5 good reads: Examining two new health care CEOs
Health care is one of Kansas City ’s largest business sectors, and also one of its most dynamic. Interviews with two new CEOs — Dennis Ridenour of BioNexus KC and Stan Holm of Olathe Health System — lead off this week’s list of suggested reads.
The stories also spotlight Lily Lieberman, who joined us a couple of months back to cover health care along with the area’s largest tech companies. Lily, a Kansas City girl who returned after college and a couple of high-powered internships, has… (Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Physician Practices headlines)
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Physician Practices headlines - January 27, 2019 Category: American Health Authors: Brian Kaberline Source Type: news
South Africa: Medical Interns Set to Speed Up Service Delivery
[SAnews.gov.za] A total of 109 medical interns have joined various health facilities in the North West province for practical training. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - January 15, 2019 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Chance of depression in new doctors depends on where they train
(Michigan Medicine - University of Michigan) Nearly 20,000 future doctors will graduate from US medical school this spring, and embark on the residency training. But a new study suggests that their mental health in the crucial first year of training -- called internship -- may depend a lot on the nature of the program they enter. The year-long study of 1,276 medical interns in 54 programs finds they were more likely to suffer from depression at certain programs compared with others. (Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health)
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - January 14, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news
Nigeria: Don't Call Me Chief: The Need to Redefine Respect in Nigeria's Medical Community
[Nigeria Health Watch] Recently, while surfing Twitter, I saw a tweet about reforms needed within the Nigerian medical community. These included respecting medical interns (house officers), adopting more casual dressing by medical doctors and a call on consultants to stop the abuse of residents, house officers and medical students. The tweet brought back for me painful memories of how junior doctors and medical students are routinely bullied by senior doctors in Nigeria's medical community.I could not resist responding to (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - January 8, 2019 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Cochrane's 30 under 30: Emma Persad
Cochrane is made up of13,000 members and over50,000 supporters come from more than130 countries, worldwide. Our volunteers and contributors are researchers, health professionals, patients, carers, people passionate about improving health outcomes for everyone, everywhere.Cochrane is an incredible community of people who all play their part in improving health and healthcare globally. We believe that by putting trusted evidence at the heart of health decisions we can achieve a world of improved health for all.Many of our contributors are young people working with Cochrane as researchers, citizen scientists, medical students...
Source: Cochrane News and Events - December 24, 2018 Category: Information Technology Authors: Lydia Parsonson Source Type: news
UCLA program trains underrepresented college students for public health careers
UCLAThe first cohort in the UCLA Public Health Scholars Training Program. Elaine Owusu will never forget the summer between her junior and senior years at Marquette University in Milwaukee. Owusu spent eight weeks in residence on the UCLA campus, where she and more than three dozen peers received an intensive introduction to the field of public health as part of the first cohort of the UCLA Public Health Scholars Training Program. The program combined education and hands-on training — in Owusu’s case, an internship assisting the director of quality improvement at St. John’s Well Child& Family Center, which p...
Source: UCLA Newsroom: Health Sciences - December 11, 2018 Category: Universities & Medical Training Source Type: news
White House Unveils Strategy for STEM Education
The White House has released a five-year strategic plan for STEM education, which defines the federal government’s role in advancing STEM education through collaborations with state and local stakeholders, the education community, and industry.
The plan identifies several goals, including building foundations for a STEM-literate citizenry, training a STEM workforce for the future, increasing diversity and inclusion, engaging students in interdisciplinary activities, and building computational literacy.
In response, the National Science Foundation (NSF) has announced that it will be partnering with other federal ag...
Source: Public Policy Reports - December 10, 2018 Category: Biology Authors: AIBS Source Type: news
Liberia: NPHIL Director General Promises HC Graduates Internship
[Observer] The Director General of the National Public Health Institute (NPHIL) of Liberia (NPHIL) Tolbert Nyehsuah has promised graduating students, who are pursuing degrees in occupational safety and disaster management at Harbel College, internships at the NPHIL. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - November 27, 2018 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Do student internships build capability? - What OHS graduates really think - Madigan C, Johnstone K, Cook M, Brandon J.
Work experience and internships provide students with a vehicle for transferring the advanced knowledge and skills acquired through their academic education into a work setting. At the University of Queensland, Bachelor of Occupational Health and Safety Sc... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - November 20, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Occupational Issues Source Type: news
Letting the Learners Learn
(MedPage Today) -- Let ' s allow interns and residents to figure out the right questions to ask (Source: MedPage Today Primary Care)
Source: MedPage Today Primary Care - November 2, 2018 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
Bristol students celebrate their Chinese internships
The Bristol Interns in China programme (BIC) has welcomed the return of the first cohort of students. (Source: University of Bristol news)
Source: University of Bristol news - October 23, 2018 Category: Universities & Medical Training Tags: International, Student life; Press Release Source Type: news
Bullying experiences of dental interns working at four dental institutions of a developing country: a cross-sectional study - Ullah R, Faraz Siddiqui M, Zafar MS, Iqbal K.
BACKGROUND: Bullying is an aggressive and violent behavior marked by repetitive harassment of a weaker victim, which may also occur in the workplace including healthcare settings. Although extensively studied in the west, bullying of workers in the healthc... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - September 20, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Young Adults Source Type: news
"This is a Christian institution and we will tolerate no Jews here": the Brooklyn medical interns hazings - Halperin EC.
Anti-Semitic quotas to restrict access to medical school, graduate medical education and hospital privileges were common in the United States from the 1920s to the 1960s. In Brooklyn, New York, medical education prejudice resulted in violence. In 1916 a Je... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - September 6, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Young Adults Source Type: news
Mindfulness Training Acceptable Among Surgical Interns
Mindfulness - based stress reduction integrated into personal, professional settings over 12 months (Source: The Doctors Lounge - Psychiatry)
Source: The Doctors Lounge - Psychiatry - August 31, 2018 Category: Psychiatry Tags: Psychiatry, Surgery, Journal, Source Type: news
Mindfulness Training Acceptable Among Surgical Interns
FRIDAY, Aug. 31, 2018 -- Formal mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) appears to be both feasible and acceptable to surgical interns, according to a pilot study published online Aug. 29 in JAMA Surgery.
Carter C. Lebares, M.D., from the... (Source: Drugs.com - Pharma News)
Source: Drugs.com - Pharma News - August 31, 2018 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news
