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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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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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Challenging Traditional Premedical Requirements as Predictors of Success in Medical School: The Mount Sinai School of Medicine Humanities and Medicine…

Frank R. Trinity, J.D., Named As AAMC Chief Legal Officer – Association Of American Medical Colleges

MD Connector — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 17:00:00 +0000

The AAMC announced that Frank R.

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Society of Teachers of Family Medicine Bishop Fellowship Program

MD Connector — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 04:00:00 +0000

The Bishop Fellowship Program was inaugurated in 2000 to prepare senior family medicine faculty to assume positions of greater responsibility in academic medicine and health care leadership.

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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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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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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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