CME: AMA PRA Category 1 Credit for Preparing and Teaching Medical Students
The Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) and the American Medical Association (AMA) Council on Medical Education recently announced the joint initiative, Learning from Teaching, awarding AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™ for the learning associated with preparing for and teaching medical students and residents.
Previously able to claim AMA PRA Category 2 Credit™ for such activities, part-time and other faculty members may now claim AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™ for their continuing professional development mediated by accredited CME providers affiliated with accredited UME and/or GME entities.
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Source: Policy and Medicine - June 7, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Thomas Sullivan Source Type: blogs
How's my list of schools look?
by EthylMethylMan (Posted Tue Jun 04, 2013 2:00 pm)I'm a white NY resident with a 3.71 cGPA and a 3.55 sGPA. My majors are premedical biology and forensic biology (the latter program is one that my university is very well known for). My minor is chemistry. I've taken two official AAMC practice MCAT's and got a 31 (11-9-11, AAMC #7) and a 34 (13-9-12, AAMC #10), so I'm expecting a 32 or 33 on the real deal. I have 160+ hours of emergency department volunteering, and 400+ hours of work as a paid employee at the same emergency department. I'm starting clinical research this Summer at a different hospital's emergency departmen...
Source: Med Student Guide - June 4, 2013 Category: Medical Students Source Type: forums
Science GPA exactly at 3.0, do I have a shot?
by Brady Kinesia (Posted Mon Jun 03, 2013 4:46 pm)jhrosado31 wrote:I would but since it's summer, she's the only one there and she's the "head" adviser. Sometimes there is an "office politics" of pre-med advising, which is: that the university is keeping statistics on what percent of the pre-med applicants get in to medical school. And so, sometimes the advisors tell students (who really could have gotten in to some medical school) not to apply, and then they concentrate on other students. I'm taking my MCAT around July. My first ever PT I took before I began studying was a 12. =/ OK, does that mean 12, total score, as i...
Source: Med Student Guide - June 3, 2013 Category: Medical Students Source Type: forums
MCAT Study Ideas
by Brady Kinesia (Posted Mon May 27, 2013 7:11 am)You can get some of the official AAMC practice tests and start studying them independently. Then at least you "know what it is that you don't know", meaning you can see the whole scope of the actual tests, and by taking the practice tests, see exactly what will be required https://www.aamc.org/students/applying/mcat/preparing/ (Source: Med Student Guide)
Source: Med Student Guide - May 27, 2013 Category: Medical Students Source Type: forums
Kaplan MCAT score reliability
by health2100 (Posted Sun May 19, 2013 6:07 pm)Here is my advice: take as many AAMC practice test as possible.The average score is going to be very close to the real score that you will get on a real thing. (Source: Med Student Guide)
Source: Med Student Guide - May 19, 2013 Category: Medical Students Source Type: forums
Kaplan MCAT score reliability
by Puzzitrn (Posted Tue May 14, 2013 3:00 pm)Hello all, this is my first time posting here, but I often check out the forums.I am taking my first real MCAT (hopefully my last also) in one week, May 23rd 2013. I have completed the Kaplan course and have taken 4 practice Kaplan tests+ the diagnostic thus far, and plan to take 1 more kaplan and 2 AAMC practices over the next week.My diagnostic kaplan test score was a 23:7PS, 7VR, 9BS.1st practice in early April: 33:11PS, 10 VR, 12 BS2nd practice late April: 33:11PS, 8VR, 14BS3rd practice early may: 36: 10PS, 12VR, 14BSand 4th practice yesterday: 39 14PS, 12VR, 13BSI'm very ex...
Source: Med Student Guide - May 14, 2013 Category: Medical Students Source Type: forums
President’s 2014 Proposed Budget Calls For Increase to Overall Healthcare Spending and Major Changes to Medicare Part D
President Obama unveiled his fiscal year 2014 budget for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). The budget contained a number of notable figures and proposals, particularly given that many pieces of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) are set to go into effect in 2014.
The new budget would provide HHS a total of $967.3 billion in outlays and $80.1 billion in discretionary spending, and it includes initiatives that aim to save $361.1 billion over a decade. MedPage Today reported that the FY 2014 budget “is larger than the $848.2 billion actually spent in FY 2012 and the $907....
Source: Policy and Medicine - April 22, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Thomas Sullivan Source Type: blogs
Time to redesign residencies
Once upon a time (actually when I did my residency), we worked long hours, were taught well and learned from our patients. Residency training had minimal rules. When we looked for a residency we took work load into consideration. Some residencies were more challenging than others. I choose a busy residency because I thought (back then) that I needed to see sufficient numbers of patients to become a good internist.
Our progress over the subsequent 35 years (since I finished my residency) is dubious. Pauline Chen’s wonderful article in the NY Times today – The Impossible Workload for Doctors in Training tell...
