med students

WASHINGTON (MedPage Today) -- More than 200 medical students from 30 U.S. states descended on Capitol Hill today to participate in the American Medical Association's student lobbying day.

A bold new method of training future doctors is taking root at a group of Sunset Park clinics where students are spending more time with patients instead of in a classroom.

Future doctors aren't learning much about the unique health needs of gays and lesbians, a survey of medical school deans suggests.

Medical students are frequently stuck by needles, and few report their accidents, researchers say.

A new survey suggests that medical students often misbehave on social-networking sites like Facebook and YouTube -- sometimes at the expense of patient privacy

Thanks to video-game technology, some creepily realistic rubber skin, fake organs, mannequins and other simulation devices (including a full-scale fake operating room), budding surgeons at the UW now test their skills in the virtual world.

CHICAGO (AP) -- Only 2 percent of graduating medical students say they plan to work in primary care internal medicine, raising worries about a looming shortage of the first-stop doctors who used to be the backbone of the American medical system....