More than 1,000 future physicians are expected to attend the American Medical Student Association’s (AMSA) 60th Annual Convention , March 11-14, at the Disneyland Hotel in Anaheim, Calif., to discuss the evolution of 21st century medicine. Hot topics include implementing a code of ethics for medical professionals and trainees using social media tools; threats to professionalism in medicine; health care reform; the effect of food production on health; the explosion of human trafficking within U.S… (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)

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AMSA’s Annual Convention: Largest Gathering Of Medical Students Celebrates 60 Years Of Student Activism

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?

ADVANCED 3D computer technology, made famous in the animated sci-fi film Avatar, is being harnessed to train a “PlayStation generation” of medical students in Scotlan (Source: Scotsman.com News – Health)

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‘Avatar’ 3D images help Scots medical students

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

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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Joan C. Edwards Charitable Foundation Makes Pipeline For Future Doctors

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

Can and should we make medical training shorter and less expensive? Academic Medicine : Journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges (Source: Medscape Business of Medicine 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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For-Profit Undergraduate Medical Education: Back to the Future?

The ability to understand and integrate new knowledge into clinical practice is a necessary quality of good physicians. Student participation in in-depth scholarship could enhance this skill in physicians while also creating a larger cadre of physician-scientists prepared to advance the field of medicine

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Required vs. Elective Research and In-Depth Scholarship Programs in the Medical Student Curriculum

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