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Meharry Medical College and Nashville Metro Government Form Agreement to House Nashville General Hospital

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Meharry Medical College and Nashville Metro government have come to an agreement that will give millions of dollars to the college for housing Nashville General Hospital, The Tennessean r eported. The plan – pending Metro Council approval – involves the city paying Meharry $6.3

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What is a ‘governing document’ in the University of Sussex?

SRHE

The first of those criticised (OfS Condition E1) concerns the duty to protect freedom of speech and academic freedom: The provider’s governing documents must uphold the public interest governance principles that are applicable to the provider. There was press coverage about the ensuing uncertainty.

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Veteran Sues U.S. Government, Alleges Racial Discrimination Against Black Vets

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

government, alleging that it has historically discriminated against Black military veterans, denied them access to housing and education benefits, and rejected service-related disability claims at far higher rates than other veterans, Task & Purpose reported. A Marine Corps veteran is suing the U.S. The suit – filed Nov.

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Government refuses to fund UK students at new medical school despite ‘chronic’ doctor shortage

The Guardian Higher Education

The government is refusing to fund a single place at Three Counties Medical School, University of Worcester, despite health bosses in the area saying they are spending £70m a year on agency staff to plug a chronic shortage of doctors.

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Celebrating Differences and Moving Beyond the Medical Model: A Strengths-Based View of Autism

CIP

The medical model approach to autism has historically reinforced the idea that autism is a disease that should be cured. Over many decades, we have worked as practitioners within the autism community and have seen firsthand the detrimental effects of oversimplifying autism and framing it solely as a medical issue.

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FASHP Declares A National Crisis in Low Number of Men of Color in Health Care Professions

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

medical school graduates, 10,268 were men, of which 1,251 were HUMOC. Meanwhile, the 2021 graduating class of veterinary medical students included only 0.6% Maccabe, CEO of the American Association of Veterinary Medical Colleges. Of 824 2021-22 U.S. public health doctoral graduates, 230 were men. And of total graduates, 2.5%

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Jones Cultivates Inaugural Role in Faculty Development at Brown

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The author of Medicine and Ethics in Black Women’s Speculative Fiction (2015), her interdisciplinary research in the field of the medical humanities engages literary, historical, philosophical, and ethical explorations of black women’s health and medicine.

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