AAFP News reports that the American Medical Association (AMA) will begin promoting training in the patient-centered medical home as a way to encourage medical students and residents to choose a career in primary care, and will also start encouraging medical schools and residency programs to develop strategies to attract physicians to practice in rural and other underserved areas. (Source: News stories via the Rural Assistance Center)

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AMA Delegates Adopt Measures to Promote Primary Care, Rural Practice

The Canadian Society for Industrial & Organizational Psychology recently announced that Stephen D. Risavy is the recipient of the 2010 RHR Kendall Award. Stephen is a Ph.D.

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RHR International Sponsors Award For Best Student Paper In I/O Psychology

The AAMC (Association of American Medical Colleges) issued the following statement on “The Societal Mission of Medical Education: Ranking the Schools,” a new study in the June 15 Annals of Internal Medicine: “The new study in the Annals of Internal Medicine presents a flawed and limited picture of how medical schools serve society’s needs through their integrated missions of education, research, and patient care. Medical schools are very committed to their social missions..

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AAMC Says Study Ranking Medical Schools’ "Societal Mission" Is Flawed

A new study ranking the social mission of medical schools puts historically black colleges on top and some Northeast private schools at the bottom.

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Elite Medical Schools Rate Poorly On Social Mission

Darth Vader displays the signs of a borderline personality order, say French researchersThanks to the work of French researchers, we now have a detailed diagnosis of the mental health challenges faced by Star Wars’ (evidently misunderstood) arch baddie Darth Vader.In a letter entitled “Is Anakin Skywalker suffering from borderline personality disorder?”, soon to be published in the journal Psychiatry Research, Eric Bui, a psychiatrist at Toulouse University Hospital, and his colleagues, will set out why Anakin (later to be known across that galaxy far, far away as Darth Vader) matches six out of the nine borderline personality disorder criteria as defined by the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders.”I had watched the two prequel movies [Attack of the Clones and Revenge of …

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Darth Vader displays the signs of a borderline personality order, say French researchersThanks to the work of French researchers, we now have a detailed diagnosis of the mental health challenges faced by Star Wars’ (evidently misunderstood) arch baddie Darth Vader.In a letter entitled “Is Anakin Skywalker suffering from borderline personality disorder?”, soon to be published in the journal Psychiatry Research, Eric Bui, a psychiatrist at Toulouse University Hospital, and his colleagues, will set out why Anakin (later to be known across that galaxy far, far away as Darth Vader) matches six out of the nine borderline personality disorder criteria as defined by the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders.”I had watched the two prequel movies [Attack of the Clones and Revenge of …

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In a step toward preparing physicians and biomedical researchers for a future where genomic testing increasingly becomes part of medical care, the Stanford University School of Medicine is offering a new course in which medical and graduate students will be given the option of studying their personal genotype data. The students will learn how to analyze, evaluate and interpret the genetic data, the limitations of the existing technologies, and the legal and ethical issues raised by personal genotyping…

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Stanford Medical School To Offer Course That Gives Students Option Of Studying Their Own Genotype Data

For the first time, the public were asked for their opinions on the long hours worked by resident physicians under current policies, revealing widespread concern among America’s patients. The American Medical Student Association (AMSA), the nation’s oldest and largest, independent association for physicians-in-training, applauds the findings in “U.S.

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Public Concerned By Long Hours Worked By Doctors-in-Training

Leading healthcare publisher Lippincott Williams & Wilkins (LWW) announced the release of a groundbreaking, print and electronic version of The Washington Manual of Medical Therapeutics Thirty-Third Edition for fast access at the point-of-care. LWW is part of Wolters Kluwer Health, a leading provider of information and business intelligence for students, professionals, and pharmacy.

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Pioneering Mobile Access Enhances New, Thirty-Third Edition Of The Washington Manual Of Medical Therapeutics

An unprecedented collaborative program is underway at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) to train Jordanian and Israeli paramedics side by side in emergency medicine.

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Ben-Gurion U Launches First Program To Train Jordanian Paramedics In Israel