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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.

(MedPage Today) -- The field of nephrology needs to get creative in making itself more appealing to young medical students, researchers say.

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

Author Dr. Pauline Chen tells medical students to consider the art as well as science in medicine and"to be our best selves."

(The Gerontological Society of America) A geriatric training method pioneered by Marilyn R. Gugliucci, Ph.D., president of the Association for Gerontology in Higher Education (the educational branch of the Gerontological Society of America) has proved successful enough that she plans to implement it on a national level.

When Devin Miller, leader of the abortion rights group Medical Students for Choice at Virginia Commonwealth University, heard about the slaying of George Tiller, a Kansas physician who performed late abortions, she "took a step back" to ponder her future.

The second-year student plans to become an...

(University of Florida) "What brings you in to see me today?"

To his frustration, Steven Schwartz often encounters patients who have no idea what each of the pills they've been popping is called.

CHICAGO -- 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.

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....