Med school students share their stories
Five students at Indiana University School of Medicine contemplate whether to opt for family practice or a specialty.
Five students at Indiana University School of Medicine contemplate whether to opt for family practice or a specialty.
Interest in primary care has fallen off markedly due partly to relatively low pay.
IU School of Medicine associate professor Mark Rodefeld will use funding to further develop the pump, intended to combat a congenital heart defect that kills many children in their first year of life.
Marian University will spend more than $32 million to build a new building for its college of osteopathic medicine and expects the school to add $44 million a year to the Indianapolis-area economy.
University will spend nearly $70 million to construct health and life science research facilities, including a drug-discovery lab, in West Lafayette.
Marian University in Indianapolis has named the founding dean of an Atlanta-area medical school to head up the school for
osteopathic doctors it plans to open in 2012.
Indiana University’s president says IU this fall will launch a $1.1 billion fund-raising campaign aimed at expanding the IUPUI
campus’ life science programs.
Marian University’s planned medical school is one of two dozen nationally, but budget cuts are forcing Indiana University to retreat
on enrollment expansion.
Clarian Health and the Indiana University School of Medicine want their planned neurosciences hub to become a destination
for patients suffering
from brain, nerve and mental maladies—and for the government and industry research dollars that can
fuel advances in care.
A partnership between Indiana University School of Medicine and a medical school and hospital in Kenya has received an additional
$5 million grant from the U.S. Agency for International Development to expand health care services in the African nation.
St. Francis and Westview hospitals are open to hosting the osteopathic-medicine school proposed by the Indianapolis Catholic
institution.
The Indiana Osteopathic Association passed over a virtually certain $75 million in startup funding from Indiana Wesleyan University
to choose Marian University for its new osteopathic college.
The tiny Catholic institution in Indianapolis has $30 million raised toward new college that could train nearly half as many
students as the Indiana University medical school.
Indiana University is reorganizing its Cyclotron Facility to shift oversight to its School of Medicine. The Bloomington campus’
vice provost for research previously had overseen the cyclotron, which treats cancer patients with proton therapy.
Indiana University, which has received nearly $600 million from the endowment over the last three decades, will leverage the
new gift to increase its
scientific discoveries and commercialize life science innovations.
Health reform that would cover millions of uninsured Americans would theoretically send a flood of new
patients to physicians. Yet in Indiana and nationwide, there’s already a shortage of doctors.
A state law that went into effect July 1 attempts to attract young physicians and mental health practitioners to underserved
areas by forgiving part of their student loans. But Indiana’s budget woes prevented lawmakers from allocating funds
to support the program.
For the last two months, two academics at Indiana University and Purdue University have been discussing how the institutions
can work together to rev up research in medicine and life sciences and, in the process, boost Indiana’s economy.