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Deep dives into real issues impacting medical education, from @onlinemeded

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Detroit’s Cedric Mutebi passed up college football scholarships to study public health and medicine, creating a ground-breaking anti-racism program for @waynestate residents along the way. Meet @onlinemeded's 2022 Future Black Physician Scholarship winner: https://t.co/IQdBXVy7FG

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Fifty years ago this week, the @AP broke the story of the horrific Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment. Here’s how it impacted the landscape of racial injustice in medicine today: https://t.co/cw89pTFsVB

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Are you a Black medical student and US citizen in the US or the Caribbean? Do you know a Black medical student? We’re accepting submissions between now and June 19: https://t.co/Q5YrpxpHW8

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Just 0.3% of enrolling American medical students from the past 20 years were aged 40 or older. Marie Elwood was a 39-year-old mother of seven when she started med school - and just matched as a family medicine resident. Here's how she made it happen: https://t.co/1pDz3tHpPG

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A combination of the two could create a growing pool of tens of thousands of capable, educated physicians who are prevented from practicing in India (a nation that has a massive physician shortage). https://t.co/bBcR7CgG95

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The world has watched in horror as Russian military forces invaded Ukraine. Caught in the middle of it all: more than 180,000 Indian med students, whose medical educations are effectively “paused” due to regulatory restrictions. ➡️ Full story: https://t.co/bBcR7CgG95

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Chinese-educated students—who have yet to return to China following pandemic-forced travel restrictions—have been having similar issues. https://t.co/bBcR7CgG95

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➡️ If you're in med school or practice in Ukraine right now, DM us if you'd like to share your experience?

We're preparing a feature highlighting how this conflict is impacting medicine in Ukraine, and what can be done to help.

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Med students of Ukraine: Our thoughts are with you, and with all the innocent people affected by today's attacks. 💙💛

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"The US - which has the longest, most expensive medical-education system in the developed world - has the lowest number of physicians per capita." ➡️ Some *very* productive discussion from @dkthomp at @theatlantic: https://t.co/7aUI1yBSSy

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The highlights ✨

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Though often forgotten, "grave robbing" medical students from Virginia played a role in the story surrounding abolitionist John Brown’s failed attempt at sparking a slave rebellion in 1859 - a primer for the American Civil War. Our latest feature: https://t.co/QTD2rW7abq

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✨ The highlights

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100 years ago this week, insulin was first used to treat diabetes. we wrote about insulin’s wild, rarely told backstory in 2020 - here it is again: https://t.co/6YaMprbR4b

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5. The wild, true story of the first #MatchDay (from 19 Mar 2021): https://t.co/J8QbgNfvuo

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✨ The highlights (our top 5, most-read stories from 2021):

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We turned 1 this month! 🎉 To celebrate - here are our most-read stories from 2021, ranging from the racist history of the speculum to the overdue end to the Step 2 CS exam: https://t.co/sma03HCa2z

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4. A highlight of what becoming a doctor looks like in Australia and New Zealand (from 26 Feb 2021): https://t.co/Iz3vKKzqAf