Staying up to date on big changes in medicine is just another part of your premed rounds. It is easy to get sucked into the premedical track and forget that medicine is a large and dynamic field. The journey to enter the medical field takes nearly a generation.
It is very likely things will change from when you first began your premedical career. You cannot trace every development, but there are three big topics that are sure to be central to major changes in the future of medicine. These "Big 3" include Healthcare Reform, the Human Genome Project, and Stem Cell Research.
An "article of the week" related to one of these topics is listed below. These articles will come from popular news sources, so they will be user-friendly even without detailed medical knowledge.
Click one of the links below for more information on the topic:
"President Obama said Wednesday that he was receptive to Congressional proposals that would require Americans to have health insurance and oblige employers to share in the cost. But he said there should be exemptions for people who cannot afford insurance and for small businesses in general."-NY Times (Click here for full article)