Medical students should be allowed to serve as clinicians before the health care system reaches a physician breaking point.
Read More »AMA Issues Guidance To Med Schools, Hospitals To Keep Safe New Doctors Needed During Crisis
The AMA is announced guidance to help medical schools and health systems make responsible decisions about how to safely incorporate medical students.
Read More »Hospitals Are Cancelling Rotations For Nursing And Med Students Due To COVID-19
Yet another casualty of the COVID-19 pandemic may be the clinical training that’s so essential for America’s future nurses and doctors. As university campuses close ...
Read More »Empathy Be a Factor in Medical School Admissions
High empathy scores could become part of the criteria for getting into medical school, according to research published in The Journal of the American Osteopathic Association.
Read More »American Medical Students Less Likely To Choose To Become Primary Care Doctors
Despite hospital systems and health officials calling out the need for more primary care doctors, graduates of U.S. medical schools are becoming less likely to ...
Read More »AMA Salutes Congress for Passing VA Health Care Bill
Senate passage today of legislation reforming VA Choice is a victory for our veterans – continuing our commitment to honor their service and providing them ...
Read More »Oregon Medical Students Face Tough Test: Talking About Dying
The distraught wife paced the exam room, anxious for someone to come and tell her about her husband. She’d brought him to the emergency department ...
Read More »New policy aims to help doctors and medical students combat burnout
With increasing evidence that physicians and physicians-in-training are facing increased burnout, depression and suicide, the AMA adopted policy this week aimed at improving physician and ...
Read More »Medical students consider supervising docs “fiendish, foul-mouthed monsters”
How stressful is medical training? So bad that in a class encouraging medical students to express emotion by drawing comics, nearly half depicted their supervisors ...
Read More »Seniors tell medical students what they want from their doctor
When doctors told Robert Madison his wife had dementia, they didn’t explain very much. His successful career as an architect hardly prepared him for what ...
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