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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
A committee to introduce guidelines on medical education standards in Sri Lanka has been formed by the Government Medical Officers' Association (GMOA). The ten-member committee will comprise medical professors and specialist doctors while Dr. Sanjeewwa Tennakoon and Dr. Sarada Kannangara will co-chair, Dr. Haritha Aluthge was appointed, the Secretary. This... 30 March 2017
Emergency medical technician students at McHenry County College found a man complaining of back pain on Saturday. While they were checking his blood pressure, he said he started feeling dizzy and eventually went into cardiac arrest, or so it appeared. The patient was not actually having a heart attack, as... 29 March 2017
The Academy scored major kudos during the annual conference of the Alliance for Continuing Education in the Health Professions (ACEhp) in late January, when the AAFP's Amy Mullins, M.D., and Gary Bird, Ph.D., accepted the Alliance's 2017 Innovative Format Award honoring the Academy's PerformanceNavigator CME product. This is the first... 29 March 2017
There have been few changes to medical education since Abraham Flexner established the two years of sciences and two years of clinical cirriculum in 1910. With emphasis on value-based care, managing populations and chronic diseases, this shift in care must start with reimagining medical education for future physicians. A panel... 28 March 2017
Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine is pushing ahead with its mission of being a patient-centered educational institution focusing on the community. The medical school, until this year known as The Commonwealth Medical College, operates campuses in various communities throughout northeastern and central Pennsylvania, including Williamsport. Dr. Margrit Shoemaker, assistant professor... 27 March 2017
Mimic Technologies signed an agreement with HealthTrust to become the medical purchasing organizations new supplier of robotic surgery simulation training products and robotic surgery training consulting services. With studies showing nearly 50% of robotic surgery costs tied to technical skills of surgeons and their teams and robotic surgery accounting for... 24 March 2017
The Florida Hospital Nicholson Center completed 13 research projects over the last six years focused on advancing robotic and laparoscopic surgery safety and creating a new standard for surgical training using $5.9 million in grants from the Department of Defense (DoD). With the grants, the Nicholson Center conducted a series of... 24 March 2017
It’s only fitting that a medical student and a doctor would have a conversation about nutrition education while pumping iron in a local gym. A casual chat would quickly turn to shop talk between then first-year med student Aric Sudicky and Dr. Kevin Busche, assistant professor and assistant dean of... 24 March 2017
Staff of the Colonial War Memorial Hospital are better equipped to handle the 100 daily emergency cases they receive after receiving training on emergency life support and serious illnesses. Hospital staff were part of a group of 57 medical professionals from around Fiji who received training from an emergency life... 23 March 2017
Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio (AFNS) -- The St. Louis Center for Sustainment of Trauma and Readiness Skills is leading the way in innovative trauma training with its recent implementation of the first-ever Athena simulator to be utilized in the Defense Department. The simulator has female features and offers advanced... 22 March 2017
On Feb. 15 officials with State Fair Community College and Bothwell Regional Health Center signed an agreement to partner on a simulation collaboration project that will enhance nursing education and nursing practices for both organizations. In June 2016, representatives from SFCC and BRHC began to develop the simulation collaboration idea... 22 March 2017
From Quinnipiac University The Frank H. Netter MD School of Medicine at Quinnipiac University has been awarded full accreditation from the Liaison Committee on Medical Education (LCME), the U.S. Department of Education-recognized accrediting body for programs leading to the MD degree in the United States. LCME is jointly sponsored by the... 22 March 2017
We’ve all seen the gore of war played out on the screen, but seeing and dealing with it in real life is another story entirely. A small group of reporters got as close a look as possible to the real thing this week at the University of Washington’s WWAMI Institute... 21 March 2017
A symposium sponsored by UB DoctHERS, a networking group whose goal is advancing women in medical or scientific education and careers, is being held Saturday morning. The event is sponsored by UB DoctHERS, a networking group whose goal is to advance women in medical education, medicine and science. The symposium will feature Roswell Park Cancer Institute CEO Candace... 21 March 2017
Mohawk Ambulance Service recently hired eight EMTs who completed their free five-month training program. The five-month course, which is administered twice annually, is free of charge to applicants, making it possible for a candidate to become certified without having to make a $1,000 personal investment. Traditional EMT training programs can... 21 March 2017
The Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) and the National Patient Safety Foundation (NPSF) are uniting to advance common goals and accelerate progress in patient and workforce safety. Saying that patient safety is a public health issue in need of fresh, robust approaches and constant focus for health care systems today,... 17 March 2017
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... 17 March 2017
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... 15 March 2017
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... 15 March 2017