Most Canadian hospitals below recommended standards
...cation components. Particularly in large, complex teaching hospitals, it's important to have multi-disciplina...dential reports, which Dr. Zoutman reviews. "As a teaching hospital and the only tertiary care hospital in southeastern Ontario, protecting our SARS-free statu...Physicians' emotional responses to patients' deaths increase with care length, says Pitt
...g for 68 patients at the time of death at two U.S. teaching hospitals. They examined how training level, sex, ...e of coping resources. As is usually the case in a teaching hospital, most physicians (82 percent) had not known the patient before the final hospital admission...Doctors are often strongly affected by patient deaths
... to a study in this week's BMJ. Researchers at two teaching hospitals in the United States investigated the em...ending physician, less than a quarter found senior teaching staff to be the most helpful source of support. This research provides new insights into the effect ...Yale researchers identify two types of childhood reading disability
... the neural systems for reading and offer hope for teaching our most disadvantaged children how to read," said...ional implications and is of special relevance for teaching children to read." "Children need to be able to sound out words in order to decode them accurately a...Robo-thespians help mothers of kids with cancer
... of the conference presentation) creating software teaching 'bots." IDEAS is an acronym for to a well-establis...counselors using worksheets and other conventional teaching materials. In CBI, IDEAS are taught by dramas illustrating how the technique works, dramas played ou...World's largest scientific society convenes regional meeting May 30 - June 2 in Chicago
...to making the best use of modern technology in her teaching and for serving as the only physical science teacher in her rural school, thus, teaching chemistry, physics, physical science and environmental science. Andrew J. Ouderkirk of 3M in St...The MNI's de Grandpr Communcations Centre wins International Room Competition
...l University ( http://www.mcgill.ca ) research and teaching institute, dedicated to the study of the nervous system and neurological diseases. Since its founding in 1934 by the renowned Dr. Wilder Penfield, the MNI has helped put Canada on the international map. It is one of the world's largest institutes o...Study looks at the pros and cons of voice recognition
...available immediately to the radiologist. "At our teaching facility, the attending physician can more easily review cases with residents. There is not the delay caused by waiting for reports to be transcribed," he says. "This allows full evaluation of all the details in the report while reviewing the image...Chemist works to prevent undesirable side effects in synthetic drugs
...h and teaching. "There is a growing awareness that teaching and research are complementary rather than wholly ...he awards go to faculty who "wish to excel at both teaching and research." Crawford proposes to develop a series of laboratory experiments involving computation...Chaos theory may help explain patterns of alcohol abuse, studies suggest
...treatment community. Some doctors have argued that teaching alcoholics to drink in moderation may be more successful than promoting abstinence from alcohol. But in the Addictive Behaviors paper, Warren and his colleagues argue that moderate drinking will be difficult to maintain. If an alcohol abuser could ke...Why Britain's gay, lesbian and bisexual Muslims need dedicated support groups
...he study reveals that some try to re-frame Islamic teaching by distinguishing between traditional cultural practice based on heterosexuality and the inclusive principles of their faith, or by trying to reinterpret religious texts in the light of present day realities. The non-heterosexual community is predom...Marked improvement in heart attack care seen in 33-hospital study
...ajor urban and tertiary-care medical centers. Both teaching and non-teaching hospitals were included, and patients had various forms of insurance about 70 percent were on Medicare. The ACC Michigan Chapter team is leading the GAP project for acute myocardial infarction, or heart attack; other national projec...Patient simulator will enhance training for medical emergencies in space
...TON (Jan. 17, 2003) A lifelike mannequin will be teaching astronauts, flight surgeons and other mission personnel how to effectively manage medical emergencies in space. "This patient simulator is no dummy. It breathes, has a heartbeat, pupils that react to light and medications, a pulse that can be felt a...Do the ivory towers need ramps
... into a wide range of responses -- from supportive teaching environments to professional isolation. Often, di..., and the opportunity to modify their clinical and teaching schedules. "Now that we recognize these needs, academic medicine's response to them will be a true i...Suicide risk persists many years after attempted suicide
... 22 years after they presented to a central London teaching hospital after an episode of parasuicide in the late 1970s. The rate of suicide plus probable suicide during the period of follow up was 5.9 per 1000 per year in the first five years, rising to 6.8 per 1000 per year in the final three years. The rate...Assoc. of American Medical Colleges honors University of Washington medical school
...s 125 accredited medical schools, nearly 400 major teaching hospitals, more than 105,000 faculty in 98 academic and scientific societies, and the nation's 66,000 medical students and 97,000 residents. The Association carries out a broad range of programs and studies to represent its constituents. The Associat...Map data goes live with voice, gesture-based computer system
...ts spoken commands and requests, doesn't require a teaching session to start the system, so users can access data immediately. The system's response is multimedia and includes maps, textual messages and generated speech. The system has evolved out of the original iMap developed by Sharma with software suppor...Keen ER identification could avert future strokes
... on AF, he says. In a review of medical records at teaching hospitals in Cincinnati and Ann Arbor, researchers found that only 40 percent of patients with a history of AF seen in emergency departments were receiving warfarin and 5 percent were receiving warfarin plus aspirin. Twenty-eight percent were taking...Chemical society convenes regional meeting in Lawrence, Kan., Oct. 23-25
... More than just protecting the environment ... teaching about the environment (Margaret E. Wickham St. Germain, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Region 7, Kansas City, Mo., 913-551-7209, stgermain.margie@epa.gov ) Making Connections: a program to encourage high school students to study chemistr...... prevalent in comprehensive cancer centres than at teaching hospitals or private practice. Just over one-third of the respondents reported that they feel emotionally "burned-out" by having to deal with too many deaths, but the analysis revealed that burn-out was not so much associated with over-exposure to dy...