Medical School Updates 6.11.21
Dartmouth Drops Honor Code Charges Against Medical Students: It appears it can look like you’re on Canvas even when you are not. Yikes.
The University of Utah School of Medicine receives a $110 million dollar donation:
The Eccles family, through two of their seven foundations, donated $110 million to the University of Utah School of Medicine. The donation is split up into three parts:
$40 million for an endowment to fund student scholarships and recruit top-notch doctors and teachers
$40 million set aside specifically for research targeted at cardiovascular disease, the number one killer in America
$30 million for a state-of-the-art School of Medicine building, replacing the 60-year-old building no longer suited to 21st Century learning (they will break ground in the Fall of 2021)
Eastern Virginia Medical School hired a public relations firm for community engagement and communications advice, and branding and marketing assistance. Turns out the owner of that PR firm has a blog posting negative stories about Sentara Healthcare, one of the school’s hospital partners that they have clashed with over the future of the medical school.
Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine expands its Department of interprofessionalism to the Department of Health Care innovation and Implementation: “We want our students to understand how health policy, public health, community health, and academic health centers work together to influence the health of individual patients and populations,” Learman said.
