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Dr. Joseph Ravenell, assistant professor of internal medicine at UT Southwestern Medical Center, has received a Harold Amos Medical Faculty Development Award from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. The $416,558 award supports his research for the next four years.
The Harold Amos award was created to increase the number of academic medicine faculty from historically disadvantaged [...]

The South Florida Sun-Sentinel on Tuesday examined efforts by the University of Florida’s Health Science Center to increase the number of minority students and doctors in the area. While there are more black and Hispanic students entering the medical field and health care is generally more diverse than other fields, only 6% of physicians in [...]

Efforts to train more physicians to serve an aging U.S. population might increase health care costs, as well as expenses for Medicare, according to researchers at Dartmouth Medical School, the Washington Times reports.
The Association of American Medical Colleges recommends that by 2015 medical schools increase their enrollments by 30%, or 5,000 students annually. According to [...]

Katherine Freed, undergraduate at Stevens Institute of Technology, won first place at the International ISPE Undergraduate Poster Contest in Las Vegas in November 2007. Freed was the first competitor from New Jersey to win this ISPE award. Her winning poster, “Impedance Mammography,” was based on a project she created with her Senior Design team at [...]

The Biophysical Society has announced the winners of its student travel award to attend the Joint Meeting of the Biophysical Society and the International Biophysics Congress in Long Beach, California, February 2-6, 2008. The recipients of this competitive award are selected based on scientific merit, with priority given to those who will present a paper [...]

African-American Collaborative Obesity Research Network: The network, based at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, has received a five-year, $3.5 million grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to conduct research on ways to reduce obesity among black children and adolescents. The network’s research will look at how to develop community-based efforts to prevent [...]

Toshiba America Medical Systems, Inc., a leading diagnostic imaging provider committed to furthering medical education, announced two new advanced technologist courses in CT and MR available at the Toshiba Education Center in Irvine, Calif.
“Toshiba offers a blended approach to healthcare training, offering courses from basic to advanced, to provide an effective, comprehensive learning experience,” explained [...]

The Australian Medical Students’ Association (AMSA) welcomed the appointment of Nicola Roxon as Federal Minister for Health and Ageing.
AMSA President Mr. Rob Mitchell said, “I look forward to working with Ms. Roxon in her capacity as Health Minister.
“She has shown a strong commitment to the portfolio through her role as Shadow Minister for Health, and [...]

Rutgers College of Nursing faculty member Rachel Jones has been selected to be the recipient of the Rutgers-Newark Provost’s Award for Community Engagement in Research. This award is for research of broad scholarly significance based in whole or in part on data from Newark or Northern New Jersey.
Steven J. Diner, Rutgers-Newark provost, established the Provost’s [...]

Most people in the UK enter medical college straight from school. But would changing to a single system of graduate entry medical schools provide the diverse workforce needed for the future?
Two experts debate the issue in this week’s BMJ.
We must stop the headlong rush of pupils going straight from school into five year long medical [...]