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Closing The Gender Gap During Medical School

MD Connector — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 12:00:00 +0000

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Closing The Gender Gap During Medical School

GCU Forms Partnership With India To Enhance Life Sciences

MD Connector — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 17:00:00 +0000

Glasgow Caledonian University and Fergusson College in Pune, India, have signed a Letter of Intent that will see them collaborate on key academic partnerships in the field of Life Sciences. The agreement, which was facilitated through the British Council, was signed by Professor Pamela Gillies, Principal and Vice-Chancellor of Glasgow Caledonian University and Dr Ravindrasinh Pardeshi, Principal of Fergusson College on June 30th 2010…

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Abbott Fund-Sponsored Laboratory Training Initiative Helps Stem Critical Shortage Of Medical Professionals In California

MD Connector — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 16:00:00 +0000

Imagine needing a critical test at your local hospital, but having to wait days to be tested because there was no laboratory professional available to run the tests. This scene seems unimaginable, but with the federal government estimating that nearly 140,000 new medical lab professionals are needed by 2012 and only 50,000 are expected to be trained on time, this scenario is a reality in some parts of the country.

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Abbott Fund-Sponsored Laboratory Training Initiative Helps Stem Critical Shortage Of Medical Professionals In California

Commentary: Improving Medical Education During Financially Challenging Times

MD Connector — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 12:21:56 +0000

The expectation exists that medical education will continue to improve even during financially challenging times. The authors reviewed their recent experiences in effecting positive changes and improvements in Mayo Medical School during a time of fiscal constraint. They successfully implemented numerous changes, including a major curriculum reform, while modestly reducing overall costs of the medical school and improving student satisfaction and learner outcomes.

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Trainee Publication Highlights Success Of USA-China Agricultural Injury Research Training Project

MD Connector — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 13:00:00 +0000

As a collaboration of the Colorado Injury Control Research Center, the Center for Injury Research and Policy at Nationwide Children’s Hospital and the School of Public Heath, Tongji Medical College at Huazhong University of Science and Technology, the USA-China Agricultural Injury Research Training Project was created in 2004. The project aims to provide training to Chinese scholars, expand collaborative research activities between the injury control research centers and researchers in China and provide training and continue development of human subjects research ethics..

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Society of Teachers of Family Medicine Bishop Fellowship Program

MD Connector — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 04:00:00 +0000

The Bishop Fellowship Program was inaugurated in 2000 to prepare senior family medicine faculty to assume positions of greater responsibility in academic medicine and health care leadership.

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Boost For Emergency Departments – Australian Medical Association

MD Connector — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 12:00:00 +0000

AMA President, Dr Andrew Pesce, said that Labor’s emergency department package is a welcome boost to the pressured and overworked emergency departments in our public hospitals. Dr Pesce said the new investment will increase the medical and nursing resources in emergency departments and provide a modest number of additional training opportunities in this area of medical workforce shortage for the additional cohort of medical students who are graduating from medical schools over the next few years. “Emergency departments are at the frontline of public hospital services,” Dr Pesce said…

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2 Common Surgeries Unlikely To Be Affected By Guidance For Medical Training Requirements

MD Connector — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 13:00:00 +0000

As the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education seeks to improve patient care by further limiting the hours worked by medical residents, the Journal of Surgical Research will published a new study online on Monday reporting that outcomes in two common surgeries – appendectomy and laparoscopic cholecystectomy – were similar among residents who had worked less than 16 hours and those who had worked more than 16 hours… (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)

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Harvard Medical School Conflict Of Interest Policy Receives Approval From American Medical Student Association

MD Connector — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 15:00:00 +0000

The American Medical Student Association (AMSA), the nation’s largest independent medical student organization, approves the updated conflict-of-interest policy that Harvard Medical School released early yesterday morning, which completely prohibits all personal gifts, travel or meals from industry. “As a world leader in medical education, Harvard is showing its commitment to evidence-based medicine with these recommendations,” says John Brockman, AMSA national president… (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)

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Harvard Toughens Conflicts Policy

MD Connector — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 05:56:36 +0000

Medical students association praises Harvard medical changes to reduce conflicts of interest. (Source: NYT Health)

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