Breaking news on medical students
Oh, The Drama! Med School Class Of 2010 To Learn Where They've "Matched" For Residency published
Fri, 19 Mar 2010 16:00:00 PDT
Hugs, high fives, cheers and a few tears will abound when the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine's seniors find out which hospital residency programs they will enter after graduation this spring...
More U.S. Medical School Seniors To Train As Family Medicine Residents published
Fri, 19 Mar 2010 04:00:00 PDT
The number of U.S. medical school seniors who will enter residency training in family medicine rose 9 percent over 2009, according to the National Resident Matching Program (NRMP). These individuals will be among the more than 16,000 U.S...
AAMC Pleased More Medical School Graduates Are Matching To Primary Care Residencies published
Fri, 19 Mar 2010 04:00:00 PDT
AAMC (Association of American Medical Colleges) President and CEO Darrell G. Kirch, M.D., issued the following statement on Match Day results released this afternoon by the National Resident Matching Program (NRMP) for U.S. medical school graduates and the primary care specialties: "The AAMC is extremely encouraged that more graduating U.S...
Call For More Nutrition Training For Doctors, UK published
Fri, 19 Mar 2010 01:00:00 PDT
Nutrition needs to become a more important part of doctors' training as leading experts claim that current provision is "patchy"...
The Role Of Haptic Feedback In Laparoscopic Training Using The LapMentor II published
Fri, 19 Mar 2010 00:00:00 PDT
UroToday.com - Increasing attention is being directed to the use of simulation in training laparoscopic surgery as it is becoming the standard of care for many surgical diseases. The debate continues in the literature as to the necessity of haptic or tactile feedback as an important component of a laparoscopic simulator for teaching these surgical skills...
Stritch Medical Students Taking Part In Washington March published
Thu, 18 Mar 2010 02:00:00 PDT
Eight Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine students will join hundreds of health care professionals from across the country in a march to support patients in the fight for health-care reform...
Unique Guideline Demonstrates A Multi-Specialty Outlook For Musculoskeletal Ultrasound published
Thu, 18 Mar 2010 00:00:00 PDT
The AIUM is pleased to announce that 4 professional societies have collaborated with AIUM to endorse the recent AIUM Training Guidelines for the Performance of Musculoskeletal Ultrasound Examinations...
Other Health Professions Need Support As Well - Pharmaceutical Society Of Australia published
Wed, 17 Mar 2010 17:00:00 PDT
The Government's announcement of a substantial boost in GP training places, specialist training places and pre-vocational general practice placements for medical graduates is a welcome development, but other health professions need similar support, the Pharmaceutical Society of Australia says...
Extra Doctor Training Places "very Welcome" ... Now It's Time To Back Them Up With A Rural Rescue Package, Australia published
Tue, 16 Mar 2010 07:00:00 PDT
The Rural Doctors Association of Australia (RDAA) has strongly welcomed today's announcement by the Federal Government that it will substantially increase GP training places, specialist training places and prevocational general practice placements for medical graduates...
Visually Impaired Students Benefit From New Teaching Tools published
Tue, 16 Mar 2010 04:00:00 PDT
Mastering mathematics can be daunting for many children, but researchers have found that children with visual impairments face disproportionate challenges learning math, and by the time they reach the college level, they are significantly under-represented in science, technology, mathematics and engineering disciplines...
Curriculum On Unhealthy Substance Use Recommended By Researchers published
Tue, 16 Mar 2010 04:00:00 PDT
Educational leaders from Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) believe teaching the subject of unhealthy substance use must be incorporated into internal medicine residency training and can be done within existing teaching venues...
AAMC Urges Congress To Pass Reform Bill published
Tue, 16 Mar 2010 02:00:00 PDT
AAMC (Association of American Medical Colleges) President and CEO Darrell G. Kirch, M.D...
The Medical Protection Society Calls For Compulsory Training On Patient Safety published
Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:00:00 PDT
A leading doctors' organisation has called for patient safety and risk management to be compulsory in both the undergraduate and postgraduate curricula for doctors. The Medical Protection Society (MPS) provides indemnity, legal and professional support to around half of all doctors in the UK...
