Kevin Leon, Associate Dean for Undergraduate Medical Education at UAB, remembers an internship episode that made him decide to stay at the Birmingham institution. “It was my first night as an intern at the ER. At two o’clock in the morning, a patient came in with a rare disorder I had never encountered. I didn’t…
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Michigan Medical School Students Walk out on Pro-Life Speaker During White Coat Ceremony
Dozens of incoming medical students at the University of Michigan walked out of the initiation ceremony on Sunday, following a failed attempt to pressure the school to cancel a pro-life doctor as the ceremony’s keynote speaker. The July 24 ceremony, during which students received their medical white coats and took the White Coat Pledge and…
Medical School Says Student ‘Didn’t Intend to Harm’ Patient Who Mocked Her Pronoun Badge
A North Carolina medical school claimed that a student didn’t deliberately mistreat a patient who mocked her “pronoun pin,” despite her social media post apparently implying otherwise. Kychelle Del Rosario, a fourth-year student at the Wake Forest School of Medicine, wrote in a since-deleted Twitter post that she hurt a man in her own care,…
Critical Race Theory Makes Its Way Into Mandatory Trainings at Top US Medical Schools, New Database Shows
Almost all of the nation’s top 25 medical schools are incorporating ideas related to critical race theory (CRT) into mandatory training programs for students and staff, warned a watchdog website documenting leftist indoctrination in K-12 and higher education. Critical Race Training in Education, a project founded by Cornell University law professor William Jacobson, has recently…
High Jumper Sam Grewe Wins Gold, Heads to Medical School
TOKYO—Sam Grewe made a choice when he was 13 to have his right leg amputated after he was diagnosed with an aggressive bone cancer. He could have chosen to keep the leg, but he said it would have been a frail limb once surgeons carved out the “fist-size tumor.” That procedure also would have ruled…
2 Medical Students Respond to Call for Passengers to Help During Mid-Air Emergency on Flight to Greece
Late last month, two young medical students made their medical school proud after they responded to a patient in an emergency mid-air during a flight to Greece. The two women, Heather Duplessis and Lauren Bagneris, students at LSU Health Sciences Center, were on a flight to the Mediterranean nation when a call sounded on the…
Science Prodigy, 15, Graduates from UCI
A 15-year-old girl has graduated from the University of California–Irvine, and is now focusing on being admitted into medical school. Kylie Munson began taking college classes as an 11-year-old student at Los Angeles Mission College after testing out of traditional standardized testing at her private school. At age 13, she earned an associate degree in general studies with an emphasis in natural…
Science Prodigy,15, Graduates from UCI
A 15-year-old girl has graduated from the University of California–Irvine, and is now focusing on being admitted into medical school. Kylie Munson began taking college classes as an 11-year-old student at Los Angeles Mission College after testing out of traditional standardized testing at her private school. At age 13, she earned an associate degree in general studies with an emphasis in natural…
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