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26 juillet 2017

The risky lure of Caribbean offshore medical schools

Many Canadians dream of becoming a doctor. The reality is that only a fraction of students who apply to Canadian medical schools are admitted. This reality is driving an increasing number of Canadian undergraduates to offshore medical schools in Dominica, Jamaica, Guyana, Aruba and other Caribbean countries. More...

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13 juillet 2017

Healthy Higher Ed Employees

By Jeremy Bauer-Wolf. Most professors and other university staffers say they're in good health, but some can identify instances of workplace bullying, according to the results of a broad new pilot study unveiled here Thursday. More...

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13 juillet 2017

Portrait of Faculty Mental Health

By Colleen Flaherty. New study of faculty members with mental health issues finds they disclose conditions selectively to trusted colleagues but are less trusting of and have worse reactions from staff members whose job it is to help them. More...

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13 juillet 2017

Higher Ed Groups Criticize GOP Health-Care Bill

By Andrew Kreighbaum. The American Council on Education, along with 18 other higher education groups, wrote to Senate leaders Tuesday urging a "different approach" to the health-care bill released by Republican lawmakers last week. More...

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13 juillet 2017

How Higher Ed Would Feel Medicaid Cuts

By Andrew Kreighbaum. Medicaid cuts in proposed Senate GOP health-care legislation would mean bigger tabs for teaching hospitals and less state support for public universities. More...

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13 juillet 2017

Medical Colleges: Reject Senate Health-Care Bill

By Andrew Kreighbaum. The Association of American Medical Colleges called on senators to reject the health-care reform bill Republican lawmakers released Thursday. AAMC President and CEO Darrell Kirch said the bill would upend the health-care marketplace and cripple the Medicaid program. More...

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11 juillet 2017

Collins Will Stay On at NIH

By Scott Jaschik. President Trump announced Tuesday that he will keep Francis S. Collins as director of the National Institutes of Health. More...

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11 juillet 2017

University of Great Falls Pivots to Health Care

By Rick Seltzer. The University of Great Falls in Montana is shifting to emphasize training for the health-care field and will be renamed the University of Providence at the beginning of July, following an investment by the multistate Providence St. Joseph Health system. More...

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10 juillet 2017

Teaching Medicine as an Immersive Experience

Techno-News Blog. In rethinking medical education, an interdisciplinary team at Harvard Medical School designed a new fundamentals curriculum for online health care learning. HMX Fundamentals takes advantage of how people learn and an array of online tools to provide an immersive online program for students just beginning their studies in health care. More...

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9 juillet 2017

Les maladies professionnelles touchent les moins qualifiés

Les maladies professionnelles [1] frappent avant tout les milieux populaires. Sur 52 500 cas en 2012 (dernière année disponible), près des trois quarts concernent des ouvriers. 23 % touchent des employés et 4 % seulement, des cadres supérieurs ou des professions intermédiaires. Plus...

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