Breaking news on medical students
OSHA Should Regulate Work Hours For Doctors-in-Training, Groups Tell Labor Department published
Fri, 03 Sep 2010 05:00:00 PDT
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), which is tasked with enforcing safety and health legislation, should take doctors-in-training under its purview, consumer and health advocacy groups said today in a petition sent to the agency. Resident physicians work shifts as long as 30 hours as often as three times a week, which can lead to physician fatigue and medical errors...
New Singapore Medical School To Be Created By Imperial College London And Nanyang Technological University published
Thu, 02 Sep 2010 01:00:00 PDT
A new medical school training undergraduate doctors in Singapore and awarding joint Imperial College London and Nanyang Technological University (NTU) degrees is to be established by 2013, it was confirmed...
Health Informatics Partnership Is Launched To Expand Informatics Work Force, Improve Health Globally published
Thu, 02 Sep 2010 00:00:00 PDT
AMIA, the U.S.-based association for informatics professionals, has launched a non-profit, wholly owned subsidiary organization called the Global Health Informatics Partnership (GHIP) to serve as an international center for collaborative initiatives on health informatics...
Canadian Minister Travels To Mali, Mozambique To Start Rolling Out Canada's G8 Muskoka Initiative published
Tue, 31 Aug 2010 03:00:00 PDT
The Canadian government started rolling out its maternal health program in Africa as Minister of International Co-operation Bev Oda embarked on a seven-day visit to Mali and Mozambique, the Globe and Mail reports (York, 8/27)...
New Academic Medicine Supplement Highlights Innovations In Medical Education published
Tue, 31 Aug 2010 01:00:00 PDT
Medical education has undergone significant change in the last decade to ensure that new doctors have the skills they need to provide more patient-centered and community-focused health care...
University Responds To Growing Need For Skilled Health IT Professionals, Graduates First Class This Summer published
Mon, 30 Aug 2010 03:00:00 PDT
The University of Texas at Austin's new Health Information Technology program has received $2.7 million as a part of the Professional University Resources and Education for Health Information Technology (PURE HIT) consortium project supported by a grant from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of the National Coordinator (ONC) for Health Information Technology...
RCP Statement On The CfWI's Recommendations For Medical Specialty Training 2011, UK published
Mon, 30 Aug 2010 03:00:00 PDT
The Royal College of Physicians is in broad agreement with the recommendations made in this, the first, Centre for Workforce Intelligence (CfWI) report on the future of specialty training...
Issues In Primary Care: Medical Homes And Ethical Concierge Practices published
Mon, 30 Aug 2010 02:00:00 PDT
News outlets report on trends in the primary care workforce, including medical homes and concierge medicine. In the second in a three-part series on primary care, NPR reports on "a nonprofit regional health care collaborative in Maine that's trying to build medical homes in the state...
PSA Intern Training Program Recognised As Best, Australia published
Mon, 30 Aug 2010 00:00:00 PDT
An information session in Tasmania explaining the Pharmaceutical Society of Australia's National Intern Training Program (NITP) has resulted in an overwhelming response from pharmacy students keen to join the program. The NITP is designed to maximise the career opportunities of young pharmacists as they transition from being students to entering the workforce as qualified pharmacists...
AMA To Host Summit On Medical Intern Training Crisis, Australia published
Sun, 29 Aug 2010 00:00:00 PDT
The AMA will next month host a summit of key medical training stakeholders to discuss and develop solutions to the crisis around the shortage of prevocational and vocational training positions for medical school graduates...
UC Irvine School Of Medicine's Revolutionary IPad Program To Utilize E-Textbooks From Elsevier published
Fri, 27 Aug 2010 02:00:00 PDT
Elsevier, publisher of scientific, technical and medical information products and services, announced it will provide four key electronic textbook titles for UC Irvine School of Medicine's new program that gives Apple iPads to its first-year medical students...
Solving Healthcare Problems Through Healthy Competition, Australia published
Fri, 27 Aug 2010 01:00:00 PDT
After four weeks of work, UQ's top three interprofessional teams of health students will come together to compete as part of the annual University of Queensland HealthFusion Team Challenge (UQ HFTC). The annual UQ HFTC will take place on Friday, August 27 at 4:30 pm in the auditorium at the UQ School of Pharmacy at Woolloongabba...
Promising Medical Trainees Receive Funding To Pursue Research In Hematology published
Thu, 26 Aug 2010 06:00:00 PDT
The American Society of Hematology (ASH) announces the 2010 recipients of its Trainee Research Awards. Through this program, which is designed to encourage the pursuit of research and spark an interest in hematology, 43 medical students, undergraduates, and residents will each receive $4,000 to conduct research on blood and blood-related diseases...
