“Because obesity is newly categorized as a disease, there isn’t a lot of material in curriculums in many medical schools across the country, so we are implementing 12 free education modules about the ...

There are opportunities for and obstacles to adding core biomedical informatics competencies to medical school curricula. Medical schools must teach core biomedical informatics competencies that ...

Last year, Spencer Fox Eccles School of Medicine at the University of Utah rolled out a new mission-driven MD program, including an overhaul of its curriculum. That decision was driven in large part ...

A Harvard Medical School committee voted last month to embed climate change into the school’s curriculum. In a meeting early last month, the HMS Educational Policy and Curriculum Committee voted ...

The Office of Undergraduate Medical Education (UME) is charged with supporting the planning, implementation, and evaluation of the undergraduate medical curriculum for the MD degree. The Office of UME ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dr. Robert Pearl covers the people, tech and business of healthcare. “It’s pretty embarrassing,” he said. “If you go across 150 ...

Health classes in California high schools will soon cover more than nutrition and exercise. Thanks to a new law that went into effect Jan. 1, students will learn about depression, schizophrenia, mood ...

As an increasing proportion of Americans identify as LGBTQ, leaders in sexual and gender minority health care say that the nation’s medical schools are largely failing to adequately prepare the next ...

Lankenau Medical Center’s health education center provides free interactive programs on nutrition, exercise, drugs and alcohol, puberty and more.