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September 25, 2012 | Human Capital Blog Post
Many elite medical schools — Columbia, Cornell, Harvard, Johns Hopkins and Yale, among them — have no departments of family medicine to train students who want to specialize in primary care.
October 26, 2011 | Human Capital Blog Post
The number of first-time medical school applicants reached an all-time high this year, according to the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC). The number of students applying to medical school for the first time in 2011 increased 2.6 perce ...
September 21, 2011 | Human Capital Blog Post
White Coat Notes, a blog of the Boston Globe, last week looked at two recent reports calling for changes in physician training. Leaders at the Schwartz Center for Compassionate Care in Boston published a report in the September issue of Health Affai ...
July 13, 2011 | Human Capital Blog Post
One of the great challenges of implementing health reform is training a health care workforce that is well-prepared to meet the needs of the estimated 30 million Americans who will soon be added to the rolls of the insured. To help with that, Medica ...
October 24, 2008 | Program Result Report
The National Center for Primary Care at the Morehouse School of Medicine recruited and trained scholars to serve as teachers and advisers for health centers in the federal Health Disparities Collaboratives program.
September 29, 2008 | Report
An historical overview of the program and of the enduring legacy of its namesake.
January 20, 2007 | Program Result Report
The University of Virginia School of Medicine conducts a free, six-week intensive summer academic enrichment program to help minority and disadvantaged college students compete successfully for admission to medical school.
January 31, 2006 | Program Result Report
The University of Washington conducts a free, six-week intensive summer academic enrichment program to help minority and disadvantaged college students compete successfully for admission to medical and dental school.
February 1, 2002 | Program Result Report
In 1999, the Association of American Medical Colleges, Washington (AAMC) established the annual Nickens Lecture Award.
October 10, 2012 | Story
Two young physicians challenge disparities by leading a program that helps underrepresented students become health care professionals.