Presentation for Conference on Medical Student Education (Source: Family Medicine Digital Resources Library (FMDRL) Recently Uploaded)

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From Crawling to Running: Helping Medical Students Understand and Implement Innovative Chronic Disease Management Techniques (Christopher Scuderi DO)

The Wessex Deanery are organising a taster evening for all grades of doctors and medical students interested in entering the speciality of endocrinology and diabetes.

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Wessex Diabetes and Endocrinology Taster Evening

Clerkship Directors are encouraged to try a new version of the AAN’s popular online self-assessment examination for medical students on a FREE trial basis.

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Attention Clerkship Directors: Try NeuroSAE Medical Student Edition FREE!

Not getting enough sleep may lead to weight gain over time, researchers say (Source: The Doctors Lounge – Neurology)

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Lack of ZZZs May Fuel Appetite

On January 18, 2010, the British Medical Association (BMA) urged the government to reconsider their plans to make changes to the NHS Pension Scheme after the BMA received an overwhelming call from doctors to reject the proposed changes, with a willingness to take some form of industrial action.

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Pensions Offer Rejected By British Medical Association

About 130,000 BMA Doctors and medical students across the UK will be questioned regarding the government’s final offer in negotiations on the future of the NHS pension scheme in a major survey that has been launched by the BMA (British Medical Association). The BMA intends to learn whether the participants’ views on the offer are acceptable or not. If they are not acceptable, they want to know what action the participants are prepared to take, which could potentially lead to a formal ballot on industrial action…

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NHS Pensions, BMA Launches Final Survey Of Its Members, UK

New RCP foundation doctor membership benefits – For £4 per month, foundation doctor members receive career planning information covering 30 specialties, online clinical learning tools, discounts and a chance to be a part of the RCP. New RCP medical student membership – For £1 per month, medical students receive career planning information from doctors in 30 medical specialties represented by the RCP, clinical learning tools, discounts and a chance to be part of the RCP, with elective fund opportunities and opportunities to apply for event sponsorship. Visit the Join the RCP section of the RCP website for more information or visit the RCP training timeline.

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Benefits of joining the Royal College of Physicians (RCP)

Progressive loss of gray matter linked to worse prognosis for young patients, researchers say (Source: The Doctors Lounge – Neurology)

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MRI Scans Show Brain Changes in Kids With Schizophrenia

Even though pain is by far the leading reason people seek medical care, pain education at North American medical schools is limited, variable and often fragmentary, according to a Johns Hopkins University study published in The Journal of Pain. The study examined the curricula at 117 medical schools in the United States and Canada and went beyond a simple analysis of historical presence-or-absence criteria in assessing pain education for medical students.

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Pain Education In Medical Schools Needs Improvement

At Vanderbilt Medical School, students take an active role planning activities like fun runs and cooking competitions — as student colleges, modeled on Harry Potter, compete. (Source: NYT Health)

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Doctor and Patient: Doctor and Patient: A Medical School More Like Hogwarts