Medical students are experiencing a number of unprecedented changes in how their education is delivered. Because of COVID-19, objective structured clinical examinations (OSCEs) and anatomy instruction are now virtual, and exams are being remotely proctored. L…
Top Democrats Criticize DeVos's Handling of Stimulus Aid May 1, 6 p.m. Top Democrats on key House and Senate education committees accused U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos of failing to implement the CARES Act in an array of ways as Congress intended. …
According to CNN, a new bill has been proposed for frontline healthcare workers that would forgive student loan debt. Introduced by New York Rep. Caroly
CHRISTIANSTED, U.S. Virgin Islands, May 11, 2020 -- Altisource Asset Management Corporation (“AAMC” or the “Company”) (NYSE American: AAMC) today announced financial and.
Removed from patient care in March, students at many medical colleges will begin seeing patients again in the next few months.
CHRISTIANSTED, U.S. Virgin Islands, Aug. 07, 2019 -- Altisource Asset Management Corporation (“AAMC” or the “Company”) (NYSE American: AAMC) today announced financial and.
He had planned on taking the Medical College Admission Test (MCAT) in March before the 2021 medical school application cycle opened.
Stanford Considering Classes in Tents May 3, 1:00 p.m. Stanford University is discussing the possibility of holding classes in outdoor tents come the fall, Mercury News reported. The option is not a formal proposal or plan, a spokesperson said, but one of …
Medical sociologists Tania Jenkins (PhD, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill) and Elaine Hernandez (PhD, MPH, Indiana University) pair up in this four-part series, COVID-19: Dispatches from Medical Sociology, to provide insight on how the current COVID-1…
The COVID-19 pandemic has turned medical education upside-down. From exclusively virtual pre-clerkship courses, to delayed clerkships, to canceled graduation proceedings, there has been massive disruption. Now, after weeks of speculation, we’ve learned how th…
With COVID-19 still consistently creating setbacks in the health care community, we see yet another issue for medical students because of this pandemic. In prior years, the traditional medical student would be expected to be part of a team assisting medical p…
Altisource Asset Management Corporation (“AAMC” or the “Company”) (NYSE American: AAMC) today announced the hiring of Indroneel Chatterjee as the Company’s new Co-Chief Executive Officer, effective January 13, 2020 (the “Effective Date”). Mr. Chatterjee will also become a member of the Company’s Board of Directors on the Effective Date.
The pandemic -- and the financial ruin it brought -- has left no industry or institution unharmed, including the institutions playing a key role in ending it: hospitals connected to colleges and universities. Many states in March halted elective surgeries …
Dr. Stephen Thomas, Chief of Infectious Diseases at SUNY Upstate Medical University, discusses the financial toll that the Covid-19 pandemic is taking on U.S. healthcare systems, and what the road ahead looks like.
Within the current COVID-19 pandemic, health care workers and educators have quickly needed to make adaptations and sacrifices. In order to make room for the conservation of necessary aspects of care, we need to take a conscientious look at our resources. As …
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CHRISTIANSTED, U.S. Virgin Islands, Feb. 28, 2020 -- Altisource Asset Management Corporation (“AAMC” or the “Company”) (NYSE American: AAMC) today announced financial and.
Medical school hopefuls and students eager to start other professional healthcare studies endured grueling wait times online recently to sign up for their licensing and medical school entrance exams. And then they were denied entry to the testing center’s n…
Design thinking is both a mindset and a practice; it is a method for problem solving that uses specific approaches, including empathy and prototyping, to discover creative solutions via an iterative, human-centred process. These methods were originally applie…
The Trump administration’s apparent lack of interest in cooperation has alarmed health officials.
CHRISTIANSTED, U.S. Virgin Islands, Nov. 06, 2019 -- Altisource Asset Management Corporation (“AAMC” or the “Company”) (NYSE American: AAMC) today announced financial and.
Denver Newsroom, May 25, 2020 / 10:01 am (CNA).- Four medical school educators have said that fully to address a patient’s needs, physicians should begin asking questions about the patient’s spirituality and religion. A May 19 opinion piece in the Annals of …