In a blog post published today on Wired Science, Stanford physician Paul Drain, MD, MPH, discusses what the United States can learn from Cuba's medical …
Category: Education
Pokemon-style game created to teach medical students about infection
Two physicians, who founded a gaming company that hopes to harness geek culture for medical education, have recently created a Pokemon-style game that teaches medical …
Stanford Mini Med School Winter quarter videos online
Lectures from the most recent completed quarter of the Stanford Mini Med School are now available on the Web. Titled Medicine, Human Health and the …
Image of the Week: Bassett dissection of the eye
This is an image from the Bassett Collection, the definitive dissection collection available to the public. The collection was the product of a 17-year collaboration …
A journalist's experience as a 'standardized patient'
As a medical student, I can't help but feel sympathetic for standardized patients. These trained actors take on the persona of someone with a real …
Will Henrietta Lacks now get her due?
Update 04/23/10: Last night Rebecca Skloot sent a tweet to @sumedicine about our post: Henrietta's case is different in many ways, but the research done …
Bill Gates on improving health care, bolstering education and fighting global poverty
Microsoft founder and philanthropist Bill Gates kicked off a three-day, five campus college tour this week in an effort to engage the country's brightest minds …
Image of the Week: Leech teeth up close
A nose-dwelling leech, Tyrannobdella rex (which means "king leech"), made quite a splash on the Web this week after the journal PLoS ONE published an …
Stanford researcher talks about TB project in North Korea
Stanford researcher Sharon Perry PhD, an infectious disease specialist, has been working in North Korea with a team of American health specialists to develop the …
Report explores student diversity in medical schools
Medical schools have made strides in recruiting and admitting students from under-represented ethnic and racial groups, but there's still a lot of work to be …
Johns Hopkins launches new blog
A professor of medicine and communications director at Johns Hopkins produce a weekly podcast called Johns Hopkins PodMed (link to iTunes Store). Now the duo …
Image of the Week: De humani corporis fabrica
No, the headline isn't lorem ipsum text; it's the title of a seminal work in human anatomy, published in 1543 by Andreas Vesalius. And the …
Gender gap in academic medicine investigated
Women in academic medicine may earn less than men do, even when their academic accomplishments are comparable, according to a study being published in the …
Medpedia Project adds health and medical videos
The Medpedia Project has expanded its offerings to include hundreds of medical and health videos from a number of sources including the Center for Disease …
Image of the Week: Italian anatomical waxwork
This week's image comes from the Italian anatomical waxworks set on the Stanford Medicine Flickr photo stream. The sculpture itself was created by Clemente Susini …
Stanford’s medical school expands its policy to limit industry access
The New York Times today outlines new rules at Stanford that will prohibit its volunteer teaching staff from giving paid speeches written by drug or …