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The Match Day ceremony at the University of California, Irvine, on March 15. Match Day is the day when medical students seeking residency and fellowship training positions find out their options. Increasingly, medical students are choosing to go to states that don't restrict abortion.

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Medical residents are starting to avoid states with abortion bans, data shows

5:19pm May 09, 2024

A new analysis shows that students graduating from U.S. medical schools this year were less likely to apply for residencies across specialties in states with restrictions on abortion.

Dr. Leah Rethy is an internal medicine resident with Penn Medicine.

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80-hour weeks and roaches near your cot? More medical residents unionize

4:28pm April 04, 2023

by Alan Yu

Part of a national trend, medical residents at Penn Medicine in Philadelphia push to form a union to demand better working conditions and higher wages. Child care is an important issue for many.

A recent push, backed by the American Medical Association, has encouraged teaching medical students about health risks tied to a warming planet.

Medical Residents Learn To Treat The Growing Health Hazards Of Climate Change

5:01am October 12, 2020

by Martha Bebinger

From heat-related illness to mosquito-borne infections, physicians are seeing the effects of a warming planet in the exam room. There's a growing push to teach doctors-in-training how to respond.

Health workers and others rallied in Seattle during a Doctors For Justice event on June 6, protesting police brutality in the wake of George Floyd's death. Medical training needs a hard look too, doctors say: Students of color and LGBTQ people often bear

Racism, Hazing And Other Abuse Taints Medical Training, Students Say

5:00am June 16, 2020

by Mara Gordon

More than 35% of students surveyed experienced mistreatment in a U.S. medical school. "There's a direct link between this abuse and how some ... health care disparities play out," a black doctor says.

Just as sleep deprivation has been shown to impair cognition, so too has it been found to dampen empathy for others.

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Opinion: Keep Limits Intact On Medical Residents' Work Hours

2:19pm May 10, 2019

by Clayton Dalton

Caps on shift lengths for medical residents were implemented to improve patient safety. Given the effects of sleep deprivation on emotional capacity and residents' well-being, why risk longer hours?

The habit of ordering unneeded tests and treatments drives up medical costs. It's a pattern doctors often learn in medical school and residency.

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Why Do Doctors Overtreat? For Many, It's What They're Trained To Do

12:30pm April 19, 2019

by Mara Gordon

Ordering more tests or treatments is not always best for patients' health or wallet. A group of medical educators is trying to address the problem where they think it starts: medical training.