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UC San Francisco is part of a patient safety research group that received the prestigious 2016 John M. Eisenberg Award for Innovation in Patient Safety and Quality. The award is presented annually by The Joint Commission and the National Quality Forum, two leading organizations that set standards in patient care. 14 April 2017
The Dell Medical School partnered with the Blanton Museum of Art to teach medical students empathy through art. Faculty members at Dell Medical collaborated with Ray Williams, the Blanton’s director of education and academic affairs, to create three two-hour experiences to teach medical students empathy, observational skills and self-care. During... 13 April 2017
Telemedicine is forever changing the future of healthcare. In rural South Dakota, and all over our region, Avera eCARE is making it possible for emergency department physicians to be virtually bedside from hundreds or even thousands of miles away – to help rural providers with anything from small lacerations to... 13 April 2017
The School of Medicine is launching a new Health Sciences Education (HSE) program this fall. Designed to give doctors, nurses, dentists, and other health care professionals the skills they need to become more effective teachers, the program is offered through the Division of Graduate Medical Sciences in collaboration with the... 12 April 2017
Gov. Christie wants more doctors in New Jersey, and he’s budgeted money to train them. But increasing the number of medical professionals — and getting them to stay in New Jersey — isn’t as easy as graduating more students. The calculation also includes the number of postgraduate residencies offered in... 11 April 2017
HONOLULU -- Technological advancements have improved health care for years and the military Simulation (SIM) centers have strived to be at the forefront of that advance. That is why Tripler Army Medical Center recently received an upgrade to its SIM center by moving into its new facilities. This move quadrupled... 11 April 2017
The next generation of physicians was raised with information at their fingertips, yet studying medicine in the age of Google Search comes with its own set of unique challenges. To uncover how the habits, preferences and tendencies of medical and pre-medical students were shaped by growing up in the digital... 10 April 2017
The nation’s largest association of physicians is the latest group to come out against a bill at the center of Florida’s so-called “Eyeball Wars” between ophthalmologists and optometrists. On Thursday, American Medical Association President and CEO James Madara sent a letter to House Health & Human Services Committee chair Travis Cummings, in which he called... 10 April 2017
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