Stories Across the U.S.

Clinical skills and kindness are both essential qualities of the doctor Elena Gupta is becoming.

Artificial intelligence is being tapped to create quizzes, simulate patients, pinpoint student struggles, and write assessments. Human oversight is critical.

Each year thousands of medical students spend a few weeks at another institution, learning about career possibilities they otherwise might miss and gaining powerful insights into varied aspects of care.

Medical students who grew up in rural areas, from a ranch in Montana to a former cotton-plantation town in Georgia, share how their experiences challenged and inspired them on their paths to becoming physicians.

Nonprofit hospitals, in particular academic health systems, provide lifesaving care and essential services that benefit the entire community.

Drastic funding cuts to the nation’s largest single source of health insurance would have devastating consequences for patients, and the doctors and hospitals that care for them.

Researchers are studying how GLP-1 medications affect the brain and may help with hard-to-treat behavioral health conditions.

Federal funding freezes and pauses threaten studies on critical ailments. ‘Real humans are being affected.’

Medical schools and teaching hospitals are driving innovations that boost job growth and improve quality of life in areas of economic decline.

An AAMC study measures how spending by academic medical centers contributes to local jobs and to national and state economies.