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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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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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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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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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Med School Students Make Different Decisions When They Consider Health Costs

MD Connector — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 16:00:00 +0000

The public radio program Marketplace has a piece today about how “medical students learn the cost of care, outside the classroom” of Jefferson University in Philadelphia. The students run a free clinic for homeless patients, and they “decide which drugs to stock and what lab tests they’ll pay for.” “[Student director Christine] Feldmeier: Wounds on his feet, vision problems, a documented history of uncontrolled diabetes for years… (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)

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AAMC Report Offers Guidelines for Managing Conflicts of Interest in Clinical Care

MD Connector — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 02:05:00 +0000

The Association of American Medical Colleges, or AAMC, is urging U.S. teaching hospitals to establish policies to manage financial relationships between physicians and industry to avoid any potential influence on patient care. The organization also says specialty societies and professional medical associations have a responsibility to be free of conflicts of interest because of their role in providing CME and developing clinical practice guidelines

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