(Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center) Simulating medical scenarios helps medical students learn and retain vital information, according to a new study done by researchers at Wake Forest University School of Medicine. (Source: EurekAlert! – Medicine and Health)

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Simulating medical situations helps students learn, retain basic science concepts

(American Society of Hematology) The American Society of Hematology announces the 2009 recipients of its Trainee Research Awards.

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Promising medical trainees receive funding to pursue research in hematology

New book Dissection is a collection of black-and-white photos of Victorian-era medical students posing with their cadavers.

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‘Dissection’ Documents Med School Rite-Of-Passage

(Durham University) A new way of assessing professionalism among medical students could help to make better doctors, a new research study suggests. (Source: EurekAlert! – Social and Behavioral Science)

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The Institute for Healthcare Improvement’s curriculum stresses less-traditional topics of error reduction and resource management. (Source: American Medical News)

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Medical students taking free online courses in quality, safety

Med School postpones major curriculum overhaul Minnesota Daily, MN Second-year medical student Hannah Shacter said historically she had been frustrated with the idea of MED2010 because she felt all suggestions and criticisms of the curriculum were being held off for the major changes, which would come too late to …

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A Taiwanese medical school has taken the practice of commemorating cadavers to unusual levels, spurring a surge in donations. (Source: WSJ.com: Health)

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Medical students bond with families to quell traditional resistance to donating bodies (Source: Health Behavior News Digest)

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Poems and Tears for ‘Silent Mentors’ Spark a Surge of Cadavers in Taiwan

Hamilton medical student The Times of Trenton – NJ.com, NJ She was one of 30 individuals honored at its annual Excellence in Medicine Awards ceremony March 9 in Washington, DC Dommasch, a fourth-year medical student at Robert Wood Johnson Medical School in New Brunswick, graduated summa cum laude at New York …

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A committee formed to re-examine Harvard Medical School’s conflict-of-interest policies will meet on Thursday, Dean Jeffrey Flier announced recently, the New York Times reports (Wilson, New York Times, 3/3). Harvard last month announced that it would fortify its conflict-of-interest policies. The school has received criticism over its conflict-of-interest policy.

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Harvard Medical School Committee To Meet To Address Conflict of Interest Policies