Senate's Introduction Of CARE Act Applauded By Society Of Nuclear Medicine published
Thu, 26 Aug 2010 05:00:00 PDT
SNM supports the U.S. Senate in its introduction of the Consistency, Accuracy, Responsibility and Excellence in Medical Imaging and Radiation Therapy Act of 2010 (CARE Act), S. 3737. The proposed legislation, which was introduced in August by Sen. Mike Enzi [R-WY], aims to ensure that minimum education and credentialing standards for nuclear medicine technologists are set at the state level...
Australia To Lose Out On New Doctors, Australia published
Thu, 26 Aug 2010 01:00:00 PDT
The Australian Medical Students' Association (AMSA) warns that the current bottleneck in the medical education system at the intern-level is resulting in students missing out on further medical training and future medical practice in Australia...
Medical Internship Shortage At Crisis Point - Australian Medical Association published
Thu, 26 Aug 2010 00:00:00 PDT
The AMA shares the concerns of Australia's biggest medical schools that the national shortage of medical internships has severe implications for the future medical workforce and its ability to meet the health care needs of a growing and ageing population, with more people suffering chronic and complex conditions...
Obama Requests More Money For HIV/AIDS, Other Health Programs published
Tue, 24 Aug 2010 03:00:00 PDT
On Friday, President Obama updated his pending fiscal year 2011 HHS budget request to include $400 million more for HIV/AIDS programs, high-risk insurance pools and health worker training, CQ HealthBeat reports. He made the request to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.)...
Reintroducing Full Fee Places Will Increase Inequity, Australia published
Sun, 22 Aug 2010 00:00:00 PDT
The Australian Medical Students' Association (AMSA) was extremely disappointed this week by the Coalition's announcement to reintroduce full fee paying domestic places at public universities. President of AMSA, Ross Roberts-Thomson, said that the Coalition's decision would make higher education less accessible for Australians...
Elsevier Partners With HELINET To Strengthen Consortium's Leadership In Health Sciences Education published
Sat, 21 Aug 2010 01:00:00 PDT
Elsevier Health Sciences and Helinet, India's premier medical library consortium for e-resources, have announced an agreement that will provide all medical students at Helinet's medical colleges with access to leading international and local medical content through Elsevier's electronic platforms: ScienceDirect® and MD Consult®...
UNT Board Of Regents Approves M.D. Degree Program published
Sat, 21 Aug 2010 01:00:00 PDT
The University of North Texas System Board of Regents voted to approve a proposal to develop a new M.D. degree program at the UNT Health Science Center at Fort Worth (UNTHSC). The M.D. program will be an independent fifth school in addition to the Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, School of Public Health, and School of Health Professions...
Graduate School Introduces Allied Health Academic Programs published
Sat, 21 Aug 2010 01:00:00 PDT
Beginning in October, the Graduate School's new Center for Health Sciences will offer a Medical Laboratory Technician, Associate of Applied Science degree and a certificate program in Phlebotomy...
NHS Employers Responds To The Centre For Workforce Intelligence Report On Medical Training Numbers published
Fri, 20 Aug 2010 06:00:00 PDT
NHS Employers welcomes the final recommendations on medical training numbers for 2011 outlined in the Centre for Workforce Intelligence's (CfWI) report published today. Bill McMillan, head of medical pay and workforce at NHS Employers, said: "We support the CfWI's programme of work to increase understanding of the shape of the future medical workforce and the numbers going into training...
Production System LEAN Training For Health Care: Sept. 16-17, 2010 At Henry Ford published
Fri, 20 Aug 2010 01:00:00 PDT
The Henry Ford Production System LEAN training for health care takes place Sept...
Study Finds High Rate Of Burnout In Medical Students published
Thu, 19 Aug 2010 04:00:00 PDT
More than 40 percent of third-year medical students have symptoms of moderate to severe burnout, according to a study in the August Southern Medical Journal, official journal of the Southern Medical Association...
Florida Doctors Struggle To Meet New Standards For Electronic Records; Arizona Faces Sharp Cuts In Residency-Training Programs published
Wed, 18 Aug 2010 04:00:00 PDT
South Florida Sun-Sentinel: "New federal standards unveiled last month require doctors to start using electronic medical records routinely, including logging patients' diagnoses and visits, ordering prescriptions, monitoring for drug interactions and making records accessible to other medical providers. ...
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