Submitted by Doug Lederman on February 13, 2008 - 4:00am
Medical schools quickly enacted policies on individual financial conflicts, but have lagged in addressing financial conflicts tied to institutional funds, survey finds.
With expected growth at existing schools and a collection of new ones likely on the way, the country’s first-year medical school enrollment is projected to grow 21 percent over a 10-year period ending in 2012, according to a survey released by the Association of American Medical Colleges.
Submitted by Doug Lederman on August 28, 2008 - 4:00am
As colleges have begun paying increasing attention to retaining their current students, they have embraced a range of strategies for identifying and helping those who struggle. Virtually all of those strategies -- such as "early warning" systems and "intrusive advising" -- depend on a "it takes a village" approach, in which the more people working together to help the student, the better.