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Closing The Gender Gap During Medical School

MD Connector — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 12:00:00 +0000

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Abbott Fund-Sponsored Laboratory Training Initiative Helps Stem Critical Shortage Of Medical Professionals In California

MD Connector — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 16:00:00 +0000

Imagine needing a critical test at your local hospital, but having to wait days to be tested because there was no laboratory professional available to run the tests. This scene seems unimaginable, but with the federal government estimating that nearly 140,000 new medical lab professionals are needed by 2012 and only 50,000 are expected to be trained on time, this scenario is a reality in some parts of the country.

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Abbott Fund-Sponsored Laboratory Training Initiative Helps Stem Critical Shortage Of Medical Professionals In California

Teachers can close gender gap in classroom leadership during medical school, study finds

MD Connector — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 12:42:56 +0000

A new study shows that female medical students volunteer for leadership roles in the classroom significantly less than their male peers. Subtle pep talks from teachers can even out the playing field. (Source: ScienceDaily Headlines)

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Challenging Traditional Premedical Requirements as Predictors of Success in Medical School: The Mount Sinai School of Medicine Humanities and Medicine…

MD Connector — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 12:21:56 +0000

Conclusions: Students without the traditional premedical preparation performed at a level equivalent to their premedical classmates.

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Trainee Publication Highlights Success Of USA-China Agricultural Injury Research Training Project

MD Connector — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 13:00:00 +0000

As a collaboration of the Colorado Injury Control Research Center, the Center for Injury Research and Policy at Nationwide Children’s Hospital and the School of Public Heath, Tongji Medical College at Huazhong University of Science and Technology, the USA-China Agricultural Injury Research Training Project was created in 2004. The project aims to provide training to Chinese scholars, expand collaborative research activities between the injury control research centers and researchers in China and provide training and continue development of human subjects research ethics..

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Society of Teachers of Family Medicine Bishop Fellowship Program

MD Connector — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 04:00:00 +0000

The Bishop Fellowship Program was inaugurated in 2000 to prepare senior family medicine faculty to assume positions of greater responsibility in academic medicine and health care leadership.

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2 Common Surgeries Unlikely To Be Affected By Guidance For Medical Training Requirements

MD Connector — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 13:00:00 +0000

As the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education seeks to improve patient care by further limiting the hours worked by medical residents, the Journal of Surgical Research will published a new study online on Monday reporting that outcomes in two common surgeries – appendectomy and laparoscopic cholecystectomy – were similar among residents who had worked less than 16 hours and those who had worked more than 16 hours… (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)

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Med School Students Make Different Decisions When They Consider Health Costs

MD Connector — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 16:00:00 +0000

The public radio program Marketplace has a piece today about how “medical students learn the cost of care, outside the classroom” of Jefferson University in Philadelphia. The students run a free clinic for homeless patients, and they “decide which drugs to stock and what lab tests they’ll pay for.” “[Student director Christine] Feldmeier: Wounds on his feet, vision problems, a documented history of uncontrolled diabetes for years… (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)

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Harvard Medical School Conflict Of Interest Policy Receives Approval From American Medical Student Association

MD Connector — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 15:00:00 +0000

The American Medical Student Association (AMSA), the nation’s largest independent medical student organization, approves the updated conflict-of-interest policy that Harvard Medical School released early yesterday morning, which completely prohibits all personal gifts, travel or meals from industry. “As a world leader in medical education, Harvard is showing its commitment to evidence-based medicine with these recommendations,” says John Brockman, AMSA national president… (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)

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Harvard Toughens Conflicts Policy

MD Connector — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 05:56:36 +0000

Medical students association praises Harvard medical changes to reduce conflicts of interest. (Source: NYT Health)

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