Loyola University Chicago’s medical school has dropped requirements for an internship that would have barred white and Asian applicants following an investigation.
The University of Utah School of Medicine adopted a diversity agenda after being pressured by an accreditor.
A class-action lawsuit has been filed against six Texas medical schools for implementing sex and race preferences in their admissions processes.
A physician teaching a medical school course reportedly apologized to his class for using the “offensive” term “pregnant women.”
Dartmouth Medical School has accused 17 students of cheating while taking tests online. Seven of the cases have already been dismissed after the school admitted the students might not have cheated at all. In the past year, many students have had to take exams remotely, as in-person classes have been canceled due to rules implemented in response to the Chinese coronavirus.
An anonymous couple paid for one year of medical school tuition for all 60 members of the Texas Christian University and University of North Texas Health Sciences Center School of Medicine Class of 2024.
South African medical students in Cuba under a bilateral education agreement denounced Havana this week for offering them “appalling” living conditions, barely feeding them, and failing to offer them access to proper hygiene.
While the strains on the frontline of the battle against the coronavirus make headlines, Americans are rushing to apply for medical school.
Harvard University announced on Friday that first-year medical students will be required to return to campus this spring. Harvard Medical School Dean George Q. Daley said that students must return to campus so that they can work in “patient-oriented” clinical settings.
Columbia University recently announced that its medical school will change the name of a residential building due to the namesake’s slave ownership. The building was named for Samual Bard, the founder of Columbia’s Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons who also served as George Washingon’s doctor. The move comes shortly after the school eliminated a professorship also named in Bard’s honor.
Stanford University’s School of Medicine announced this week that it is temporarily suspending the MCAT requirement for new applicants. The MCAT is a comprehensive standardized test that provides insight into an applicant’s ability to succeed in medical school. The Stanford College Republicans criticized the decision, arguing: “It’d be a shame if unqualified applicants come to Stanford as a result of this policy and we suffer the consequences in the coming decades.”
NYU announced this week that it is allowing senior medical students to graduate early so that they can help fight the ongoing Wuhan coronavirus crisis in the city.
Former University of Pennsylvania Medical School Associate Dean Stanley Goldfarb published a column in the Wall Street Journal last week which made the case that medical schools are more focused on “social justice” than they are on treating illnesses.
Texas Tech University Medical School announced this week that they will no longer consider race as a factor in the admissions process.
The University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry is rewarding its medical staff for attending a seminar on “microaggressions,” by qualifying them for a discounted rate on malpractice insurance through the medical center.
A medical student at Stanford was allegedly falsely reported to the university’s Title IX office for having pro-life opinions. The student told Breitbart News “there must be consequences for false accusations.”
A Stanford medical student was allegedly reported to the university’s Title IX office over pro-life remarks he made on campus.
New York University announced Thursday that it would cover all tuition costs for all of its students attending medical school regardless of their ability to pay.
A Japanese medical school deliberately marked down women’s test scores for at least a decade, an investigation panel claimed on Tuesday, describing it a “very serious” case of discrimination.
