A powerful learning exercise performed at an Ohio medical school teaches students about the symptoms of mental illness through a recording that mimics the experience of auditory hallucinations. Medscape Medical News (Source: Medscape Today Headlines)

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WASHINGTON (MedPage Today) — The number of applicants applying for the first time to U.S.

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First-Time Med School Applicants Hits Record

This September a team from Children’s Hospital Boston went on a medical and educational mission to the war-torn city of Grozny, Chechnya. As representatives of Children’s Global Surgery Program, Children’s Plastic-Surgeon-in-Chief John Meara, MD, DMD, MBA, pediatric anesthesiologist Craig McClain, MD, MPH, nurse anesthetist Nelson Aquino, CRNA, MS and staff nurse II Jay Hartford, RN, BSN, SNI spent a week treating Chechen children and training local doctors to improve their delivery of pediatric perioperative healthcare at the recently constructed Gronzny Children’s Hospital. While in Chechnya the team was joined by Russian plastic surgeon Dr.

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Children’s global health: a medical mission to Grozny

Researcher noticed difference in lung structure of children with autism spectrum disorder (Source: Pulmonary Medicine News – Doctors Lounge)

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Could Airway Abnormality Point to Autism?

What are some tips for preparing for and handling difficult conversations while assuring mentoring relationships achieve their potential? Academic Medicine : Journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges (Source: Medscape Today Headlines) MedWorm Sponsor Message: Please support the DoctorsInChains.org campaign for the health workers in Bahrain

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Conclusions: The shared curriculum framework can support the design, delivery and evaluation of global health curriculum in Canada and around the world, lay the foundation for research and development, provide consistency across programmes, and support the creation of learning and evaluation tools to align with the framework. The process used to develop this framework can be applied to other aspects of residency curriculum development

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BMC Medical Education Developing a Curriculum Framework of Global Health in Family Medicine: emerging principles, competencies and educational…

I have always looked for evidence of volunteerism on the applications of every candidate seeking a residency training position in dermatology. I’ve found that medical students who make the effort to volunteer their time to help someone in need truly make the best residents. They are generally caring, thoughtful individuals who recognize that the special gifts they have been given deserve to be "paid back" to society in some way.

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Dermatologists’ volunteer work holds great value

In this week’s PLoS Medicine, Francesca Celletti from the WHO, Geneva, Switzerland and colleagues argue that a transformation in the scale-up of medical education in low- and middle-income countries is needed. Such a transformative approach would require inter-sectoral engagement to determine how students are recruited, educated, and deployed and would assign greater value to the impact on population health outcomes as one of the criteria used for measuring excellence in educational initiatives… (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)

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A Change Needed In Medical Education In The Developing World

This lecture is designed to help medical school and residency faculty (and potentially medical students and residents) who are involved in developing a global health program. 1. Impact Handout – As you develop your program, use this handout to think through your intended outcomes, who the stakeholders are and how you can mitigate risk

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Going Global: Overcoming barriers as you develop a global health program (Gordon Zubrod MD)

Due to unforeseen circumstances, a replacement has been named for the position of student chair of the 2012 National Conference of Family Medicine Residents and Medical Students. (Source: Inside AAFP)

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AAFP Board Approves Appointment of Student Chair for 2012 Conference