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Meditation techniques prevent burnout in medical students
Doctors commonly tell patients that stress can be harmful to their health. Yet when it comes to reducing their own stress levels, physicians don't always heed their own advice. Part of the problem, according to researchers at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, is that medical schools don't include meditation and stress-reduction training in their curriculum...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - November 3, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Medical Students / Training Source Type: news
Education About Abortion In The UK Is Failing Young People - EFC Report Highlights Advice For Schools And Head Teachers
A report published by Education For Choice (EFC) finds that education about abortion in the UK is failing young people. Some schools are addressing the topic as part of comprehensive sex and relationships education (SRE), but there is evidence of widespread bad practice including medical misinformation being provided by teachers and visitors to schools. The report pulls together findings from surveys with schools and young people, and an audit of teaching materials used...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - February 6, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Abortion Source Type: news
Clinical Reasoning Education Sparse in Medical Schools Clinical Reasoning Education Sparse in Medical Schools
Most medical students enter clinical clerkships with poor to fair knowledge of clinical reasoning concepts and receive few hours of dedicated training during clerkships, a survey finds.Medscape Medical News
Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines - September 1, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Med Students News Source Type: news
Future doctors unprepared to manage pain - one of the most common problems they will encounter in clinical practice, expert group warns
First ever Europe-wide study reveals that even when undergraduate medical students take a compulsory course on pain, they still only receive on average 12 hours' training. There is an alarming lack of dedicated teaching on pain in undergraduate medical schools in Europe, according to the APPEAL (Advancing the Provision of Pain Education And Learning) study,[1] the first Europe-wide study on pain education provision. Even when compulsory courses on pain are in place, they represent on average only 12 hours within an entire six-year degree programme - or just 0...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - October 14, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Medical Students / Training Source Type: news
Most Doctors Are Ill-Equipped to Deal With the Opioid Epidemic. Few Medical Schools Teach Addiction.
It ’ s one of the biggest, most expensive American health crises in memory. But the field of addiction medicine is fairly new.
Source: NYT Health - September 10, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: JAN HOFFMAN Tags: Addiction (Psychology) Education Accreditation Opioids and Opiates Medical Schools Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education Boston Medical Center Addiction Treatment Source Type: news
How Well Trained Is the Class of COVID-19? How Well Trained Is the Class of COVID-19?
Medical schools have had to reinvent training seemingly overnight, thanks to COVID-19. Faculties hope to plug education gaps using strategies that may permanently change medical education.Medscape Medical News
Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines - June 30, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Med Students News Source Type: news
Bilingual education has spillover effect
Bilingual education programs have a substantial spillover effect on the students they're not designed for, according to a groundbreaking study co-authored by a Michigan State University scholar. Texas elementary students who speak English as their home language and were enrolled in schools with bilingual education programs performed much better on state math and reading tests than native English-speaking students at schools without bilingual education programs...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - September 13, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Pediatrics / Children's Health Source Type: news
Saudi Arabia to Introduce Physical Education for Schoolgirls Saudi Arabia to Introduce Physical Education for Schoolgirls
Saudi public schools will begin offering physical education for girls in the coming academic year, the kingdom ' s education ministry announced on Tuesday, a long-awaited step toward social reform in the Islamic kingdom.Reuters Health Information
Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines - July 12, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Family Medicine/Primary Care News Source Type: news
The New Old Age: Every Older Patient Has a Story. Medical Students Need to Hear It.
At more than 20 medical schools in the United States, students are getting an earful — about life, about perspective — from healthy seniors.
Source: NYT Health - October 13, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: PAULA SPAN Tags: Elderly Elder Care Medical Schools Mentors Education Discrimination Journal of the American Geriatrics Society Source Type: news
Medical Schools Fall Short on Racial Justice: Student Group Medical Schools Fall Short on Racial Justice: Student Group
At leading U.S. medical schools, education of future doctors about racism, promotion of diversity, and service of patients of color are in need of improvement, survey results suggest.Reuters Health Information
Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines - September 9, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Med Students News Source Type: news
Honoring the Body Donors Who Are a Medical Student ’s ‘First Patient’
Gratitude ceremonies give students and faculty members a chance to recognize the sacrifice of those who gave their bodies for medical research and education, and the loved ones they left behind.
Source: NYT Health - May 31, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: April Rubin Tags: Cadavers Medical Schools Anatomy and Physiology Death and Dying Columbia University Washington University Speeches and Statements Grief (Emotion) Altruism Research Doctors Brown University Hofstra University Indiana University Source Type: news
A Private Good: The Teaching of Future Doctors Doesn’t Necessarily Deserve Your Tax Dollars
Undergraduate and graduate medical education totaling $15 billion in federal spending is purely a private good, not a public one.
Source: NYT Health - August 22, 2014 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: By UWE E. REINHARDT Tags: Federal Budget (US) Medical Schools Hospitals Economics (Theory and Philosophy) Source Type: news
Medical education not covering basics of nutrition
(Reuters Health) - Although diet plays an outsize role in health and wellness and can be crucial to managing many common chronic conditions, medical schools tend not to devote much time to teaching future doctors about nutrition, a recent research review suggests.
Source: Reuters: Health - October 9, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: healthNews Source Type: news
Education Secretary criticizes Republican governors over ban on masks in schools.
The secretary of education, Miguel Cardona, sent a pair of letters to the governors of Texas and Florida, expressing concerned about recent executive orders.
Source: NYT Health - August 14, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Erica L. Green Tags: Education (K-12) United States Politics and Government Abbott, Gregory W (1957- ) Biden, Joseph R Jr Cardona, Miguel A (1975- ) DeSantis, Ron Source Type: news
Medical Students Nationwide Rally for Medicare for AllMedical Students Nationwide Rally for Medicare for All
Students from almost 40 medical schools plan to demonstrate for a single-payer system and hold candlelight vigils for Americans whose deaths were hastened by lack of insurance. Medscape Medical News
Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines - October 1, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Business of Medicine News Source Type: news
