New medical school model sets out to create more competent, caring doctors
...Medicine, who has spent his career researching and teaching about the patient-physician relationship. In the JAMA article, Epstein points out that sometimes, student doctors who perform especially well on standardized tests are especially lacking in such traits as empathy, responsibility, and tolerance. Many ......rehouses, we must at the same time understand that teaching people concrete and practical steps they can take to avoid becoming infected or infecting others will remain the first and most important line of defense in the aftermath of a bioterrorist attack, says Dr. Glass....Statement by Dr. Colwell on Nobel Prizes in Science and NSF onnection
...holars, NSF's highest honor for excellence in both teaching and research. Another past award foreshadowed this week's announcement: Cornell was honored by NSF in 1997 with the Alan T. Waterman Award for outstanding young scientists. The NSF connection spans the history of the awards; of Nobelists named sin...Psychologists identify best aggression-prevention programs in schools
... school-age children. The programs should focus on teaching young children prosocial behaviors, anger management skills, and respect for peers and adults. -- Target young girls Recognizing and understanding different types of aggression, allows programs to be adapted to suit the need of both boys and girls. ...... the results of pregnancy, HIV or drug tests. The teaching of statistical literacy, the authors conclude, can take advantage of human psychology. Finally, they point out that statistical smarts increasingly matter outside the doctors office. For example, jurors must evaluate a greater number of statistical ...Teaching human side of patient care is best done at the bedside, say medical educators
...c methods to improve medical education through the teaching of humanism within clinical settings as a part of ...ans-in-training. They discovered that barriers to teaching humanism are created informally, within the "hidden curricula" in medical schools. Through an insti...... neonatologists engaged predominantly in research, teaching or administration (14% in lowest and highest quintiles), two indicators of academic medical centers. Further research is warranted to understand whether more resources improve newborn outcomes, say the Dartmouth researchers. They gathered their d...U-M, World Health Organization host telemedicine symposium
...to bridge distances, is especially beneficial as a teaching and learning device. Welcoming the delegates is Allen Lichter M.D, dean of the UM Medical School , the Honorable John J. H. Schwarz, M.D., Senator, State of Michigan, and James Hav...Smoking prevention programs may miss minority teens
... programs attempt to prevent adolescent smoking by teaching refusal skills and correcting overestimates of smoking prevalence. However, if peer influences vary across ethnic groups, these prevention programs may not be equally effective across ethnic groups," the researchers said. The study will be publishe...New program shown to help heart attack patients get the best care
...als, including academic medical centers, community teaching hospitals and non-teaching hospitals. It also wanted to test use in hospitals with diverse patient populations and heart attack volumes. So, ACC, MPRO and GDAHC approached hospitals in greater Detroit and selected 10 that agreed to implement the too......licts-of-interest policies for medical schools and teaching hospitals nationally. The proposals are designed t...siderable variation in the way medical schools and teaching hospitals manage conflicts. Many rely on a case-by-case method with few clearly delineated guideline..."Dutch Nobel Prize" for three researchers
... been cited about 1500 times. His publications and teaching are the channels through which he conveys the power and elegance of his approach to a new generation of researchers. ---- Dirkje Postma (1951) is an internationally recognised pathophysiologist, one of the top five or ten researchers in the wo...Landmark school-based 'social influences' smoking-prevention program found not to work
...moking-prevention study of its kind has found that teaching youth how to identify and resist social influences... half served as comparison, or control, districts, teaching their usual health programs. Because smoking almost always begins during or prior to the teen years,...Heart attack help: Program helps boost use of key therapies in hospitals
...e program can work at non-university hospitals, at teaching and non-teaching institutions, and at community hospitals, is especially important to the project. The GAP project also includes hospitals with large and small numbers of heart attack patients, and hospitals whose patient populations are more predomi......home care settings. In addition, PACT members lead teaching sessions, and are developing new ways to improve communication among physicians, patients and their families. The study data bear out what we were seeing anecdotally and inspired us to create PACT. Our team consists of caregivers from many different ...UNC-CH School of Social Work receives grant to prevent violence
...nd social workers to promote social development by teaching children to resolve conflicts peacefully and make enduring friendships in multicultural peer groups. In the third year of the grant, a family-centered program called "Strong Families," also developed by the research group, will augment the "Making C...Interactive game could reduce heart attack deaths by teaching rapid response to symptoms
... experimental interactive game could save lives by teaching potential heart attack victims to react swiftly at the first sign of a heart attack, according to a paper being presented at a convention of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS). The paper, The Use of Virtual ...Study finds doctors often unaware that hospital patients have urinary catheters
...ng in teams on the general medicine floors of four teaching hospitals. They surveyed the professionals without warning before morning rounds, giving them a list of the patients in their care and asking which ones had catheters the previous day, and why. The authors then checked the patients to see if they act...BU receives Knight Foundation grant
...ists and medical researchers, health care experts, teaching hospitals, and schools of public health. The center intends to tap into this wealth of medical resources." Professors Douglas Starr and Ellen Ruppel Shell, co-directors of the current science journalism program, will oversee the new center. Both ar...Harvard Medical School new digital library to feature MD Consult full text medical resources
... faculty, students, and staff at all 17 affiliated teaching hospitals and institutions will have no-cost access to MD Consult, thus making the equivalent of millions pages of medical text available at the touch of a finger. The service's ease of access and its intuitive search capability provide quick, accur...