It has been nearly 1 year since Drs. Krane, DiCarlo, and Kahn published “Medical Education
in PostKatrina New Orleans—A story of survival and renewal.”
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Though they noted a 73% decrease in the physician population in the New Orleans area
after Katrina, the focus of their commentary was the storm’s impact on the medical
education programs of Tulane University and Louisiana State University (LSU). They
cogently described unprecedented challenges, novel and creative solutions and the
generosity of “sister” universities in Texas and others, in the wake of “the most
costly national disaster in United States history.” The New Orleans transformation
to a “new normal” continues as Tulane and LSU couple sustained high quality medical
education with a richly imagined vision of the future. This year, Tulane University
School of Medicine received 8300 applications for 175 spots compared with 6800 applications
pre-Katrina.
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References
- Medical education in post-Katrina New Orleans—a story of survival and renewal.JAMA. 2007; 298: 1052-1055
- School of Medicine. 2008 (Tulane Medicine, spring)
- Study shows Hurricane Katrina affected 20,000 physicians, up to 6,000 May have been displaced. 2005 (Science Daily, September 28, Available at, Retrieved March 10, 2008)
- Latest Katrina aftermath: Louisiana medical schools lay off faculty doctors. American Medical News, 2008 (January 23)
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Publication history
Accepted:
May 21,
2008
Received:
April 29,
2008
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© 2008 Southern Society for Clinical Investigation. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
