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...That shortage has already arrived in Massachusetts. The MMS report revealed that 27 percent of medical directors had trouble recruiting family physicians, in comparison to only 7 percent who found it difficult to recruit specialists such as anesthesiologists, orthopedic surgeons, pediatricians, and radiologists. The lack of primary care physicians translates into longer waits to see a physician for patients: only 42 percent of patients in Massachusetts could be seen by a primary care physician within a week, a drop of 11 percent over the past two years. In one practice in Western Massachusetts, the next opening for a physical...
...Department of Defense is cracking down on universities that oppose military recruitment on campus, with an announcement last month that requires schools to give all employers the same access to student information. The policy also closes a loophole that allows schools to ban military recruiters from campus if no students express interest in the military. Harvard has experienced a sometimes-fractious relationship with the armed forces since the Vietnam War. More recently, the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy, which forbids openly gay people from serving in the military...
...automatically moved to one of the remaining plans—Harvard Pilgrim Health Care or the Harvard University Group Health Plan. The two retained plans already cover over 99 percent of physicians included in the Blue Cross and Tufts plans, and Harvard Pilgrim has already begun trying to recruit the physicians that don’t overlap, according to Dawn M. Socha, Harvard’s director of benefits. “We are hopeful no one will need to change providers as a result of this,” Marsden said, “and we are virtually certain...
...problem, including peer mentor programs and parent advocacy groups. HKS student Joshua Garriga added that providing decent jobs, encouraging integrity in children, and focusing on education would help close the gap. But HBS professor David A. Thomas offered a caveat to students who may become discouraged after trying to recruit people to help alleviate the discrepancy. “Don’t try and convert those who are not ready to take action,” Thomas said. “Often times we waste our energy trying to convert the uncommitted.” The panelists stressed that...
...extracurriculars are the key part of career training, and academics become, in some sense, extracurricular themselves. According to Bill Wright-Swadel, the director of the Office of Career Services, the perception of liberal arts education as peripheral is not far from the truth when it comes to firms that recruit at Harvard. “Employers that we talk to for the most part tell us that the concentration is not the driving force,” Wright-Swadel says. “Take Computer Science—if you have great computer skills, you can be an English concentrator...