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STAT explores issues related to young life scientists, from burnout and mental health concerns to racial inequities in medical schools. Here you will find stories on reform, innovation and excellence in higher education.

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Pharmalot Ed Silverman

STAT Plus: Student group that ranked med schools over industry conflicts votes to accept pharma funding

Health Usha Lee McFarling

The only tribal medical school in the U.S. graduates its first Native American doctors

Letters to the editor Patrick Skerrett

Readers respond to funding academic medical centers, the ‘residency research arms race,’ and more

First Opinion Anmol Shrestha

Medical students lose in the research arms race for residency slots

Letters to the editor Patrick Skerrett

STAT readers respond to First Opinion essays on site-neutral payments, free medical school tuition, and more

First Opinion Ezekiel J. Emanuel and Matthew Guido

Free med school tuition won’t solve the shortage of primary care physicians

First Opinion Tricia Pendergrast and Jared E. Boyce

Free tuition won’t fix medicine’s diversity problem without admissions reform

Letters to the editor Torie Bosch

STAT readers on what human health care can learn from veterinary medicine and more

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First Opinion Paula Stephan

Can Arena Bioworks upend the traditional scientific research model in the U.S.?

Health Usha Lee McFarling

As she drives research on structural racism in health care, Rachel Hardeman faces a painful reckoning

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In the Lab Jonathan Wosen

NIH panel calls for fewer, better-paid postdocs in bid to halt loss of scientists to industry

Letters to the editor Torie Bosch

What STAT readers think about premed requirements, too much health care, harm reduction, and more

Special Report Jonathan Wosen

STAT Plus: Life scientists’ flight to biotech labs stalls important academic research

First Opinion Podcast Torie Bosch

Listen: The true costs of mediocre insurance plans for medical students

First Opinion David Velasquez

The end of affirmative action means it’s time to revise pre-med requirements

First Opinion Abraham Nussbaum and Renee Y. Hsia

Let’s leverage graduate medical education to increase Medicaid re-enrollment

Business Brittany Trang

Emergency medicine is grappling with a surprising problem: The prospect of too many physicians

First Opinion John Whyte and Ranil Herath

How health care organizations can set up chief medical officers for success

In the Lab Jonathan Wosen

Exodus of life scientists from academia reaches historic levels, new data show

First Opinion Amelia Mercado and J. Wesley Boyd

How medical schools are failing students who need mental health care

First Opinion Tochi Iroku-Malize, Sandy Chung, Verda Hicks, Omar T. Atiq, Ira P. Monka, and Petros Levounis

Policymakers must take action on the physician shortage

In the Lab Jonathan Wosen

STAT Plus: Graduate students accuse University of California of wage theft, just months after strike was settled

In the Lab Jonathan Wosen

STAT Plus: Departing Stanford president retracts two widely cited papers, against lead author’s wishes

Off the Charts Jennifer Adaeze Okwerekwu

Affirmative action improved public health — and carried a high personal cost for Black physicians

Special Report Usha Lee McFarling

Asian American doctors, overrepresented in medicine, are largely left out of leadership

In the Lab Jonathan Wosen and Annalisa Merelli

Critics and defenders weigh in on Stanford president’s resignation after research investigation

In the Lab Jonathan Wosen

Stanford president to resign after investigation finds he failed to ‘decisively and forthrightly’ correct research

Health Abdullahi Tsanni

What the end of affirmative action means to a fourth-year medical student

Politics Usha Lee McFarling

STAT Plus: After affirmative action ruling, medical education leaders see silver lining in court endorsement of ‘holistic review’