CHICAGO, Dec.

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WorldScopes Helps First Generation of South Sudan Doctors

The Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) has published the latest update in its series on the physician workforce.

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2011 Physician Workforce Data Book Released

Over the past 20 years, not only has clinical instruction during radiology residency changed, but so has the practice life that comes after it. Even as a growing number of medical students select radiology as a specialty, practice-setting preferences have shifted for your younger colleagues. They also have a different set of priorities to consider.

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Life After Residency: Be Nice, Brush Up on Business, Go High-Tech

In his book, How We Age: A Doctor’s Journey Into the Heart of Growing Old, Dr Marc Agronin helps reduce the stigma of ageism and provides clinical guidance for seasoned geriatric psychiatrists, primary care clinicians, and medical students alike. (Source: Psychiatric Times)

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How We Age: A Doctor’s Journey Into the Heart of Growing Old

Showing empathy to your patients can be as important as the treatment. Does your medical training provide opportunities to develop as a patient advocate

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Every month, Psychiatry Online offers Jeffersonians a free text from the American Psychiatric Publishing book store.   The PDF books are compatible with a variety of readers/computers. December’s free book is Clinical Manual of Geriatric Psychopharmacology (2007), by Sandra A.

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Psychiatry Online’s Free E-Book for December

The Association of American Medical Colleges has encouraged educators to investigate proper linkage of simulation experiences with medical curricula. The authors aimed to determine if student knowledge and satisfaction differ between participation in web-based and manikin simulations for learning shock physiology and treatment and to determine if a specific training sequencing had a differential effect on learning. All 40 second-year medical students participated in a randomized, counterbalanced study with two interventions: group 1 (n = 20) participated in a web-based simulation followed by a manikin simulation and group 2 (n = 20) participated in reverse order

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Enhancing learning through optimal sequencing of web-based and manikin simulators to teach shock physiology in the medical curriculum

Given the obesity epidemic among the nation’s young, one might hope that children’s hospitals would serve as a role model for healthy eating. But hospitals in California fall short, with only 7 percent of entrees classified as “healthy,” according to a new study published in the journal Academic Pediatrics.

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Food served in children’s hospitals rated largely unhealthy

Research published in bmj.com reveals that sub-Saharan African countries lose billions of dollars by training doctors and investing in them only to find that the clinicians leave to work in developed countries. The study shows that the biggest emigration of doctors and the greatest economic losses occur in South Africa and Zimbabwe with Australia, Canada, the UK and US reaping the benefits from recruiting clinicians that have been educated elsewhere… (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)

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Training Doctors Who Leave To Rich Nations Costs Sub-Saharan Africa Billions

Researchers say that omega-3 fatty acid supplements, which have been linked to improved depression symptoms, may also benefit anxiety and inflammation. Sixty-eight first- and second-year medical students participated in the study, with half being given omega-3 supplements equivalent to about four to five times the amount in a daily serving of salmon.  The other half received a placebo.  The students were interviewed six times during the study.  At each interview, the students also gave blood samples and filled out questionnaires related to stress, depression, anxiety and dietary intake….Read Full Post (Source: About.com Depression)

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Omega-3 Fatty Acids May Help Anxiety