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Process of setting up National Medical Commission likely to be over in Feb
The NMC Act, which seeks to usher in mega reforms in the medical education sector, received the assent of the president on August 8 and was published the same day. The Act provides for setting up of an NMC in place of the scam-tainted Medical Council of India.
Source: The Economic Times - January 11, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Reset, restore and recovery Medical Education and training, Academy of Medical Royal Colleges
The Academy identified six Principles for reintroducing healthcare services to be used as an aid to promote safe and effective healthcare as we move into the next phase of the COVID-19 pandemic, that of beginning to recover and restore life in general as well as health and care services. The delivery of care will, undoubtedly, become more difficult with more conflicting demands and added pressures. The concentration of medical resources to accommodate Covid cases has moved to a gradual restoration of more complex planned care in an endemic situation with a backlog of people needing interventions and new ways of delivering ...
Source: Current Awareness Service for Health (CASH) - June 24, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
USMLE Change Is Rewriting Residency Selection, Med Ed USMLE Change Is Rewriting Residency Selection, Med Ed
The announcement of a major change to USMLE testing has left residency directors rethinking how they select applicants and may shake the foundations of medical education curricula.Medscape Medical News
Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines - August 19, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Med Students News Source Type: news
National Medical Commission, India's regulator of medical education, comes into existence replacing MCI
With the NMC coming into being, the Board of Governors (BoG), which superseded the Medical Council of India (MCI) on September 26, 2018, to perform its functions, will get dissolved and the nearly 64-year-old Indian Medical Council Act will stand abolished.
Source: The Economic Times - September 24, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Proposed Residency Fixes: Realistic or Wishful Thinking? Proposed Residency Fixes: Realistic or Wishful Thinking?
A review committee is reimagining the rocky passage from undergraduate to graduate medical education. How well will its proposed fixes work in practice?Medscape Medical News
Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines - October 7, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Med Students News Source Type: news
Student Involvement in Medical School Admissions of a New Class Student Involvement in Medical School Admissions of a New Class
Medical students often play a central role in admissions. This responsibility can greatly benefit institutions, students, and applicants alike and should be expanded to improve medical education.Medscape Blogs
Source: Medscape Today Headlines - September 20, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Med Students Blog Source Type: news
AI Bot ChatGPT Passes US Medical Licensing Exams AI Bot ChatGPT Passes US Medical Licensing Exams
When queried, ChatGPT says it ' s no substitute for"the rigorous training and education required to become a licensed physician."Medscape Medical News
Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines - January 26, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Internal Medicine News Source Type: news
Meet the Nurse Heading the National Resident Matching Program Meet the Nurse Heading the National Resident Matching Program
From serving as a trauma nurse working with doctors to matching the newest ones to residency programs during a pandemic, Donna Lamb uses her view of medical education in her latest leadership role.Medscape Medical News
Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines - March 1, 2023 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
Medical students aren't showing up to class. What does that mean for future docs?
Most first- and second-year medical students don't attend lectures. A student and a professor suggest it's a good time to think a lot about medical education, starting with "flipping the classroom."(Image credit: Tom Fowlks/Getty Images)
Source: NPR Health and Science - June 1, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Alexander P. Philips Source Type: news
Release Of New Evaluation Of The Heart Truth® Professional Education Materials
Heart disease is the leading cause of death for women in the United States. Yet historically, women have been less likely than men to receive evidence-based medical care for both the prevention and management of heart disease. In 1999 the American Heart Association (AHA) published the first clinical recommendations for the prevention of cardiovascular disease (CVD) in women. This was soon followed by the implementation of The Heart Truth® campaign for consumers in 2002 by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), which was expanded in 2004 by the U.S...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - March 20, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Heart Disease Source Type: news
Primary Care Doctor Shortage Set To Get Worse, USA
The serious shortage of primary care doctors in America will get much worse unless the country reforms its graduate medical education system, researchers from the George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services (SPHHS) reported in Academic Medicine. Less than 25% of newly qualified doctors go into primary care, and just 4.8% move into rural areas, the authors added. This serious problem will only get worse unless some fundamental changes are introduced...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - June 17, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Primary Care / General Practice Source Type: news
20 percent of nation's GME funds go to New York while 29 states get less than 1 percent, study says
New York state received 20 percent of all Medicare's graduate medical education (GME) funding while 29 states, including places struggling with a severe shortage of physicians, got less than 1 percent, according to a report published by researchers at the George Washington (GW) University School of Public Health and Health Services (SPHHS). New York suffers from no lack of physicians yet in 2010 the state received $2 billion in federal GME funding according to the study, which appears in the November issue of Health Affairs...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - November 6, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Medicare / Medicaid / SCHIP Source Type: news
Playing out medical experiences can help chronically ill children, as well as their siblings, express fears and foster hope for recovery
New research finds that chronically ill children celebrate a successful recovery. It's through their imaginative play with medically themed toys. Laura Nabors, an associate professor of human services in the University of Cincinnati College of Education, Criminal Justice, and Human Services (CECH), presented new research at the American Public Health Association's (APHA) 141st Annual Meeting and Expo in Boston. The project primarily focused on chronically ill children and their siblings who were staying at the Ronald McDonald House in Cincinnati...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - November 7, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Pediatrics / Children's Health Source Type: news
Better education can address international issue of antibiotic resistance
Antibiotic resistance is an international reality whose solution includes better educating physicians about using bacteria-fighting tools, says an infectious disease physician."The big problem is the overuse of antibiotics in hospitals and communities because not only can they lead to side effects like rashes and colon damage, one of those side effects is development of multidrug-resistant organisms," said Dr. Josѐ A. Vazquez, Chief of the Section of Infectious Diseases at the Medical College of Georgia at Georgia Regents University.
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - November 18, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: MRSA / Drug Resistance Source Type: news
