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The Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center School of Medicine's Department of Otolaryngology residency program has been approved by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education. The program, which was established in 2015, trains physicians to treat or manage disorders and diseases of the ear, nose, throat and related structures... 16 May 2017
The American Heart Association, which has some 700 international training centers around the world, has chosen the voluntary United Hatzalah organization to be its official training partner in Israel. Glenn Vanden Houten, the AHA’s regional director for Europe and Africa, said on Thursday that “United Hatzalah has become one of... 15 May 2017
Raj Panjabi, who fled to the United States to escape civil war in his native Liberia, eventually returned to his shattered homeland to find rural communities desperate for adequate healthcare. The trained physician co-founded Last Mile Health in Liberia, which aims to recruit, train, equip and manage people in communities... 15 May 2017
Scientific research, medical education and health care delivery are changing at a rapid clip, and Harvard Medical School Dean George Q. Daley is examining the best path forward to ensure that the School maintains its centuries-long reputation as a world leader in these fields. “We’re on the brink of a sweeping... 12 May 2017
The world's first-of-its-kind dual robotic surgery was performed on April 23 at Hadassah Hospital Ein Kerem in Jerusalem, announced National President Ellen Hershkin of Hadassah, the Women's Zionist Organization of America, Inc. (HWZOA). The revolutionary dual robotic surgery assisted in the repair of a severe spinal fracture suffered by Aharon Schwartz, 42, a factory worker... 12 May 2017
Harvard University is issuing certificates for anybody who passes one or more of the same online courses that are also taken by incoming students prior to starting their Harvard Medical School curriculum and used by the institution's faculty to "flip" their classrooms. The courses make up the university's new "HMX" program,... 11 May 2017
"I think I'm going to throw up," said Noelle, an electronic dummy "giving birth" in the back of a Salem Fire Department ambulance Friday. "Me too," said Tim Sice, as he and fellow firefighters Steve Woitkun and Joe Scanlon surround Noelle, checking her medical stats and the position of her... 11 May 2017
Whether they are part of undergraduate (UME) or graduate medical education (GME), educators training future physicians have the same goals for the next generation of doctors. They want, among other things, physicians to work in teams, see their patients in a social context, advocate for their patients and challenge authority... 10 May 2017
Surgical skills cannot be mastered by simple observation or by operating skills learned in the anatomy room. The demand for high efficiency and the lack of valuable operating time leaves little time for surgeons to train students within the operating environment. These clinical pressures, along with the successful introduction of... 9 May 2017
Undergraduate nurses generally learn how to administer medicine in a “calm and uninterrupted” training environment, noted researchers. But they said this does not reflect the realities of everyday nursing and argued that nurses working on busy wards often have to contend with “multiple interruptions” while giving out medication. The impact... 9 May 2017
HELENA — The state unveiled a new high-tech tool Monday that officials hope will save people’s lives someday. Three mobile simulation training trucks have been provided to the state through a $4.6 million grant from The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust. “It’s not every day that the... 8 May 2017
Michigan Medicine will more than double the size of its Clinical Simulation Center, an innovative instructional learning laboratory used to train health care professionals. The $4.75 million renovation of the Medical Science Building II will include a second Clinical Simulation Center location that will open in January 2018. The existing... 8 May 2017
Officials at New York City-based Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai are on a mission to change the academic and behavioral cultures at the medical school following the death of a fourth-year medical student last fall, according to The Wall Street Journal. In a letter published in The New England Journal of Medicine last... 2 May 2017
Baystate Health and UMass Medical School are hoping to get $3.4 million in state money to build their new medical school in Springfield. "We think this would be a worthy investment in primary care for the region for the next several decades," said Ben Craft, a spokesman for Baystate Health. 28 April 2017
Virtual and augmented reality (VR and AR respectively) are long lost brothers; both of them only started developing properly in recent years but until now VR has always been the big brother that has firmly stolen the attention of the mass market. However, AR is coming into its own and... 28 April 2017
With two or three ambulances covering all of Lafayette County, there are often times when there’s more need for medical assistance than there are ambulances available. Oxford’s population almost doubles on home football game weekends. Other popular sporting events at FNC or the John Leslie Tennis Courts also often bring... 27 April 2017
A nursing program at Bismarck State College is running simulations in Spanish to increase cultural competency of nursing students. Language barriers are often challenging in health care, particularly for nurses who don't speak a patient's language. The Dakota Nursing Program at BSC collaborated with a Spanish professor and his class to... 27 April 2017
An unlikely pairing between construction machine manufacturing Caterpillar (CAT) and OSF Healthcare in Illinois is helping doctors perform complex heart surgeries by modeling a patient’s heart using 3D printing. Physicians from OSF Healthcare sought help from Caterpillar after a chance encounter between Matthew Bramlet, a pediatric cardiologist at Children’s Hospital of Illinois, and a... 26 April 2017
By Chris Baraniuk As my syringe presses against the skin and muscle surrounding a patient’s knee joint, I feel a brief resistance. A gentle increase in pressure, though, and the needle pops through, ready to inject the drug. But this isn’t a real patient or syringe – they’re both virtual. 25 April 2017
Elsevier, an information analytics company specializing in science and health, along with the Association for Medical Education in Europe (AMEE), are hosting a 48-hour Medical Education Hackathon on August 25, ahead of AMEE's annual conference in Helsinki, Finland. Building on the success of the 2015 hackathon, the event will bring... 24 April 2017