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Structure of Neuroscience Clerkships in Medical Schools and Matching in the Neurosciences (P4.209)
CONCLUSIONS: The presence of a required Neurology clerkship and opportunities for students to explore the Neurosciences during undergraduate medical education does correlate with students matching into Neuroscience residencies.Disclosure: Dr. Albert has nothing to disclose. Dr. Lukas has received personal compensation for activities with the American Physician Institute and the National Brain Tumor Association. Dr. Brorson has received personal compensation for activities with CVS Caremark Corporation as a legal consultant. Dr. Brorson has received research support from the National Institutes of Health. Dr. Amidei has not...
Source: Neurology - April 8, 2015 Category: Neurology Authors: Albert, D., Lukas, R., Brorson, J., Amidei, C., Dixit, K., Yin, H. Tags: Research Methodology and Education Source Type: research
Breadth vs. Volume: The Outpatient Neurology Clinic Experience in Medical Education (P5.038)
Conclusions: Our findings with an expanded data set reaffirm that the volume of cases seen by medical students in the outpatient neurology clinic correlate with performance on objective measures of specialty knowledge and clinical skill. Interestingly, no clear relationship emerged correlating the breath of clinical case types seen by individual students and their performance on these same measures. The relationship between student exposure to specific types of cases and performance on specific objective evaluations may merely reflect the case types more frequently encountered on the NBME or OSCE.Disclosure: Dr. Albert has...
Source: Neurology - April 8, 2015 Category: Neurology Authors: Albert, D., Blood, A., Park, Y. S., Brorson, J., Lukas, R. Tags: Neuroepidemiology: Aging, Dementia, Cognitive, and Behavioral Neurology, General Neurology, and Research Methodology and Education Source Type: research
Radiation Safety Knowledge and Perceptions among Residents: A Potential Improvement Opportunity for Graduate Medical Education in the United States
Rationale and Objectives: To investigate residents' knowledge of adverse effects of ionizing radiation, frequency of their education on radiation safety, and their use of radioprotective equipment.Materials and Methods: Residents from 15/16 residency programs at Emory University were asked to complete a resident radiation safety survey through SurveyMonkey®. The associations between the residents' knowledge and use of radioprotective equipment with residents' specialty and year of training were investigated.Results: Response rate was 32.5% (173/532 residents). Thirty-nine percent residents reported radiation safety is dis...
Source: Academic Radiology - April 7, 2014 Category: Radiology Authors: Gelareh Sadigh, Ramsha Khan, Michael T. Kassin, Kimberly E. Applegate Tags: Radiology Education Source Type: research
Knowledge of medical students about epilepsy: Need for a change
Conclusion: The content of medical curriculum in Africa should emphasize not only the content of lectures on epilepsy but also the need for students to go through neurology posting during their training. The outcome would be both better knowledge and improved physician–patient relations.
Source: Nigerian Journal of Clinical Practice - August 8, 2017 Category: Rural Health Authors: BA Ezeala-Adikaibe T Okpara OS Ekenze O Onodugo NP Ezeala-Adikaibe T Nnaji G Onyebueke Source Type: research
Cuba Has Made At Least 3 Major Medical Innovations That We Need
By most measures, the United States' business-friendly environment has proven to be fertile for medical innovation. Compared to other countries, America has filed the most patents in the life sciences, is conducting most of the world's clinical trials and has published the most biomedical research. That's what makes the medical prominence of Cuba all the more surprising to those who view a free market as an essential driver of scientific discovery. Cuba is very poor, and yet the country has some of the healthiest, most long-lived residents in the world -- as well as a medical invention or two that could run circl...
Source: Science - The Huffington Post - March 15, 2016 Category: Science Source Type: news
Advice to Rest for More Than 2 Days After Mild Traumatic Brain Injury Is Associated With Delayed Return to Productivity: A Case-Control Study
Conclusions: mTBI patients continue to be told to rest for longer than expert recommendations and practice guidelines. This study supports growing evidence that prolonged rest after mTBI is generally unhelpful, as patients in the exposure group were less likely to have resumed work/school at 1–2 months post-injury. We could not identify patient characteristics associated with getting prolonged rest advice. Further exploration of who gets told to rest and who delivers the advice could inform strategic de-implementation of this clinical practice.
Introduction
In the early twenty-first century, complete rest unt...
Source: Frontiers in Neurology - April 11, 2019 Category: Neurology Source Type: research
Q&A: Dr. John Mazziotta on the future of UCLA’s medical school and health system
Earlier in his life, Dr. John C. Mazziotta thought about becoming an architect. With a keen eye for form and function, he would apply his skills to the construction of great buildings. Instead, he chose medicine. Now, after more than 30 years at UCLA — where he has been chair of the department of neurology, an associate vice chancellor and executive vice dean, and founding director of the Ahmanson-Lovelace Brain Mapping Center — that style of visual thinking will serve him well in his new roles as vice chancellor for UCLA Health Sciences, dean of the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and CEO of UCLA Health. “Th...
Source: UCLA Newsroom: Health Sciences - May 27, 2015 Category: Universities & Medical Training Source Type: news
Shockwave Medical picks up ex-HeartWare CEO Godshall | Personnel Moves – May 11, 2017
Shockwave Medical said today it tapped former HeartWare CEO Doug Godshall as its new prez & CEO.
