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NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, August 23, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Ob/gyn residents at Yale’s School of Medicine must undergo training in abortion procedures in a required residency program established by Planned Parenthood’s Connecticut branch (PPC).Second year ob/gyn residents will have to complete two four-week rotations with PPC for training in abortion techniques such as vacuum suction, medical abortions, and other “family planning” services in a program entitled Family Planning/Ambulatory Surgery."Yale is very satisfied with the experience and training the residents are receiving at PPC and are especially happy with the number of patients the residents see," said Mary Bawza, chief operating...

SEATTLE, Washington (AP) -- A professor at the University of Washington Medical School who moved to Botswana to help alleviate a shortage of doctors there, was killed when a crocodile dragged him from a dugout canoe, his family and colleagues said. Richard K. Root, 68, was on a wildlife tour of the Limpopo River in remote northeastern Botswana with his wife, Rita O'Boyle, on Sunday when it happened. The couple had been visiting a clinic in the area. A nationally known expert in infectious disease and the former chief of medicine at Harborview Medical Center here, Root went to the...

Gov. George Pataki remained hospitalized Monday nearly a week after undergoing a surgery to correct a postoperative complication related to an emergency appendectomy. Pataki, 60, continued eating some food Monday but also remained on intravenous nutrition and antibiotics to reduce the risk of an abscess... `The governor's doctors have indicated that there has been a slow return of normal digestive function because of the ruptured appendix,'' ... Pataki was originally to be released two days after the Feb. 16 appendectomy. ``The governor continues to be in good spirits and is reading, walking around and conducting state business,'' ...

NEWARK, N.J. — Trustees of the nation's largest medical school appointed a federal monitor Thursday to oversee its finances amid an investigation of Medicare and Medicaid fraud that could amount to tens of millions of dollars, officials said. The University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey agreed to the federal monitor last week after a threat from U.S. Attorney Christopher Christie to indict the school if it did not accept. Trustees voted 5-0 in favor of appointing Herb Stern, a former federal prosecutor and judge, to a two-year term as monitor to sort out the institution's finances. Stern, 69,...

HAVANA (AP) - A Latin American medical school created as a regional initiative in 1998 after two hurricanes devastated Caribbean and Central American nations graduated its first class on Saturday. Students at the school come from Latin American, Africa and the United States. Most come from low-income families and receive a free education on the condition they return home to serve their communities after graduation. On Saturday, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and Cuban President Fidel Castro - who have become close allies as they stake their leadership on opposition to the United States - handed out diplomas to several of...

OPINION THE RECORD Education, politics and a tasteless display Wednesday, April 6, 2005 By JAMES AHEARN AS PLANNED, the party for John Petillo's inauguration as president of the state University of Medicine and Dentistry was going to set a New Jersey record for vulgar extravagance. Bear in mind that the university is a public institution, supported by taxes. Bear in mind that the State House is struggling to fill a $4 billion hole in the budget for next year. Against that background, consider that the university was going to spend $20,000 to rent the New Jersey Performing Arts Center in...

Over the centuries, dissecting the human body has evolved from a criminal offense to a vehicle of mass entertainment to an initiation rite. In the Middle Ages, human dissections were forbidden. In 17th century Europe, medical school dissections were open to the public and often attracted unruly crowds cracking obscene jokes. By the 20th century, dissection had become the exclusive purview of scientists and a mandatory rite of passage for all doctors. The scandals reported this month with donated cadavers at the University of California, Los Angeles and Tulane University are simply the most recent in a field long beset...

WINNIPEG, March 18, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) - A medical student in his last year at the University of Manitoba Medical School will be denied his degree for his unwillingness to partake in any abortion-related activity. The Christian student, who wishes to remain unnamed, received a failing grade in an Obstetrics and Gynecology portion of his program for refusing to perform or refer for any abortive procedure. Three separate appeals to the Medical School have all failed to correct the matter. Carolee Neufeld, a friend of the family who is handling media calls told LifeSiteNews.com that the failure stands despite the fact...

Medical student John David Johannessen and the leader of the Christian Medical Students Circle have petitioned the medical faculty at the University of Oslo for lectures "that not only argue the cause for evolution, but also the evidence against", student newspaper Universitas reports. "The theory of evolution doesn't stand up and does not present enough convincing facts. It is one theory among many, but in education it is discussed as if it is accepted by everyone," Johannessen said. Johannessen is a believer in creationism, based on the biblical account. "Of course one has to know the theory of evolution, it...

Med Schools: Four That Flunk June 29, 2003 By JACK DOLAN And ANDREW JULIEN, Courant Staff Writers Idaho regulators investigating complaints involving 12 patients revoked Dr. Brent E. Woodfield's license after concluding that he didn't understand "the basic principles of the practice of medicine." For Dr. Anacleto Capua, accused of misdiagnosing fatal conditions in three patients, refresher medical courses were recommended by Florida authorities concerned about his medical skills. Hitting the books might have helped Dr. Narpat Panwar, who flunked the U.S. medical licensing exam seven times before passing - only to be accused later in New York of botching...

Idaho regulators investigating complaints involving 12 patients revoked Dr. Brent E. Woodfield's license after concluding that he didn't understand "the basic principles of the practice of medicine." For Dr. Anacleto Capua, accused of misdiagnosing fatal conditions in three patients, refresher medical courses were recommended by Florida authorities concerned about his medical skills. Hitting the books might have helped Dr. Narpat Panwar, who flunked the U.S. medical licensing exam seven times before passing - only to be accused later in New York of botching a childbirth so badly the newborn suffered brain damage.

<p>"According to the American Medical Association, 12 states face serious dangers of doctor shortages due to spiraling insurance costs." Isn't this the same protectionist AMA that's now being sued for antitrust violations regarding its residency program? Are we sure the AMA's excessively restrictive admissions system isn't mainly to blame for the lack of doctors? Did you know that in nearly all OTHER countries, medicine is a highly focused UNDERgraduate degree? It's less costly and lucrative to become a doctor abroad, and people pursue medicine much more for a love of medicine than of money. Doctors abroad aren't nearly as eager to quit, unsurprisingly. Meanwhile, medical services overseas are better than the AMA would have us believe. Millions of Americans have already chosen to retire abroad, despite language barriers. Do you know any such expatriates whom you could ask to compare medical services (and costs) here and abroad? Do they think that excessive fees here are justified by purportedly better medical services? Or are we simply paying the price of the AMA's protectionism, while resulting U.S. doctors care much more about golf courses and holiday parties than they do about patients whom they must be bothered with long enough to repay loans?</p>

During the first several decades of the twentieth century, colleges and universities commonly denied admission to minority-group members whose high-school grades and standardized test scores surpassed those of whites who were offered an opportunity to enroll. Thanks to the civil rights legislation of the 1960s, such blatant discrimination became illegal. But since then, the pendulum has swung strongly in the opposite direction. Many colleges have created affirmative action programs designed to boost minority enrollments by granting preferences to blacks and Hispanics in the admissions process.   Defenders of preferences claim that these policies are little more than “tie-breakers,” designed...