Opinion: Why so many patients are confused about CPR and do-not-resuscitate orders
When a patient is admitted to the hospital in the U.S., there’s a standard question…
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Columbia medical school gets $400 million gift to fund risky basic research
Columbia University announced Thursday that its medical school has received $400 million to fund a…
Opinion: How the restaurant drama ‘The Bear’ mirrors working in a hospital
Many chefs describe the television series “The Bear” as an accurate portrayal of the demands…
Opinion: Cost counseling and stewardship need to be part of medical school curricula
In my third week as a medical intern, I learned a vital lesson about the…
Opinion: Why aren’t philanthropists stepping up to support nursing education?
Michael Bloomberg’s donation of $1 billion to Johns Hopkins University to support medical education goes…
Opinion: Letters from readers on schools and bird flu, opioid ‘overprescribing,’ and more
“Preparing schools for the H5N1 bird flu they’re likely to face,” by Mario Ramirez Having…
Free medical school tuition unlikely to have a major impact on the U.S. health care system
Most of Johns Hopkins University’s medical school students will have free tuition starting this fall,…
STAT+: Student group that ranked med schools over industry conflicts votes to accept pharma funding
An organization devoted to educating future doctors about conflicts of interest will now accept industry…
The only tribal medical school in the U.S. graduates its first Native American doctors
There are so few Indigenous physicians in the United States — just 0.3% of doctors…
Opinion: Readers respond to funding academic medical centers, the ‘residency research arms race,’ and more
STAT now publishes selected Letters to the Editor received in response to First Opinion essays…
Opinion: Medical students lose in the research arms race for residency slots
“Going to medical Spanish class really isn’t worth my time. I’d rather use the time…
Opinion: STAT readers respond to First Opinion essays on site-neutral payments, free medical school tuition, and more
“Former HHS secretaries: Congress should adopt site-neutral payments for health care,” by Alex Azar and…
Opinion: Free med school tuition won’t solve the shortage of primary care physicians
Last month, nearly 40,000 medical students were accepted into residency programs on “Match Day.” Surrounded…
Opinion: Free tuition won’t fix medicine’s diversity problem without admissions reform
Medical students at Albert Einstein School of Medicine in New York City gathered last week…
Opinion: STAT readers on what human health care can learn from veterinary medicine and more
STAT now publishes selected Letters to the Editor received in response to First Opinion essays…
Opinion: Can Arena Bioworks upend the traditional scientific research model in the U.S.?
I’ve spent a good deal of my career thinking about how we structure and fund…
Opinion: The emergency room is where the United States’ social problems come home to roost
From “Legacy” by Uché Blackstock, M.D., published by Viking, an imprint of Penguin Publishing Group,…
Opinion: Defunding liberal arts is dangerous for health care
If you want an argument in favor of teaching the humanities, I suggest you ask…
As she drives research on structural racism in health care, Rachel Hardeman faces a painful reckoning
MINNEAPOLIS — It’s been almost four years since George Floyd was murdered here at 38th…
NIH panel calls for fewer, better-paid postdocs in bid to halt loss of scientists to industry
A National Institutes of Health working group on Friday recommended a sizable increase in salaries…
Opinion: U.S. medical schools aren’t teaching future doctors about 7.4 million of their patients
Oliver McGowan was 18 years old when he was hospitalized in England with recurrent seizures…
Opinion: What STAT readers think about premed requirements, too much health care, harm reduction, and more
STAT now publishes selected Letters to the Editor received in response to First Opinion essays…
STAT+: Life scientists’ flight to biotech labs stalls important academic research
Step inside Natasha Sheybani’s office at the University of Virginia, where she runs a bioengineering…
Opinion: Listen: The true costs of mediocre insurance plans for medical students
For the many high-achieving perfectionists who enter medical school each year, the stakes of their…
Opinion: The end of affirmative action means it’s time to revise pre-med requirements
Luz (not her real name) could be a great doctor. A Latina student from Arizona,…
Opinion: Let’s leverage graduate medical education to increase Medicaid re-enrollment
Lately, we’ve seen two distinct lines at our hospitals. We would all be healthier if…
Emergency medicine is grappling with a surprising problem: The prospect of too many physicians
While much of the health care workforce is battling staff shortages, the emergency medicine field…
Opinion: How health care organizations can set up chief medical officers up for success
It should be obvious that medical school and clinical experience, in themselves, can’t fully prepare…
Exodus of life scientists from academia reaches historic levels, new data show
New data released Thursday by the National Science Foundation show the exodus of young life…
Opinion: How medical schools are failing students who need mental health care
Medical students experience significant mental distress, including high rates of anxiety, alcohol use, depression and…
Opinion: Policymakers must take action on the physician shortage
The pressures of the last three and a half years have affected every corner of…
STAT+: Graduate students accuse University of California of wage theft, just months after strike was settled
University of California graduate students were thrilled last December when they won what they thought…
STAT+: Departing Stanford president retracts two widely cited papers, against lead author’s wishes
After an expansive investigation found manipulated data and other issues with papers co-authored by Stanford’s…
Affirmative action improved public health — and carried a high personal cost for Black physicians
I should be irate and despondent about the Supreme Court’s scrapping of affirmative action in…
Asian American doctors, overrepresented in medicine, are largely left out of leadership
For 15 years, orthopedic surgeon Charles S. Day has been working to highlight the striking…
Stanford president’s abrupt departure after research misconduct investigation sparks debate
After Stanford University president and prominent neuroscientist Marc Tessier-Lavigne announced he would resign following an…
Stanford president to resign after investigation finds he failed to ‘decisively and forthrightly’ correct research
In an abrupt turn, Stanford president and renowned neuroscientist Marc Tessier-Lavigne announced Wednesday that he…
What the end of affirmative action means to a fourth-year medical student
When the U.S. Supreme Court released its landmark ruling overturning the use of race-conscious college…
After affirmative action ruling, medical education leaders see silver lining in court endorsement of ‘holistic review’
After having a day to read through the Supreme Court’s decision on affirmative action, some…
Medical leaders decry Supreme Court decision on affirmative action
Medical leaders on Thursday reacted swiftly to the Supreme Court’s decision to severely restrict the…
Supreme Court strikes down use of affirmative action, a blow to efforts to diversify medical schools
Overturning decades of precedent, the U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday struck down the use of…
Academia’s postdoc system is teetering, imperiling efforts to diversify life sciences
For young life scientists hoping to land a prestigious faculty job in academia, postdoctoral research…
Opinion: Fix the rural physician shortage by expanding support for resident training
As the deans of the two public medical schools in Nevada, we are watching with…
Led by students, a nascent climate movement is taking hold in medical education
When Cecilia Sorensen was an emergency medicine resident practicing at Denver Health in Colorado a…
Opinion: Will there be any emergency doctors to see you in the future?
In the emergency room today, everyone is suffering. Many emergency medicine physicians are struggling to…
STAT+: ‘I’m just disgusted’: How alleged sexual misconduct stole one student’s passion for academic science
It was the summer of 2020, and she couldn’t have scripted a better start as…
Opinion: Medical school rankings need a new metric: economic mobility index
What are the attributes of a great medical school? U.S. News & World Report’s ranking…
Opinion: Deans: Dump that USNWR ‘best medical school’ survey
Yale and Harvard Law Schools recently announced they would no longer participate in U.S. News…
STAT+: 5 looming questions about the exodus of young life scientists from academia
The unprecedented departure of young life science Ph.D.s and postdocs from academia raises all sorts…
University of California academic workers go out on strike to demand higher wages
Any other Monday morning, Josh Mesfin would have been in the lab, performing surgery on…