About 130,000 BMA Doctors and medical students across the UK will be questioned regarding the government’s final offer in negotiations on the future of the NHS pension scheme in a major survey that has been launched by the BMA (British Medical Association). The BMA intends to learn whether the participants’ views on the offer are acceptable or not. If they are not acceptable, they want to know what action the participants are prepared to take, which could potentially lead to a formal ballot on industrial action…
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A 3-D virtual body, now used by medical students in anatomy studies, represents an unusual collaboration between industry and academia. (Source: NYT Health)
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Even though pain is by far the leading reason people seek medical care, pain education at North American medical schools is limited, variable and often fragmentary, according to a Johns Hopkins University study published in The Journal of Pain. The study examined the curricula at 117 medical schools in the United States and Canada and went beyond a simple analysis of historical presence-or-absence criteria in assessing pain education for medical students.
At Vanderbilt Medical School, students take an active role planning activities like fun runs and cooking competitions — as student colleges, modeled on Harry Potter, compete. (Source: NYT Health)
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