Earlier this month, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced a “transformational change” in addressing the nation’s chronic disease epidemic: 53 U.S. medical schools will require at least 40 hours of nutrition education for doctors. For several weeks, Street Arrow News has surveyed schools designated by the Department of Health and Human Services, and found … Read more
Author: Staff Writer | March 17, 2026 | 8 minutes of reading | to share MD/MBA student Akash Patel helped develop a sustainable nutrition curriculum that is reshaping how future doctors are trained at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine. Akash Patel grew up in Long Island, New York, surrounded by a loving … Read more
Incoming Dr. Parth Patel ’21 (CLAS) is set to graduate with the UConn School of Medicine Class of 2026, and his passion for mental health has continued throughout his time at UConn Medical School. During the height of the COVID-19 pandemic as an undergraduate at UConn in 2020, Patel founded Medical Minds Matter, Inc. For … Read more
There is a common complaint among medical educators: the medical school curriculum is “too crowded.” New themes appear, but where to put them? As ethics and quality improvement and “shared decision-making” permeate the program more widely than ever before, how can it be jammed without a complete redesign of medical training? There is real concern … Read more
Microsoft has unveiled Copilot Health, an AI-powered tool that it claims can help make sense of your medical records, health history and fitness data from a wearable, if you give it access to that data. The company said it will be in a “separate, secure space” within the Copilot app, and the idea is to … Read more