In Focus - Health Professions

More community colleges abandon open-entry policies and adopt competitive admissions for nursing programs.

Congress's investigative arm finds growing student borrowing and middling academic outcomes at foreign (sometimes for-profit) medical schools where U.S. students enroll.

Major report calls for medical education to become less rigid (and more focused on competency than classroom time) to serve the patients, and physicians, of the future.

Supreme Court agrees to adjudicate long-running dispute between IRS and universities over whether medical residents can claim tax exemption as students.

Dartmouth's president launches what he believes to be a new multidisciplinary field: health care delivery science.

Cuyahoga Community College opens on-campus preventative care clinics, staffed by allied health students, to provide free services to the uninsured.

Texas Tech announces option that could encourage more medical students to consider family medicine, and save them time and money. Major study will recommend similar move nationally.

Latest survey of pre-licensure programs shows recession is beginning to take toll on admissions and enrollments, though demand remains high.