CONCLUSION: Medical schools vary substantially in their contribution to the social mission of medical education.

See original here:
The social mission of medical education: ranking the schools.

In this study, 76 first-year veterinary students and 19 veterinarians in clinical specialty training (house officers) participated in separate online exercises to evaluate the use of a computer-animated model of GFR regulation (www.aamc.org/mededportal) on learning outcome. Students were randomly allocated to study either the animated model or written materials before completion of a 10-question multiple-choice quiz

See more here: 
Outcome assessment of a computer-animated model for learning about the regulation of glomerular filtration rate

Conclusions: American oral and maxillofacial surgery’s racial demographic (just as dentistry and medicine) does not remotely resemble the racial demographic of the United Sates. To improve health care disparity in this nation, diversifying the health care professional workforce is essential. Oral and maxillofacial surgery, a unique surgical specialty connecting medicine to dentistry, is positioned to make an impact on the oral health care disparity in this nation and as such should make a concerted effort to improve the racial diversity of the specialty

View original post here: 
Racial Diversity in American Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery

Meanwhile, first-year residency positions are increasing at less than 1% annually, a new AAMC survey says. (Source: American Medical News – PROFESSION) MedWorm Message: Register for MedMatcha, MedWorm’s medical advertising network , and receive $5 free advertising

See the original post here:
Med school enrollment not growing as quickly as projected

The inclusion of humanities in medical school curriculum has generated much pedagogic experimentation and assessment. Publications in medical journals in the past decade reflect the experience of teaching humanities in medical schools and the motives for which they are taught. As Ousager and Johannessen demonstrate elsewhere in this issue, short- and medium-range outcomes are available for examination, but the author of this commentary argues that the long view of change in clinical practice will not be available for another decade or more as the undergraduate student slowly becomes a full-fledged clinician.

View original post here: 
Commentary: Calculating the Contributions of Humanities to Medical Practice-Motives, Methods, and Metrics

The study by Ousager and Johannessen in this issue finds a lack of research attempting to measure the long-term effects of incorporating humanities into the undergraduate medical education (UME) curriculum, and warns that more such studies are needed if the humanities are to become integrated into UME. This commentary points to limitations in the study’s methodology, suggesting that the value of the humanities in educating new physicians can be defended by demonstrating the need for more complex approaches to knowledge than complete dependence on empirical evidence, and invites those who support inclusion of the humanities in UME to take up three challenges: work together to define the terms and scope of the medical humanities as a coherent (though heterogenous) field, teach reading skills…

Read more from the original source: 
Commentary: Sharper Instruments: On Defending the Humanities in Undergraduate Medical Education

Conclusion: Different educational environments among universities may be partly responsible for the differences in perceived preparedness of medical students for postgraduate clinical training. This study also highlights the poor correlation between self-assessed preparedness for practice and the NMLE. (Source: BioMed Central) MedWorm Message: Register for MedMatcha, MedWorm’s medical advertising network , and receive $5 free advertising

Here is the original:
Undergraduate educational environment, perceived preparedness for postgraduate clinical training, and pass rate on the National Medical Licensure…

Authors: Bernstein J, Maccourt DC, Jacob DM, Mehta S BACKGROUND: Resident duty hours have been restricted to 80 per week, a limitation thought to increase patient safety by allowing adequate sleep. Yet decreasing work hours increases the number of patient exchanges (so-called “handoff”) at the end of shifts.

The rest is here:
Utilizing Information Technology to Mitigate the Handoff Risks Caused by Resident Work Hour Restrictions.

Current residency programs do not have the capacity to address the growing shortage of general surgeons, according to survey research presented at the Sixth Annual Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) Physician Workforce Research Conference in Alexandria, Va. In addition to expanding the existing 246 accredited general surgeon residency programs in the U.S., new training programs and an increase in funding will be required to meet the growing need for general surgeons, according to Anthony G. Charles MD, MPH, FACS, the study’s lead researcher

See the original post here:
General Surgery Residency Programs Lack Capacity To Address Shortage

Discussion of the flaws of the current fee-for-service health care reimbursement model has become commonplace. Health care costs cannot be reduced without moving away from a system that rewards providers for providing more services regardless of need, effectiveness, or quality.

Here is the original:
Commentary: Health Care Payment Reform and Academic Medicine: Threat or Opportunity?