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Closing The Gender Gap During Medical School
Half of U.S. first-year medical students are female, yet a new UCLA study shows that they volunteer for leadership roles in the classroom significantly less than their male counterparts. Subtle encouragement from teachers, however, can even out the playing field by boosting female students' willingness to identify themselves as leaders...

GCU Forms Partnership With India To Enhance Life Sciences
Glasgow Caledonian University and Fergusson College in Pune, India, have signed a Letter of Intent that will see them collaborate on key academic partnerships in the field of Life Sciences...

Abbott Fund-Sponsored Laboratory Training Initiative Helps Stem Critical Shortage Of Medical Professionals In California
Imagine needing a critical test at your local hospital, but having to wait days to be tested because there was no laboratory professional available to run the tests...

Child Abuse Education, Elderly Care, Nursing Students To Benefit From Grants
Texas-based Scott & White Healthcare has received three grants that provide education support to working nursing students, set up a senior health research center, and establish systems for treating child abuse and educating those who treat it. The three grants, totaling nearly $2 million, include: Nursing education...

Trainee Publication Highlights Success Of USA-China Agricultural Injury Research Training Project
As a collaboration of the Colorado Injury Control Research Center, the Center for Injury Research and Policy at Nationwide Children's Hospital and the School of Public Heath, Tongji Medical College at Huazhong University of Science and Technology, the USA-China Agricultural Injury Research Training Project was created in 2004...

11 Million African Lives Could Be Saved By Just A Small Investment
In the next five years, 11 million African women and children could be saved by creating near-universal availability of key life-saving interventions, according to The Partnership for Maternal, Newborn & Child Health and the Countdown to 2015 Decade Report (2000-2010)...

Primary Care Shortages Affect Even Doctor-Heavy Massachusetts
The Boston Globe: Despite being home to the largest number of doctors per person, finding a primary care physician has been getting more difficult for Massachusetts residents since 2006, according a report released by the state...

HHS Awards $9 Million To Train Preventive Medicine Physicians
HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced 15 awards totaling $9 million to support Preventive Medicine Residency Programs at accredited schools of public health, schools of medicine, and hospitals. Of these funds, nearly $6...

2 Common Surgeries Unlikely To Be Affected By Guidance For Medical Training Requirements
As the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education seeks to improve patient care by further limiting the hours worked by medical residents, the Journal of Surgical Research will published a new study online on Monday reporting that outcomes in two common surgeries - appendectomy and laparoscopic cholecystectomy - were similar among residents who had worked less than 16...

USDA Seeks Public Comment On Distance Learning And Telemedicine Programs
Agriculture Under Secretary for Rural Development Dallas Tonsager announced that USDA will facilitate a virtual discussion for individuals interested in the field of telemedicine. The Power of Telemedicine web discussion is an extension of the USDA's Open Government effort and Rural Development's latest effort to encourage a more widespread use and understanding of telemedicine...

Med School Students Make Different Decisions When They Consider Health Costs
The public radio program Marketplace has a piece today about how "medical students learn the cost of care, outside the classroom" of Jefferson University in Philadelphia. The students run a free clinic for homeless patients, and they "decide which drugs to stock and what lab tests they'll pay for...

Harvard Medical School Conflict Of Interest Policy Receives Approval From American Medical Student Association
The American Medical Student Association (AMSA), the nation's largest independent medical student organization, approves the updated conflict-of-interest policy that Harvard Medical School released early yesterday morning, which completely prohibits all personal gifts, travel or meals from industry...

Hospital Jobs Hurt In Some Places, Expand In Others, As Recession Pinches
Los Angeles Times: Although some hospitals are feeling the pinch of the recession on their budgets, 400 low-income and unemployed residents are receiving job-training and placement at local hospitals to tap into the need for workers. "The Youth Policy Institute, a local nonprofit managing the program, opened its doors to applicants in March and has already enrolled about 400 trainees...

News From Annals Of Internal Medicine, July 20, 2010
1. Will Patient Access to Doctor's Notes Lead to Improved Care? Researchers Strive to Answer Question Through OpenNotes Pilot Program. This summer, a team of 100 primary care physicians across the country will embark on the "OpenNotes" initiative. OpenNotes will give 25,000 patients the chance to read doctors' notes on their medical records via a secure Internet portal...

Hospitals Fight For Primary Care Docs As Bad Nurses Allowed To Continue Work
News outlets report on a variety of health workforce issues. Orlando Sentinel: For primary care specialties, residency programs fight to capture the attention of potential residents who are in high demand. Because many students opt not to go into primary care, residencies for such positions are plentiful, and students often have their pick of where to go to practice...