This study tests the theory that medical schools don’t need to offer specialized training in geriatrics because they are already exposed to the elderly in non-geriatric clerkships. Academic Medicine : Journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges (Source: Medscape Today Headlines) MedWorm Message: Register for MedMatcha, MedWorm’s medical advertising network , and receive $5 free advertising.

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‘But I See Old People Everywhere’:Dispelling the Myth That Eldercare Is Learned in Nongeriatric Clerkships

The David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science have been selected by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Science and Technology Directorate to help establish guidelines for the health and safety of firefighters in the field.   The UCLA team will work with a consortium of academic, industry and government partners on the agency’s PHASER (Physiological Health Assessment System for Emergency Responders) program, which also draws on the expertise of Skidmore College, Zephyr Technology, a company that develops physiological-status monitoring products, and the NASA Ames Research Center, which has extensive experience with astronaut-monitoring systems.

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Homeland Security selects UCLA to help establish guidelines for firefighter health, safety

(MedPage Today) — Medical students who are burned out are more likely to display unprofessional behavior both in the classroom and in the clinic, a cross-sectional study showed. (Source: MedPage Today State Required CME)

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Burnout Tied to Unprofessional Med Student Behavior (CME/CE)

Medical students experience depression at a higher rate than the general population and attach high levels of stigma to the mental illness, according to U-M research to be published Sept. 15 in the Journal of the American Medical Association. The study showed that 53.3 percent of medical students who reported high levels of depressive symptoms were worried that revealing their illness would be risky.

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Medical Students Report Critical Attitudes About Depression

A Mayo Clinic study involving seven major medical schools shows a majority of medical students surveyed suffer from burnout and that those students were more likely to cheat or be dishonest in relation to patient care. The findings appear in this week’s issue of JAMA. The study was based on anonymous responses from 4,400 students

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Med School Burnout Linked To Unprofessional Behavior

Medical students with higher levels of distress (burnout) were more likely to self-report unprofessional conduct related to patient care and less altruistic professional values, according to a new study. (Source: ScienceDaily Headlines)

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Burnout associated with self-reported unprofessional conduct among medical students

More than half of the medical students surveyed in a Mayo Clinic study had burnout, which was linked to self-report of some form of unprofessional conduct in patient care.

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Burnout in Medical Students Linked to Self-Reported Unprofessional Conduct

Medical student Jordan M. Gutovich had debated his classmates about how far a doctor should go to comfort a tearful patient

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Should the Doctor Hold a Patient’s Hand?

A Mayo Clinic study involving seven major medical schools shows a majority of medical students surveyed suffer from burnout and that those students were more likely to cheat or be dishonest in relation to patient care.

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Mayo Clinic Study: Med School Burnout Linked to Unprofessional Behavior

(JAMA and Archives Journals) Medical students with moderate to severe depression more frequently endorsed several depression stigma attitudes than nondepressed students and had a higher rate of suicidal thoughts, according to a study in the Sept. 15 issue of JAMA, a theme issue on medical education.

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Depressed medical students more likely to associate stigma with depression