Deep dives into real issues impacting medical education, from @onlinemeded
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9 Aug 2022
Detroit’s Cedric Mutebi passed up college football scholarships to study public health and medicine, creating a ground-breaking anti-racism program for @waynestate residents along the way. Meet @onlinemeded's 2022 Future Black Physician Scholarship winner: the-rotation.com/meet-cedric…
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28 Jul 2022
Fifty years ago this week, the @AP broke the story of the horrific Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment. Here’s how it impacted the landscape of racial injustice in medicine today: the-rotation.com/a-legacy-of…
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21 May 2022
Are you a Black medical student and US citizen in the US or the Caribbean? Do you know a Black medical student? We’re accepting submissions between now and June 19: the-rotation.com/onlinemeded…
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30 Mar 2022
Just 0.3% of enrolling American medical students from the past 20 years were aged 40 or older. Marie Elwood was a 39-year-old mother of seven when she started med school - and just matched as a family medicine resident. Here's how she made it happen: bit.ly/3tBQcRS
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10 Mar 2022
The world has watched in horror as Russian military forces invaded Ukraine. Caught in the middle of it all: more than 180,000 Indian med students, whose medical educations are effectively “paused” due to regulatory restrictions. ➡️ Full story: bit.ly/3CsuPVW
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10 Mar 2022
Chinese-educated students—who have yet to return to China following pandemic-forced travel restrictions—have been having similar issues. bit.ly/3CsuPVW
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10 Mar 2022
A combination of the two could create a growing pool of tens of thousands of capable, educated physicians who are prevented from practicing in India (a nation that has a massive physician shortage). bit.ly/3CsuPVW
24 Feb 2022
Med students of Ukraine: Our thoughts are with you, and with all the innocent people affected by today's attacks. 💙💛
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24 Feb 2022
➡️ If you're in med school or practice in Ukraine right now, DM us if you'd like to share your experience?
We're preparing a feature highlighting how this conflict is impacting medicine in Ukraine, and what can be done to help.
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16 Feb 2022
"The US - which has the longest, most expensive medical-education system in the developed world - has the lowest number of physicians per capita." ➡️ Some *very* productive discussion from @dkthomp at @theatlantic: theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv…
20 Jan 2022
Though often forgotten, "grave robbing" medical students from Virginia played a role in the story surrounding abolitionist John Brown’s failed attempt at sparking a slave rebellion in 1859 - a primer for the American Civil War. Our latest feature: bit.ly/3zFgkN1
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13 Jan 2022
100 years ago this week, insulin was first used to treat diabetes. we wrote about insulin’s wild, rarely told backstory in 2020 - here it is again: bit.ly/3I0gx0i
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3 Jan 2022
✨ The highlights (our top 5, most-read stories from 2021):
31 Dec 2021
We turned 1 this month! 🎉 To celebrate - here are our most-read stories from 2021, ranging from the racist history of the speculum to the overdue end to the Step 2 CS exam: the-rotation.com/the-rotatio…
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3 Jan 2022
4. A highlight of what becoming a doctor looks like in Australia and New Zealand (from 26 Feb 2021): the-rotation.com/med-school-…
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3 Jan 2022
5. The wild, true story of the first #MatchDay (from 19 Mar 2021): the-rotation.com/a-brief-his…