This story is from The Pulse, a weekly health and science podcast. Subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts. Mollie Marr dreamed of being an actor, a director, and a ...

Four medical-school applicants with learning disabilities sued the Association of American Medical Colleges on Monday, saying it discriminated against them by not allowing them extra time and other ...

As an internal medicine resident physician at Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women’s Hospital, both in Boston — and as a premed tutor at Harvard — Ahmed Mukhtar Ahmed, MD, understands well the ...

MCAT: The mere mention of that acronym induces stress for many students considering medical school. It’s a draining exam, over six hours long, taken by more than 85,000 students a year, that requires ...

About The Study: In this study of 81,755 Medical College Admission Test examinees, American Indian or Alaska Native, Black, and Hispanic students reported lower parental educational levels, greater ...

Gabriela “Gaby” Padilla hopes to be the first doctor in her family. A junior in the FIU Honors College, she is beginning the medical school application process with a bit of financial apprehension.