Source: Albert Einstein College of Medicine – Blog Viraj Patel and Carly Hirschberg, EiSci board members and second-year M.D. students at Einstein, visiting a Bronx high school class. What do you picture when you think of a doctor or scientist? We imagined that ninth graders at the Pelham Lab High School in the Bronx might[…]
Source: China Daily Members of the Shanghai USMLE Group at one of their gatherings yesterday. — Wang Rongjiang “Grey’s Anatomy,” the popular United States television series, is becoming a reality show for Shanghai medical students who want to become doctors in the US, but none will have the time watch it now. They are too[…]
Source: NY Times – Well Blog By BARRON H. LERNER, M.D. Each year hundreds of medical students think they have contracted the exact diseases they are studying. But they haven’t. “Medical students’ disease” refers to the phenomenon in which medical students notice something innocuous about their health and then attach to it exaggerated significance. It often[…]
Source: NY Times – Well Blog By PAULINE W. CHEN, M.D. Third-year Georgetown medical students getting ready to meet with a patient/actor.Credit Kevin Wolf/Associated Press One night early in my internship, I received a frantic page for help from a fellow intern. Seasoned nurses had been unable to draw a patient’s blood, which senior doctors had ordered[…]
Source: NY Times – Well Blog By PAULINE W. CHEN, M.D. Third-year Georgetown medical students getting ready to meet with a patient/actor.Credit Kevin Wolf/Associated Press One night early in my internship, I received a frantic page for help from a fellow intern. Seasoned nurses had been unable to draw a patient’s blood, which senior doctors had ordered[…]
Source: The Star New research shows that patient outcomes don’t benefit from shorter shifts and medical students fare worse on exams. RICK MADONIK / TORONTO STAR FILE PHOTO Dr. Najma Ahmed, a trauma surgeon at St. Michael’s Hospital, says part of residency is developing the stamina to deal with the pressures of the emergency room.[…]
Source: Medical Futurist Very interesting look at the potential future of medicine. Stay ahead of the curve!
Source: Medical Futurist Very interesting look at the potential future of medicine. Stay ahead of the curve!
Source: AMA Wire The AMA International Medical Graduates (IMG) Section is seeking volunteer interviewers for its Mock Residency Interview Program for medical graduates going through the 2015 Match process. Physicians, residents and fellows with recent residency program interview experience are encouraged to participate. Mock interviews may be conducted in person, via telephone or over Skype. Guidelines, sample[…]
Source: KevinMD My father who was a junior doctor in Britain’s National Health Service (NHS) in the seventies would have been grateful for the match scheme, an algorithm that places medical students in residency programs in the U.S. The training in the NHS was unstructured. Physicians carved their own training by joining a patchwork of[…]