Medical school education costs have been raising over the past 50 years at a rate that is unsurpassed in history. Citing concerns about the "overwhelming financial debt" facing graduates, N.Y.U. School of Medicine recently announced it would cover the tuition…
The new global medical education system, marked by its growing size and complexity, has led to greater concerns about quality assurance of individual graduates and their educational programs. Assuring a quality medical education varies considerably from country to country, as…
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Artificial intelligence in healthcare is an ongoing hot topic for the experts. A.I. tools and inexpensive diagnostic software could soon become as essential to physicians as the stethoscope was in the past. AI can be sliced and diced many different…
Social Media have become an important health resource during the last years. People regularly use web search and social media as pseudoscience to investigate medical content and health-related issues. Nowadays, it is possible to find the answer to a question…
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Regulation and protection of medical data is the topic of the latest Monthly Pulse. While phrases like data encryption and cyberattack were not a part of our collective vocabulary until recently, such large scale data breaches, like those that occurred…
