UMHS study finds surgery safer at teaching hospitals
...nts undergoing complex gastrointestinal surgery at teaching hospitals are less likely to die or experience com...ients at non-teaching hospitals, primarily because teaching hospitals tend to perform these surgeries more often. The study, published this month in the Archiv...FIRST fellowship program proves worthy model for training faculty in biological sciences
...hip program that combines training in research and teaching within a five-school Atlanta consortium has succes... to undergraduate students under the guidance or a teaching mentor. "The FIRST program has enabled Atlanta and the AUC institutions to attract and train exce...Death rates for certain complex surgeries lower at teaching hospitals
... gastrointestinal surgical procedures are lower at teaching hospitals than at non-teaching hospitals, accordin...JAMA/Archives journals. According to the article, teaching hospitals are responsible for the training of surgical residents and, at university-affiliated cente...Grant expands Indiana University-Kenya AIDS program
...l community of Mosoriot for treatment, counseling, teaching and research. These and other treatment facilities...patient care and the uniform reporting of results, teaching and research; fund the additional laboratory services needed to serve a wide region of western Kenya...The physics of films, butterflies, banknotes and rainbows
...physical structure not from pigmentation, are also teaching physicists a thing or two about advanced photonics. Researchers at QinetiQ, for example are trying to copy various nanoscale structures that appear on butterflies and moths to see if they could lead to new security devices for banknotes and credit ca...UCSF physicians publish groundbreaking book on medical mistakes
... medicine, have pioneered a case-based approach to teaching doctors, nurses, administrators and patients about medical mistakes. Their case-based approach first appeared in a series in the Annals of Internal Medicine called "Quality Grand Rounds," and later in their federally-sponsored web-based medical err...Severe acute respiratory syndrome? Sometimes it's not severe
...apore, involved 372 health care workers at a large teaching hospital where 21 patients with SARS (including 5 of the hospital's staff) were treated. A questionnaire was used to determine which workers had had direct contact with SARS patients, which had no direct contact but were exposed, and which were not e...Jan/Feb 2004 Annals of Family Medicine tip sheet
...ry of Medicare, an important financial cushion for teaching hospitals and graduate medical education. Accord...uring this time period, mean total margins for all teaching hospitals fell more than 50 percent, except for family practice single-residency hospitals for which...Study finds most pediatric residents satisfied with primary care training
... what residents consider the appropriate amount of teaching and, more importantly, what methods lead to the best educational outcomes. Other factors associated with resident satisfaction involve service-related issues, such as a resident's involvement during a patient's hospitalization, good balance of patien...Dr. Brenda Milner first foreign associate of the NAS to receive Award in the Neurosciences
... recipients. Through her lifetime of research and teaching here at the MNI and McGill, Brenda Milner has had ...l University ( http://www.mcgill.ca ) research and teaching institute, dedicated to the study of the nervous system and neurological diseases. Since its foundi...UCSD Medical Center receives NIH contract to set up National Tuberculosis Educational Curriculum
...ences provides the TCCC with management, research, teaching and outreach expertise. Dr. Catanzaro began working in 1966 with the TB branch of the U.S. Public Health Service, receiving intensive training in the prevention, management, and control of TB. He joined the UCSD School of Medicine in 1972 as the d...Study reviews discussion of medical errors at hospital conferences
...6 medicine department conferences at four Bay Area teaching hospitals during 2000 and 2001. The observers discovered several differences in the manner in which cases were treated at the two kinds of conferences. In surgery conferences, attended principally by surgeons, the focus was generally on ind...Northwestern Memorial enrolling participants in two trials on new drug to fight deadly cancer
...remier academic medical centers and is the primary teaching hospital of Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine. Northwestern Memorial and its Prentice Women's Hospital have 720 beds and more than 1,200 affiliated physicians and 5,000 employees. Providing care in a state-of-the-art facility, t...Self-management program helps patients with acute low back pain
...nd an emergency department of an inner-city public teaching hospital. Patients in the self-management program attended three group sessions that emphasized treatment recommendations, behavioral changes, increased self-efficacy (confidence), and reducing negative thoughts and behaviors. They received handouts...USP releases fourth annual report on medication errors in U.S. hospitals
...es nationwide, including community, government and teaching institutions. MEDMARX is the nation's largest database of medication errors, containing more than 530,000 released records. By the end of the third quarter of 2004, the number of records in the MEDMARX database will approach one million. MEDMARX is a...St. Paul nurse receives Guardian Angel Award named for UT Southwestern vice president
... Young also has been a trailblazer in modeling and teaching ethics to hospital staff. Her commitment to ensuring that patients and their families are treated with compassion and integrity has spurred the adoption of new guidelines for helping them deal with grief and loss. "I believe Aziza Young has done more......ese include the further development of world-class teaching and research, the strengthening of the health service in Wales and the potential creation of 3,000 new jobs and a range of new high technology companies. Rigorous business planning and analysis culminated in the Governing Councils' endorsement of the...Synthetic marijuana reduces agitation in patients with Alzheimers
...id geriatrician Joel S. Ross, M.D. a member of the teaching faculty at Monmouth Medical Center and the lead in...arnabas Health Care System, is a 527-bed community teaching hospital located in Long Branch, NJ. For two decades, Monmouth Medical Center's geriatric program ha...Regeneration of insulin-producing islets may lead to diabetes cure
...protein complex on these cells plays a key role in teaching new immune cells to recognize the body's own tissues, a process that goes awry in diabetes and other autoimmune disorders. The researchers expected to follow that process, which eliminated the autoimmune basis of the animals' diabetes, with transpla...Teaching hospital physicians report trouble obtaining specialty services for the uninsured
...as been updated since its original posting. U.S. teaching hospitals, many of which are located in inner-city...nderinsured patients. However, a recent survey of teaching hospital faculty finds that such physicians may have difficulty accessing specialty care for their u...