Thursday, August 7, 2008

Controversy in New York

Here's another great NYT article. This piece discusses the controversial move by New York City’s Health and Hospitals Corporation to provide clinical training for St. George's University medical students at the city’s public hospitals. The Corporation has signed a 10-year, $100 million contract with St. George's.

Students in New York are understandably concerned that their training might be suboptimal with the influx of new students. (A problem we had at Harvard Med was the rare ability to practice procedures because of the high numbers of fellows, residents and medical students vying for experience in the Harvard hospitals).

Here's the link to the article.