Survey finds doctors want to learn more about diet and cardiovascular disease...
Study from NYU Langone Medical Center shows that nutrition is rated as important as statins for preventing heart diseaseMost physicians are aware of the importance of lifestyle factors in...
View ArticleInternal Medicine residency match in 2015 increases slightly from last year
The number of U.S. senior medical students choosing internal medicine residencies increased by about 5 percent in 2015.
View ArticleLean business approach helps hospitals run more efficiently
Implementing a well-established business approach allowed physicians to shave hours off pediatric patient discharges without affecting readmission rates, according to researchers at Penn State...
View ArticleExercise largely absent from US medical school curriculum, study shows
Exercise may play a critical role in maintaining good health, but fewer than half of the physicians trained in the United States in 2013 received formal education or training on the subject...
View ArticleAdolescent mental healthcare improved through pediatric primary care training
Provider training increases screening for adolescent depression, improves provider confidence and knowledgeTraining pediatric primary care providers to screen and assess depression and suicide...
View ArticleMedical professionalism online
In this new era of social media, medical schools must do more to ensure that online medical professionalism among trainees is understood, discussed and practiced, argues an editorial in CMAJ...
View ArticleGW Cancer Institute publishes core competencies for oncology patient navigators
The George Washington University (GW) Cancer Institute has finalized 45 core competency statements for oncology patient navigators, who have become critical members of the health care team.
View ArticleWHO admit faults over Ebola response, suggest areas for improvement
A statement from the World Health Organization leadership identifies failures in their response to the Ebola epidemic and specifies areas of reform.
View ArticleUK doctors unlikely to be able to repay student loans
UK doctors are unlikely to be able to repay their student loans over the course of their working lives, amassing debts of more than £80,000 by the time they graduate, in some cases, finds research...
View ArticlePatient-doctor ethnic differences thwart end-of-life conversations
Most doctors balk at talking with seriously ill patients about what's important to them in their final days, especially if the patient's ethnicity is different than their own, according to a new...
View ArticleStudy allays concerns that cardiothoracic physicians-in-training provide...
A conundrum in medical education is how to train residents in complex and technically difficult procedures without reducing the quality of patient care.
View ArticleMedical education risks becoming 2-tiered unless strong research focus is...
Concerns outlined in position paper co-authored by Arthur Feldman, M.D., Ph.D., Executive Dean of Temple University School of Medicine, Arthur Rubenstein, M.B.B.Ch.
View ArticleOnline training can teach psychotherapists evidence-based treatments, study...
Approach could speed adoption of new treatmentsEmploying online training programs to teach psychotherapists how to use newer evidence-based treatments can be as successful as in-person...
View ArticleMedical and healthcare students in UK report high levels of abuse and...
A survey of almost 4000 medical and healthcare students from across the United Kingdom has found that more than half of those questioned indicated that they had witnessed clinicians breaching...
View ArticleResearchers from the University of York pilot mental health training...
Researchers say more needs to be done to address the mental health needs of families caught up in the aftermath of the Ebola outbreak in West Africa.
View ArticleSurvey finds civilian physicians feel underprepared to treat veterans
Research published in The Journal of the American Osteopathic Association showed non-VA physicians have little comfort and familiarity with veterans' health issuesA survey of nearly 150 U.S.
View ArticleMCAT predicts differently for students who test with extra time; suggests...
Among applicants to U.S. medical schools, those with disabilities who obtained extra test administration time for the Medical College Admission Test in use from 1991 to January 2015 had no...
View ArticleABIM announces new examination score report and updated Internal Medicine MOC...
Input from the internal medicine community has led to improvements in the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) examinations.
View ArticleCardio-oncology services may improve patient care if more widely available
The impact of cancer treatments on cardiovascular health is an important consideration when treating cancer patients, but many hospital training programs have no formal training or services in...
View ArticleFuture physicians more inclined to embrace genomic medicine than practicing...
Medical students showed a greater acceptance of using approaches in genomic medicine, a key element in the practice of precision medicine, to treat patients as compared to physicians currently in...
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