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Can a Medical School Afford NOT to Have Medical Ethics?
Evidently, at least one major medical school things so. And to boot, their Chancellor, President and Board of Trustees appears to think that they can not only afford to live without a medical ethics department but to actively do away with their current one. The Health Science Center at the... (read the rest)
Training Doctors to Teach Doctors to Care
A recent study published in Academic Medicine has found that a new method of training physicians how to teach the dimensions of care--effective communication, compassion and relationship building--results in physicians who love their profession and their patients, says Booster Shots, the LA Times Health Blog. The longitudinal study conducted at... (read the rest)
Stop That Resident! He's Sleep-Deprived!
Even after considerable efforts to reduce the number of hours worked by medical residents in their training, a new study by the IOM has found that residents are still worked too hard and are dangerously sleep-deprived. According to ScienceDaily, IOM is now recommending, in addition to the already existing 80-hour... (read the rest)
Simulations aren't Just for Training Pilots Anymore
Recent research done at the Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University has revealed that first year anesthesiology residents who first practice using simulations perform better than their real-world counterparts, says Newswise. Really, this just makes good sense--rather than having patients in teaching hospitals exposed to residents who may be... (read the rest)
Female Med Students On Edge? Leave Them Alone
It turns out that female doctors-to-be don't just feel more nervous than their male counterparts but they actually appear more nervous to their patients, says an Indiana University School of Medicine Study. Published in this month's issue of Patient Education and Counseling, researchers found that this decreased confidence among women... (read the rest)
Free Med School!
It turns out that a wealthy alum of the University of Rochester Medical School has donated $2 million dollars into a matching scholarship fund in the hopes of someday making medical school there free for all students says a Rochester NY paper, the Democrat and Chronicle. This presents a revolutionary... (read the rest)
Gridiron Ganglia Gifts
It's time we made donating bodies to science cool again. So when former NFL players and a women's soccer player announce that they are going to donate their battered brains to science, one stops to think: "That's pretty cool." Mary Roach's "Stiff" almost got us there--but a few celebrity athletes... (read the rest)
Pre-Meds Rejoice!
On the Wall Street Journal health blog, they report that the backlash on the part of select universities against the dreaded organic chemistry for pre-meds continues. New England Journal started this crazy suggestion first by publishing an article that suggested that requiring organic chemistry for a year may be overkill... (read the rest)
Art Caplan on med schools and industry freebies
Over at MSNBC, Art writes that a recent recommendation for medical schools to ban free stuff from industry is on target: The American Association of Medical Colleges recently released a long-awaited report recommending that pharmaceutical companies and medical device manufacturers knock off their efforts to bribe medical students and faculty.... (read the rest)
One of medical school's lessons: how to be less empathic
A study published this month in Academic Medicine looked how medical school affects levels of "vicarious empathy" in students, or as the paper is titled, "Is There Hardening of the Heart During Medical School?" The short answer: it looks like it. The authors report that students' vicarious empathy declines significantly... (read the rest)
OK, who hasn't taken money from drug companies?
Via Jim Fossett comes word of a paper in the October 17 JAMA reporting that 60 percent of respondents to a survey of medical school department chairs indicated they had some form of personal relationship with industry -- either as a consultant, a member of a scientific advisory board, a... (read the rest)
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