#FlashbackFriday 1975: Mayo Graduate School adds family practice residency
This article first appeared in April 1975, in the publication Mayovox. The Board of Governors last month approved establishment of a new Mayo residency training program in family practice and authorized Mayo representatives to seek capitation from the state of Minnesota in support of the program. According to Mr. A. Russell Hanson of the D ivision of [...] (Source: News from Mayo Clinic)
Source: News from Mayo Clinic - September 15, 2016 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: news
Announcing the 2016 Best Doctors Award winners - Varied Specialities
The Wichita Business Journal is recognizing again this year the Wichita area ’s Best Doctors.
We will be featuring Best Doctors honorees throughout the week.
The past two days, we’ve announced physicians chose in family practice, and in pediatrics, plastic surgery, radiology, sleep medicine and surgery.
The attached slide show features honorees in anesthesiology, card iovascular disease, gastroenterology, infectious disease, internal medicine, internal medicine/hospice and palliative medicine,… (Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Pharmaceuticals headlines)
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Pharmaceuticals headlines - September 14, 2016 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news
Announcing the 2016 Best Doctors Award winners - Pediatrics, Plastic Surgery, Radiology, Sleep Medicine and Surgery
The Wichita Business Journal is recognizing again this year the Wichita area's Best Doctors.
We will be featuring Best Doctors honorees throughout the week. Yesterday, we announced
physicians chosen in family practice
.
Today, the attached slideshow features pediatrics physicians, plastic surgery, radiology, sleep medicine and surgery.
The list is produced by Best Doctors in America , a company that compiles a database of more than 53,000 doctors in more than 450 specialties and subspecialties.
Best… (Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Biotechnology headlines)
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Biotechnology headlines - September 13, 2016 Category: Biotechnology Source Type: news
Building International Partnerships in Family Medicine Development (Jeffrey Markuns MD, EdM)
Successful partnerships between local stakeholders and international consultants can be an important catalyst in creating sustainable programs responsive to unique local contexts, although there can be challenges as well. In this discussion, we aim to discuss challenges and benefits in building collaborations between local and international partners. We will share examples of productive partnerships, and share successes and setbacks in navigating these collaborations and utilizing them to meet local partners ' specific goals in developing and expanding Family Medicine. Specific programs unique to different countries will b...
Source: Family Medicine Digital Resources Library (FMDRL) Recently Uploaded - September 12, 2016 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
Education: a Key Tool for Engagement
Peter Elias
When I began my medical training almost a half century ago, medical culture, and the educational system that maintained it, were based on the concept that the physician was the expert who knows best, and that a “good” patient was a compliant patient. Perhaps because I was raised to think for myself, I was unhappy in the role of shepherd for a flock of obedient “sheeple.” By the end of my first decade in practice, I had come to see my job as educating patients about their conditions and options, helping them make the decisions they needed to make, and helping them achieve their health goals. Because this...
Source: Society for Participatory Medicine - September 10, 2016 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Nanette Mattox Tags: Newsletter e-patient movement empowered patient medical traning member-to-member education participatory medicine patient-centered student clinicians Source Type: news
White River Medical System Adds Three to Medical Team (Movers & Shakers)
Dr. Anitsira Collado, Dr. Joaquin Duarte and Dr. Mahiry Romero-Salinas have been hired as physicians at White River Health System of Batesville.
Collado completed a residency in internal medicine at the Metropolitan Hospital Center in New York.
Romero-Salina also completed her residency in internal medicine at the Metropolitan Hospital Center in New York.
Duarte completed a residency in internal medicine from the John H. Stroger Jr. Hospital of Cook County in Chicago.
Gary L. Bebow, administrator and CEO of White River Health System, has been recertified as an associate of the American College of Healthcare Executives. Beb...
Source: Arkansas Business - Health Care - September 5, 2016 Category: American Health Source Type: news
OK Foods Promotes Pair in Fort Smith (Movers & Shakers)
Amy Szadziewicz has been promoted to vice president of quality and food safety at OK Foods Inc. of Fort Smith, and Brent Glasgow has been promoted to vice president of operations. Both are previous employees of Pilgrim’s Pride Corp. of Greeley, Colorado.
Szadziewicz has more than 17 years of experience in the poultry industry, and Glasgow has worked in the industry for some 12 years in various states.
Dr. Marc Denton Stam has joined Sparks Cardiothoracic & Vascular Surgery as a physician for the Fort Smith area. Denton previously practiced cardiovascular surgery at St. Anthony’s Hospital in Denver.
Dr. Tha...
Source: Arkansas Business - Health Care - August 22, 2016 Category: American Health Source Type: news
Arkansas Hospice Names Brian Bell as New Chief Medical Officer (Movers & Shakers)
Dr. Brian Bell has joined Arkansas Hospice of North Little Rock as vice president and chief medical officer. Bell has worked in hospice since 2006 and he is board-certified in family medicine and hospice and palliative medicine.
Bell previously worked as the palliative care medical director for Spartanburg Regional Medical Center in South Carolina. He has also founded and served as a program director for the palliative medicine fellowship program in South Carolina.
Dr. Katherine Appleget, and obstetrician/gynecologist, has joined the Women’s Clinic at White River Health System in Batesville. Appleget is a member of ...
Source: Arkansas Business - Health Care - August 22, 2016 Category: American Health Source Type: news
Mortality rates higher among influenza B patients than influenza A patients
Influenza-attributable mortality was significantly greater in children with influenza B, compared with influenza A, investigators found.
Among those with influenza B, patients aged 10-16 years were... (Source: Family Practice News)
Source: Family Practice News - August 17, 2016 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
5 tips to surviving Meaningful Use audits
The Meaningful Use (MU) program as doctors know it may soon be ending, but audits of past attestations are slated to continue for at least the next 6 years.
Experts offer the following guidance on... (Source: Family Practice News)
Source: Family Practice News - August 16, 2016 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
Blue and white light for seasonal affective disorder
Perhaps it’s the northern climate. Perhaps it’s that people at my office work a lot in the absence of office windows. But there are a lot of seasonal affective disorder lamps around me.
The one in... (Source: Family Practice News)
Source: Family Practice News - August 16, 2016 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
Cognitive impairment predicts worsening multiple sclerosis
Cognitive impairment in individuals at the time of multiple sclerosis diagnosis imparts a significantly higher risk for disability progression, transition to secondary progressive disease, and... (Source: Family Practice News)
Source: Family Practice News - August 16, 2016 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
Study identifies link between rosacea and several GI disorders
A Danish population-based cohort study identified a significant association between patients who have rosacea and their risk of having certain other gastrointestinal diseases – specifically, celiac... (Source: Family Practice News)
Source: Family Practice News - August 16, 2016 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
Don’t sell your practice short
I’ve written quite a lot over the past few years about the trend toward soloists and small groups selling their practices to hospitals, multispecialty groups, or larger practices. And I’ve made it... (Source: Family Practice News)
Source: Family Practice News - August 16, 2016 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
Nearly three-quarters of physician specialties saw compensation increases in 2015 – AMGA
Seventy-four percent of physician specialties saw increases in their compensation in 2015, led by emergency medicine, according to the American Medical Group Association.
Overall, the weighted... (Source: Family Practice News)
Source: Family Practice News - August 16, 2016 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
