Virtual reality reduces the cost of training while also improving learning efficiency and knowledge retention. It’s not just universities and medical students that are embracing VR technology for learning. I travel all over the world to work with healthcare teams implementing VR and have observed, that a growing number of hospitals are using it for continuing education.
Called the AMA Ed Hub, it includes educational information on topics like hypertension, oncology, professional well-being, patient care, ethics, health disparities and lifestyle behaviors.
When it comes to managing inbound phone calls, underperformance has devastating cost implications.
Mountain View, California-based Coursera has launched a new healthcare vertical with 100 courses across 30 specializations ranging from bioinformatics to fundamentals of immunology to the business of healthcare.
The online certification program is aimed at bringing best practices to virtual care. It's free and eligible for continuing medical education credits.
It was a bad idea done for bad reasons and should not reach a rightful end.
Continuing education has been a back-door conduit for pharmaceutical money to keep flowing to physicians, despite the disclosure laws that have put a stigma on pharma gifts to prescribers.
The progress in artificial intelligence (AI) is reshaping patient care, across various dimensions, from facilitating faster discharge to curating treatment plans and suggesting lifestyle changes.
Last week was a remarkable one for practicing US physicians. It was when two articles appeared side by side in the New England Journal of Medicine: one promoting the American Board of Medical Specialties’ Maintenance of Certification® (MOC) program, and another that thoroughly debunked it. The comments placed to the stories told a story of […]
This is a story about a new medical intervention. It’s an important one because it affects all doctors—and therefore all patients. 1. It’s expensive. Of course. 2. There is no credible evidence that it works. But its marketing is aggressive. 3. The overwhelming majority of physicians disapprove of it. 4. Cheaper alternatives exist. 5. The […]
Everyone agrees that doctors should be informed and up-to-date. Perpetual medical education has always been a vital component of doctoring. But now, as the rapid pace of healthcare innovation pushes against the limits of biology, and really, our humanity, medical education gains even more importance.