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 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

Two medical students who have been working with Dr. Andy Oxman of the Norwegian Knowledge Centre for Health Services are seeking information relevant to the development of a review of websites which aim to support the use of evidence in health policy. The review will focus on three types of websites which:- support evidence-informed health policy by providing easy access to health systems research or other relevant evidence;- promote or support the use of research evidence to inform health policy decisions;Contributors's Information Contributor's name:  Unni Gopinathan Email address:  unnigo@student.uio.no read more (Source: The Cochrane Collaboration – Current news at The Cochrane Collaboration)

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Researchers seek websites supporting use of evidence in health policy

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

When ‘cross-talk’ in brain starts to overlap, reaction time is affected, study finds (Source: The Doctors Lounge – Neurology)

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Slowed Reflexes in Aging Could Be Due to Brain Changes

Time article discusses how the trend away from family practice is already producing shortages in rural areas and a continually widening gap between general-practitioner and specialist salaries make the career choice for medical students a fairly easy one: get a specialty. (Source: News stories via the Rural Assistance Center)

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Primary-Care Doctors: Saying No to $191,000 a Year

The Australian Medical Students’ Association (AMSA) was extremely disappointed this week by the Coalition’s announcement to reintroduce full fee paying domestic places at public universities. President of AMSA, Ross Roberts-Thomson, said that the Coalition’s decision would make higher education less accessible for Australians

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Reintroducing Full Fee Places Will Increase Inequity, Australia

The University of North Texas System Board of Regents voted to approve a proposal to develop a new M.D. degree program at the UNT Health Science Center at Fort Worth (UNTHSC)

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UNT Board Of Regents Approves M.D. Degree Program

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