Why Obama Deserves His Nobel Prize Human Events (blog) To give it to Barack Obama just 8.5 months into his Presidency is like giving the Nobel Prize for Medicine to a medical student just for getting into … and more »

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This article is based on the premise that it is not the relationship per se that is the problem, but rather how that relationship is enacted. The influential 2008 report of the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) has provided detailed recommendations on appropriate interactions between academic physicians and industry (eg, proscribing receipt of gifts including travel support, and proscribing speaking at industry-sponsored educational programs)

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Winds of change: growing demands for transparency in the relationship between doctors and the pharmaceutical industry.

Georgetown University News, Calendars & Events Standardized Patients Take Role to Educate Students Georgetown University News, Calendars & Events By the fourth year, medical students begin seeing actual patients in clinical rotations. Medical student usually take their Step 2CS exam by mid-year

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Part fairground attraction, part science lesson, a new exhibition of grotesquely lifelike waxworks lifts the curtain on the hidden history of medicine and artThe Wellcome Collection in London is about to open a peep show – and of a kind not seen in Britain for well over a century, since the last public museum of medical waxworks was smashed to pieces by the London Metropolitan police. The Wellcome’s normally chaste white galleries have been transformed for a new show called Exquisite Bodies, which gathers together centuries of anatomical models of human bodies and body parts, created to educate, terrify and titillate.The exhibition’s designers say it will be part university lecture, part artist’s anatomy lesson, part Victorian fairground booth.

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Graphic and ghoulish: The Wellcome’s cadaverous Exquisite Bodies show

Social networking tools are slowly making their way into the curricula of medical and nursing schools, according to a study published in the Journal of the Medical Library Association. According to the survey, 53 percent of nursing schools and 45 percent of medical schools use Web 2.0 tools in their curricula. A separate survey conducted in 2007 revealed that medical students and practitioners would like more training to become proficient users of Web 2.0 tools.

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This marks the 50th Australian Medical Students’ Association (AMSA) National Convention, which is the largest medical student conference in the southern hemisphere. The event runs from Monday July 6 to Sunday July 12 and includes an array of lectures, workshops, debates, an emergency challenge and social events. (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)

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AMSA Celebrates 50th Medical Student Conference In Brisbane

THEIR passion for service has had two undergraduate medical students from the Medical University of South Africa (Medunsa) and the University of KwaZulu-Natal taking care of patients in public hospitals while doctors were striking to get a 50% pay hike. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)

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South Africa: Medical Students Thrown Into Deep End During Doctors’ Strike

Vermont Gov. Jim Douglas (R) has signed into law a bill that prohibits manufacturers of drugs, medical devices, and biologics from providing free gifts, including meals and travel, to physicians and other health care providers

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A Michigan State University (MSU) program is helping local elementary school students to cultivate healthy lifestyle habits, the Jackson Citizen Patriot reports. (Source: RWJF News Digest – Childhood Obesity)

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Michigan Medical Students Educating Children on Healthy Habits

The TMA Foundation, the philanthropic arm of America’s largest state medical society, raised $68,950 to assist many of the 1,000 medical students from The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston facing storm recovery. (Source: News_Room)

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TMA Foundation Raises Funds to Help Displaced Medical Students