Source: DB's Medical Rants - April 18, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: rcentor Tags: Medical Rants Source Type: blogs
Heed patient, industry calls for compassionate care
by Thomas Dahlborg
Mr. Roberts was in the hospital being prepped for an angiogram. When Sally (the hospital chaplain) met with Mr. Roberts, he shared that his wife had passed away two months earlier; he was struggling to cope and recently had a heart attack.
Sally was fully present and attentive to the patient; she was supportive and listened and empathized with Mr. Roberts' struggles, pain and fear. And she asked whether he had shared this information with his doctor, and learned he had not.
Shortly after this powerful sharing, Mr. Roberts' doctor walked in and Sally asked the patient if he wanted to share their discu...
Source: hospital impact - April 12, 2013 Category: Health Managers Authors: Wendy Johnson Source Type: blogs
Chances of getting into Stanford/UCSF
by theKman1 (Posted Fri Mar 29, 2013 2:49 pm)Hi all, I'm new to the forums--looks like a very helpful resource. I'd like to get some feedback on the strength of my application. Stanford and UCSF are my top choices and I'd be beyond stoked if I got into either! A little about me:• University of Wisconsin-Madison alumnus, BS Biology 2012• cGPA/sGPA 4.0/4.0• MCAT: Taking in May, AAMC practice tests between 31 and 35• Experience:-Undergraduate research assistant for two years, published in journal of applied physiology (not primary author)-Volunteer Project Director of a great ape research project in east Africa, lived...
Source: Med Student Guide - March 29, 2013 Category: Medical Students Source Type: forums
Funding Opportunities Roundup
Federal Property Suitable as Facilities to Assist the Homeless
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development – Offers unutilized, underutilized, excess, or surplus federal properties for use to assist homeless persons.
Deadline: Applications accepted on an ongoing basis
For more information: http://bit.ly/13qqUEJ
Inclusive Coordinated Transportation Partnership Project
Community Transportation Association of America – Funding for organizations that are involved in the administration, delivery, or coordination of transportation, aging, and/or disability services to include seniors and individuals w...
Source: BHIC - February 28, 2013 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: Monica Rogers Tags: Public Health Scholarships and Grants Source Type: blogs
Conflicts Policies And Antidepressant Prescribing
Do conflict of interest policies adopted by residency programs actually work? To test this notion, a group of researchers examined prescribing data for several widely promoted antidepressants and found that psychiatrists who encountered restrictive policies were less likely to prescribe the drugs than those who did not have to contend with such policies.
Specifically, the University of Pennsylvania researchers compared psychiatry residents who graduated in 2001, before such policies were instituted, and 2008, when the Association of American Medical Colleges developed consensus principles of conflict of interest policies a...
Source: Pharmalot - January 29, 2013 Category: Pharma Commentators Authors: Ed Silverman Tags: Uncategorized Antidepressants Conflicts of Interest Medical School Source Type: blogs
University COI Policies and Generic Drugs – The Old Becomes New
Conclusion
As we have mentioned before, educating young physicians and physicians in training about COI policies and interactions with industry and pharmaceutical sales representatives is a noble goal and one that should be taken seriously. However, allowing those faculty and medical school staff who are already critical of industry and have their own personal biases about industry to educate impressionable minds is problematic. There needs to be balance when educating medical students and residents about COI policies and relationships with industry. There must be an equal voice for industry so that students can und...
Source: Policy and Medicine - January 25, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Thomas Sullivan Source Type: blogs
Fighting the injustice of health disparities: Honoring the legacies of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Dr. John M. Eisenberg
For the past several years I have run this post and just as it was those years, it is this year a very important message.
We, as a nation, have made progress and I believe Dr. King would be proud. But our work is far from complete – particularly where health care is concerned. Another doctor, Dr. John M. Eisenberg, a physician of tremendous stature whose life was also tragically cut short (not by an assassin’s bullet but by brain cancer) was equally passionate about the dignity of life and justice for all Americans. Dr. Eisenberg, who among other things, served as the Director of the Agency for Health Care Policy and R...
Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - January 21, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Access Disparities Medicare racism Source Type: blogs
What You Need to Know for Health Policy in 2013
This post was authored by Jim Fasules, MD, FACC, senior vice president of Advocacy for the ACC.
Despite a rather recalcitrant Congress, last year saw very significant changes for health care and cardiology. After the swirling uncertainty surrounding the Affordable Care Act (ACA), the U.S. Supreme Court ruled the ACA, including its individual mandate, was constitutional. With the federal debate laid to rest, the action shifts to the states where for political and policy reasons a patchwork quilt of variability still leaves physicians, hospitals and patients perplexed on how to adapt to Medicaid expansion, the Exchanges an...
Source: ACC in Touch Blog - January 18, 2013 Category: Cardiology Authors: Administrator Tags: Costs/Value Source Type: blogs
