These are materials presented at the 2012 STFM Medical Student Education Conference in Long Beach California. Here is the description:The AAMC Compliance Officer’s Forum recently published recommendations for medical student documentation in the EMR, which could turn this topic on its ear. This presentation will begin with a description of the new AAMC recommendations, followed by brief descriptions of the policies for medical student documentation at three major medical schools
These are materials presented at the 2012 STFM Medical Student Education Conference in Long Beach California. Here is the description:The AAMC Compliance Officer’s Forum recently published recommendations for medical student documentation in the EMR, which could turn this topic on its ear. This presentation will begin with a description of the new AAMC recommendations, followed by brief descriptions of the policies for medical student documentation at three major medical schools
As part of a White House effort to ensure that America’s military heroes receive care worthy of their service, the UCLA Health System and the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA have pledged to mobilize their uniquely integrated missions in education, research and clinical care to help train physicians to meet the special needs of veterans, active service members and their families. Joining Forces, an initiative launched by first lady Michelle Obama and Jill Biden, announced last week that UCLA and a number of other renowned institutions, along with the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) and the American Association of Colleges of Osteopathic Medicine (AACOM), have partnered to help create a new generation of doctors, medical schools and research facilities tha..
Conclusions: 1) A quality clerkship experience in Surgery can be provided by a non-traditional community-based system, 2) the distributed campus model does not lead to inequality of learning opportunities or surgical experiences, 3) Both students and community faculty strongly support the tutorial model, 4) Student learning has been confirmed by national metrics. (Source: Journal of Surgical Research) MedWorm Sponsor Message: Find the best January Sales in the UK.
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One of the nation’s leading voices in patient care and safety says that the key to successfully navigating the challenges and changes that health care reform will bring is the ability to “reimagine and redefine” what nursing is all about. “The addition of as many as 35 million more people with health insurance will create enormous demands that the current system is simply not prepared to handle,” said Courtney Lyder, dean of the UCLA School of Nursing. “Today’s shortage of primary care physicians will only be exacerbated unless we look to nurses and nurse practitioners to fill the gaps in providing needed care.” Presently, nurses make up the largest segment of the health care workforce, with more than 3 million nursing professionals in the U.S.
Conclusions: The percentage of full professors in surgery who are women is increasing at a rate disproportionately slower than the increases in female medical students and surgery residents.