Weekend Rounds: #HCSM comes to med schools, teleconferencing cuts hospital readmissions
A roundup of medical news reported this week by MedCity News (and others).
Social media comes to medical school classrooms in grant to develop best practices
A New York medical college has received a two-year grant to study how aspiring physicians use social media and what ethical issues it creates with patients. It’s the latest milestone in social media’s conquest of the medical profession. Albert Einstein College of Medicine at Yeshiva University was one of four medical schools awarded a two-year […]
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One scientist’s quest to rid the world of boring research lab websites
Inspired by the OpenScience Project and dismayed by fellow researchers’ stodgy, rarely-updated lab websites, a Princeton scientist plunked down his own money to design a site he hopes will inspire fellow academics to go modern and openly share their research with the public. “I thought the lab website was ripe for re-imagining,” said Ethan Perlstein, […]
University of Pennsylvania to offer free online classes on personalized medicine, genomes
The University of Pennsylvania medical school is participating in an online education venture to provide free university seminars to the public on courses such as personalized medicine, vaccines and genomes. The Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania will initially offer six courses on Coursera’s network that cover healthcare, medicine and biology and […]
NEOMED plans $130M expansion project, including student housing
Northeast Ohio Medical University is planning $130 million worth of expansion in the next few years, including a new research and education facility as well as the medical school’s first-ever on-campus student apartments. Much of NEOMED’s growth at its Rootstown, Ohio campus will be fueled by enrollment gains as the college adds more medical and […]
Medical school to get $425k state grant to spur creation of biotech companies
A medical school is to get a $425,000 economic development grant to spur the creation of biotechnology companies. Penn State School of Medicine will receive the state grant as part of a program launched last year by the state government called Discovered and Developed in Pennsylvania. According to Central Penn Business Journal, the medical college […]
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The medical field is a-changin’ — should how we teach doctors change, too?
I heard this over the weekend: “The students of today are training for a field that doesn’t currently exist.” Seems hard to believe, right? And yet, when I started medical school, there were no iPhones. In fact, there weren’t even cell phones. My first cellphone was acquired while I was in fellowship training and came […]
Does America really need more doctors?
The Obama administration is about to unveil a $1 billion plan to beef up the nation’s health care workforce. The goal, in part, is to increase the number of physicians available to serve the nation’s aging population. If one takes a superficial overview, one can find evidence to back up claims that the U.S. suffers […]
Future docs apply to med schools in record numbers (Morning Read)
Current medical news from today, including medical school applications increasing steadily since 2002, 6 of the 25 highest-paid CEOs are in healthcare, and GE Healthcare admits to glitch in EMR software.
Cancer, vision research at Penn Medicine get $12.5 million in NIH grants
Three University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine labs received $12.5 million in research funding for gene research and cancer treatment from the National Institutes of Health, reinforcing the medical school’s position as one of the country’s top grant recipients. Sunil Singhal M.D., director of the Thoracic Surgery Research Laboratory at the Perelman School of […]
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Cleveland Clinic and Case medical school gets $1M grant for minority students
The Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University has received a five-year, $1 million grant to support fellowships for minority medical students. The grant comes from the KeyBank Foundation, and follows another $1 million gift from the foundation in 2007 for the same program, the Plain Dealer reported. The money will […]
Northeast Ohio Medical University unveils new logo, branding
The transformation from NEOUCOM to NEOMED is complete. Northeast Ohio Medical University (NEOMED for short) unveiled a new logo and branding around its new, slimmed-down name. On Monday, NEOMED officials pulled back the curtain on new campus signage and social media accounts that featured the new branding for the Rootstown, Ohio-based university. The occasion marked […]
Would funding cut for graduate medical education really be so bad?
The CEOs of two academic hospitals are upset that Congress may reduce the funding for Graduate Medical Education (GME) paid through Medicare. To fight back, they’ve written a scare story for the Wall Street Journal Op-Ed page (We Can’t Afford to Train Fewer Doctors) that’s full of omissions and misleading statements. To summarize their arguments: […]
Works hours, sleep challenge even the best medical schools, residencies
As of this writing, 5 air traffic controllers have been found asleep at the switch. By the time this piece is posted, several others may have joined the slumber party. Keep in mind, there’s a lot more snoozing in the towers than we’re aware of. We don’t know the denominator here. Our wise reactive government […]
Free medical school! Wait. Not so fast (Best of MedCitizens)
Every week, MedCity News highlights the best of its MedCitizens: syndication partners and MedCity News readers who discuss life science current events on MedCityNews.com. Now here’s the best of what YOU had to say: Medical school for free? Not a good idea. “But rather than focus a critical eye on why medical school has become […]