Accrediting Agency Warns Hitchcock
Lebanon — An independent accreditation organization for medical education has issued warnings to Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital and its surgery-training program for new doctors after receiving a complaint from a resident who was dismissed from that program. That development punctuated a five-year-old controversy that put a temporary roadblock in the career path of an aspiring doctor and raised questions about the policies and...
More Grads Get Jobs in Their Field
Washington — It was one of the most iconic symbols of post-recession America: the college graduate working as a coffee shop barista, carrying a mountain of student debt and a bachelor’s degree into a job that ordinarily would have required only a high school education. Almost half of recent grads, in fact, were in jobs that didn’t match their experience. But now, economists say, the tide is turning. Members of the class of 2015 have...
Giant College Chain Fined $30 Million
Los Angeles — U.S. Department of Education dealt a $30 million fine Tuesday to California-based Corinthian Colleges Inc., a for-profit college operator that has been on the brink of collapse following a federal crackdown last year. The Education Department said Corinthian misrepresented job placement rates to students in its Heald College system, which operates campuses in California, Hawaii and Oregon. Placement rates often play a...
The Life of a Resident Doctor
Lebanon — During Kevin Koo’s hardest day as a resident at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, he sat in a conference room with the family of a critically ill patient as they debated which, if any, invasive medical steps should be taken to keep their loved one alive through the coming night. “In that moment I had to call on all of the lessons about the patient’s disease, about the patient’s physiology, about the patient’s prognosis,...
