'Unprecedented interest' in primary care transition course
A new career development training programme aimed at recently qualified nurses who want to work in primary care will host double the number of participants than originally planned, following an “unprecedented level of interest” in the course. (Source: Nursing Times)
Source: Nursing Times - September 10, 2017 Category: Nursing Source Type: news
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality and Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute Learning Health Systems Mentored Career Development Program (K12)
AHRQ, in partnership with PCORI, invites applications for funding to support institutional career development awards designed to train clinician and research scientists to conduct PCOR research within learning health systems (LHS) focused on generation, adoption, and application of evidence in order to improve the quality and safety of care. (Source: HSR Information Central)
Source: HSR Information Central - September 8, 2017 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news
Introducing the New York Institute of Career Development (NYICD)
Offering certified courses in a variety of subjects, NYICD will give students the opportunity to pursue their goal of career and financial independence through the convenience of an online program...(PRWeb August 28, 2017)Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2017/08/prweb14639523.htm (Source: PRWeb: Medical Pharmaceuticals)
Source: PRWeb: Medical Pharmaceuticals - August 28, 2017 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news
Creative webpage redesign sparks interest among NIEHS fellows
The NIEHS Office of Fellows' Career Development redesigned its webpages to help trainees successfully transition to independent careers. (read more) (Source: Environmental Factor - NIEHS Newsletter)
Source: Environmental Factor - NIEHS Newsletter - August 4, 2017 Category: Environmental Health Source Type: news
Schoenfeld Awarded NIH Grant to Study Interventions in Spinal Metastases
Andrew Schoenfeld, MD, MSc, of the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, was selected for a K-23 Mentored Patient-Oriented Research Career Development Award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for his project entitled “Optimizing Surgical Inter (Source: BWH News)
Source: BWH News - July 25, 2017 Category: Hospital Management Source Type: news
UTA biologist wins NSF CAREER grant to study effects of predators on evolution of Daphnia
(University of Texas at Arlington) Matthew Walsh, an assistant professor of biology, has been awarded a five-year, $600,000 grant from the NSF's Faculty Early Career Development Program. His project is titled 'CAREER: Does behavioral plasticity promote or constrain adaptation? A test using resurrection,' and will address a long-standing question in evolutionary biology. (Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health)
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - July 19, 2017 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news
Youth's causal beliefs about success: socioeconomic differences and prediction of early career development - Kay JS, Shane J, Heckhausen J.
Youth's career attainment is associated with socioeconomic background, but may also be related to their beliefs about causes of success. Relationships between 17-year-olds' socioeconomic status (SES) and causal beliefs about success, and whether these beli... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - July 14, 2017 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Adolescents Source Type: news
Definitive Healthcare Named 4th Best Place to Work in Massachusetts
Company culture, career development opportunities, and positive work environment drive employee satisfaction(PRWeb July 11, 2017)Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2017/07/prweb14495569.htm (Source: PRWeb: Medical Pharmaceuticals)
Source: PRWeb: Medical Pharmaceuticals - July 11, 2017 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news
Health Minister names Monash University researcher top grant applicant
Associate Professor Julian Elliott fromCochrane Australia in the School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine at Monash University has been awarded the prestigious Commonwealth Health Minister’s Awardfor Excellence in Health and Medical Research2017 at a ceremony in Melbourne last night. The medal is bestowed annually to the top-ranked Career Development Fellowship applicant through the National Health and Medical Research Council.A Career Development Fellowship (CDF) is a highly competitive, four-year fellowship that supports the most outstanding early- to mid-career health and medical researchers. The medal forbest...
Source: Cochrane News and Events - June 15, 2017 Category: Information Technology Authors: mumoquit at cochrane.org Source Type: news
Health Care Reform And Women: A Comparison Of The ACA And The AHCA
By Susan Blumenthal, M.D. and Alexandrea Adams
The recent commemoration of National Women’s Health Week provided an important time to mark the progress that has been made in advancing women’s health over the past two decades and to highlight what more needs to be done to achieve women’s health equity in America. Historically, women have experienced discrimination in health care despite making 80 percent of health care decisions for their families, using more medical services than men, and suffering greater disability from chronic disease. Before the mid 1990’s, women were often excluded as subjects ...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - June 2, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Aging, the Medical Subspecialties, and Career Development Aging, the Medical Subspecialties, and Career Development
This report summarizes recent collaborative work with several subspecialty associations.Journal of the American Geriatrics Society (Source: Medscape Today Headlines)
Source: Medscape Today Headlines - May 26, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Internal Medicine Journal Article Source Type: news
Quality of care for peripheral artery disease is low
This study is a “call to action” to identify and implement effective physician-targeted and patient-targeted strategies aimed at improving quality of care. These strategies should take advantage of recent advances in behavior change, including leveraging an individual’s social support network to help them mak e lifestyle changes, and providing physicians with feedback about the quality of care they provide to patients with peripheral artery disease.AUTHORSJoseph Ladapo of UCLA and Jeffrey Berger of New York University.JOURNALThe studyis published online by the Journal of the American College of Cardiology.FUNDINGThe...
Source: UCLA Newsroom: Health Sciences - May 1, 2017 Category: Universities & Medical Training Source Type: news
Arizona State University wins record 14 NSF career awards
(Arizona State University) ASU earns 14 prestigious National Science Foundation Early Career Development (CAREER) Awards. (Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health)
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - April 27, 2017 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news
Exciting Funding Opportunity at MRC Centre for Medical Mycology at The University of Aberdeen Early Career Research Fellowships – Closing date extended to 12 June 2017
We seek outstanding individuals to develop an early independent research career in medical mycology. Individuals in their final year of PhD or with up to three years postdoctoral research experience will be eligible to apply. Appointed individuals will need to develop a cutting-edge, cross-disciplinary scientific research project involving at least two MRC CMM principal investigators (PI). It is envisaged that these Fellowships will position successful applicants for independent funding applications in the future, such as MRC Career Development Awards. Updates (Source: The Aspergillus Website - updates)
Source: The Aspergillus Website - updates - April 24, 2017 Category: Respiratory Medicine Authors: GAtherton Source Type: news
