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Closing The Gender Gap During Medical School

MD Connector — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 12:00:00 +0000

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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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Abbott Fund-Sponsored Laboratory Training Initiative Helps Stem Critical Shortage Of Medical Professionals In California

MD Connector — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 16:00:00 +0000

Imagine needing a critical test at your local hospital, but having to wait days to be tested because there was no laboratory professional available to run the tests. This scene seems unimaginable, but with the federal government estimating that nearly 140,000 new medical lab professionals are needed by 2012 and only 50,000 are expected to be trained on time, this scenario is a reality in some parts of the country.

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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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Trainee Publication Highlights Success Of USA-China Agricultural Injury Research Training Project

MD Connector — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 13:00:00 +0000

As a collaboration of the Colorado Injury Control Research Center, the Center for Injury Research and Policy at Nationwide Children’s Hospital and the School of Public Heath, Tongji Medical College at Huazhong University of Science and Technology, the USA-China Agricultural Injury Research Training Project was created in 2004. The project aims to provide training to Chinese scholars, expand collaborative research activities between the injury control research centers and researchers in China and provide training and continue development of human subjects research ethics..

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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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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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Harvard Medical School Conflict Of Interest Policy Receives Approval From American Medical Student Association

MD Connector — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 15:00:00 +0000

The American Medical Student Association (AMSA), the nation’s largest independent medical student organization, approves the updated conflict-of-interest policy that Harvard Medical School released early yesterday morning, which completely prohibits all personal gifts, travel or meals from industry. “As a world leader in medical education, Harvard is showing its commitment to evidence-based medicine with these recommendations,” says John Brockman, AMSA national president… (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)

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Hospital Jobs Hurt In Some Places, Expand In Others, As Recession Pinches

MD Connector — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 15:00:00 +0000

Los Angeles Times: Although some hospitals are feeling the pinch of the recession on their budgets, 400 low-income and unemployed residents are receiving job-training and placement at local hospitals to tap into the need for workers. “The Youth Policy Institute, a local nonprofit managing the program, opened its doors to applicants in March and has already enrolled about 400 trainees.

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Program Attracts Medical Students to Rural Health Care

MD Connector — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 11:00:00 +0000

Tomah Journal, (WI) article tells of the Wisconsin Academy for Rural Medicine (WARM) program, dedicated to increasing the number of physicians in rural Wisconsin and improving the health of its communities.

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