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GCU Forms Partnership With India To Enhance Life Sciences

MD Connector — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 17:00:00 +0000

Glasgow Caledonian University and Fergusson College in Pune, India, have signed a Letter of Intent that will see them collaborate on key academic partnerships in the field of Life Sciences. The agreement, which was facilitated through the British Council, was signed by Professor Pamela Gillies, Principal and Vice-Chancellor of Glasgow Caledonian University and Dr Ravindrasinh Pardeshi, Principal of Fergusson College on June 30th 2010…

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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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Commentary: Improving Medical Education During Financially Challenging Times

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

The expectation exists that medical education will continue to improve even during financially challenging times. The authors reviewed their recent experiences in effecting positive changes and improvements in Mayo Medical School during a time of fiscal constraint. They successfully implemented numerous changes, including a major curriculum reform, while modestly reducing overall costs of the medical school and improving student satisfaction and learner outcomes.

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Medical Student Sexuality: How Sexual Experience and Sexuality Training Impact U.S. and Canadian Medical Students’ Comfort in Dealing with Patients’…

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

Conclusions: Perception of inadequate sexuality training in medical school and personal issues pertaining to sex may be associated with students’ difficulty in addressing patients’ sexuality. Adequate training is preeminently associated with feeling comfortable addressing patients’ sexuality and should be a priority for medical education. (C) 2010 Association of American Medical Colleges (Source: Academic Medicine)

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

MD Connector — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 09:00:00 +0000

(University of California – Los Angeles) A UCLA study shows that female medical students volunteer for leadership roles in the classroom significantly less than their male peers.

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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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Boost For Emergency Departments – Australian Medical Association

MD Connector — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 12:00:00 +0000

AMA President, Dr Andrew Pesce, said that Labor’s emergency department package is a welcome boost to the pressured and overworked emergency departments in our public hospitals. Dr Pesce said the new investment will increase the medical and nursing resources in emergency departments and provide a modest number of additional training opportunities in this area of medical workforce shortage for the additional cohort of medical students who are graduating from medical schools over the next few years. “Emergency departments are at the frontline of public hospital services,” Dr Pesce said…

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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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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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