Today, we’re fortunate to have a guest post by UM alum Brent Lacey. Brent is an Internal Medicine intern at Naval Medical Center San Diego, and recent graduate from the University of Texas Health Science Center in San Antonio, where he was in the Navy Health Professions Scholarship Program. He… more

The nursing profession remains overwhelmingly female, but the representation of men has increased as the demand for nurses has grown over the last several decades, according to a U.S. Census Bureau study released today. The new study shows the proportion of male registered nurses has more… more

For years we’ve read that the US faces a looming shortage of nurses. Shortfalls in the hundreds of thousands of nurses are routinely predicted. These predictions have been good for nursing schools, which have used the promise of ample employment opportunities to more than double the number of… more