A prosperous and healthy New Year to you, our readers! Here are some of the latest, most interesting headlines about the medical school admissions process and medical education from media outlets across the country to ring in 2014.
Do you have any students who are thinking about enrolling in a post-bacc program before applying to medical school? If so, you’ll want to read this first. (U.S. News & World Report)
Do NOT try this at home…or anywhere else. A recent college grad has been sentenced to three months in prison, followed by seven months in community confinement and three years of supervised release, for trying to hack into the AAMC’s computer network in order to change his MCAT scores. (eSecurity Planet)
Medical school students sound off about the “red flags” in healthcare and medical education. (The Huffington Post)
Despite the staggering scope of medical education curricula — spanning genetics to geriatrics, and everything in between — it largely omits training on health policy. Given the Affordable Care Act, this seems to need some changing. (The Dallas Morning News)
A medical student at the University of Virginia learned an important lesson to never assume anything when he correctly diagnosed a fake patient with a very real and very deadly disease. (ABC News)
