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A good friend once told Detrioit’s Cedric Mutebi that “our bodies see inequities before our minds do.” The words...

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Detroit’s Cedric Mutebi has been named the second recipient of OnlineMedEd’s Scholarship for Future Black Physicians.

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Marie Elwood remembers the night before her med school pulmonology and gas exchange test well. It was spent sleepless...

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It was springtime in the Shenandoah Valley when Virginia’s first medical school went up in flames. Ordered by a former...

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This week, The Rotation blew out a candle, celebrating its one-year birthday on December 20. For most med students...

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Until last week, Muhammad Qureshi’s dream of becoming a practising American doctor was on track. An American...

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Today tens of thousands of medical graduates across the United States will receive an email informing them of the...

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When Eric Gantwerker was growing up in Chicago in the 1980s and 1990s, he and older brother Brian were passionate video...

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Though study materials, highlighter pens, and empty coffee cups cover the table, medical students around the world are...

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Early last March, Elif Yakut, a 29-year-old medical graduate from Turkey, traveled to Philadelphia to complete her...

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There are more than 120,000 medical students in the United States. Like most others studying medicine around the world,...

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Only under the most intense heat and pressure do carbon atoms crystallize. Only then are diamonds formed. From a public...

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It was early April 1945 when the call went out for student volunteers at London’s medical schools. Though World War II...

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A couple of years ago, two med students—and roommates—at the University of California, Irvine starting coming back from...

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Since the first novel coronavirus case was reported in the United States on January 20, more than 7.3 million Americans...

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Ask any first year med student if they remember the Krebs cycle and chances are you’ll receive a long groan in reply....

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In late 1968, NASA astronauts Frank Borman, Jim Lovell, and Bill Anders were preparing to be the first humans to leave...

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Before 1922, most observations of diabetes in medical history didn’t stretch much further than the acknowledgement of a...

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For generations of American doctors-in-training, August has always marked a crucial apex in the greater medical school...

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Six years ago, Alexandra Kamieniecki’s Olympic dreams were in tatters. A former Polish figure skating national...

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In a powerful personal essay for STAT, Jennifer Adaeze Okwerekwu recalled the time she tried to speak up against...

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Like tens of thousands of his fellow Philadelphians, Carl Black took to the streets of his hometown following the...

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The news broke on Tuesday, July 25 1972 thanks to a special Associated Press report for the Washington Star. By the...

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In the long, painful fight against racial injustice in the United States, July 10, 2008 is a date taught in few schools...

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To the early members of the Medical Committee for Human Rights (MCHR), the summer of 1964 might have had a similar...

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In the modern media era, it is virtually impossible to imagine how much surgery on a sitting President would dominate...

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As well as prompting an incredible response from the medical field, the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has dramatically...

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While still scarcer than men, a female surgeon is now a common sight in the American military’s operating theaters. A...

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Like everywhere else in the world, when the COVID-19 crisis struck Ireland, its medical community responded with a...

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Despite an extensive range of variables, for hundreds of years, medical practitioners and researchers have been able to...

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This summer, Tara E. will fulfill her dream, becoming a family care doctor in her home state of Michigan. “Number one,...

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