Why Strengthening the Dental Hygienist Profession is Key to Solving Our Oral Health Crisis
Reinforcing educational standards will enable hygienists to perform more advanced procedures and raise the standard of care.
AI Can Improve Bedside Manner, Training Healthcare’s Human Skills
For healthcare facilities, AI-driven soft skill training is gaining traction in light of critical staffing shortages and the need for more emotionally intelligent personnel.
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MedCity News Pivot Podcast: How Emergency Departments Are Using Real-Time Data to Improve Outcomes
How can AI benefit and improve patient outcome in the emergency department? Watch the latest episode to find out.
Late-in-Life Autism Diagnosis: Why Adults Still Face So Many Barriers and How We Can Do Better
Awareness of autism has grown, but we need to move beyond this into understanding and acceptance. Real progress depends on how we translate understanding into action — training more professionals, funding adult services, and redesigning workplaces and communities so autistic individuals can flourish throughout their lifespan.
The Doctor’s Monopoly Is Dead and We’re All Better For It
Authority built on information control cannot survive in the age of AI and instant access. But authority built on wisdom, judgment, empathy, and genuine partnership? That's eternal. And it's exactly what patients have been asking for all along.
AI-Based Simulation Training is Key to Solving Dentistry’s Procedural Skills Crisis
Giving dentists more hands-on training provides a platform for repeated practice, real-time feedback, and continuous improvement, helping prepare students with the confidence and consistency they need to succeed in patient care.
My Mold Illness Nearly Broke Me — Let’s Ensure Others Get the Care They Deserve
Symptoms often get labeled as anxiety, chronic fatigue, early neurodegeneration, IBS, or fibromyalgia. How to prevent the root cause — mold exposure — from going unrecognized.
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Esperion Sets Its Sights on New Areas While Maintaining Commitment to Cardiovascular Health
In a recent interview, Esperion president and CEO, Sheldon Koenig talks about the reality of statin intolerance and his company’s expansion into new diseases
Preparing Future Physicians to Address the Adolescent Overdose Crisis: A Call for Curricular Integration
Given the scale of the pediatric overdose crisis, medical students must receive early and consistent training on how to screen for substance use and engage in overdose prevention during pediatric encounters.
Why Nurse Competency Training Should Mirror Weather Emergency Preparedness
We must continuously improve our education system, spanning from classroom to continued education, with vetted techniques that acknowledge the chaos and complexity of the healthcare environment. Learning by doing — our version of emergency weather drills — must happen before the storm hits, not during it.
The Silent Mental Health Crisis of Climate Change
Many of those who survive the loss, devastation, and displacement of an extreme climate event — such as a flood, tornado, drought, or wildfire — experience anxiety, depression, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and even suicidal thoughts. Similar mental illnesses are often found even when people are indirectly exposed to extreme climate events.
Why Aren’t More Academic Medical Settings Using Generative AI Avatars to Train Future Doctors on Sensitivity?
AI-generated simulations can standardize diversity in exposure by creating virtual patients from varied backgrounds, each with unique risk factors and life experiences.
The Power of One: Redefining Healthcare with an AI-Driven Unified Platform
In a landscape where complexity has long been the norm, the power of one lies not just in unification, but in intelligence and automation.
The Crucial Role of Medical Affairs in Bridging the Educational Gap Among Healthcare Professionals in Biosimilars
Biosimilars represent an important therapeutic option in modern healthcare, offering cost-effective alternatives to complex biological drugs. The educational gap among healthcare professionals poses a challenge to their widespread adoption. Medical Affairs teams in the pharmaceutical industry are at the forefront of bridging this gap
Designing Health Sciences Education: Pivoting to the Future of Healthcare
While many will remember the Covid-19 pandemic as a source of disruption, it is likely that it will also be viewed as a catalyst for the transformation of medical education that had been brewing for the past decade.
Transforming medical device training, adoption, and sales with remote case observation
Hospitals need to keep patient safety and operational efficiency at the forefront. By minimizing the number of individuals entering the OR, RCO provides immediate operational and safety improvements.
The way we train doctors puts their mental health at risk: We need new solutions
This year has shown that being a doctor is no longer just about skill: it’s about resilience, stamina, empathy, flexibility and teamwork. The way we educate medics needs to reflect this new reality; and prepare medics for the myriad challenges and pressures they will face.
Through $1.5B campaign, Weill Cornell Medicine to invest in precision medicine, debt-free medical education
Weill Cornell Medicine has launched a campaign with the goal of raising $1.5 billion that will be used to invest in research initiatives, including a precision medicine enterprise, and to fund a scholarship program that helps students who qualify to graduate debt-free. So far, the health system has raised $750 million.