Wed, 11 Oct 2006

UA opens Phoenix medical campus

The University of Arizona opened its new medical-school campus in Phoenix Tuesday, unveiling the stunning restoration of three century-old buildings and an unprecedented collaboration with rival Arizona State University.

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Researchers Call for Major Overhaul of Medical Education

Today's medical students are being buried beneath an avalanche of information they cannot absorb, while the professors who are supposed to be training them are distracted and overcommitted, according to an article published last month in The New England Journal of Medicine.

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College Launches Palliative Care Nursing Program

With funding from a three-year, $728,000 grant from the US Department of Health and Human Services, the Boston College William F. Connell School of Nursing has established a new palliative care nursing specialty in its master of science degree program.

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