at the Franklin Park Zoo near campus this fall was “a childhood dream.” Yet she immediately found herself helping the zoo’s veterinarians decide the heaviest question a caregiver confronts: Could they save the life of Luther the white tiger? The 14-year-old cat had been stricken with metastatic cancer, and veterinaria ..read more

Students and residents with disabilities have an important role to play in health care. An AAMC report outlines promising practices for medical schools and teaching hospitals to create a supportive and inclusive learning environment. Editor’s note: The number of medical students who report having a disability rose 69% between 2016 and 2019, according to a new survey published November 26, 2019 in the Journal of the American Medical Association. Lisa Meeks, PhD, co-author of the 2018 AAMC report and the new JAMA article, speculates that the increase in disability ..read more

Most people think of doctors as scientists, caregivers or educators. But we must also understand doctors as leaders. When the signal came, two dozen clinicians of different ranks and specialties would descend on the patient’s room. It was then the on-call senior’s job to conduct an efficient, morbid, sometimes miraculous symphony to revive a patient whose heart had stopped beating. The clinical aspects of running a code are straightforward, requiring little more than a handful of medications and a stopwatch. But the leadership task is exceedingly complex. Within seconds, the doctor in charge ..read more

Research Assistant I: Division of Vascular and Endovascular/BWH Dept. of Surgery Working under the supervision of Division of Vascular and Endovascular Director and Principal Investigators, and following established policies and procedures; provides assistance on clinical research studies. May be responsible for the following activities: institutional review board applications and communications; recruiting and evaluating patients for studies; collecting and organizing patient data; scheduling patients for study visits; performing clinical tests such as phlebotomy, EKGs, etc.; occasional trav ..read more

Apply for the Research Technician position today! The University of Pittsburgh’s Department of Pediatrics is seeking a Research Technician in the Division of Newborn Medicine/Neonatology. The Research Technician will join the basic research laboratory studying in vitro and in vivo models of neonatal/perinatal bacterial infections, preterm birth, and persistent bacterial colonization. The successful candidate will be familiar with basic cell and molecular biology techniques including cloning, sequencing, PCR and RT-PCR methods, protein analysis, and cell culture techniques. Interaction with th ..read more

Are you interested in beginning medical, veterinary, or dental school in Fall 2021? Candidates applying for entry to graduate school in the medical professions in the Fall of 2021 must complete the Matric 21: Middlebury Health Professions Committee Selection Form by November 15, 2019. You can access the form here. Any questions? Email us at hprofess@middlebury.edu ..read more

DUE TO INCLEMENT WEATHER THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED. We apologize for any inconvenience. What do medical schools look for in an applicant? What makes for a compelling personal statement? How do medical schools build a class? Join Aileen Panitz, admissions director of the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth College, for a presentation about Geisel’s program and the general medical school admissions process. Geisel’s program is designed around the “complete” physician — one who excels in the basic sciences, delivers outstanding clinical care, discovers and shares new knowledge and works to ..read more

Is it possible to train doctors without hurting anyone’s feelings? “I trained to be a doctor in the bad old days — not the worst old days, but the bad old days. Humiliation was part of the deal, sometimes deliberately inflicted by certain grandstanding, sadistic attending physicians, sometimes more casually, because everyone could see that you didn’t know something you should have known.” Read the full NYT article by Perry Klass, MD here ..read more

Dear Health Professions Student: Like you, we are working to process and assimilate the abrupt transition we’ve all just experienced. Many of you have reached out with questions about how the shift to remote learning will impact your pre-health preparation. The short answer is that we don’t know, as the conversations between pre-health advisors and health professions programs are just beginning. We have strong, longstanding relationship with many folks in medical school admissions and know them to be reasonable and understanding. We will keep you posted as we learn any information w ..read more