Two Abilene physicians and one local resident have accepted key Texas Medical Association (TMA) leadership positions. TMA physicians and medical students can be appointed or elected to a position on one of TMA’s 30 boards, councils, and committees.

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Abilene Residents Accept TMA Leadership Roles

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

The AMA will next month host a summit of key medical training stakeholders to discuss and develop solutions to the crisis around the shortage of prevocational and vocational training positions for medical school graduates. AMA President, Dr Andrew Pesce, said today that Australia faces the loss of hundreds of locally produced, highly trained medical graduates to other countries or other professions… (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)

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AMA To Host Summit On Medical Intern Training Crisis, Australia

The University of Kentucky College of Medicine celebrated the union of past, present and future through the White Coat Ceremony, a significant and meaningful tradition, with alumni representatives from the past five decades presenting the newest medical students with their coats on Friday, Aug. 6, at UKs Singletary Center for the Arts. (Source: UK College of Medicine News)

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UK College of Medicine Welcomes Class of 2014

What are the challenges of an academic surgical practice?

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The Future of Academic Surgery

The Australian Medical Students’ Association (AMSA) warns that the current bottleneck in the medical education system at the intern-level is resulting in students missing out on further medical training and future medical practice in Australia.

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Australia To Lose Out On New Doctors, Australia

The AMA shares the concerns of Australia’s biggest medical schools that the national shortage of medical internships has severe implications for the future medical workforce and its ability to meet the health care needs of a growing and ageing population, with more people suffering chronic and complex conditions. Dr Pesce said the internship shortage has reached crisis point and all Australian governments, including the next Commonwealth Government, must work together to find solutions… (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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Medical Internship Shortage At Crisis Point – Australian Medical Association

As medical schools across the country welcome droves of incoming students, the Association of American Medical Colleges, or AAMC, is launching new tools to help students in need handle the hefty debt the new school year brings.

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New Online Tool From AAMC Helps Students, Residents Manage Loans

The Australian Medical Students’ Association (AMSA) was extremely disappointed this week by the Coalition’s announcement to reintroduce full fee paying domestic places at public universities. President of AMSA, Ross Roberts-Thomson, said that the Coalition’s decision would make higher education less accessible for Australians

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Reintroducing Full Fee Places Will Increase Inequity, Australia

The University of North Texas System Board of Regents voted to approve a proposal to develop a new M.D. degree program at the UNT Health Science Center at Fort Worth (UNTHSC)

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UNT Board Of Regents Approves M.D. Degree Program