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

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

An online tool to help educators teach the next generation of nurses and physician assistants about genetics and genomics has been launched by the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), part of the National Institutes of Health. The tool is part of NHGRI’s effort to address the growing need among health care professionals for knowledge in this area, which is paving the way for more individualized approaches to detect, treat and prevent many diseases..

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Online Genomics Center For Educators Of Nurses, Physician Assistants

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

News outlets report on the pharmaceutical industry’s involvement in doctor training and its role in shaping the health care overhauls pending in Congress… (Source: Medical Students News From Medical News Today)

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Clout Of Drug Industry Seen In MD Residency Programs And In Health Reform

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 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

The UK Clinical Aptitude Test (UKCAT), adopted by 23 medical schools, is meant to increase diversity, but it won’t guarantee us better doctors. (Source: Telegraph Health) 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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Moves to encourage diversity of medical students will not make better doctors

HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis Friday announced the release of $1 billion in stimulus funds to expand the use of electronic records and to train health care workers. Various local news outlets reported on the grants: KHI (Kansas) News Service: “Federal officials have set the goal of every American having a digital health record by 2014..

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Obama Administration Announces $1 Billion In New Health IT Grants

AMA President, Dr Andrew Pesce, said today that the AMA welcomes the Government’s decision to accept the major recommendations arising from the Review of the Medical Training Review Panel (MTRP). Dr Pesce said the medical profession is pleased that the MTRP will have an ongoing expanded role in medical education and training, and that it will work closely with Health Workforce Australia. “This is great news for medical students and doctors in training,” Dr Pesce said..

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AMA Welcomes Government Action On Medical Training, Australia