Queen's Medical Center is using the power of technology to help bridge the gap between patients and doctors with language barriers. The technology is called “Martti”. “Our clinic serves a very diverse population, meaning most if not more than 50% of our patients are not English proficient.” said Fritzie Igno,...
While population health is a hot topic among health professionals, it is still in its infancy in medical education, leaving many graduates feeling ill-prepared to identify and address health disparities. Two recent student-led projects took tomorrow’s doctors out of their own classrooms and into those of the communities they will...
Once again, family medicine has topped its own record! Recruits to the specialty hit an all-time high in the 2017 National Resident Matching Program (NRMP), with 3,237 medical students and graduates choosing family medicine residency programs today. That's right. Numbers are just in from this annual event, commonly referred to as...
The Allinea Forge parallel code development suite is helping to speed up exciting computational cardiology research at the Medical University of Graz. Utilizing the power of the VSC-3 supercomputer at the University of Vienna, Postdoctoral researcher Dr. Aurel Neic and his team are developing a simulation framework for the human heart called the Cardiac...
On March 14, Saint Louis University Medical School accepted a status ruled by the Liaison Committee on Medical Education — LCME for short — which established the medical educational program noncompliant with six of the twelve standards, thereby placing it under a probationary period. The LCME survey team conducted a...
Fire companies now responding to nearly half of all priority medical runs, are first on scene 60 percent of the time. Avg. response times for priority medical runs improved by 2 minutes since program started Firefighters at 33 active fire houses across the city are now taking emergency medical runs,...
Medical schools have a long history of organizing and providing Continuing Medical Education (CME), which helps professionals in the medical field stay updated new and developing areas in their domain. Collaboration between physicians and industry is necessary for residents and trainees as they learn about the working of pharmaceutical companies,...
Simulation of a critical care scenario in a high-fidelity helicopter flight simulator really can provide a realistic helicopter transport experience and create physiological and psychological stress for participants, according to an article published on the Air Medical Journal website on 30 March. The authors, from MetroHealth System and the Frances...
With today’s technology, we have medical research, journals, health documents, and healthcare professionals at our fingertips. Our smartphones and tablets can hold all the information found all over the web and written out in over thousands of books. With that said, we have made our complete list of the most essential...
St. Vincent Health has broken ground on a project it says will benefit current and future health care workers throughout the Midwest. The $13.6 million William Nasser Healthcare Education and Simulation Center will house classrooms and simulation spaces including an operating room, delivery room and intensive care unit. The center honors...