Category Archives: Medical Education

The Case of the Vanishing Graduate Medical Education Funds

Posted on May 31, 2012 by

Posted May 21, 2012 By Roy Poses, MD While primary care falters in the US, those who teach it seem to feel increasingly poverty stricken.  Now it appears that one reason for this is an amazing example of multiple failures … Continue reading →

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Clinical Training Must Be Coupled with Policy, Management to Improve Care

Posted on May 29, 2012 by

By Sachin Jain, MD As outgoing Johns Hopkins Dean Ed Miller and I argued in a letter in this month’s edition of Academic Medicine, formal coursework and knowledge about the health care system should be a requirement for undergraduate students … Continue reading →

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Engaging UCSF Residents in Quality, Safety, and Cost Reduction

Posted on May 15, 2012 by

By Robert Baron, MD Engaging residents and fellows in quality improvement and patient safety activities has become a goal for all GME programs and a reality for an ever-increasing number. In fact, the 2011 ACGME common program requirements mandate that … Continue reading →

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Avoiding Avoidable Care

Posted on May 3, 2012 by

By Joanne Conroy, MD I attended a meeting last week in Boston titled “Avoiding Avoidable Care,” organized by the Lown Cardiovascular Research Foundation and the New America Foundation. The meeting focused on proposing solutions to the problem of avoidable care … Continue reading →

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Why Primary Care Is Often Not a Consideration for Medical Students

Posted on April 11, 2012 by

Posted February 27, 2012 By John Corker The Association of American Medical Colleges’ Office of Workforce Studies projects by 2015 — the year after the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is scheduled to add approximately 32 million patients to … Continue reading →

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Why Peer Mentoring Works

Posted on March 29, 2012 by

By Kimberly S. Johnson, MD, Susan N. Hastings, MD, and Heather E. Whitson, MD Origins of the Duke Aging Center’s Junior Faculty Laboratory (JFL) In April 2006, two of us, junior investigators affiliated with Duke’s Center for the Study of … Continue reading →

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Simulation: A Pathway to Providing Better Care

Posted on March 27, 2012 by

By Morgan Passiment A recent symposium sponsored by the Society for Simulation in Healthcare and the National League of Nursing showcased how we can make interprofessional education in health care come alive through simulation. Over 400 people from a variety … Continue reading →

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Inspired by an Astronaut

Posted on March 26, 2012 by

By Joanne Conroy, MD I was invited to speak recently at a CME session at Community Medical Centers, a three-hospital system in Fresno, California, that commits a lot of resources to graduated medical education. In their large teaching hospital, close … Continue reading →

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Is There a Doctor in the House?

Posted on March 23, 2012 by

Posted on March 13, 2012 By Allen Spiegel, MD I’m on the Amtrak Northeast regional train headed from NYC to DC on a recent Friday afternoon. The amplified metallic voice of the conductor is booming, but instead of the usual … Continue reading →

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Residents Create Review Site for Emergency Medicine Resources

Posted on March 22, 2012 by

By Tim Peck, MD The value of the Internet lies in its power of pointed conversation. We ask the Internet what movie we should see tonight, where we can get the best pizza in town, and which flight we should … Continue reading →

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