Presentation for Conference on Medical Student Education (Source: Family Medicine Digital Resources Library (FMDRL) Recently Uploaded)

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From Crawling to Running: Helping Medical Students Understand and Implement Innovative Chronic Disease Management Techniques (Christopher Scuderi DO)

Although many curricula are designed to increase student interest in primary care, few have been evaluated with regard to participants’ final specialty choice, controlling for characteristics known to predict primary care practice. This session will describe an elective designed to foster interest in primary care, in which second year medical students manage operations at a free clinic, establish a continuity relationship with patients, attend a class covering primary care topics, keep a reflective journal, and complete a community project. We evaluated the impact of this course by surveying a sample of 257 alumni who graduated between 2003 and 2007

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A Rural Health Service Learning Elective (Rita Lahlou)

Medical students to benefit from historic hospital’s move (Source: BMA daily feed)

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Grand designs

Clerkship Directors are encouraged to try a new version of the AAN’s popular online self-assessment examination for medical students on a FREE trial basis.

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Attention Clerkship Directors: Try NeuroSAE Medical Student Edition FREE!

On January 18, 2010, the British Medical Association (BMA) urged the government to reconsider their plans to make changes to the NHS Pension Scheme after the BMA received an overwhelming call from doctors to reject the proposed changes, with a willingness to take some form of industrial action.

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Pensions Offer Rejected By British Medical Association

Fibrous tissue disorder raises risks for high blood pressure, stroke and aneurysm (Source: The Doctors Lounge – Cardiology)

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Narrowed Artery Condition Often Goes Undiagnosed: Study

As part of a White House effort to ensure that America’s military heroes receive care worthy of their service, the UCLA Health System and the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA have pledged to mobilize their uniquely integrated missions in education, research and clinical care to help train physicians to meet the special needs of veterans, active service members and their families.   Joining Forces, an initiative launched by first lady Michelle Obama and Jill Biden, announced last week that UCLA and a number of other renowned institutions, along with the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) and the American Association of Colleges of Osteopathic Medicine (AACOM), have partnered to help create a new generation of doctors, medical schools and research facilities tha..

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UCLA joins forces with White House to meet unique needs of veterans, families

Introduction: The Association of American Medical Colleges has identified key procedural skills that graduating medical students should acquire. Despite this educational goal, there is data to show that students are unprepared to perform even basic medical procedures upon graduation from medical school. Our aim was to characterize the experience and opinions of graduating students in acquiring these skills and elucidate predictors of competence.

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Experience and Opinions of 4th Year Medical Students in Acquiring Competence With Basic Procedural Skills

As part of First Lady Michelle Obama’s Joining Forces initiative, the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine is teaming up with the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) and the American Association of Colleges of Osteopathic Medicine (AACOM) to create a new generation of doctors, medical schools and research facilities that will make sure our military veterans and their families receive the care worthy of their service. (Source: Johns Hopkins Medicine News)

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Johns Hopkins School of Medicine Joins Forces with First Lady Michelle Obama to Support Veterans and Their Families- 1/12/12

Brain Injury Awareness Month has moved to March. It previously was celebrated in October

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Brain Injury Awareness Month Now in March