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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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