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Check out this new article I wrote for the UNC Mirror! It covers the university’s plan to propose a bill for state funding for the construction of their medical school. I learned a lot about journalistic style and covering live events. Read it here:

  The transformative gift from Kenneth & Elaine Langone spares medical students the burden of tuition for generations. Learn more!

Beginnings matter. How you start will determine where you'll finish. Here is some advice for new medical school deans as they assume their consequential roles.

Find out how Marshall University Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine tackled a series of unique challenges through a redesigned #curriculum, a variety of complementary assessment types, and a data-driven student support system. You can learn more by watching the full learning session at: https://lnkd.in/eJJJ_7kB #learning #medicalcare #studentsuccess

⚡️⚡️⚡️Presented a Lightning Talk this afternoon at IAMSE Virtual Forum! 7 minutes to talk about the one week elective I created and continue to teach at NYU Grossman Long Island School of Medicine for our undergraduate medical education program on fundamentals of teaching and learning! #medicaleducation #teachingandlearning

Find out how the design of the University of California, Riverside School of Medicine Education Building II demystifies medical education with transparency and accessibility in the latest article by Building Design & Construction - BDC. Read the article here: https://lnkd.in/g5WK26dF

Join in our the discussion tomorrow evening to learn more about our University of Lynchburg Doctor of Medical Science (DMSc) program with Dr. Blake Rogers, DMSc, PA-C!!!

The Flexner report was very specific, targeted, and also devastating report. The planning and foresight was impressive, and this is how big families/family money remains in power. Planning, patience, foresight. Most people, including me, think of their own lifetime and children, but less so much about generations from now when we are long gone. The book "the Fourth Turning" goes into this, along with "Generations" and is why history repeats itself. There are some patient, powerful people who are busy orchestrating the next decades while most of us average folk go along for the ride and react to what is happening now or the near term trend rather than in the planning of those trends. Specifically the Flexner report was about better living through chemistry, getting rid of true healthcare (naturopathic, homeopathic, chiropractic alignment etc calling them "alternative" not funding their education, casting doubt upon its efficacy…) while promoting the treating symptoms with chemicals as opposed to getting to the root cause and helping people get well. We have a sick care model by design. A patient cured is a customer lost.

Most troublesome thing I heard at Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) LSL 2023 in Seattle? From a group of pre-clinical faculty: 📑 "What is even the point of year 1, year 2 in medical school anymore?" 🚩 "I don't even know what our role is, no one comes to class, we can't even get the students on campus". 💻 "We don't have any support for what we are being asked to do- moving away from lecture based instruction!" Its the worst of both worlds- calling it "flipped classroom" in name only while continuing to ask students and faculty to operate in a traditional pre-clinical curriculum. Lacking a big picture of the continuum from year 1- year 4. Mixed messages on USMLE and COMLEX prep. What problems are you seeing in your institution? What schools are doing something right? Where do we go from here?