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Legacy Education Acquires High Desert Medical College, Inc. As Part Of Its Gr...

4 Sep 2010 at 4:00am
Career educational institution Legacy Education welcomed the newest member of its family of career training schools, High Desert Medical College, Inc. The medical training school prepares aspiring medical professionals for careers that include ultrasound technician, massage therapist, medical assistant and full and part time vocational nurse...

OSHA Should Regulate Work Hours For Doctors-in-Training, Groups Tell Labor De...

3 Sep 2010 at 7:00am
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), which is tasked with enforcing safety and health legislation, should take doctors-in-training under its purview, consumer and health advocacy groups said today in a petition sent to the agency. Resident physicians work shifts as long as 30 hours as often as three times a week, which can lead to physician fatigue and medical errors...

New Singapore Medical School To Be Created By Imperial College London And Nan...

2 Sep 2010 at 3:00am
A new medical school training undergraduate doctors in Singapore and awarding joint Imperial College London and Nanyang Technological University (NTU) degrees is to be established by 2013, it was confirmed...

Health Informatics Partnership Is Launched To Expand Informatics Work Force, ...

2 Sep 2010 at 2:00am
AMIA, the U.S.-based association for informatics professionals, has launched a non-profit, wholly owned subsidiary organization called the Global Health Informatics Partnership (GHIP) to serve as an international center for collaborative initiatives on health informatics...

Canadian Minister Travels To Mali, Mozambique To Start Rolling Out Canada's G...

31 Aug 2010 at 5:00am
The Canadian government started rolling out its maternal health program in Africa as Minister of International Co-operation Bev Oda embarked on a seven-day visit to Mali and Mozambique, the Globe and Mail reports (York, 8/27)...

New Academic Medicine Supplement Highlights Innovations In Medical Education

31 Aug 2010 at 3:00am
Medical education has undergone significant change in the last decade to ensure that new doctors have the skills they need to provide more patient-centered and community-focused health care...

University Responds To Growing Need For Skilled Health IT Professionals, Grad...

30 Aug 2010 at 5:00am
The University of Texas at Austin's new Health Information Technology program has received $2.7 million as a part of the Professional University Resources and Education for Health Information Technology (PURE HIT) consortium project supported by a grant from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of the National Coordinator (ONC) for Health Information Technology...

RCP Statement On The CfWI's Recommendations For Medical Specialty Training 20...

30 Aug 2010 at 5:00am
The Royal College of Physicians is in broad agreement with the recommendations made in this, the first, Centre for Workforce Intelligence (CfWI) report on the future of specialty training...

Issues In Primary Care: Medical Homes And Ethical Concierge Practices

30 Aug 2010 at 4:00am
News outlets report on trends in the primary care workforce, including medical homes and concierge medicine. In the second in a three-part series on primary care, NPR reports on "a nonprofit regional health care collaborative in Maine that's trying to build medical homes in the state...

PSA Intern Training Program Recognised As Best, Australia

30 Aug 2010 at 2:00am
An information session in Tasmania explaining the Pharmaceutical Society of Australia's National Intern Training Program (NITP) has resulted in an overwhelming response from pharmacy students keen to join the program. The NITP is designed to maximise the career opportunities of young pharmacists as they transition from being students to entering the workforce as qualified pharmacists...

AMA To Host Summit On Medical Intern Training Crisis, Australia

29 Aug 2010 at 2:00am
The AMA will next month host a summit of key medical training stakeholders to discuss and develop solutions to the crisis around the shortage of prevocational and vocational training positions for medical school graduates...

UC Irvine School Of Medicine's Revolutionary IPad Program To Utilize E-Textbo...

27 Aug 2010 at 4:00am
Elsevier, publisher of scientific, technical and medical information products and services, announced it will provide four key electronic textbook titles for UC Irvine School of Medicine's new program that gives Apple iPads to its first-year medical students...

Solving Healthcare Problems Through Healthy Competition, Australia

27 Aug 2010 at 3:00am
After four weeks of work, UQ's top three interprofessional teams of health students will come together to compete as part of the annual University of Queensland HealthFusion Team Challenge (UQ HFTC). The annual UQ HFTC will take place on Friday, August 27 at 4:30 pm in the auditorium at the UQ School of Pharmacy at Woolloongabba...

Promising Medical Trainees Receive Funding To Pursue Research In Hematology

26 Aug 2010 at 8:00am
The American Society of Hematology (ASH) announces the 2010 recipients of its Trainee Research Awards. Through this program, which is designed to encourage the pursuit of research and spark an interest in hematology, 43 medical students, undergraduates, and residents will each receive $4,000 to conduct research on blood and blood-related diseases...

Senate's Introduction Of CARE Act Applauded By Society Of Nuclear Medicine

26 Aug 2010 at 7:00am
SNM supports the U.S. Senate in its introduction of the Consistency, Accuracy, Responsibility and Excellence in Medical Imaging and Radiation Therapy Act of 2010 (CARE Act), S. 3737. The proposed legislation, which was introduced in August by Sen. Mike Enzi [R-WY], aims to ensure that minimum education and credentialing standards for nuclear medicine technologists are set at the state level...

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