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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Program Attracts Medical Students to Rural Health Care

AAMC: Washington Highlights reports that the House Labor-HHS-Education Appropriations Subcommittee on July 15 approved (11-5) its FY 2011 spending bill that provides $176.4 billion in discretionary spending for the coming year, an increase of $12.7 billion (7.7 percent) but $1.5 billion less than President Obama’s request. (Source: News stories via the Rural Assistance Center)

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House HHS Subcommittee Approves FY 2011 Bill, Boosts NIH, Health Professions Funding

The AAMC (Association of American Medical Colleges) issued the following statement on the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology’s (ONC) final rules for meaningful use of health information technology: “The AAMC is pleased by the Obama administration’s commitment to promoting health information technology (HIT) through the Medicare and Medicaid incentive program for providers implementing electronic health record systems… (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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AAMC Responds To Meaningful Use Rules For HIT

Conclusions  Regionalization was associated with improved operative mortality in Ontario but not in Quebec, undermining the volume-outcome hypothesis. The Ontario quality improvement interventions likely were of little influence since patterns in regionalization and operative mortality were similar before and after year 1999

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Assessing the Volume-Outcome Hypothesis and Region-Level Quality Improvement Interventions: Pancreas Cancer Surgery in Two Canadian Provinces

For anew study, medical students secretly watched hundreds of people cough or sneeze at three spots in New Zealand. What they saw wasn’t pretty, with most people failing to properly prevent an airborne explosion of infectious germs

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Study finds most of us aren’t covering our sneezes

The University of Mississippi Medical Center will partner with the renowned Mayo Clinic on a series of initiatives intended to convert laboratory discoveries into new therapies and train a new generation of medical scientists.

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UMMC, Mayo Clinic Sign Agreement To Increase Translational Research And Training

The Wall Street Journal Health Blog: “Educational debt is a serious burden for young [and middle-aged] doctors – the median amount owed for both premedical and medical school was $145,000 for those graduating from public med schools in 2008 and a whopping $180,000 for private school grads.

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Experts Propose Solution To Burden Of Medical School Debt

The Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) has announced a number of changes to the MRCGP Exam, taking effect from September 2010.

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RCGP Announces Changes To The MRCGP Exam, UK

Jay Perman preaches the gospel of nice. Employees follow the incoming president of the University of Maryland, Baltimore from job to job because they so enjoy working with him.

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Nice is the key to excellence for new UMB president Perman

HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced the awarding of $96 million in grants to increase diversity in the health professions workforce and encourage nurses to choose careers as nurse educators. The grants will go to schools to give scholarships to students from disadvantaged backgrounds with financial need, many of whom are underrepresented minorities. Funds will also provide low-interest loans to nurse faculty students – students who want to teach nursing – as incentive for nurses to select careers as nurse educators..

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HHS Awards $96 Million To Train Health Professionals