At least half of all medical students are in the same boat as you. Medscape Med Students (Source: Medscape Today Headlines)

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How Can I Keep From Being Burned Out in Med School?

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

This viewpoint commentary focuses on a proposal for integrated anatomy education in undergraduate college from Dr. Darda published in the Anatomical Sciences Education

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An outsider’s perspective on a provocative proposal: What would Flexner think?

AAMC (Association of American Medical Colleges) President and CEO Darrell G. Kirch, M.D., issued the following statement commending the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) for its decision to refund Federal Insurance Contributions Act (FICA) taxes to teaching hospitals and medical residents who filed claims for services prior to April 1, 2005: “The AAMC is pleased that, after years of litigation on this issue, the IRS has exempted residents from paying FICA taxes for time spent in their residency programs prior to April 2005, when new IRS regulations were put into place… (Source: 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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The Honourable Leona Aglukkaq, Minister of Health, announced federal funding of over $1.5 million to the Association of Faculties of Medicine of Canada (AFMC) to strengthen the postgraduate medical education system. The funding will help provide physicians in training with the necessary skills to meet the health care needs of Canadians.

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Government Of Canada Supports Improvements To The Postgraduate Medical Education System

An online tool to help educators teach the next generation of nurses and physician assistants about genetics and genomics has been launched by the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), part of the National Institutes of Health. The tool is part of NHGRI’s effort to address the growing need among health care professionals for knowledge in this area, which is paving the way for more individualized approaches to detect, treat and prevent many diseases..

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Online Genomics Center For Educators Of Nurses, Physician Assistants

With a 21 percent Medicare reimbursement rate cut set for Monday, unless Congress acts to block it, some doctors are threatening to refuse new Medicare patients in their practices. “‘To our physicians, we are providing information on their Medicare participation options, including how to remove themselves from the Medicare program,’ said James Rohack, president of the American Medical Association, whose more than 250,000 members include doctors, medical students and faculty members,” CNN reports.

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With Rate Cut Looming, Doctors Threaten To Stop Accepting Medicare Patients

The Joan C. Edwards Charitable Foundation has announced that it will make a significant investment in the city of Cleveland to create a medical education pipeline for students from traditionally underrepresented minorities and low-income backgrounds. The first phase of the Joan C

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Drug ads that don’t back up their claims show how dumb doctors can be about evidence and how lax regulation has becomeAfter the Commons science and technology committee report this week, and the stupidity of “we bring you both sides” media coverage, you are bored with homeopathy. So am I, but it gives a simple window into the wider disasters in medicine.Homeopathy is a small sector of the pharmaceutical industry, a few sugar pill companies worth a couple of billion pounds a year in Europe. Overall, trials show their pills perform no better than placebo

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Homeopathy: Are the claims for other medicines any better?

Drug ads that don’t back up their claims show how dumb doctors can be about evidence and how lax regulation has becomeAfter the Commons science and technology committee report this week, and the stupidity of “we bring you both sides” media coverage, you are bored with homeopathy. So am I, but it gives a simple window into the wider disasters in medicine.Homeopathy is a small sector of the pharmaceutical industry, a few sugar pill companies worth a couple of billion pounds a year in Europe

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Homeopathy: Claims for other medicines are no better