A new medical school building that houses smart classrooms and learning facilities modelled after clinical environments was unveiled at the Nanyang Technological University’s (NTU) Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine on Thursday (Mar 2). The 20-storey Clinical Sciences Building, located at the varsity's Novena campus, is designed to integrate a...
Canadian Network for International Surgery (CNIS) and Conquer Mobile are collaborating on medical education technology that will reduce injury mortality rates in Africa by teaching surgical skills to African healthcare workers. Using mobile skills training, CNIS will scale up training by a factor of 10, with a goal of training...
A generation after the modern invention of minimally invasive surgery, one of its inventors, Dr. Liselotte Mettler, tells what building a medical career was like for women when she started practice – and her memoir is co-authored with her husband’s point of view on marriage and family. The dual-memoir, Lovers...
Western science and Indigenous science are two very different methods of studying human health and the natural world. But as Canada continues its reconciliation process with Indigenous communities, a professor at the University of Calgary says the two perspectives are converging. "We're seeing, increasingly, respect and acknowledgment and partnership between...
Physicians across many specialties are treating trafficked persons in their practice. Yet, they are not trained to recognize human trafficking or know how to intervene. Studies have shown that 88 percent of US-born sex trafficking victims reported receiving medical care while being trafficked. This puts health care providers in a key position with...
Snapping at medical staff may cause bigger problems than patients realize, especially when it comes to the quality of care their children receive. Researchers from Tel Aviv University found that rude parents in the neonatal intensive care unit create a wider margin for medical error and misdiagnosis. Insensitive comments also lower effective...
A research team, led by the University of Minnesota, has discovered a groundbreaking process to successfully rewarm large-scale animal heart valves and blood vessels preserved at very low temperatures. The discovery is a major step forward in saving millions of human lives by increasing the availability of organs and tissues...
Washington’s two research universities are once again asking lawmakers for extra money for both of their medical-school programs in Spokane. But the frosty relationship between the University of Washington and Washington State University over medical-school funding seems to be a thing of the past. “Finally, we see this as behind...
A large proportion of medical students own smartphones and consequently, instant messaging applications have become a favored method of communication as opposed to e-mailing. Interestingly, past research has conveyed that the inclusion of mobile applications within dental and medical educational programs raised participation rates among students, improved communication between tutors...
I was diagnosed with bowel cancer at the age of 28. In 2014, a few years after I was given the all-clear, I made the decision to become a doctor. One of my reasons for taking up medicine was to learn more about cancer, and to use that knowledge and...