Godshall served as CEO of HeartWare for 10 years until the business was acquired by Medtronic (NYSE:MDT) for $1.1 billion last August, Fremont, Calif.-based Shockwave Medical said. Prior to his time at HeartWare, Godshall held various executive and leadership positions at Boston Scientific (NYSE:BSX).
“Shockwave represents a rather remarkable combination: the company’s Lithoplasty system is addressing significant unmet clinical needs using a truly novel approach to the problem; there is a near term, substantial co...
Source: Mass Device - May 11, 2017 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Fink Densford Tags: Business/Financial News Baxter Biolase California Life Sciences Association Elekta AB Haemonetics HeartWare International Inc. Intact Vascular personnel-moves reflexion-health Repro Med Systems Shockwave Medical Titan Spine Veril Source Type: news
What Considerations Are There in Prescribing a Medical Cannabis Card?
Discussion
Cannabis is a plant which has many pharmacologically active compounds with THC or tetrahydrocannabinol and cannabidiol (CBD) being the most studied. For this case, medical cannabis will be used to describe different forms of the plant used to pharmacologically treat a variety of medical conditions.
Medical cannabis has been proposed and mainly studied in adult populations. Qualifying conditions for use of medical cannabis in this author’s US state currently include: ”
Cancer – if the illness or its treatment produces one or more of the following: severe or chronic pain, nausea or severe vomitin...
Source: PediatricEducation.org - January 31, 2022 Category: Pediatrics Authors: Pediatric Education Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: news
Brain Tumor Detection Using Depth-First Search Tree Segmentation
AbstractWith the advent of image processing technologies, the in-depth portion of human body can be epitomized visually to perceive abnormalities in human anatomy. Image processing is a tool for identifying the substances and obtaining information from them. Medical image processing is a stimulating area to diagnose diseases specifically, brain cancer, breast cancer, liver cancer, neuro- and cardio-diseases, etc. Image segmentation is an act of segregating the images into various parts to identify a particular substance and its margins. Brain tumor is the irregular and intense growth of tissues causing cancer. The most use...
Source: Journal of Medical Systems - June 27, 2019 Category: Information Technology Source Type: research
Opening the Debate: How to Fulfill the Need for Physicians’ Training in Circadian-Related Topics in a Full Medical School Curriculum
Discussion: As evidence of the circadian connection to human health has grown, so has the number of Americans experiencing disruption of circadian rhythms due to the demands of an industrialized society. Today, there is a growing work force that experiences night shift work and time-zone shifts shaping the demands on physicians to best meet the needs of patients exposed to chronic circadian disruptions. The diverse range of illness associated with altered rhythms suggests that physicians in various fields will see its impact in their patients. However, medical education, with an already full curriculum, struggles to addres...
Source: Journal of Circadian Rhythms - November 6, 2015 Category: Biology Source Type: research
Opening the Debate: How to Fulfill the Need for Physicians ’ Training in Circadian-Related Topics in a Full Medical School Curriculum
Discussion: As evidence of the circadian connection to human health has grown, so has the number of Americans experiencing disruption of circadian rhythms due to the demands of an industrialized society. Today, there is a growing work force that experiences night shift work and time-zone shifts shaping the demands on physicians to best meet the needs of patients exposed to chronic circadian disruptions. The diverse range of illness associated with altered rhythms suggests that physicians in various fields will see its impact in their patients. However, medical education, with an already full curriculum, struggles to addres...
Source: Journal of Circadian Rhythms - July 21, 2016 Category: Biology Source Type: research
Adapting the coping in deliberation (CODE) framework: A multi-method approach in the context of familial ovarian cancer risk management
Previous research suggests that emotions influence appraisal of future events, that emotions and coping are integral parts of decision processes and that medical decisions are in fact coping behaviours aimed at regulating a health threat and associated emotions [1–4]. To date, however, decision-making theorists have paid little attention to emotions and coping in healthcare decision-making.
Source: Patient Education and Counseling - July 14, 2014 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Jana Witt, Glyn Elwyn, Fiona Wood, Mark T. Rogers, Usha Menon, Kate Brain Tags: Medical decision making Source Type: research
Families Suffer As Medical Examiners Struggle With Backlogs
BOSTON (AP) — One of the most difficult things about losing her son was not knowing why. Rosanne Carruthers needed to understand how an active, outdoorsy man with no apparent health problems could drop dead at 34.
Carruthers, a nurse, performed CPR after her son, Neil, collapsed in their suburban Boston home. For more than a year, she wondered: Was there something more she could have done? And were her daughter and her grandchildren at risk, too?
For the Carruthers family and others across the country, long delays in receiving death certificates and autopsy reports from medical examiners can not only compound grief, but ...
Source: WBZ-TV - Breaking News, Weather and Sports for Boston, Worcester and New Hampshire - December 7, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Jon Palmer Tags: Health Local News Medical examiners Source Type: news
Medical news: A case for skepticism
When you read medical news, do you ever get drawn in by the headline only to find the details deliver something quite different (or less) than expected? Or do the findings sound so dramatic that you wonder whether the results might be exaggerated or misleading? If you answered yes, I’m with you.
The reasons to be skeptical are many. And it’s not that there are evil people out there deliberately trying to mislead you — well, there are a few of those, but only a few. Pressures on those that bring us health news make it almost certain that at times, information will be biased, incomplete, or flat-out wrong.
I’m not ta...
Source: New Harvard Health Information - April 22, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Robert H. Shmerling, MD Tags: Health Health care Medical Research Source Type: news
