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Medical School Costs, Loan Rates Rise Sharply
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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...
Pharmaceutical Industry Support Not Desirable But Frequently Accepted By Residency Program Directors
Most directors of internal medicine residency training programs would prefer not to accept pharmaceutical support for the residencies they oversee, but more than half report doing so, according to an article in the February 22 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals...
Online Genomics Center For Educators Of Nurses, Physician Assistants
An online tool to help educators teach the next generation of nurses and physician assistants about genetics and genomics has been launched by the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), part of the National Institutes of Health...
"Flight Simulator" For Robotic Surgery
A collaboration between the Center for Robotic Surgery at Roswell Park Cancer Institute and the University at Buffalo's School of Engineering and Applied Sciences has produced one of the world's first simulators that closely approximates the "touch and feel" of the da Vinciв„ў robotic surgical system...
Joan C. Edwards Charitable Foundation Makes Pipeline For Future Doctors
The Joan C. Edwards Charitable Foundation has announced that it will make a significant investment in the city of Cleveland to create a medical education pipeline for students from traditionally underrepresented minorities and low-income backgrounds. The first phase of the Joan C...
Clout Of Drug Industry Seen In MD Residency Programs And In Health Reform
News outlets report on the pharmaceutical industry's involvement in doctor training and its role in shaping the health care overhauls pending in Congress...
UMDNJ's Health Information Management Program Trains Students For Careers In Fast Growing Field
According to the U.S. Labor Department, employment opportunities for health information and medical records professionals are expected to increase by twenty percent in the next eight years -- far outpacing the growth rate of other occupations...
Training Courses In March - MIND, UK
Are you or your staff in contact with people who have suffered mental distress? Have you identified a need to enhance knowledge and understanding of the issues? Despite the increasing numbers of individuals suffering mental ill health there is still a significant amount of stigma around seeking help...
New AAMC Report Highlights How ARRA Funds Are Fueling New Research And Driving Economic Growth Over The Last Year
A new report released by the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) details how the nation's medical schools and teaching hospitals are advancing science and stimulating economic growth one year after passage of an additional $10 billion in funding for the National Institutes of Health (NIH) through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA)...
AspiringDocs.org Video Contest Winners Passionate About Overcoming Cultural Barriers In Medicine
The AAMC (Association of American Medical Colleges) today announced the 10 winners of the second AspiringDocs.orgVideo Contest. As part of the AAMC's AspiringDocs.org campaign-a Web site and outreach effort to encourage diversity in the medical field-college students from across the country were asked to submit a two-minute video explaining what motivated them to increase diversity in medicine...
Singularity University Announces 2010 Graduate Summer Program
Singularity University (SU) -- the academic institution with the goal of preparing the next generation of leaders to address "humanity's grand challenges" -- announced the dates for the second year of its Graduate Studies Program (GSP), and a 200% class size increase to accommodate 80 of the top students from around the globe...
Loyola Among World's Top Centers In Pathology Competition
Loyola University Medical Center ranked among the top hospitals in the world in a recent research competition for pathologists in training. Loyola was tied for the top nine programs in the number of scientific studies accepted in the Stowell-Orbison Awards competition sponsored by the United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology (USCAP)...
Panel Challenges Colleges And Universities To Improve Science Education For Future Doctors
Colleges and universities should seize the opportunity to make premedical and medical education more interactive and interdisciplinary, says Peter J. Bruns, vice president for grants and special programs at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI)...
Rockefeller Foundation Supports Expansion, Training Of e-Health Work Force In Developing World
The Rockefeller Foundation has awarded a $630,100 project support grant to the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) to support the initial implementation this year of a global e-Health training program in sub-Saharan Africa designed for primary care providers, technical staff and health policy-makers...
Award Supports Excellence In Musculoskeletal And Rheumatic Disease Education
At the core of the American College of Rheumatology Research and Education Foundation's mission is to attract the best and brightest trainees into a career in rheumatology. To do this, the REF has an extensive portfolio of awards and grants that provide support during critical career stages...
School Of Health Professions Health Literacy Certificate Will Be Available This Fall
The cost of low health literacy - the difference between patients' abilities to understand health information and providers' abilities to effectively communicate complex medical information - is $106 billion to $238 billion annually, according to Pfizer, a leading biopharmaceutical company...
As Health Care Reform Approaches Many Questions Remain Unanswered
Arthur Feldman, M.D., Ph.D, Magee Professor and Chairman, Department of Medicine at Jefferson Medical College, has written a new book, Pursuing Excellence In Healthcare: Preserving America's Academic Medical Centers, one of the first textbooks since the works of Abraham Flexnor in 1910 to take a comprehensive look at the issues facing academic medicine. Dr...
Medical Training Program Reduces Stillbirths In Rural Areas Of Developing Countries, Study Finds
Training medical workers in how to help newborns start breathing, as well as how to clean infants and keep them warm, decreased the rate of stillbirths in low-income, rural parts of six developing countries by one-third, according to a study in the New England Journal of Medicine, Reuters reports...
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