The Coastal Research Group

Another Associate Dean’s Response to “Drowning in Student Debt”

A second response to this website’s recent post, Drowning in Student Debt: Young Professionals at the End of Graduate School, has been received from Doctor Michael D. Prislin, Associate Dean of Students of the University of California, Irvine Medical School. The economic circumstances that young professionals often find themselves in following completion of their studies are [...]

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Activities of the Fellows and Senior Fellows of the Coastal Research Group: Bruce Behringer’s Testimony to U. S. Senate Special Committee on Aging

In this new feature, of the Coastal Research Group website, we will highlight some of the important activities, in which the Fellows and Senior Fellows of the Coastal Research Group and the National Consortium on Community-Based Medical Education are engaged. Last month, Bruce A. Behringer, a Coastal Research Group fellow, testified before the United States Senate’s [...]

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The “Worst Paying” Physician Specialties: An Internet Forum of the National Conferences on Primary Health Care Access

The Internet Forums of the National Conference on Primary Health Care Access will take selected topics for discussion between National Conferences. The following topic was suggested by a recent web posting by the Forbes Magazine, which was widely disseminated by the Yahoo Finance website: On Monday, July 19 2010, www.forbes.com, the Internet site for Forbes Magazine, [...]

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An Associate Dean’s Response to “Drowning in Student Debt”

The following response to Drowning in Student Debt: Young Professionals at the End of Graduate School, recently posted on this website, was received from Gary L. LeRoy, MD, Associate Dean of Student Affairs and Admissions, Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio The best advice that I received when I was contemplating a career in medicine was to concentrate [...]

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