Now is a great time to be a pharmacy student, and the body representing them, the National Australian Pharmacy Students’ Association (NAPSA), says it is excited to be part of this new era of the profession.

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NAPSA Leads Students Through Change, Australia

Today’s students were raised with a digital mouse in their hands. So it should be no surprise that a majority of medical school students surveyed say video games and virtual reality environments could help them become better doctors. A reported 98 percent of medical students surveyed at the University of Michigan and University of Wisconsin-Madison liked the idea of using technology to enhance their medical education, according to a study published online in BMC Medical Education..

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Survey Finds Medical Students Believe Video Games Can Help Them Become Better Doctors

Today’s college students were raised with a digital mouse in their hands. So it should be no surprise that a majority of medical school students surveyed say video games and virtual reality environments could help them become better doctors

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Medical Students Open To Learning With Video Games

A group of medical students from the University of Western Ontario, Canada are in Arusha for another time offering dental screening to students of Themi Primary School in Themi ward of the Arusha City. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)

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Tanzania: Canadian Medical Students Offer Dental Screening to Themi Students

A series of videos exploring bullying, harassment and undermining behaviour in the workplace have been launched by the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists. The videos have been produced in response to the GMC’s Annual Trainee Survey published in 2009, which revealed that a significant number of trainees in obstetrics and gynaecology have felt undermined at some point in training. These new videos give valuable insight into difficult situations trainee doctors may experience and how they can be constructively dealt with..

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New Video Resources Help Trainees Deal With Tricky Situations In The Workplace

1994 Group universities have increased the proportion of the additional fee income they spend on attracting and supporting lower income and other under-represented students to an average of over 23% according to the latest annual monitoring report from the Office for Fair Access (OFFA) which includes seventeen 1994 Group institutions. Over 25,000 undergraduate students from lower income and other under-represented groups received a bursary or scholarship from 1994 Group universities in 2008-09…

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1994 Group Universities Increase Investment In Student Support And Outreach Activity And Call For End To Debate On National Bursary Scheme

Darrell Kirch, M.D., president and CEO of the Association of American Medical Colleges, took the stage July 29 during the 37th AAFP National Conference of Family Medicine Residents and Students in Kansas City, Mo., to urge family medicine residents and students to take up the challenge of reforming the U.S.

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Strive To Reform Health Care, Association Of American Medical Colleges President Tells Students, Residents

The National Library of Medicine, the world’s largest medical library and an arm of the National Institutes of Health, announces the addition of Hanaoka Seishu’s Surgical Casebook to its growing collection of virtual books and manuscripts available for thumbing through online via Turning the Pages. The virtual volume is also available on kiosks in the Library’s Visitor Center (Building 38A, first floor) and the History of Medicine Division Reading Room (Building 38, first floor), and marks the continued collaboration of the Library’s Lister Hill Center and the History of Medicine Division…

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NLM ‘Turning The Pages’ Adds Richly Illustrated Japanese Manuscript, Hanaoka Seishu’s Influential Surgical Casebook

The achievements of medical students who did not take the MCAT and who had a humanities background were mostly comparable with those of students entering medical school with standard premed criteria. Medscape Medical News (Source: Medscape Today Headlines)

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Medical Students Do As Well With Background in Humanities

Leading education and research charity Education for Health has launched a new interactive eLearning resource on spirometry as part of its eLearning vision.* The new National Clinical Strategy for COPD and revised NICE guidelines on COPD highlight the importance of high quality spirometry in primary care and the new Diploma and Degree level courses aim to meet this need.

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Supporting The National Clinical Strategy For COPD And Revised NICE COPD Guidelines: A New Spirometry ELearning Course From Education For Health