Saturday, September 9, 2017

The Nephrology fellowship match

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Nephrology is a subspecialty that has required fellowship programs to participate in the match ("All In") Perspectives on the N...
Friday, September 8, 2017

The Medical Physics Residency Match

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Ethical violations and discriminatory behavior in the MedPhys Match Kristi R. G. Hendrickson, Titania Juang, Anna Rodrigues, Jay W. Bu...
Thursday, September 7, 2017

U.S. transplant patients from overseas

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Here's a paper presented at the ISODP meeting in Geneva, concerning which foreign patients receive deceased-donor organs in the U.S.   ...
Wednesday, September 6, 2017

Organ Donation in Geneva

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I'll be attending the 2017 Organ Donation Congress of the International Society for Organ Donation and Procurement, September 6-7 in Ge...
Tuesday, September 5, 2017

UNOS proposal: Allowing Deceased Donor-Initiated Kidney Paired Donation (KPD) Chains

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Earlier I posted about our 2016 paper proposing that some kidney exchange nondirected donor chains be started with deceased donor kidneys. ...
Monday, September 4, 2017

Scott Kominers' Market design course at Harvard

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http://scottkom.com/courses/Market-Design_2017-2018/index.html Date Topic Guest(s) September 5, 2017 Introduction/Overview September 1...
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Sunday, September 3, 2017

The Iranian kidney market--Associated Press

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The Associated Press has a nice story on the Iranian market in which donors can be compensated for kidneys. Here's the version in the D...
Saturday, September 2, 2017

AEA continuing education programs, demise of AER P&P and other AEA announcements

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Those of you who are members of the American Economic Association recently received an email with several announcements. Here are some that...
Friday, September 1, 2017

Matching refugees to localities once they have been granted asylum

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Here's a new paper by Jones and Teytelboym: The Local Refugee Match: Aligning Refugees’ Preferences with the Capacities and Prior...
Thursday, August 31, 2017

Biological markets--from primates to cleaner wrasses to plants

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Evolution as the designer of market exchange between and among members of different species: here's a Bloomberg article about the work ...
Wednesday, August 30, 2017

The accidental experiment with legal prostitution in Rhode Island

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A scholarly paper and an easy to read-or-listen-to NPR report recount the period in which indoor prostitution was legal in Rhode Island. ...
Tuesday, August 29, 2017

Harry Potter and the Resident Match | ZDoggMD.com

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To some medical students, the resident match seems like sorcery. Here's a video for them (and for everyone else who feels that things a...
Monday, August 28, 2017

The match for larygology fellowships

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In The Laryngoscope" Perceptions of the laryngology Match: A survey of program directors and recent trainees Eric J. Formeister...
Sunday, August 27, 2017

Was air-conditioning a repugnant transaction?

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The Atlantic has a story that says air conditioning initially received a chilly reception: The Moral History of Air-Conditioning Cooling ...
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Saturday, August 26, 2017

A tree grows at the Technion

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When I was at the Technion this week I visited a tree that I planted in 2013. Someone has been watering it: In this picture taken by Ma...
Friday, August 25, 2017

13th workshop of Matching in Practice, Aug 28-9 in Brussels

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 Here's the preliminary program: 13th workshop of Matching in Practice August 28 @ 12:00 pm - August 29 @ 2:30 pm Université Libre ...