At least half of all medical students are in the same boat as you. Medscape Med Students (Source: Medscape Today Headlines)

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How Can I Keep From Being Burned Out in Med School?

More than 1,000 future physicians are expected to attend the American Medical Student Association’s (AMSA) 60th Annual Convention , March 11-14, at the Disneyland Hotel in Anaheim, Calif., to discuss the evolution of 21st century medicine. Hot topics include implementing a code of ethics for medical professionals and trainees using social media tools; threats to professionalism in medicine; health care reform; the effect of food production on health; the explosion of human trafficking within U.S… (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)

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AMSA’s Annual Convention: Largest Gathering Of Medical Students Celebrates 60 Years Of Student Activism

The authors developed an instrument for measuring moral distress in medical students, and identifying the situations most likely to cause it. Academic Medicine : Journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges (Source: Medscape Today Headlines) MedWorm Message: Get the very latest Swine Flu news via the MedWorm Swine Flu RSS news feed – updated hourly from thousands of authoritative health and news sources.

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Medical Students’ Experiences of Moral Distress: Development of a Web-Based Survey

This viewpoint commentary focuses on a proposal for integrated anatomy education in undergraduate college from Dr. Darda published in the Anatomical Sciences Education

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An outsider’s perspective on a provocative proposal: What would Flexner think?

AAMC (Association of American Medical Colleges) President and CEO Darrell G. Kirch, M.D., issued the following statement commending the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) for its decision to refund Federal Insurance Contributions Act (FICA) taxes to teaching hospitals and medical residents who filed claims for services prior to April 1, 2005: “The AAMC is pleased that, after years of litigation on this issue, the IRS has exempted residents from paying FICA taxes for time spent in their residency programs prior to April 2005, when new IRS regulations were put into place… (Source: Health News from Medical News Today) MedWorm Message: Get the very latest Swine Flu news via the MedWorm Swine Flu RSS news feed – updated hourly from thousands of authoritative health and news sources.

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AAMC Applauds Internal Revenue Service For FICA Refunds

ADVANCED 3D computer technology, made famous in the animated sci-fi film Avatar, is being harnessed to train a “PlayStation generation” of medical students in Scotlan (Source: Scotsman.com News – Health)

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‘Avatar’ 3D images help Scots medical students

The Honourable Leona Aglukkaq, Minister of Health, announced federal funding of over $1.5 million to the Association of Faculties of Medicine of Canada (AFMC) to strengthen the postgraduate medical education system. The funding will help provide physicians in training with the necessary skills to meet the health care needs of Canadians.

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Government Of Canada Supports Improvements To The Postgraduate Medical Education System

Conclusions: The majority of GS residents plan to subspecialize. Three factors dominate specialty choice. Faculty need to understand their impact potential to modify or change perceptions of their specialty.

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Factors Dominating Choice of Surgical Specialty

Drug ads that don’t back up their claims show how dumb doctors can be about evidence and how lax regulation has becomeAfter the Commons science and technology committee report this week, and the stupidity of “we bring you both sides” media coverage, you are bored with homeopathy. So am I, but it gives a simple window into the wider disasters in medicine.Homeopathy is a small sector of the pharmaceutical industry, a few sugar pill companies worth a couple of billion pounds a year in Europe

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Homeopathy: Claims for other medicines are no better

Can and should we make medical training shorter and less expensive? Academic Medicine : Journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges (Source: Medscape Business of Medicine Headlines) MedWorm Message: Get the very latest Swine Flu news via the MedWorm Swine Flu RSS news feed – updated hourly from thousands of authoritative health and news sources.

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For-Profit Undergraduate Medical Education: Back to the Future?