My friend Sacha Pfeiffer at WBUR filed this story for NPR about a ballot question Massachusetts voters will be asked to answer this November. If voters approve the measure, that would make it the third state to legalize a lethal prescription for terminally ill patients who wish to end their lives.
A new report out from the Association of American Medical Colleges says medical school enrollment is up, and that we’re on track to increase it 30% by 2016.
UPDATE:The first lecture in this series has been rescheduled for Thursday, Nov. 1 at 5 pm.
The Rhode Island Medical Society is marking its 200th anniversary with a series of neuroscience-related lectures, all free and open to the public. The lectures are co-sponsored by Brown’s Institute for Brain Science and the Norman Prince Neurosciences Institute.
Another top medical school is redesigning its curriculum right now. You can practically watch Dartmouth's progress in real time via the lively discussions in town halls. Here's a recent one, framed by the need for change because of the explosion of medical knowledge since the last time the curriculum was updated.
