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The Student Forum Collection
This is a collection of all Student Forum essays published in PLoS Medicine:
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Hearing the Voice of Medical Students Worldwide
- The Student Forum, a new section of PLoS Medicine, is a space where medical students from across the world can exchange ideas about the critical issues affecting health and health care from their unique perspective.
- doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.0020099
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Learning How Drug Companies Promote Medicines in Nepal
- An educational initiative looks critically at the drug industry's promotional tactics.
- doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.0020256
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Why Medical Students Are Crucial to the Future of Research in South Asia
- One long-term strategy for promoting health research in developing countries is to target medical students early in their careers.
- doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.0020322
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Why Medical Students Should Be Trained in Disaster Management: Our Experience of the Kashmir Earthquake
- Two medical students say that they were unprepared for the task of treating casualties of the Kashmir earthquake, since they had not had any training in disaster management.
- doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.0030382
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The "PharmFree" Campaign: Educating Medical Students about Industry Influence
- Moghimi discusses an American Medical Students Association campaign that educates students about the influence of the pharmaceutical industry on medical training.
- doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.0030030
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Improving Access to Medicines in Poor Countries: The Role of Universities
- Universities Allied for Essential Medicines, a coalition of students and faculty across North America, focuses on how academic research institutions can help to improve access to essential medicines.
- doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.0030136
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Why Should Medical Students Care about Health Policy?
- Gupta argues that medicine has become increasingly influenced by political, economic and social policies, and that medical students should become well-versed in these policies.
- doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.0030199