Courses designed to foster peer-to-peer learning in virtual spaces can yield research insights across disciplines.
Academic rigor, journalistic flair
Articles on Medical students
Displaying all articles
It’s time to make caring doctors the norm, not the exception.
One university is showing how the vaccine corps concept can speed up vaccination rates, including launching a large-scale vaccination site staffed by hundreds of students and volunteers.
Almost 10% of physicians in the US are doctors of osteopathic medicine, and that proportion is rising. Their medical knowledge matches that of other doctors; the difference is the philosophy behind it.
Involving senior health science students in the everyday practice helped address the workload in facilities, improved quality of patient care, and increased patient and staff satisfaction.
Many white health students - our future doctors, nurses and health workers - find learning about the ongoing health impacts of colonisation on Indigenous Australians confronting. But it’s vital.
To achieve diversity in medical schools, we need to look at the stories behind the numbers.
Dissection also plays an important role in introducing students to death. It provides moral and ethical training for students as well as a humanistic approach to patient care.
South African Professor Bongani Mayosi was a great mentor to many. Losing him to mental illness is a reminder that we are all human.
A new study compared fictional patient experiences in Grey’s Anatomy with real trauma cases. It concluded patients who are fans of the show might have unrealistic expectations of medical care.
Competition for spaces is driving Canadian undergraduates to medical school in the tropics. And there are risks - for student career prospects and Caribbean health systems.
Can empathy be taught to students in the healthcare professions? A groundbreaking project is using visual art to ensure they pay attention to the whole person, not just the disease.
South Africa must address the root factors contributing to nationwide protests in the higher education sector or face dire consequences
When students are genuinely listened to and understood, and their proposed solutions to problems are taken seriously, real change can happen in university faculties.
Many medical disciplines have started encouraging their students to embrace lessons from the arts and humanities. Physiotherapy is lagging behind.
About two-thirds of Australian medical students come from affluent backgrounds. Only one in ten from low socioeconomic status backgrounds.
Today’s medical students are tomorrow’s doctors, and they need to understand public health to better help their patients.
Unless we can create safe space to seek help without fear of reprisal, nothing is going to change. It is with this goal in mind that I decided to share my story.
Suicidal thoughts among college students are more common than we think. Graduate students, especially those in the humanities, are at a greater risk.
Top contributors
-
Senior Academic Programs Curator, Museums and Collections Department, University of Melbourne, The University of Melbourne
-
SHARP Professor, leader of the Vitalities Lab, Centre for Social Research in Health and Social Policy Centre, UNSW Sydney, and leader of the UNSW Node of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society, UNSW Sydney
-
Professor, Department of Geography and Canada Research Chair in Health Service Geographies, Simon Fraser University
-
Associate Professor of Psychology, Indiana University
-
Professor of Medicine, University of Florida
-
Associate Professor in Physiotherapy, University of the Western Cape
-
Associate Professor of General Pediatrics, University of Florida
-
Clinical Senior Research Associate, MRC Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge
-
Academic Staff Development Lecturer, Centre for Higher Education Development, University of Cape Town
-
Registrar in respiratory and sleep medicine, Monash Health
-
Professor in Health professions education, Stellenbosch University
-
Interim Head of the Health Sciences Education Department, University of Cape Town
-
Associate Professor in the Department of Occupational Therapy, University of Cape Town
-
Experimental Particle Physics, University of Cape Town
-
Postdoctoral researcher in biophysics, iThemba LABS
