Category: Medical Education

Let's say you have high blood pressure and that during your most recent clinic visit, your doctor prescribes the newest calcium-channel blocker. You've seen commercials …

A number of Oxford handbooks on medical and surgical subjects are now available on Google Books. Take a look: Via Clinical Cases and Images Blog

Are science funders giving basic medical researchers--for decades medicine's elite--the cold shoulder? The summer issue of Stanford Medicine magazine answers with a qualified yes. Although …

A woman with dark-brown eyes has identical-twin green-eyed daughters. Their dad also has brown eyes, as did everyone else in the previous three generations, with …

Champion of bed-side medicine, Abraham Verghese, MD, advises his medical students at Stanford to meet their patients first then scour the overwhelming amounts of medical …

In this 1:2:1, Brian Eule talks about his new book, Match Day: One Day and One Dramatic Year in the Lives of Three New Doctors. …

Six years after rules went into effect that restricted the long hours worked by many physicians in training, the Institute of Medicine is calling for …

Diana Badillo was one of 82 medical students at Stanford who matched in March 2009. We produced a short video showing the lead up to …

Incredible medical images hidden away in the archives are starting to show up online en masse. The latest source I've come across comes courtesy of …

Following in the tradition of Google Blog Search (beta), Gmail (beta), and Google Scholar (beta), Medpedia is now available as a public beta. Modeled on …

"At the last session of the American Climatological Association one of the speakers declared that in pneumonia 'Negroes invariably run a subnormal temperature.' The question …