The Alice L. Walton School of Medicine's inaugural class of 48 students began medical school this month in a new building designed with the school's "whole health" philosophy in mind. The big picture: ...

First and last, the United States and Canada have in little more than a century produced four hundred and forty‑seven medical schools, many, of course, short‑lived, and perhaps fifty still‑born.

She had heard about the first-in-the-country tribal-affiliated medical school at the Cherokee Nation and knew she wanted to make that the next step in her career path. So Gatewood, originally from ...