To make better use of the fixed amount of instructional time available to train doctors, Stanford and four other institutions are collaborating with the Robert …
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Students draw inspiration from Jimmy Kimmel Live! to up the cool factor of research careers
To better understand how teens feel about scientific research and to make a career in health or medicine a more desirable occupation among adolescents, University …
Medical students explore the wide, wide world of research at annual Stanford symposium
Training medical students in research skills has long been a focus at Stanford. To get an inside glimpse of how this works, read my story …
Flip it up: How the flipped classroom boosts faculty interest in teaching
SMS (“Stanford Medical School”) Unplugged is a forum for students to chronicle their experiences in medical school. The student-penned entries appear on Scope once a …
Cracking medical school admissions: Stanford students use their expertise to help others
In an effort to help those interested in going into medicine, fourth-year Stanford med students Rachel Rizal and Rishi Mediratta have written a book: Cracking Med School Admissions.
In an effort to help those interested in going into medicine, fourth-year Stanford med students Rachel Rizal and Rishi Mediratta have written a book: Cracking Med School Admissions.
Soon-to-be medicine resident reflects on what makes a good teacher
Ilana Yurkiewicz, a fourth-year student at Harvard Medical School, will begin an internal medicine residency at Stanford in June, and she hopes to bring teaching to …
Stanford Medicine’s Lloyd Minor on re-conceiving medical education
Stanford Medicine is no stranger to pioneering changes in medical education, so a panel on re-inventing health provider education at the Association of Health Care Journalism …
Physician-author Abraham Verghese encourages journalists to tell the powerful stories of medicine
Stanford's Abraham Verghese, MD, greeted hundreds of journalists at the Association of Health Care Journalists 2015 conference last evening with a talk centered on the power of …
A Match made at Stanford: From medical student to resident
SMS (“Stanford Medical School”) Unplugged is a forum for students to chronicle their experiences in medical school. The student-penned entries appear on Scope once a …
Project aims to improve maternal and newborn health in sub-Saharan Africa
In sub-Saharan Africa, maternal and neonatal outcomes are some of the worst in the world. What would happen to those numbers if 1,000 new obstetrician/gynecologists …
Join us for two days of live tweeting from Childx
Today and tomorrow, we'll be live tweeting Stanford's inaugural Childx conference, which brings together some of the top voices in pediatric and maternal health. We'll be using @StanfordMed and …
Registration now open for the inaugural Stanford Medicine X|ED conference
Some exciting news for those who have followed our Medicine X coverage in the past or who have attended the popular event in person: The …
After work, a Stanford surgeon brings stones to life
Classrooms, research, grant writing, faculty meetings... It can be easy to forget that professors have a life outside of the classroom, perhaps with surprising hobbies …
Research in medical school: The need to align incentives with value
SMS (“Stanford Medical School”) Unplugged is a forum for students to chronicle their experiences in medical school. The student-penned entries appear on Scope once a …
Using graphic art to understand the emotional aspects of disease
When it comes to describing the feelings of hopelessness of depression, the fear and anxiety of having an operation or the unrelenting pain of a …
Match Day at Stanford sizzles with successful matches & good cheer
Across the country at the exact same time — 9 AM in California — on the third Friday in March, graduating medical students assemble for …