Medical education

Panel proposes major overhaul: adding social sciences, killing the writing section and opening the way for consideration of personal qualities.

New policy, adopted over faculty objections, gives divisions the option to extend probationary periods.

In settlement over medical board's failure to accommodate a Yale student with dyslexia, U.S. government heralds impending rules that will prod colleges and testing agencies on rights of disabled test takers.

Medical education associations and foundations and push common skills that will allow doctors, nurses and other health care professionals to work better together.