The advantage of its simulator tools over a cadaver or other methods of training is that they can be varied to reflect not only a wide range of conditions, including rare and complex patient cases, according to LevelEx Founder and CEO Sam Glassenberg.
Half of U.S. states have legalized medical marijuana but they are finding a need to plug training gaps so physicians can address patient questions on the issue.
Munck Wilson Mandala Partner Greg Howison shared his perspective on some of the legal ramifications around AI, IP, connected devices and the data they generate, in response to emailed questions.
Dr. Ariel Ortiz Lagardere, of the Obesity Control Center in Tijuana, Mexico, is enthusiastic about the implications of the ALLie camera for purposes of education, mentorship and communication with colleagues.
The Cleveland school currently is evaluating Microsoft's HoloLens "mixed reality" technology for medical education.
The idea behind the new curriculum is to link more closely medicine with the policy issues it directly affects. So after learning about the lungs and pulmonary system, for example, the students do a project on controlling childhood asthma.
Unnecessary testing is a waste of time and resources for physician-trainees who are increasingly thrown under the bus by the non-practicing bureaucratic elite.
At the Abarca Forward conference earlier this year, George Van Antwerp, managing director at Deloitte, discussed how social determinants of health and a personalized member experience can improve medication adherence and health outcomes.
The New England Journal of Medicine study comes as the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education is reassessing requirements that prevent residents from working extremely long stretches or back-to-back shifts.
But what about the residency shortage?
A student “depicted his supervising physician screaming at the medical team, causing one intern to urinate herself moments before having her head bitten off for possessing too little information about a patient.”
The project is funded in part by an effort of the American Medical Association to update what and how medical students are taught. Students can use tools provided by the project to look at quality measures for things like heart failure, diabetes, smoking, etc.
We will highlight Build My Health's revenue practice management tools, which could help physician practices add up to $250,000 to their practices.
Physician assistant Jorge Muniz is hoping to raise $15,000 to turn "Medcomic," his collection of drawings he has completed over the past 2 1/2 years, into a book.
There exists much controversy surrounding the MOC ( maintenance of certification) program that doctors need to comply with in order to keep their board certification. Every specialty has its own regulatory requirements. Over the past year, doctors cried out against this inefficient and costly burden placed on us. Yet, no one heard us. Doctors are […]
"Providers are not known for being good communicators," said DecisionSim CEO Bob Yayak. The company wants to address this issue with CommSim, newly purchased online communications training technology from Drexel University College of Medicine.
Dr. Timothy Miller, an orthopedic surgeon at the Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, streamed a surgical procedure on Periscope for medical education purposes, and he wants to do it again.
The American Medical Association is partnering with i-Human Patients as part of an effort to improve and digitize teaching medical students, aiming to improve outcomes in the long term. As part of the collaboration, i-Human, a Silicon Valley-based developer of cloud software for medical education, will partner with nine expert medical educators from around the […]