With the Sunshine Act, even in the months leading up to its passage, the number of financial disclosures required of researchers and physicians exploded. Here's just a small sample of entities requiring disclosures: HHS, FDA, AHRQ, VA, NSF, foundations, teaching hospitals, journals and CME providers.... Read More
Founded by Salman Khan in 2006, Khan Academy is a non-profit provider of online educational resources for many topics. About 18 months ago, and with insight from the 2012 AAMC annual meeting, Khan Academy began assembling content to help pre-med students prepare for MCAT2015.
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Founded by Salman Khan in 2006, Khan Academy is a non-profit provider of online educational resources for many topics. About 18 months ago, and with insight from the 2012 AAMC annual meeting, Khan Academy began assembling content to help pre-med students prepare for MCAT2015.
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UCLA medical school works hard to make sure a culture of respect is present: not just for those at the highest levels, but for the lowest first year students as well. We spoke to two fourth year students about how the system works, and what other institutions can learn from UCLA's example. ... Read More
Medical students learn a lot about healing in school, but not the business of being doctors. Dr. Nathan Moore talks about how that led him to write the "Healthcare Handbook" all about the things they don't teach young docs, but they should. ... Read More
Wayne State University created a program called the Medical and Political Action in the Community (MPAC) program to train students to be advocates for the university. MPAC currently has more than 120 first and second year medical students engaged in advocacy. ... Read More
Twitter isn't just for Justin Bieber fans anymore. More and more doctors are using the microblogging service to find each other, and to share research. University of Utah Hospital Associate Vice President for Clinical Affairs Sean Mulvihill, M.D., spoke with Emory University's Richard Duszak, M.D., (@RichDuszak) about all that can be accomplished in 140 characters or less. ... Read More
Disruptive physician behavior was a big topic on day one at the AAMC convention. After Lorris Betz's, M.D., Ph.D., talk on physicians behaving badly, we asked two medical students what their experience was with this issue. Tyler McKinnish and Faraz Alizadeh talk about what constitutes mistreatment and why they're optimistic about the future.... Read More
Alan Alda gave the keynote address at this year¿s convention of the Association of American Medical Colleges. His message - make sure you know your patient's story. Brenda Rogers, M.D., at the University of Missouri, Kansas City School of Medicine, told us two funny examples of how not getting the patient's story got in the way of providing the best care.... Read More
What if you couldn't discipline disruptive physician behavior toward medical students because they technically don't work for you? That's what the University of Arizona Medical School is facing, as they deal with physician mentors not directly employed by the school. Jennifer Allie talks about how they are going about dealing with this challenge without losing their input, and why the students are an integral part of the plan. ... Read More
What should a medical student do when faced with bad, or even abusive treatment from attending physicians? Med student Mayme Marshall talked about what she has encountered, and how she dealt with it. ... Read More
There are lots of topics being discussed at this year's convention of the Association of American Medical Colleges. So, what's the takeaway? We asked those at the heart of the issues: the medical students. ... Read More
Medicare is a complicated tangle of ever-evolving regulations, and a major source of funding for hospitals. Tracking the shifting policy landscape is a corps of government relations experts at the Association of Academic Medical Centers who explained Sunday what coming changes potentially mean for the country's teaching hospitals.... Read More
The evolution of medical school is changing the very look of the buildings where the students are taught. Architect Mary Jo Olenick tells us how new group learning structures are leading to very different looking classrooms. ... Read More
Video games are usually seen as a distraction rather than a help when students are preparing for the MCAT and other medical school entrance exams. ... Read More
In 2014, The James J. and Joan A. Gardner Family foundation gave $14M to the University of Cincinnati Neuroscience Institute (UCNI). This transformative gift is an example of venture philanthropy, designed to boost UCNI's ability to accomplish its goals, including raising additional funds for a new building. ... Read More
The stress can be monumental and overpowering. Medical school is a lesson in life, as much as it is in practicing medicine. University of Utah Associate Vice President for Clinical Affairs Sean Mulvihill, M.D., talked to medical student Kiran Singh about how to cope and how the examples set by teachers and colleagues can help or hurt them. ... Read More
While rude, disruptive behavior by physicians on TV may be funny, when it happens in real-life it's decidedly less amusing. And it's time we stop tolerating and ignoring disrespectful behavior in the learning and clinical environment. Chair of the AAMC Board of Directors A. Lorris Betz, M.D., Ph.D., focused his address at the association¿s annual meeting in Chicago on the difficult, but not impossible task of changing the culture of medicine.... Read More
