Opinion: Health workers’ mental health: Addressing the invisible global pandemic
The World Health Organization defines mental health as a state of mental well-being in which…
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‘The tipping point is coming’: Unprecedented exodus of young life scientists is shaking up academia
SAN DIEGO — Rayyan Gorashi is keeping her options open. After all, she’s still a…
Opinion: Exclude race from medical school admissions and students, patients, and the entire health care system lose out
The U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments on Monday in two cases that could eliminate…
After Dobbs, U.S. medical students head abroad for abortion training no longer provided by their schools
A fourth-year medical student, Tema, faced an abrupt interruption to her education earlier this year….
As monkeypox spreads, university campuses prepare for another outbreak
Public health experts are urging universities to prepare for the arrival of monkeypox before students…
There aren’t nearly enough Native American physicians. A crash course in medicine seeks to change that
BOSTON — She’d just used a defibrillator to resuscitate a man whose heart had stopped,…
Opinion: New competencies on diversity, equity, and inclusion for medical education across the continuum
Turning students into competent physicians in just four years is a tall order. They have…
Opinion: STAT+: Why health care organizations need to invest in workforce career advancement
In a tight health care labor market, health care companies must be creative in attracting…
What will it take to level the playing field for Black residents?
This is part two of a STAT investigation on the dismissal of Black doctors from…
‘It was stolen from me’: Black doctors are forced out of training programs at far higher rates than white residents
Rosandra Daywalker had always excelled. The daughter of Haitian and Jamaican parents in Miami —…
Opinion: Medical schools need to be part of the solution to preventing gun violence
Like so many Americans, we watched in horror the news reports about the mass shootings…
Opinion: Kids and Covid-19: The urgency of equity should outweigh the urgency of normal
Across the United States, there’s a universal longing for the day when children no longer…
Mistreatment in medical school leads students to leave, with students of color faring the worst
Medical students who report being mistreated or discriminated against are far more likely to drop…
Opinion: The roots of burnout start early. See: Applying to medical school
Approximately 60,000 medical school applicants will be finishing a nearly year-long admissions process this month,…
Listen: ‘Birthing while Black’ is an American crisis. Communities demand justice
In August of 2021, Denise Williams was rushed to Queens Hospital Center in New York…
He had an M.D. and a Ph.D. but didn’t match into a residency. It was the push he needed to jump into health tech
Travis Hughes had been assured by both mentors and peers that he was a front-runner…
Listen: Dismantling medical racism starts in the classroom
Medical education is in the midst of a revolution. Students and educators, fueled by the…
Opinion: Amid the nation’s mental health crisis, we need more psychiatrists now
Every day, people call my office looking for help: A loved one has not left…
Opinion: Gaslighting of Black medical trainees makes residency something to ‘survive’
Some say the lack of Black physicians is a pipeline problem, with too few Black…
Opinion: Laugh a little: Medical professionals, engaged in serious business, need to reclaim their humor
Serious question: Is it OK for medical professionals to laugh at themselves or make fun…
STAT+: Conflicts of interest exist among editors and authors of widely used psychopharmacology textbooks
Amid ongoing concerns over conflicts of interest that may affect medical practice, a new analysis…
HHMI philanthropy devotes $2 billion to boost inclusion and equity in biomedical sciences
Saying bold steps are needed to improve racial, ethnic, and gender diversity in science, the…
Opinion: The U.S. deserves the best public health doctors. They needn’t be medical doctors
The Covid-19 lockdown began in Massachusetts the week I submitted my dissertation to become a…
Opinion: Data from routine Covid testing can help schools stay open this year
With recent spikes in Covid-19 cases and hospitalizations across the country — including in children…
Opinion: Virtual medical school: Burnout and a path forward
We started medical school at Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons in August…
Opinion: We know how to keep kids safe from Covid-19 in school. Now we need to do it
I live with someone who hasn’t been vaccinated against Covid-19. He’s my first-grader. Like all…
For undocumented students, a community to help them build health careers
When Denisse Rojas entered college, her path to becoming a doctor started with a lot…
Opinion: An open letter to 2021 medical school graduates
To the medical school graduating class of 2021: As I write this, I imagine a…
After 40 years, medical schools are admitting fewer Black male or Native American students
In what some are calling a “persistent failure” of medical schools to improve diversity, a…
Opinion: Real-world data, not predictions, should drive decisions on Covid-19 and school opening
The United States has exceeded 31 million Covid-19 infections (a messy data point) and is…
Opinion: Academic medical centers need to go beyond statements condemning racism
As predictable as mushrooms popping up after rain, condemnation of racism from leaders at academic…
Opinion: A ketogenic diet brought me back to life. Will believing in its effectiveness make me a pariah in medical school?
My awareness of the limits of medical knowledge began when I was diagnosed with osteoporosis…
Opinion: In light of anti-Asian attacks, medicine needs to listen to Asian American trainees
The shocking shooting rampage in Atlanta targeting Asian spas, followed not long after by an…
Opinion: Make residency — and health care — more equitable by scrapping The Match
At the stroke of noon on Friday, March 19, more than 30,000 doctors-to-be across the…
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Opinion: New CDC school opening guidelines fail to ‘follow the science’
President Biden vowed to “follow the science” in an effort to get kids back to…
Opinion: Eliminating buprenorphine training for doctors won’t solve the overdose epidemic
Before the Covid-19 pandemic struck, the U.S. was making some headway in fighting the drug…
Opinion: Kids don’t need Covid-19 vaccines to return to school
The notion is out there that public school students should not return to in-person learning…
Opinion: Debt from attending an elite medical school shouldn’t keep new doctors from working in underserved areas
A medical degree from one of America’s elite private medical schools adds prestige to a…
Opinion: Routine testing is essential to combat Covid-19 surges
As the latest surge in Covid-19 cases pushes cases and deaths higher — nearly 18…
Doctors offer guide for teaching the health effects of climate change in medical residency
As massive wildfires, hurricanes, and record-breaking temperatures hit parts of the U.S., a group of…
Slime, tornadoes, and static electricity: How the host of ‘Emily’s Wonder Lab’ wants to teach kids about science
When Emily Calandrelli started sketching out plans for her new Netflix science show, she knew…
Getting into U.S. medical schools wasn’t easy for them. Now international students are smoothing the path for others
Long before Azan Virji entered medical school, a college counselor back home in Tanzania tried…
Opinion: Lower the cost of producing doctors, not just the price of going to medical school
Medicine has become a profession accessible mainly to the rich. Just look at the price…
Opinion: To begin addressing racial bias in medicine, start with the skin
“Until the color of a man’s skin is of no more significance than the color…
Opinion: Med students, physicians need social mission education now more than ever
A longstanding failure of the U.S. health care system is that minority and vulnerable populations…
A yearslong push to remove racist bias from kidney testing gains new ground
For years, physicians and medical students, many of them Black, have warned that the most…
‘I feel like I am not welcome’: Medical, doctoral students from abroad grapple with uncertainty from new ICE rules
International students completing their medical and doctoral degrees in the United States are wrestling with…
STAT Plus: Ramping up pressure on Elsevier, University of California strikes landmark research access deal with publisher of Nature journals
The University of California has reached a landmark deal with the world’s second largest academic…
Opinion: Beyond words: medical institutions must act to support black lives
Oleoresin capsicum spray, better known as pepper spray, is a chemical weapon made from concentrated…
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Opinion: After four years of medical school, how am I ‘nonessential’?
As the U.S began slowly grinding to a halt in February and March, we braced…