The Louisville Courier-Journal: “Facing a $7 million budget cut, the Indiana University School of Medicine plans to reduce the number of new students next year — a move that will save money but could reduce the number of physicians when the state is already facing a shortage. After several years of ramping up acceptances of new medical students, IU was forced to cut back after Gov… (Source: Medical Students News From Medical News Today)

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Indiana Medical School Cuts Number Of Students Amid Budget Cuts

Physicians in training and bioethicists at Johns Hopkins have created an easy-to-remember checklist to help medical students and clinicians quickly assess a patient’s decision-making capacity in an emergency. A report on the acronym CURVES, and how to use it, will be published in the February issue of CHEST. CURVES stands for Choose and Communicate, Understand, Reason, Value, Emergency and Surrogate…

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Learning "Curves": Bioethics Memory Aid Can Help Assess Patient Decision-Making Capacity In Medical Emergencies

(Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions) Physicians in training and bioethicists at Johns Hopkins have created an easy-to-remember checklist to help medical students and clinicians quickly assess a patient’s decision-making capacity in an emergency. (Source: EurekAlert! – Medicine and Health)

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Bioethics memory aid can help assess patient decision-making capacity in medical emergencies

Physicians in training and bioethicists at Johns Hopkins have created an easy-to-remember checklist to help medical students and clinicians quickly assess a patient’s decision-making capacity in an emergency. (Source: Johns Hopkins Medicine News) MedWorm Message: Get the very latest Swine Flu news via the MedWorm Swine Flu RSS news feed – updated hourly from thousands of authoritative health and news sources.

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AAMC (Association of American Medical Colleges) President and CEO Darrell G.

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AAMC Commends The President For Supporting NIH Research And Medicare

The AAMC (Association of American Medical Colleges), the Association of American Universities (AAU), and the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities (Aâ�¢Pâ�¢Lâ�¢U) commended President Obama for his proposal to increase funding for the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to $32 billion in FY 2011. “Boosting the NIH’s funding to a level that keeps pace with biomedical inflation recognizes the need for continued, predictable growth in this nation’s medical research enterprise,” said AAMC President and CEO Darrell G. Kirch, M.D…

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The Australian Medical Students’ Association (AMSA) expressed surprise at a call (reported in The Australian newspaper) for the introduction of a national medical curriculum.

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National Curriculum Won’t Improve Clinical Training Capacity, Australia

A university makes changes to its exam procedures after four medical students graduated despite failing an exam. (Source: BBC News | Health | UK Edition)

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Changes after doctor exam error

The Royal College of Nursing (RCN) welcomed the start of a consultation period announced by the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) on standards for the development of programmes that will prepare students to become registered nurses. Dr Peter Carter, Chief Executive & General Secretary of the RCN said: “The demands placed on nurses are only going to increase, so it is right that the next generation of nurses should have a clear set of standards to govern what they must learn… (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)

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RCN Welcomes NMC Consultation On Pre-registration Training, UK