Two Abilene physicians and one local resident have accepted key Texas Medical Association (TMA) leadership positions. TMA physicians and medical students can be appointed or elected to a position on one of TMA’s 30 boards, councils, and committees.

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Abilene Residents Accept TMA Leadership Roles

Medical education has undergone significant change in the last decade to ensure that new doctors have the skills they need to provide more patient-centered and community-focused health care.

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New Academic Medicine Supplement Highlights Innovations In Medical Education

The AMA will next month host a summit of key medical training stakeholders to discuss and develop solutions to the crisis around the shortage of prevocational and vocational training positions for medical school graduates. AMA President, Dr Andrew Pesce, said today that Australia faces the loss of hundreds of locally produced, highly trained medical graduates to other countries or other professions… (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)

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AMA To Host Summit On Medical Intern Training Crisis, Australia

Elsevier, publisher of scientific, technical and medical information products and services, announced it will provide four key electronic textbook titles for UC Irvine School of Medicine’s new program that gives Apple iPads to its first-year medical students.

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UC Irvine School Of Medicine’s Revolutionary IPad Program To Utilize E-Textbooks From Elsevier

The University of Kentucky College of Medicine celebrated the union of past, present and future through the White Coat Ceremony, a significant and meaningful tradition, with alumni representatives from the past five decades presenting the newest medical students with their coats on Friday, Aug. 6, at UKs Singletary Center for the Arts. (Source: UK College of Medicine News)

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UK College of Medicine Welcomes Class of 2014

The AMA shares the concerns of Australia’s biggest medical schools that the national shortage of medical internships has severe implications for the future medical workforce and its ability to meet the health care needs of a growing and ageing population, with more people suffering chronic and complex conditions. Dr Pesce said the internship shortage has reached crisis point and all Australian governments, including the next Commonwealth Government, must work together to find solutions… (Source: Health News from Medical News Today) MedWorm Message: Register for MedMatcha, MedWorm’s medical advertising network , and receive $5 free advertising.

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Medical Internship Shortage At Crisis Point – Australian Medical Association

As medical schools across the country welcome droves of incoming students, the Association of American Medical Colleges, or AAMC, is launching new tools to help students in need handle the hefty debt the new school year brings.

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New Online Tool From AAMC Helps Students, Residents Manage Loans

Beginning in October, the Graduate School’s new Center for Health Sciences will offer a Medical Laboratory Technician, Associate of Applied Science degree and a certificate program in Phlebotomy. The first of many programs to be offered, both curricula provide a combination of coursework and clinical experience with strong emphasis on employability skills such as problem solving, effective communication, professional conduct, and information and technology literacy…

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Graduate School Introduces Allied Health Academic Programs

NHS Employers welcomes the final recommendations on medical training numbers for 2011 outlined in the Centre for Workforce Intelligence’s (CfWI) report published today. Bill McMillan, head of medical pay and workforce at NHS Employers, said: “We support the CfWI’s programme of work to increase understanding of the shape of the future medical workforce and the numbers going into training… (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)

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NHS Employers Responds To The Centre For Workforce Intelligence Report On Medical Training Numbers

The Henry Ford Production System LEAN training for health care takes place Sept.

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Production System LEAN Training For Health Care: Sept. 16-17, 2010 At Henry Ford