Almost half of UK doctors surveyed by the BMA are missing out on essential training, since the implementation of the 48 hour week in August 2009, a BMA conference was told last week. The conference, attended by junior doctors and key stakeholders, explores the impact the European Working Time Directive (EWTD) has had on training. The erosion of junior doctors’ training could seriously undermine the ability of the NHS to provide high quality patient care in the future, say BMA leaders..

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Training Squeeze Will Result In Poorer Quality Patient Care, Says British Medical Association

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

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

With a 21 percent Medicare reimbursement rate cut set for Monday, unless Congress acts to block it, some doctors are threatening to refuse new Medicare patients in their practices. “‘To our physicians, we are providing information on their Medicare participation options, including how to remove themselves from the Medicare program,’ said James Rohack, president of the American Medical Association, whose more than 250,000 members include doctors, medical students and faculty members,” CNN reports.

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With Rate Cut Looming, Doctors Threaten To Stop Accepting Medicare Patients

The Joan C. Edwards Charitable Foundation has announced that it will make a significant investment in the city of Cleveland to create a medical education pipeline for students from traditionally underrepresented minorities and low-income backgrounds. The first phase of the Joan C

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Joan C. Edwards Charitable Foundation Makes Pipeline For Future Doctors

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. Overall, trials show their pills perform no better than placebo

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Homeopathy: Are the claims for other medicines any better?

According to the U.S. Labor Department, employment opportunities for health information and medical records professionals are expected to increase by twenty percent in the next eight years — far outpacing the growth rate of other occupations..

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UMDNJ’s Health Information Management Program Trains Students For Careers In Fast Growing Field

The AAMC (Association of American Medical Colleges) today announced the 10 winners of the second AspiringDocs.orgVideo Contest.

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AspiringDocs.org Video Contest Winners Passionate About Overcoming Cultural Barriers In Medicine

A new report released by the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) details how the nation’s medical schools and teaching hospitals are advancing science and stimulating economic growth one year after passage of an additional $10 billion in funding for the National Institutes of Health (NIH) through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA)… (Source: Public 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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New AAMC Report Highlights How ARRA Funds Are Fueling New Research And Driving Economic Growth Over The Last Year

The cost of low health literacy – the difference between patients’ abilities to understand health information and providers’ abilities to effectively communicate complex medical information – is $106 billion to $238 billion annually, according to Pfizer, a leading biopharmaceutical company. To improve the health literacy of professionals and patients, the University of Missouri will offer a health literacy study emphasis beginning this fall… (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)

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School Of Health Professions Health Literacy Certificate Will Be Available This Fall