Conclusions: Perception of inadequate sexuality training in medical school and personal issues pertaining to sex may be associated with students’ difficulty in addressing patients’ sexuality. Adequate training is preeminently associated with feeling comfortable addressing patients’ sexuality and should be a priority for medical education. (C) 2010 Association of American Medical Colleges (Source: Academic Medicine)

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During 2005-2009, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention funded five colorectal cancer (CRC) screening demonstration projects around the United States; only one was based in an academic medical center (AMC) rather than a health department. The Suffolk County Preventive Endoscopy Project (Project SCOPE) was a collaborative effort between Stony Brook University Medical Center (SBUMC) and the Suffolk County Department of Health Services. Project SCOPE’s objective was to increase CRC screening among Suffolk County residents at least 50 years old who had inadequate or no insurance coverage for CRC screening

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Fast Company Med Student Pioneers “Political Medicine” in Rural Haiti Fast Company The Providence, Rhode Island, medical student has been busy. For one thing, there's school

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Med school tuition proposal: Take percentage of paycheck American Medical News A new plan for solving the problem of skyrocketing medical student debt would do away with traditional tuition altogether. Instead, prospective physicians ..

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The AAMC announced that Frank R.

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As a collaboration of the Colorado Injury Control Research Center, the Center for Injury Research and Policy at Nationwide Children’s Hospital and the School of Public Heath, Tongji Medical College at Huazhong University of Science and Technology, the USA-China Agricultural Injury Research Training Project was created in 2004. The project aims to provide training to Chinese scholars, expand collaborative research activities between the injury control research centers and researchers in China and provide training and continue development of human subjects research ethics..

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Trainee Publication Highlights Success Of USA-China Agricultural Injury Research Training Project

(University of California – Los Angeles) A UCLA study shows that female medical students volunteer for leadership roles in the classroom significantly less than their male peers.

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Palm Beach Post MAKESHIFT MEMORIAL — Birthday tribute for slain would-be medical student Investigative Voice Today would have been the prospective medical student's 24th birthday. A cake with a candle half burnt out sits at the base of a tree trunk in the 2600 …

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Liberals to provide Colac medical student housing Geelong Advertiser THE LIBERAL Party says it will spend nearly $2 million to house student doctors in Colac if it wins the election. Corangamite Liberal candidate Sarah …

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Medical student , Grandmother win Take 5 on same day.

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