The authors developed an instrument for measuring moral distress in medical students, and identifying the situations most likely to cause it. Academic Medicine : Journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges (Source: Medscape Today Headlines) 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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Medical Students’ Experiences of Moral Distress: Development of a Web-Based Survey

Conclusions: The majority of GS residents plan to subspecialize. Three factors dominate specialty choice. Faculty need to understand their impact potential to modify or change perceptions of their specialty.

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Factors Dominating Choice of Surgical Specialty

Increasing regulatory mandates, heightened concerns about compliance, accountability, and liability, as well as a movement toward organizational integration are prompting assessment and transformation in education and training programs at academic health centers, particularly with regard to clinical research compliance. Whereas education and training have become a major link between all research and compliance functions, the infrastructure to support and sustain these activities has not been examined in any systematic, comprehensive fashion, leaving many critical interrelated issues unaddressed. Through a series of informal interviews in late 2008 with chief compliance officers and other senior leadership at 10 academic health centers, the authors studied the organization, management, and …

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Commentary: Compliance Education and Training: A Need for New Responses in Clinical Research

Medical schools in the United States have continued to demonstrate deficiencies in musculoskeletal education. In response to the findings of numerous studies and to the objectives of the U.S.

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Commentary: The Importance of Musculoskeletal Medicine and Anatomy in Medical Education

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)… (Source: Public Health News From Medical News Today) 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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New AAMC Report Highlights How ARRA Funds Are Fueling New Research And Driving Economic Growth Over The Last Year

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Jay A. Perman, M.D., Former Chair of Pediatrics, has been named President of the University of Maryland, Baltimore

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). That challenge is part of a bold new approach to premedical and medical education proposed by Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) and HHMI in the report “Scientific Foundations for Future Physicians,” which was published in June 2009…

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Panel Challenges Colleges And Universities To Improve Science Education For Future Doctors

The climate of academic medicine today was shaped in part by Abraham Flexner’s recommendations in 1910’s Medical Education in the United States and Canada. At the celebration of the 100th anniversary of the Flexner Report, however, some wonder whether the times require another look at our complex system of medical education

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Commentary: The Flexnerian Legacy in the 21st Century

Deadline: March 31, 2010The Women’s Leadership Committee periodically awards a women’s leadership training grant for women vascular surgeons age 50 and under who have been in practice a minimum of five years and a maximum of 15. The grant is presented at the Vascular Annual Meeting. Financial SupportThe Women’s Leadership Training Grant is supported by a grant from W.

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Society for Vascular Surgery Women’s Leadership Training Grant

2010 Nomination Deadline: May 3, 2010 The Award for Distinguished Research in the Biomedical Sciences honors outstanding biomedical research related to health and disease. The research recognized should have contributed to the substance of medicine.

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Award for Distinguished Research in the Biomedical Sciences Request for Nominations