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What's New With
the HPO:
Fall 2008 HPO Retreat is sheduled for September 26-28, 2008 at Chapman Lake. Please see the registration and information form.
New HPEC for the class matriculating in 2009
Applications
for the Scranton-Temple Residency Program Undergraduate Externship in
Primary Care are now submitted via e-mail. Please contact Rob
Waldeck, Ph.D., at waldeckr2@scranton.edu.
The MCAT Registration System operates on a regional schedule. Please visit the AAMC website for information about the 2009 test dates.
For
those students who missed the meetings, the Powerpoint presentations of
both April Troy and Dario Englot are now posted under the "Advice and
Information" section. Dario's presentation is also under the "Research and Awards" section.
If any students are unsure about whether they qualify for the AAMC Fee Assistance Program, please read this document for more information.
Several NEW
summer research opportunities are listed under the "Research and
Awards" section. Most of the deadlines are in the coming weeks,
so please fill out the applications as soon as possible.
The AAMC has created a website to help guide pre-medical students. Please visit the website at www.aspiringdocs.org.
The AAMC's 2008 MCAT Essentials is now posted under the "Advice and Information" section. This is MANDATORY reading for all students who are taking the MCAT in 2008.
The
2009 Osteopathic Medical
College Information Book has been released. Please check
the book for updated information.
New on the HPO homepage is a live feed of medical
news. This feed
will regularly update with the most
recent articles from News-Medical.net. Below you will find a News
Archive of all
the news articles that were manually posted prior to June of 2006.
Also new is the ScienceTimes
Podcast. The entire archive can be accessed for free via
iTunes.
Other
Headlines and News:
News Archive
Google News
Ongoing Coverage:
Liability
Crisis
HIPAA
Vaccine
Supply
Stem
Cell Research Debate
Sources
of Medical News:
AMA
Newspaper
News-Medical.net
Harvard
World Heath News
Ivanhoe
Medical
Breakthroughs
CNN
Health News
As a pre-professional
student, you should always keep up to date with what's going on in the
world, particularly in your medical field. Interviewers will expect
this.
Sign up
for FREE
access to the NY Times online,
an excellent news source, and read medical,
national,
and world
news regularly.
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