For many medical students, the earliest years of training are heavy on textbooks and light on real patient contact. But a new ...

The first half of medical education (traditionally the first one to two years, which are also sometimes called the preclerkship years) prepares students to succeed during the second half of medical ...

Medical school is difficult. But there might be a cognitive light at the end of the long corridors of academia. A recent study at the University of Florida College of Medicine revealed some ...

C.A. Tolchinsky is a medical education learning specialist at Nova Southeastern University College of Allopathic Medicine. Bryn Tolchinsky is a senior scientist at Eli Lilly. When medical students are ...

Doctors encounter death and dying significantly more than most people. It's the price of saving lives and helping people.

Most medical trainees have never seen measles or its complications, muscle rigidity from tetanus, or an infant struggling to ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dr. Robert Pearl covers the people, tech and business of healthcare. “It’s pretty embarrassing,” he said. “If you go across 150 ...

Medical education is increasingly informed by rigorous evaluations of the learning environment, which encompasses the physical, social and educational atmospheres within which medical trainees operate ...

The Center for the Advancement of Medical Learning (CAML) offers a variety of opportunities for basic and clinical scientists, physician educators, attending physicians, preceptors, alumni, residents ...