UTHealth professor's use of a slur shows racism still infects medical training

Recording shows UTHealth professor's words weren't just inappropriate - they reinforce the very prejudice the medical field ...
STAT

Medical students are skipping class in droves — and making lectures increasingly obsolete

The future doctors of America cut class. Not to gossip in the bathroom or flirt behind the bleachers. They skip to learn — at twice the speed. Some medical students follow along with class remotely, ...
EdSource

Endangered: large university lecture hall classes

October 23, 2025 - California community colleges rely on this funding for programs such as support for students pursuing science degrees and dual enrollment for high school students taking college ...
The Boston Globe

Who needs lectures? Vermont medical school chooses other ways to teach

BURLINGTON, Vt. — The doctors of tomorrow — eight of them — huddle at the conference table, puzzling over the case of a girl whose growth has mysteriously slowed. What could be wrong? A genetic ...
Inside Higher Ed

Become a Doctor, No Lectures Required

Four years after two senior academics at Stanford University challenged medical schools to stop lecturing and start flipping their classrooms, major reforms at underway at a handful of colleges to ...
Indiatimes

Medical students prefer offline classes over online: Study

A study by Kasturba Medical College in Mangaluru found that more undergraduate medical students prefer offline classes but are prepared for online learning during pandemics. The survey of 992 students ...
NPR

Vermont Medical School Says Goodbye To Lectures

For students starting medical school, the first year can involve a lot of time in a lecture hall. There are hundreds of terms to master and pages upon pages of notes to take. But when the new class of ...