Doctors at a Northern California hospital, concerned that a 40-year-old woman with sky-high blood pressure and confusion might have a blood clot, order a CT scan of her lungs. To their surprise, the scan reveals not a clot but large cancers in both breasts that have spread throughout her body. Had they done a simple […]
A graduate of Blueprint Health’s accelerator has rolled out a virtual version of grand rounds. for[MD]’s program is designed to make it easier for private practice physicians to get the benefit of skilled specialists from teaching hospitals around the country, starting in orthopedics. It’s referred to as the Orthopedic Education Initiative, according to a company […]
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For Travis Hill, it was an offer too good to refuse. Last year when the 30-year-old neuroscientist was admitted to a new program at New York University that would allow him to complete medical school in only three years and guarantee him a spot in its neurosurgery residency, he seized it. Not only would Hill […]
It’s part of a longstanding practice in medical schools to use actors as patients so that students can develop critical skills for conducting physical exams and taking medical histories. But at the University of Virginia, one student’s actor-patient turned out to be the real thing. Jim Malloy was assigned an illness. University of Virginia Medical […]
More than 3,000 students on their way to becoming nurses, doctors and paramedics are using mobile health trends to bring mannequins to life. Simply replacing a computer with a tablet has allowed the staff to simulate real-life bedside experience much more realistically at McLennan Community College in Waco, Texas. Using Gaumard‘s simulation mannequins and software, plus […]
Two authors pose a new theory about lowering the cost of care: Make medical school more affordable. A new editorial up at the New England Journal of Medicine, suggests we may be in (or approaching) a medical education bubble market. As patients expect more affordable care and medical school tuition rises, that bubble could be […]
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Medical schools have been preparing for the changes healthcare reform is bringing. Many have framed their education around iPads and other tablets, and are encouraging more of their students to focus on primary care as physician shortages are expected to worsen. From accelerated programs to a technology focus, the description of some of the innovative […]
By Oleg Pavlov, Ph.D. and Vladimir Gotlieb, M.D., M.B.A. Facing offshore competition, local medical schools have been lobbying the state Board of Regents, which supervises all educational activities in New York, for tighter limits on the use of state teaching hospitals for clerkships by offshore medical students. Evidence shows that foreign-trained doctors are competent and […]
University of Pennsylvania’s Perelman School of Medicine in Philadelphia has established a dedicated center for biomedical informatics, underscoring the expansion of big data from drug development to population health. The Institute for Biomedical Informatics will focus on improving patient care and the research that goes into personalized medicine, according to a statement from Penn Medicine. […]
Just at a time when it would be good to hear some encouraging news about physicians going into primary care, a new survey suggests less than one-third of pre-med students aspire to be primary care physicians. As a result, some medical schools are experimenting with shorter medical school programs that would cut the time it […]
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The stethoscope is of the most fundamental tools for doctors and can be one of the most powerful in initial detection of cardiac or pulmonary illnesses. That’s why Dr. Paul Lecat wanted to give medical educators a better way to teach students to use it and understand what they hear at a basic level. For […]
Nurses have been taking on more responsibility in recent years — and a good thing too. If the shortage of primary care physicians continues coupled with millions of new patients expected to be added to healthcare systems when provisions of the Affordable Care Act are enacted, they will have to take on even more. At […]
Supercomputer and former Jeopardy! contestant Watson is the focus of a new Cleveland Clinic-IBM partnership that will teach Watson about medicine and help it become a clinical decision support tool for future doctors. IBM announced today that a team of researchers will work with physicians, faculty and medical students at the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College […]
While medical schools have increased their medical school positions by about 30%, residency slots have increased at only 8%. Future doctors may have to pay for their residency if these numbers don't balance out.
IPads are used in roughly one quarter of U.S. medical schools, free of charge or as a mandatory tool for learning. University of California at Irvine School of Medicine began using them in 2010. As these classes progress, it and other medical schools have found that the use of iPads is having some unintended consequences, […]