Annals of Internal Medicine tip sheet for Nov. 2, 2004
...ld not require major new investments in capital or teaching personnel -- is a prudent strategy." 3. Screen High Risk Adults for HCV Infection? Yes! No, No Evidence. 2 Views (In the Balance, p. 715) 4. Meta-analysis: ARBs Suitable Alternative to ACE Inhibitors for Heart Illnesses (Review, p. 693.) 5. ...Study shows weight-based REBETOL dosing in combination with PEG-INTRON significantly improves ...
...demic medical centers in the world, comprising the teaching hospital NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital and its academic partner Weill Cornell Medical College. NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell provides state-of-the-art inpatient, ambulatory, and preventive care in all areas of medicine, and is committed to exce...Promise for helping adults with dyslexia
...In fact, the same strategies that are effective in teaching children phonological awareness skills are helpful in adults. Further, they are accompanied by neural changes known to underlie reading remediation of developmental dyslexia in childhood combined with those previously observed during the rehabilitati......mportant information to develop new research-based teaching programs that can ultimately help other adults to become proficient readers," said G. Reid Lyon, PhD, Chief, Child Development & Behavior Branch, National Institute of Child Health & Human Services National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, M.D. "This ...Mayo Clinic research shows stroke rehabilitation best served by physical training
...ead, we found that physical training consisting of teaching rats to walk along a beam had the most powerful effect on recovery. This raises significant questions about the role of stimulant treatment to enhance motor recovery following stroke." About Stroke An estimated 750,000 Americans experience a stroke...Domestic violence recognized but not always investigated by medical students
...ed patient encounters are an increasingly utilized teaching tool for medical students. The exercises help prep...physicians and allow them to learn in a controlled teaching environment without consequences. "Our study was designed to measure both how we as teachers are ...OHSU researchers study sixth-graders to prevent type 2 diabetes
...edicine in the OHSU School of Medicine. An OHSU teaching team comprising a research dietician, health promotion coordinator, school coordinators and a Ph.D. PE specialist, will work with the school's staff. A Health Action Team, consisting of students, parents and school staff will implement three main int...Call for national collaboration on medical education research
...ve network of educational epidemiologists to study teaching in the health professions. Their report, in the September 1 issue of JAMA, urges a national commitment to collaborate on research that can provide evidence-based standards to assess effectiveness in medical education. Such a commitment, accordi...ACPM to host web-based conference on low carbohydrate diets and adolescents
...mbers are engaged in preventive medicine practice, teaching and research. Medscape from WebMD is the leading provider of online information and educational services for physicians and health care professionals ( www.medscape.com )....Teacher-training for hospital residents improves medical students' education, UCI study shows
...zed training forresident physicians improves their teaching and mentoring skills.Traditionally, medical studen...e. "This study objectively evaluated the impact of teaching instruction onimproving residents' performance as mentors and instructors," said Dr.Elizabeth H. Mor...Mount Sinai nursing leader awarded national fellowship
...52, Mount Sinai today is a 1,171-bed tertiary-care teaching facility that is internationally-acclaimed for excellence in clinical care. Last year, nearly 48,000 people were treated at Mount Sinai as inpatients, more than 72,000 received care in the emergency department, and the outpatient department recorded ...New report highlights lack of minorities in medicine
...e state by examining the roles of medical schools, teaching hospitals, secondary education and the state's pra...ns as well since Massachusetts medical schools and teaching hospitals contribute significantly to the physician workforce nationwide. "This a groundbreaking ...Battling the bulge in adolescents
...e Journal of Nursing Scholarship, technology-based teaching was more effective in increasing adolescent develo...s responded significantly better to computer-based teaching involving interactive, exploratory, and fun modules, versus conventional delivery of nutritional inf...Lifelong career adds up to top honors for UH math professor
...ad a long and distinguished career in mathematics, teaching and research on both sides of the Atlantic, having been born in Paris, France, and receiving his Ph.D. there from the University Pierre and Marie Curie (Paris VI). A corresponding member of the French National Academy of Sciences, Glowinski counts a...New study shows phonics is critical for skilled reading
... July issue of Psychological Review, suggests that teaching young children the relationships between spellings...el is that you can test out many different ways of teaching how to read words," says Seidenberg. "You can see what happens if you give the model a phonics-type ...Texas Children's Hospital jumps up in list of 'America's Best'
...tionally." Texas Children's, the primary pediatric teaching hospital for Baylor College of Medicine, is renowned for its expertise and breakthrough developments in the treatment of cancer, premature infants, cardiology and cardiovascular surgery, infectious diseases, pediatric neurologic diseases, diabetes, a...Patient safety gets boost with $10 million grant
...timated 100,000 deaths annually in this country by teaching students about patient care and by offering contin...medicine and social sciences, along with the major teaching hospitals in Cleveland." Reducing medical errors, curbing health care costs and improving caregiver-...Health education PhD program ranked one of top in nation
...larly activity, student/faculty ratio, support for teaching and research assistants, and faculty mentoring and placement of graduates. USF's doctoral program in health education surpassed those at the University of Michigan, Johns Hopkins University, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Indiana Un...Chronic care medicine: Physicians say 'help!'
...ical school course directors greatly vary in their teaching of caring for the chronically ill....Distinguished, outstanding, innovative optometrists receive honors from UH
...rmistead Faculty Teaching award for his innovative teaching and exemplary service beyond the classroom; Dennis...ceived three-years-running from 2000 to 2003. His teaching also extends beyond the classroom, as he is active in continuing educational programming for UHCO an...