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Commentary: Improving Medical Education During Financially Challenging Times

MD Connector — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 12:21:56 +0000

The expectation exists that medical education will continue to improve even during financially challenging times. The authors reviewed their recent experiences in effecting positive changes and improvements in Mayo Medical School during a time of fiscal constraint. They successfully implemented numerous changes, including a major curriculum reform, while modestly reducing overall costs of the medical school and improving student satisfaction and learner outcomes.

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Medical Student Sexuality: How Sexual Experience and Sexuality Training Impact U.S. and Canadian Medical Students’ Comfort in Dealing with Patients’…

MD Connector — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 12:21:56 +0000

Conclusions: Perception of inadequate sexuality training in medical school and personal issues pertaining to sex may be associated with students’ difficulty in addressing patients’ sexuality. Adequate training is preeminently associated with feeling comfortable addressing patients’ sexuality and should be a priority for medical education. (C) 2010 Association of American Medical Colleges (Source: Academic Medicine)

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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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Harvard Toughens Conflicts Policy

MD Connector — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 05:56:36 +0000

Medical students association praises Harvard medical changes to reduce conflicts of interest. (Source: NYT Health)

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Harvard Issues New Conflicts Policy

MD Connector — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 19:59:07 +0000

Medical students association praises Harvard medical changes to reduce conflicts of interest.

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Redesigned VascularWeb.org Launched

MD Connector — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 17:00:00 +0000

The Society for Vascular SurgeryÂ® (SVS) announced the launch of its redesigned Web site, http://www.VascularWeb.org . The most significant upgrade is the improved navigation. It features vascular health resources for the public, medical professionals, medical students, residents, and the media.

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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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HHS Grants Seek To Encourage Health Care Workforce Diversity

MD Connector — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 16:00:00 +0000

The Washington Post: “It is a sign of the economic times: Nursing students at Howard University work part-time jobs and still cannot keep up with tuition. … At the start of the month, the game changed.