The American Medical Association (AMA) and the Regenstrief Institute launched a new tool to help make sure medical students and trainees get real-world experience using electronic health records (EHR) during their training. Because the majority of today’s physicians graduate from medical school without comprehensive HER training, the Indiana University School...
Last October, the Medical University of South Carolina began its 13th year of the Senior Mentor Program, in which the 180 members of the College of Medicine Class of 2020 were introduced to their 90 Senior Mentors. Dr. Heather Boger, PhD who is the director of the College of Medicine...
Stanford Medicine X | ED, an academic conference on the future of medical education, will be held April 22-23 at the Li Ka Shing Center for Learning and Knowledge at the Stanford University School of Medicine. In its inaugural year as a stand-alone conference, the event will focus on how to...
The Montana Family Medicine Residency program is unique. Started in 1995 and designed to train and place more family medicine practitioners across the state, the residency program is sponsored by RiverStone Health, St. Vincent Healthcare and Billings Clinic and housed at RiverStone. "It's unique that it's housed in a...
She was just 15 when it happened. She started having trouble breathing when she ran cross-country, and she felt intense itching on her body, especially her lower limbs. She would stay up all night because of it, but she wasn't really worried, just annoyed. After visits to different skin doctors, an...
Surrounded by silicone livers, a 3D-printed rib cage, and a prosthetic arm covered in third-degree burns lies Frank, a prototype of the world’s most advanced manikin for medical simulations. Fresh off a nationwide tour to train combat medics how to respond to roadside bombs, his right leg is a mangled mess of...
Diana Huang entered medical school ready to work hard to realize her ambition of becoming a primary care doctor. What she wasn’t prepared for was the tepid support she has gotten from some classmates and faculty regarding her chosen specialty. “I definitely got messages along the way where I could...
It looks and feels like a real person. It can cough, has a gag reflex and will even cry “ouch!” if handled roughly. Meet mikoto, a next-generation medical simulation robot developed for students, young doctors and emergency care workers so they can get hands-on training without the risk of harming...
SAN BERNARDINO San Bernardino County Supervisors on Tuesday approved, without discussion, a $10 million, five-year agreement to support the effort for a new medical school in Colton. The California University of Science and Medicine’s School of Medicine is expected to open in summer 2018 inside temporary headquarters in San Bernardino...
El Paso Community College (EPCC) Emergency Medical Technician (EMT) and Paramedic students have a new tool for “real-life” training. As part of a $123,000 grant from the Texas Association of Community Colleges– Texas Success Center, EPCC has installed a $40,000 state-of- the-art Ambulance Simulator in its classrooms at the Mission...