A program enforced by the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) to enhance surgical outcomes and help structured interactive communication in surgical care results in fewer surgical complications, according to an article published in the December issue of the Archives of Surgery, one of the JAMA/Archives .

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How Team Training Reduces Surgical Complications Risk

Is it appropriate for faculty and students to interact on social networking sites?

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Social Networking and Perceptions of Online ProfessionalismSocial Networking and Perceptions of Online Professionalism

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Even though pain is by far the leading reason people seek medical care, pain education at North American medical schools is limited, variable and often fragmentary, according to a Johns Hopkins University study published in The Journal of Pain. The study examined the curricula at 117 medical schools in the United States and Canada and went beyond a simple analysis of historical presence-or-absence criteria in assessing pain education for medical students.

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Pain Education In Medical Schools Needs Improvement

At Vanderbilt Medical School, students take an active role planning activities like fun runs and cooking competitions — as student colleges, modeled on Harry Potter, compete. (Source: NYT Health)

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At Vanderbilt Medical School, students take an active role planning activities like fun runs and cooking competitions — as student colleges, modeled on Harry Potter, compete. (Source: NYT Health)

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Doctor and Patient: Doctor and Patient: A Medical School More Like Hogwarts

The Northeast states have plenty of physicians for the population, but states in the South and Mountain regions are where your services are greatly in demand, according to workforce figures from the Association of American Medical Colleges. (Source: Modern Medicine) MedWorm Sponsor Message: Find the best January Sales in the UK.

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Job seekers: Southern, Mountain states lacking docs

Brain scans show that diagnosis of disease from X-rays involves the same mechanisms as recognising everday objectsIn medical practice, doctors often reach a diagnosis of a disease within minutes of coming into contact with a patient, and sometimes before the patient has even reported their symptoms. When, for example, a doctor encounters a patient with jaundice (yellowish staining of the skin and the whites of the eyes), a diagnosis related to liver disease or dysfunction comes to mind immediately and automatically.Diagnosing disease is a specialized type of problem-solving, which is believed to require little or no analytical reasoning. Instead, it is likely based on the rapid retrieval of similar cases from memory and, as such, has been likened to pattern recognition.

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Doctors diagnose diseases as if recognising objects | Mo Costandi

BMA medical students committee co-chairs Elly Pilavachi and Marion Matheson outline their hopes for the year ahead (Source: BMA daily feed)

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What were the most popular articles for medical students on Medscape this past year? Medscape Med Students (Source: Medscape Today Headlines)

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Top 10 Articles for Medical Students in 2011Top 10 Articles for Medical Students in 2011