Today’s college students were raised with a digital mouse in their hands. So it should be no surprise that a majority of medical school students surveyed say video games and virtual reality environments could help them become better doctors

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Medical Students Open To Learning With Video Games

This report describes the process of development of a longitudinal injury prevention curriculum in one medical school. The curriculum committee felt that adding the material in a longitudinal fashion would better correlate the material to the rest of the curriculum as well as provide efficiency in the already crowded undergraduate programme of study.

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Development of a longitudinal injury prevention curriculum for undergraduate medical students

Darrell Kirch, M.D., president and CEO of the Association of American Medical Colleges, took the stage July 29 during the 37th AAFP National Conference of Family Medicine Residents and Students in Kansas City, Mo., to urge family medicine residents and students to take up the challenge of reforming the U.S.

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Strive To Reform Health Care, Association Of American Medical Colleges President Tells Students, Residents

The National Library of Medicine, the world’s largest medical library and an arm of the National Institutes of Health, announces the addition of Hanaoka Seishu’s Surgical Casebook to its growing collection of virtual books and manuscripts available for thumbing through online via Turning the Pages. The virtual volume is also available on kiosks in the Library’s Visitor Center (Building 38A, first floor) and the History of Medicine Division Reading Room (Building 38, first floor), and marks the continued collaboration of the Library’s Lister Hill Center and the History of Medicine Division…

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NLM ‘Turning The Pages’ Adds Richly Illustrated Japanese Manuscript, Hanaoka Seishu’s Influential Surgical Casebook

The achievements of medical students who did not take the MCAT and who had a humanities background were mostly comparable with those of students entering medical school with standard premed criteria. Medscape Medical News (Source: Medscape Today Headlines)

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Medical Students Do As Well With Background in Humanities

Leading education and research charity Education for Health has launched a new interactive eLearning resource on spirometry as part of its eLearning vision.* The new National Clinical Strategy for COPD and revised NICE guidelines on COPD highlight the importance of high quality spirometry in primary care and the new Diploma and Degree level courses aim to meet this need.

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Supporting The National Clinical Strategy For COPD And Revised NICE COPD Guidelines: A New Spirometry ELearning Course From Education For Health

Colleen Hawley Neal, M.D., is passionate about imaging techniques that make the difference in cancer diagnosis – and she’s bringing that considerable expertise to the faculty of the University of Michigan Medical School. Neal is among the 184 new faculty members hired since May, boosting the total Medical School faculty to 2,254 – its highest point ever.

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University Of Michigan Hires Almost 200 New Medical School Faculty Members Since May

CONCLUSION: The prevalence of required instruction in musculoskeletal medicine is greater compared with the prevalence reported in previous studies. Musculoskeletal medicine appears to have attained a more prominent place in the curriculum at most schools.

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Progress Report: The Prevalence of Required Medical School Instruction in Musculoskeletal Medicine at Decade’s End.

A new e-learning session focusing on the General Medical Council’s new guidance on treatment and care towards the end of life is now available to all doctors via e-ELCA, End of Life Care for All (1). The session, Treatment and care towards the end of life: good practice in decision making, explains the key principles in the guidance and helps doctors to apply the principles to some of the common challenges that arise when caring for patients towards the end of life…

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New E-learning Session On General Medical Council End Of Life Care Guidance Launched, UK

The Australian Medical Students’ Association (AMSA) says that the Coalition policy announcement to double the number of Medical Rural Bonded Scholarships (MRBS) for medical students is welcome, however the policy falls well short of significant change and will do little to increase the number of doctors working in rural and regional Australia. AMSA spokesperson Sam Kirchner said that the MRBS is a good scheme, which provides incentives for students to practice medicine in a rural setting after specialisation…

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Coalition Regional Health Policy Falls Short, Australia