By Shawn Rhea November 08, 2010 Medical schools are making steady gains in training more doctors and enrolling minority students. But a broader mix of stakeholders will need to support the efforts if the U.S. is to produce enough physicians to meet burgeoning patient demand, according to medical education experts. ... FULL STORY
By Andis Robeznieks November 08, 2010 In announcing its new medical residency standards, the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education touted that the guidelines took a comprehensive approach in defining how doctors-in-training are supervised and educated. But what most observers focused on was the number of hours residents... ... FULL STORY
By Jessica Zigmond October 25, 2010 After HHS' inspector general's office said it would provide medical schools with teaching materials about Medicare and Medicaid fraud and abuse, some experts questioned if that training detracts from the true purpose of medical education. ... FULL STORY
By Lola Butcher August 23, 2010 After the first year of a national demonstration project, primary-care physicians experimenting with shared decisionmaking are enthusiastic about the practice's potential—and acutely aware of the barriers to fulfilling its promise. ... FULL STORY
By Andis Robeznieks July 26, 2010 The public comment period on the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education's newly proposed standards on resident work hours ends Aug. 9, and given the controversy surrounding the recommendations, there assuredly will be no shortage of feedback. Medical residents at teaching hospitals... ... FULL STORY
By Andis Robeznieks July 26, 2010 The HHS Health Resources and Services Administration awarded 15 grants totaling $9 million aimed at developing new preventive medicine residency programs and expanding existing ones. ... FULL STORY
By Andis Robeznieks July 12, 2010 The American Board of Internal Medicine has settled its lawsuit with two physicians it accused of collecting and disseminating questions from the ABIM's certification exam. ... FULL STORY
April 12, 2010 Healthcare delivery continues to be unsafe and will probably remain that way for some time unless medical schools make substantial improvements in how they teach patient safety, according to a new report issued by the National Patient Safety Foundation's Lucian Leape Institute. ... FULL STORY
March 22, 2010 After more than a decade of litigation and deliberation, the Internal Revenue Service relented to the position of academic medical centers that their medical residents qualified for a student exemption to the Social Security and Medicare tax—but only until 2005. ... FULL STORY
February 22, 2010 While the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education board met with its resident duty-hour task force earlier this month in Scottsdale, Ariz., a coalition of patient-safety and consumer advocacy groups joined together to push for stricter work limits for doctors in training. ... FULL STORY
February 08, 2010 A recent downturn in public and private funding of medical-product research and clinical trials is forcing academic medical centers to foot a larger percentage of the cost of research endeavors. The trend has medical-research experts concerned about the long-term effect on the development of novel... ... FULL STORY
By Andis Robeznieks December 14, 2009 A prominent doctor and nurse agree with the accuracy of a recent survey showing that significant behavior issues still exist between healthcare professionals, but they disagree over the extent of the problem and the progress that has been made in solving it. ... FULL STORY
By Andis Robeznieks November 09, 2009 The number of medical students continues to rise, but without a corresponding increase in residency training slots, experts worry that there will not be enough physicians to meet demand. An aging population and the demand that could be created if health insurance reform is enacted could overwhelm... ... FULL STORY
By Andis Robeznieks October 12, 2009 Hospitalists, a branch of internal medicine that has become one of healthcare's fastest growing and most in-demand specialties, will at last be getting the recognition they deserve. Sort of. ... FULL STORY
By Elizabeth Gardner August 24, 2009 By the time medical students get close to graduation, their instructors have a pretty good idea which ones are going to be highly professional doctors who finish their charts on time, remember to call their patients with laboratory results, and keep up with continuing medical education requirements. ... FULL STORY
By Andis Robeznieks June 08, 2009 One side says hospitals have “dropped the ball” when it comes to physician oversight, while another argues that the lack of disciplinary actions being reported to the National Practitioner Data Bank could be evidence that methods for early identification and intervention of potential... ... FULL STORY
By Jean DerGurahian May 26, 2009 Medical students already carry a heavy academic load, but an opportunity to supplement their formal education with more patient-safety and quality topics is leading them to a new initiative offered by the Institute for Healthcare Improvement. ... FULL STORY
By Shawn Rhea May 11, 2009 An Institute of Medicine report aimed at reining in financial relationships between physicians and industry is expected to exercise significant influence among lawmakers drafting legislation and policymakers at academic medical centers. ... FULL STORY
By Andis Robeznieks February 23, 2009 According to a new report, medical educators should look at the expansion going on at almost all the medical schools in the U.S.as an opportunity “to explore bold, innovative ways to improve” medical education, including better alignment of medical training with societal needs and incorporate... ... FULL STORY
By Andis Robeznieks December 22, 2008 Any thought of relaxing the 5-year-old rules that limit medical-resident duty hours was put to rest earlier this month by an Institute of Medicine report that called for even stricter limits on how hard to work residents at teaching hospitals. ... FULL STORY
December 08, 2008 On Jan. 1, 2009, a new Joint Commission standard will take effect that states hospital “leaders must address disruptive behavior,” and while the American Hospital Association supports the measure, the American Medical Association thinks the standard needs some work. ... FULL STORY
November 03, 2008 Enrollment at the nation’s medical schools may be up, but more needs to be done to draw students to a field that’s losing its appeal and attracting fewer applicants, experts from the medical community claim. ... FULL STORY
October 20, 2008 Sonja Boone, M.D., has been hired as the Chicago-based American Medical Association’s first director of physician health and healthcare disparities. Her duties will include leading AMA physician and minority health efforts. ... FULL STORY
September 22, 2008 In an effort to push adoption of rules governing relationships between docs and medical-products firms, two groups will offer Web pages detailing conflict-of-interest policies instituted by academic medical centers. ... FULL STORY
By Barbara Kirchheimer August 11, 2008 It’s not uncommon for doctors to lament the flaws of a particular medical device or technology that doesn’t completely meet their needs. For medical students at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago, there is now an opportunity to stop complaining and start fixing the... ... FULL STORY
By Jean DerGurahian July 07, 2008 Practitioners aren’t always to be found studying medicine from the consumer’s perspective, but John Santa, M.D., says he wouldn’t want to be in any other position. Santa, named director of Consumer Reports’ Health Ratings Center, meshes his medical and research expertise to produce... ... FULL STORY
By Barbara Kirchheimer June 09, 2008 While physicians and nurses are expected to interact as professionals, occasionally there is someone who repeatedly yells and berates colleagues when something goes wrong, or intimidates co-workers physically. In the past, those individuals might have been a nuisance and a human resources... ... FULL STORY
May 19, 2008 An Association of American Medical Colleges task force report could result in major changes in how drugs and medical devices are marketed to physicians, if the report is approved by the group’s Executive Council. ... FULL STORY
By Gregg Blesch March 24, 2008 Physicians find it less and less worth their while to share their wisdom or patients with pharmaceutical companies, fearing even minor relationships could draw unwanted attention from federal agencies looking for kickbacks corrupting prescribing choices. But HHS’ inspector general’s office recently... ... FULL STORY
March 10, 2008 International graduates masked a 7% drop-off in U.S. graduates entering primary-care training. That’s compared with a 5% bump in U.S. graduates who opted to train as specialists. ... FULL STORY