AMA Welcomes Big Investment In Medical Training, Australia published
Mon, 15 Mar 2010 13:00:00 PDT
AMA President, Dr Andrew Pesce, said today that the AMA welcomes the Government's significant investment in medical training with the announcement of big increases in the number of medical training places across the board...
Updated 'Patient Care In Vascular And Interventional Radiology' And Related 'Study Guide' Now Available published
Mon, 15 Mar 2010 02:00:00 PDT
"Patient Care in Vascular and Interventional Radiology" - an essential resource and the first offering from Society of Interventional Radiology Press, the society's publishing arm - is now available. Also available is the companion "Patient Care in Vascular and Interventional Radiology Study Guide...
State Overhaul Fears, Rising Costs, Medical School Expansions published
Fri, 12 Mar 2010 04:00:00 PDT
The New York Times: "The General Assembly became the first state legislature to approve a measure that bucks any effort by President Obama and Congress to carry out a national health care overhaul in individual states." Numerous Democrats joined the Republican majority to support the measure 80-17 in the House of Delegates (3/10)...
Guidelines For Body Donation Programs Approved By The American Association Of Anatomists published
Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:00:00 PDT
The Board of Directors of the American Association of Anatomists (AAA) has approved a set of guidelines to govern programs accepting the donation of bodies for education and biomedical research. The guidelines cover the minimum requirements that should be met by any Willed Body Program...
Medical School Costs, Loan Rates Rise Sharply published
Thu, 11 Mar 2010 05:00:00 PDT
NPR reports on the high cost of medical school, focusing on one student, Sarah Rosen. The interest rate on her school loans "shot up to eight and a half percent, almost twice the rate [her parents] are paying after refinancing their mortgage...
AAMC Says Patient Safety Is A Top Priority For U.S. Medical Schools And Teaching Hospitals published
Thu, 11 Mar 2010 05:00:00 PDT
AAMC (Association of American Medical Colleges) President and CEO Darrell G. Kirch, M.D...
Global Training Of HIV/AIDS Caregivers Assisted By Positive Prevention Toolkit published
Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:00:00 PDT
UCSF prevention experts have released the Positive Prevention Toolkit, a collection of resources designed to enable HIV/AIDS caregivers to provide prevention messages when interacting with HIV-positive patients. The goal is to help patients modify their behavior to reduce risk and decrease the spread of HIV...
Biochemist Researching Computer Models Of Protein Structure That Help High School, College Students published
Tue, 09 Mar 2010 06:00:00 PDT
An award from the National Science Foundation will boost a Kansas State University professor's contribution to the study of proteins while also helping college and high school science teachers learn more about computational and structural biology. Jianhan Chen, an assistant professor of biochemistry, is receiving more than $670,000 as a CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation...
Need For Broader Use Of Individualized Learning Plans For Physicians published
Tue, 09 Mar 2010 05:00:00 PDT
Physicians would be better prepared for the accelerating rate of scientific discovery - and more in step with the latest in patient-care - if they added an important tool to their medical bags: a plan for how to keep pace with emerging health-care advances...
AMSA's Annual Convention: Largest Gathering Of Medical Students Celebrates 60 Years Of Student Activism published
Tue, 09 Mar 2010 02:00:00 PDT
More than 1,000 future physicians are expected to attend the American Medical Student Association's (AMSA) 60th Annual Convention , March 11-14, at the Disneyland Hotel in Anaheim, Calif., to discuss the evolution of 21st century medicine...
Training Squeeze Will Result In Poorer Quality Patient Care, Says British Medical Association published
Tue, 09 Mar 2010 00:00:00 PDT
Almost half of UK doctors surveyed by the BMA are missing out on essential training, since the implementation of the 48 hour week in August 2009, a BMA conference was told last week. The conference, attended by junior doctors and key stakeholders, explores the impact the European Working Time Directive (EWTD) has had on training...
Government Of Canada Supports Improvements To The Postgraduate Medical Education System published
Wed, 03 Mar 2010 14:00:00 PDT
The Honourable Leona Aglukkaq, Minister of Health, announced federal funding of over $1.5 million to the Association of Faculties of Medicine of Canada (AFMC) to strengthen the postgraduate medical education system. The funding will help provide physicians in training with the necessary skills to meet the health care needs of Canadians...
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