Benefit of experience: when medical school alumni and students come together, all of medicine stands to gain
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Practicing alumni at a number of medical schools are linking up with medical students at seminars, in conversations, or during visits to the physicians' practices. Such interactions give medical students an idea of the daily life of a physician practicing in the students' chosen specialty, and offer alumni a renewed connection to the school. The phenomenon is especially useful for students specializing in areas such as family practice, which may have little support at a given medical school. For the school, bringing the alumni closer to the active life of the institution can lay the basis for fundraising.
Publication Name: American Medical News
Subject: Health
ISSN: 0001-1843
Year: 1992
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Agents of change: how one medical school is preparing students for the growing diversity among them
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Rush Medical College, in Chicago, IL, has instituted a diversity-awareness program to prepare its students for the cultural differences they will encounter in practicing medicine. The program takes half a day of the college's two-day orientation, and includes videos, group projects and demonstrations. As the medical community sets goals to increase the numbers of minority physicians in its ranks, issues regarding cultural differences are expected to arise more frequently.
Publication Name: American Medical News
Subject: Health
ISSN: 0001-1843
Year: 1993
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Playing patient
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Training actors to behave like standardized patients is used at half of US medical schools for clinical practice education, especially in difficult subjects such as AIDS counseling. Some states now use standardized patients in continuing medical education classes, or during investigations of a practicioners' competence, often video taping the sessions. Clinical educators praise the method as an invaluable addition to the training regimen.
Publication Name: American Medical News
Subject: Health
ISSN: 0001-1843
Year: 1997
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