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.

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New Academic Medicine Supplement Highlights Innovations In Medical Education

This report describes the process of development of a longitudinal injury prevention curriculum in one medical school. The curriculum committee felt that adding the material in a longitudinal fashion would better correlate the material to the rest of the curriculum as well as provide efficiency in the already crowded undergraduate programme of study.

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Development of a longitudinal injury prevention curriculum for undergraduate medical students

Darrell Kirch, M.D., president and CEO of the Association of American Medical Colleges, took the stage July 29 during the 37th AAFP National Conference of Family Medicine Residents and Students in Kansas City, Mo., to urge family medicine residents and students to take up the challenge of reforming the U.S.

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Strive to Reform Health Care, AAMC President Tells Students, Residents

CONCLUSION: The prevalence of required instruction in musculoskeletal medicine is greater compared with the prevalence reported in previous studies. Musculoskeletal medicine appears to have attained a more prominent place in the curriculum at most schools.

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Progress Report: The Prevalence of Required Medical School Instruction in Musculoskeletal Medicine at Decade’s End.

Conclusions: Students without the traditional premedical preparation performed at a level equivalent to their premedical classmates.

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Challenging Traditional Premedical Requirements as Predictors of Success in Medical School: The Mount Sinai School of Medicine Humanities and Medicine…

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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An Academic Medical Center Model for Community Colorectal Cancer Screening: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Demonstration Program…

The Association of American Medical Colleges, or AAMC, is urging U.S. teaching hospitals to establish policies to manage financial relationships between physicians and industry to avoid any potential influence on patient care. The organization also says specialty societies and professional medical associations have a responsibility to be free of conflicts of interest because of their role in providing CME and developing clinical practice guidelines

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AAMC Report Offers Guidelines for Managing Conflicts of Interest in Clinical Care

AAMC: Washington Highlights reports that the House Labor-HHS-Education Appropriations Subcommittee on July 15 approved (11-5) its FY 2011 spending bill that provides $176.4 billion in discretionary spending for the coming year, an increase of $12.7 billion (7.7 percent) but $1.5 billion less than President Obama’s request. (Source: News stories via the Rural Assistance Center) MedWorm Message: Register for MedMatcha, MedWorm’s medical advertising network , and receive $5 free advertising

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House HHS Subcommittee Approves FY 2001 Bill, Boosts NIH, Health Professions Funding

The AAMC (Association of American Medical Colleges) issued the following statement on the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology’s (ONC) final rules for meaningful use of health information technology: “The AAMC is pleased by the Obama administration’s commitment to promoting health information technology (HIT) through the Medicare and Medicaid incentive program for providers implementing electronic health record systems… (Source: Health News from Medical News Today) MedWorm Message: Register for MedMatcha, MedWorm’s medical advertising network , and receive $5 free advertising.

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AAMC Responds To Meaningful Use Rules For HIT

What do the trends show us? Academic Medicine : Journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges (Source: Medscape Today Headlines) MedWorm Message: Register for MedMatcha, MedWorm’s medical advertising network , and receive $5 free advertising

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