Doctors at a Northern California hospital, concerned that a 40-year-old woman with sky-high blood pressure and confusion might have a blood clot, order a CT scan of her lungs. To their surprise, ...
https://medcitynews.com/2014/05/physical-exam-lost-art-age-health-tech/
A graduate of Blueprint Health’s accelerator has rolled out a virtual version of grand rounds. for’s program is designed to make it easier for private practice physicians to get the benefit o...
For Travis Hill, it was an offer too good to refuse. Last year when the 30-year-old neuroscientist was admitted to a new program at New York University that would allow him to complete medical sc...
https://medcitynews.com/2014/01/long-take-become-doctor-medical-schools-shaving-year-training/
It’s part of a longstanding practice in medical schools to use actors as patients so that students can develop critical skills for conducting physical exams and taking medical histories. But at...
More than 3,000 students on their way to becoming nurses, doctors and paramedics are using mobile health trends to bring mannequins to life. Simply replacing a computer with a tablet has allowed ...
Two authors pose a new theory about lowering the cost of care: Make medical school more affordable. A new editorial up at the New England Journal of Medicine, suggests we may be in (or approach...
https://medcitynews.com/2013/10/nejm-take-cost-care-make-medical-school-cheaper/
Medical schools have been preparing for the changes healthcare reform is bringing. Many have framed their education around iPads and other tablets, and are encouraging more of their students to f...
By Oleg Pavlov, Ph.D. and Vladimir Gotlieb, M.D., M.B.A. Facing offshore competition, local medical schools have been lobbying the state Board of Regents, which supervises all educational activit...
University of Pennsylvania’s Perelman School of Medicine in Philadelphia has established a dedicated center for biomedical informatics, underscoring the expansion of big data from drug developm...
https://medcitynews.com/2013/02/big-data-gets-a-home-at-penn-medicine/
Just at a time when it would be good to hear some encouraging news about physicians going into primary care, a new survey suggests less than one-third of pre-med students aspire to be primary car...
The stethoscope is of the most fundamental tools for doctors and can be one of the most powerful in initial detection of cardiac or pulmonary illnesses. That’s why Dr. Paul Lecat wanted to give...
Nurses have been taking on more responsibility in recent years — and a good thing too. If the shortage of primary care physicians continues coupled with millions of new patients expected to be ...
Supercomputer and former Jeopardy! contestant Watson is the focus of a new Cleveland Clinic-IBM partnership that will teach Watson about medicine and help it become a clinical decision support to...
While medical schools have increased their medical school positions by about 30%, residency slots have increased at only 8%. Future doctors may have to pay for their residency if these numbers do...
IPads are used in roughly one quarter of U.S. medical schools, free of charge or as a mandatory tool for learning. University of California at Irvine School of Medicine began using them in 2010. ...
https://medcitynews.com/2012/09/4-unexpected-benefits-of-using-ipads-in-medical-schools/
A roundup of medical news reported this week by MedCity News (and others). The post Weekend Rounds: #HCSM comes to med schools, teleconferencing cuts hospital readmissions appeared first on Me...
A New York medical college has received a two-year grant to study how aspiring physicians use social media and what ethical issues it creates with patients. It’s the latest milestone in social ...
Inspired by the OpenScience Project and dismayed by fellow researchers’ stodgy, rarely-updated lab websites, a Princeton scientist plunked down his own money to design a site he hopes will insp...
The University of Pennsylvania medical school is participating in an online education venture to provide free university seminars to the public on courses such as personalized medicine, vaccines ...
Northeast Ohio Medical University is planning $130 million worth of expansion in the next few years, including a new research and education facility as well as the medical school’s first-ever o...
https://medcitynews.com/2012/04/neomed-plans-130m-expansion-project-including-student-housing/
A medical school is to get a $425,000 economic development grant to spur the creation of biotechnology companies. Penn State School of Medicine will receive the state grant as part of a program...
I heard this over the weekend: “The students of today are training for a field that doesn’t currently exist.” Seems hard to believe, right? And yet, when I started medical school, there wer...
The Obama administration is about to unveil a $1 billion plan to beef up the nation’s health care workforce. The goal, in part, is to increase the number of physicians available to serve the na...
https://medcitynews.com/2011/11/does-america-really-need-more-doctors/
Current medical news from today, including medical school applications increasing steadily since 2002, 6 of the 25 highest-paid CEOs are in healthcare, and GE Healthcare admits to glitch in EMR s...
https://medcitynews.com/2011/10/future-docs-apply-to-med-schools-in-record-numbers-morning-read/
Three University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine labs received $12.5 million in research funding for gene research and cancer treatment from the National Institutes of Health, reinfor...
The Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University has received a five-year, $1 million grant to support fellowships for minority medical students. The grant comes...
The transformation from NEOUCOM to NEOMED is complete. Northeast Ohio Medical University (NEOMED for short) unveiled a new logo and branding around its new, slimmed-down name. On Monday, NEOMED o...
https://medcitynews.com/2011/08/northeast-ohio-medical-university-unveils-new-logo-branding/
The CEOs of two academic hospitals are upset that Congress may reduce the funding for Graduate Medical Education (GME) paid through Medicare. To fight back, they’ve written a scare story for th...
https://medcitynews.com/2011/07/would-funding-cut-for-graduate-medical-education-really-be-so-bad/
As of this writing, 5 air traffic controllers have been found asleep at the switch. By the time this piece is posted, several others may have joined the slumber party. Keep in mind, there’s a l...
Every week, MedCity News highlights the best of its MedCitizens: syndication partners and MedCity News readers who discuss life science current events on MedCityNews.com. Now here’s the best of...
https://medcitynews.com/2011/06/free-medical-school-wait-not-so-fast-best-of-medcitizens/