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Caption: Resident Brian Drolet examines a patient's burned arm., Credit: Kristin Gourlay
The nation spends billions of dollars every year training future doctors. But health care experts worry we’re still not training enough doctors to ...

  • Added: Jul 09, 2013
  • Length: 06:07
Caption: Second year medical student Sarah Rapoport, in Brown University's Warren Alpert Medical School., Credit: Kristin Gourlay
We're checking in on our Future Docs, Sarah and Peter, who've nearly reached the mid-way point of their second year of medical school. Reporter Kri...

  • Added: Jul 09, 2013
  • Length: 07:15
Caption: Resident Anne Kuritzky begins morning rounds on the surgical intensive care unit., Credit: Kristin Gourlay
After medical school, most doctors go through a kind of on-the-job training called residency. Residency programs have been around for a while, but ...

  • Added: Jul 09, 2013
  • Length: 03:39
Caption: Second year medical student Peter Kaminski practices suturing on a pig's foot., Credit: Kristin Gourlay
In the final piece in the series "Future Docs," second year students Sarah and Peter are about to begin their third year in medical school, leaving...

  • Added: Jul 07, 2013
  • Length: 05:46
Caption:  YES Prep students at an informational session at the University of Oklahoma. YES Prep is a charter school network that serves a low-income population in Houston, Tex. and focuses on getting all of its students accepted into 4-year colleges. , Credit: YES Prep Public Schools
Why are so many low-income students quitting college, and what leads a few to beat the odds and make it through? (8/30/2012)

Bought by WMUU-LP, KPIP-LP, KERA, and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 14, 2012
  • Length: 54:00
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Susan Ledy and Lindsay McHome, Literacy Center of West Michigan.

  • Added: Aug 20, 2012
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  • Added: Aug 20, 2012
  • Length: 15:35
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Tony Campbell, VP United Way West Michigan & Mary Ann Prisichenko, Sibley Elementary School.

  • Added: Aug 20, 2012
  • Length: 18:50
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Dr. Bernard Taylor, Superintendent of Grand Rapids Public Schools.

  • Added: Aug 20, 2012
  • Length: 16:35

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  • Length: 17:11
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Carol Paine-McGovern and Shatawn Brigham, Kent School Services Network.

  • Added: Aug 20, 2012
  • Length: 15:09
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Emily Loeks, Director of Community Affairs, Celebration! Cinema.

  • Added: Aug 20, 2012
  • Length: 16:10
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Former students receive salaried training inside many of Colorado's white-collar companies as an alternative to difficult home settings.

  • Added: Aug 19, 2012
  • Length: 06:51