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Newswise — Charting new territory in online medical education, Harvard Medical School has launched for the first time an online program for aspiring clinicians as well as the general public. The certificate program, called HMX Fundamentals, offers coursework in four foundational subjects: physiology, immunology, genetics and biochemistry. Offering wider access... 10 April 2017
ATHMANDU, Nepal -- When Subhash Dhungel's father passed out, the panicked road engineer called for an ambulance. To the Nepali man's horror, the vehicle arrived without a trained medical technician to help his unconscious father as they drove to a Kathmandu hospital. It wasn't an isolated case. Nepal is woefully... 7 April 2017
Students at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas, are gaining access to a new educational resource called Radiology-TEACHES (Technology Enhanced Appropriateness Criteria Home for Education Simulation), which aims to give students more in-depth knowledge about medical imaging tests by using ACR's Radiology Case Management System (RCMS) integrated with the... 7 April 2017
South Florida–based Continuing Medical Education company, Empire Medical Training, is proud to announce the introduction of virtual memberships. Members can now go through training remotely with this convenient option. A leading continuing medical education institution, Empire Medical Training announces its latest offering, virtual memberships. These virtual memberships join its roster... 7 April 2017
The Navy’s largest rating will soon see the most significant training changes since the Hospital Corps “A” School’s 2011 move from Great Lakes, Illinois, to San Antonio, Texas, Vice Adm. Forrest Faison, the Navy surgeon general, announced during congressional testimony March 29. Faison spoke before the Senate Appropriations Committee Defense... 7 April 2017
Stanford Medicine’s Center for Continuing Medical Education is launching a series of free webinars on hot topics in medicine, featuring Stanford experts who will provide guidance to physicians and other health professionals on controversial and challenging issues they may face in their practices. The first webinar, to be offered May... 6 April 2017
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,... 6 April 2017
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... 6 April 2017
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... 5 April 2017
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... 5 April 2017
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... 5 April 2017
Firefighters Across the City Now Taking Emergency Medical Runs After Two Year Cross-Training Process
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,... 5 April 2017
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,... 4 April 2017
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... 4 April 2017
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... 4 April 2017
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... 3 April 2017
Critical care doctor Peter Weinstock shows how surgical teams are using a blend of Hollywood special effects and 3D printing to create amazingly lifelike reproductions of real patients — so they can practice risky surgeries ahead of time. Think: "Operate twice, cut once." Glimpse the future of surgery in this... 3 April 2017
While the medical field attracts our best and brightest minds, doctors don't get higher grades when it comes to coping with stress. The Canadian Medical Education journal found that, "Medical students had higher perceived stress, negative coping, and lower resilience" than the general population. Tanya Keogh is just months away... 31 March 2017
On a chilly and gray afternoon in the Chicago suburb of Maywood, 12 of the 28 students with Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) status at Loyola University Chicago’s Stritch School of Medicine gathered to share with AMA President Andrew W. Gurman, MD, their fears of deportation and the loss... 31 March 2017
The United States faces a shortage of 25,000 primary care physicians (PCPs) by 2025.1 This report is a guide for departments of family medicine for developing local strategies to increase the PCP workforce, framed around the 4 pillars for reform: pipeline, process of medical education, practice transformation, and payment reform.2... 30 March 2017