More training needed to care for growing geriatric population
...m requirements of 91 specialties accredited by the residency review committees of the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME). They found, as of 2003, that only 27 of the 91 specialties had specific geriatric training requirements. And these requirements, say the authors, have very modest ...Social Security reform proposals raise concerns for older women
...minimum benefits where eligibility is tied to U.S. residency or simple Social Security eligibility. The research was supported in part by the Center for Retirement Research at Boston College pursuant to a grant from the U.S. Social Security Administration funded as part of the Retirement Research Consortium....New 'ITN Scholars Program' provides junior faculty opportunity to develop clinical trials expertise
...or level or higher. Having already completed their residency and specialty fellowship training, preferred candidates will have a serious, demonstrated interest in pursuing a career in clinical investigation and have a demonstrated interest in clinical immunology in the field of transplantation, autoimmunity or...Studies reveal physicians' attitudes on end-of-life care
... involved 236 residents in three internal medicine residency programs in Connecticut. Participants in each study responded anonymously to questions in a survey. The questions were phrased as statements, and respondents indicated their agreement or disagreement on a five-point scale, with "not sure" as a sixth ...November/December 2004 Annals of Family Medicine tip sheet
...udying the charts of patients in a family medicine residency practice, researchers found that patients who make frequent after hours telephone calls to physicians' offices are generally high utilizers of health resources. Compared with other patients, they are predominantly female, have three times as many off...Model predicting colorectal cancer screening suggests higher mortality for virtual colonoscopy
...raining in gastroenterology fellowship or surgical residency programs. ...Pediatricians need more training on environmental health
...ograms. Previous studies have shown that pediatric residency and undergraduate medical and nursing education programs do not routinely include comprehensive pediatric environmental health training in their curricula. Few pediatricians are trained to ask their patients questions on environmental exposures or gi...Call for national collaboration on medical education research
...n medicine. They propose that medical schools and residency programs support educational research and cooperate on multi-institutional studies in educational epidemiology that can measure and help improve how medicine is taught. Faculty and students would benefit by learning what types of educational strateg...Record number of resident physicians enrolled in graduate medical education programs
... Association of American Medical Colleges on 8,192 residency programs. These specialty and subspecialty programs were surveyed about active, transferred, and graduated residents. In the 2003 2004 academic year, there were 99,964 active medical residents, the highest number ever recorded by the National GME Ce...Teacher-training for hospital residents improves medical students' education, UCI study shows
... colleagues showed that approximately 50percent of residency programs offered some type of formal teachingskill...t is attaining moreprominence as a requirement for residency program accreditation, and Dr.Morrison's intervention provides a model for addressing thisrequiremen...Computer system makes 'chain' of health care stronger, safer
...of health information about a patient." During his residency and fellowship at U-M, Kramer was part of a massive team of clinicians, information technology specialists, referring physician communicators, and others that developed the Discharge Navigator over the last four years and implemented it last August. ...American Academy of Neurology sums up scientific highlights from 56th Annual Meeting
...educational lessons for use in medical schools and residency programs. Of the cases they examined, half involved communication errors, including failure to follow up on test results. The authors urged their colleagues to stay involved with the patient, to track and respond to testing results as they become ava...Ongoing study evaluates pediatricians' effectivenes at violence prevention
...o be made a priority as part of medical school and residency training," said Barkin. Barkin received a $2.25 million grant from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development for the study, which is the first national randomized controlled trial to test the effectiveness of a program for pediatri...Rising young psychiatry researchers receive prestigious international award
...archers within 5 years of completing a psychiatric residency can now apply for this award by submitting a proposal of scientific merit that demonstrates academic promise while explaining how winning an award will further their career. Proposals can cover a range of activities including: research, educational e...Medical residents report sleep loss and fatigue take toll on learning, work and personal lives
...dical centers studied. This is of concern because residency training is such an important stage in the professional development of physicians." "Unfortunately, the strategies residents describe adopting to cope with the effects of sleep loss and fatigue are by trial-and-error. More education is needed to inc...Medical residents need training to interact with pharmaceutical representatives
...he researchers found a compelling need for medical residency training programs to include information about dru...rs found that only 25 percent of internal medicine residency programs in the United States have formal instruction on how to interact with drug company sales rep...Annals of Internal Medicine, tip sheet, April 20, 2004
...lly work in teams, and that the final two years of residency training should be tailored to the type of practice the physician will enter and to his or her career goals. The task force, commissioned by the Society of General Internal Medicine, also recommended that the fee-for-service financing system be aband...Medical societies report critical care crisis in United States
...al care medicine. "The limited number of physician residency and fellowship trainee opportunities combined with increasing medical school costs and decreasing Federal funds for physician training, will have a severe impact on the future number of critical care physicians," said Richard. S. Irwin, MD, FCCP, Pre...Two new sets of guidelines intended to improve patient safety
...inuum of education in critical care medicine, from residency through specialty training and later throughout practice. They will facilitate standardization of physician education in critical care medicine. This is the first guideline to approach physician education on a continuum basis. "Critical care medici...Study finds most pediatric residents satisfied with primary care training
...verall, the findings of this study are critical to residency programs facing fiscal constraints and reductions in residency training hours in the coming years," she adds. "Hopefully this information can help residency progra...