This year the program will award scholarships to students in grades 9-12 living in the U.S. or Puerto Rico who plan to enter a full-time undergraduate course of study upon high school graduation.

Up to 1,200 students will each receive a $1,000 scholarship. If you’re a 9-12 grade student who plans to attend post-secondary education, have…

This Saturday, August 13, Cummins is hosting an on-site job fair from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Cummins will be hiring mechanical engineering, instrument and electronic engineer technicians. If you have an A.A.S. degree (in a related field) with a minimum two years experience, or a B.S. degree, or Department of Labor Card, then Cummins wants to talk to you!

Apply online at…

If you’re a new intern you are hopefully a little afraid of the new found responsibility in your life. I say “hopefully” because there is nothing more frightening in healthcare than someone who is “unconsciously incompetent.” That is, someone that doesn’t even realizethey have no idea what they are doing.

Before starting medical school I was an emergency nurse. As an RN, I had the…

I recently saw a post in Yahoo questions entitled, “Is it illegal for a medical student to introduce themselves as ‘Doctor’ before they have received their MD?”

One of the answers that was rated highly was “I think it is more unethical than…

by Nilesh Kalyanaraman, MD

It’s well known that there is a shortage of primary care physicianswhich is only going to get worse over time.

To address this problem, Dr. Peter Bach, the director of the Center for Health Policy and Outcomes at Memorial Sloan-Kettering and Dr. Robert Kocher, a guest scholar at the Brookings Institution, propose making medical school free. They argue that medical students would be more likely to choose primary care over specialties…

by Sam Wainwright

There’s a fascinating blog post over at the New York Times math blog that has the health policy program here at New America scratching our heads, sharpening our No. 2 pencils, and dusting off our calculators.

Turns out, German mathematicians have been studying how and why the human brain seems to struggle with comprehending risk. We find it difficult to translate the mathematical fact of probability into an accurate assessment of danger. This…