Physician Education Debt and the Cost to Attend Medical School summarizes the state of education debt for medical school graduates and the attendance costs of medical schools. Education debt is the ...

Scientists put their stamps on medical-science history by naming their discoveries. Those names have serious scientific implications.

Can more testosterone help people who do not have low levels? Some patients want it, physicians say it sometimes works, and ...

Interest is booming in sports medicine and interventional cardiology, while fewer doctors are specializing in orthopedic surgery and radiology. The number of women doctors continues to grow and they ...

The AAMC has been closely tracking developments in National Institutes of Health (NIH) extramural funding and in Oct. 2026 published Tracking Two Years of Change in NIH Funding, which draws from the ...

An art museum isn’t traditionally associated with medical school. But several medical schools are offering courses that give students a chance to refine their observation skills, and in turn their ...

Exciting news: The launch of the new Visiting Student Learning Opportunities ™ (VSLO ®) platform is on the horizon, and we’re making sure you have everything you need to be ready. A comprehensive set ...

With the possible exception of a priest’s clerical collar, there is no workplace clothing as threaded with symbolism as a doctor’s white coat. Trained surgeons, soon followed by physicians, began ...

Over the past several years, COVID-19 has surged twice a year — once in the winter and once in the late summer. This pattern seems to be repeating in 2026. The Centers for Disease Control and ...

In 2021, the AAMC Council of Deans (COD) Administrative Board explored concrete actions leaders can take to advance DEI at their institutions locally and extend that impact nationally which led to the ...

Editor's note: This story was updated on Jan. 26 with new statistics on the flu season thus far. At least 19 million Americans have come down with the flu — and 10,000, including 44 children, have ...

They found their way to medical school along circuitous paths, propelled by life experiences their younger classmates can only imagine. 2nd Lt. Thomas O’Leary, 41, was an Army combat medic searching ...