Research is a massively neglected part of undergraduate medical training in India. Students join undergraduate medical courses straight after high school, but…
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General Do all roads lead to ROME (Research Oriented Medical Education) in India?
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General Tackling the Global Epidemic of Non-Communicable Diseases
Guest student blog by Fiona Rae, third year medical student at the University of Edinburgh [fionaelizabethrae@gmail.com]. In September 2011 the issue of…
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General Patent pool party highlights lack of access to HIV drugs
Guest student blog by Harriet Gliddon, third year Biochemistry undergraduate, Imperial College London [harrietgliddon@googlemail.com] Student campaigners promoting access to affordable HIV…
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General Addressing the Needs of Cancer Survivors: An Emerging Global Challenge
Guest student blog by Matthew J. To, BMSc candidate, Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry, The University of Western Ontario (email mto3@uwo.ca)…
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General Are White Coats Turncoats?
Guest student blog by William W. Motley, Neurogenetics Branch, NINDS, NIH, Bethesda, MD, USA (wmotley@gmail.com) I was recently admitted to medical school…
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Neglected Diseases Making anti-malarials from yeast: Jay Keasling and synthetic biology
Guest blog by Shah R. Ali, an MD candidate at Stanford Medical School. Malaria is getting a cutting-edge, first world scientific treatment…
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General The role of medical students in limiting the spread of antimicrobial resistance
Guest blog by Adam Castaño‡, Sujal Parikh‡ and Eunice Yu, medical students at the University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Michigan…
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General Uniting Tanzanian Medical Students to Reverse the Brain Drain
Guest blog by Evance L Mmbando, 3rd year medical student, Weill-Bugando University College of Health Sciences, Tanzania According to the World Health…
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Public The dawning era of personalized medicine exposes a gap in medical education
Guest blog by Keyan Salari, PhD Candidate at Department of Genetics, Stanford University School of Medicine and MD Candidate at Stanford Medical…