Search results for "Medical Students"
Internal medicine residency match results virtually unchanged from last year
The number of U.S. senior medical students choosing categorical internal medicine residencies increased slightly for the fifth consecutive year. According to the 2014 National Resident Matching Program, 3,167 U.S. medical school seniors matched for residency training in internal medicine.
https://immattersacp.org/weekly/archives/2014/03/25/1.htm
25 Mar 2014
Better, not broken: pursuing empathy during medical training
Empathy is a crucial element to good care and improved patient outcomes. Why doesn't medical education promote more of it?.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2014/04/residents.htm
1 Apr 2014
Alzheimer's patients prepare, enlighten future physicians
A mentoring program pairs Alzheimer's patients with medical students to heighten students' awareness of the skills and strengths of Alzheimer's patients and familiarize them with related care and communication issues.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2014/05/alzheimers.htm
1 May 2014
Portable ultrasound scopes out a new role
Enthusiasts argue that point-of-care ultrasonography extends the scope of the physical exam far beyond what can be auscultated through a stethoscope. Detractors worry about overdiagnosis and a loss of medical skills that have intrinsic value. Both sides seek balance when considering how to use this new technology.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2014/05/ultrasound.htm
1 May 2014
Leadership Day attendees push legislators to finish SGR fix
Physicians and medical students representing ACP took to Capitol Hill to discuss the sustainable growth rate formula, workforce issues, and liability reform.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2014/07/leadership.htm
1 Jul 2014
ACP and MedU collaborate on High Value Care course for medical students
ACP and MedU have created an online High Value Care course for medical students based on a curriculum developed by ACP and the Alliance for Academic Internal Medicine (AAIM).
https://immattersacp.org/weekly/archives/2014/07/08/6.htm
8 Jul 2014
A doctor seeks ways to encourage earlier palliative care talks
Palliative care doctors are working on introducing the concept of palliative care across disciplines, with a particular focus on primary care. The goal is to introduce it earlier in the process of patient care, and earlier in the educational process of the physicians themselves.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2014/10/palliative.htm
1 Oct 2014
Enter to win second annual Teaching Value and Choosing Wisely® Challenge
The Costs of Care organization and the ABIM Foundation have announced the second annual Teaching Value and Choosing Wisely Challenge to help identify the most promising innovations and bright ideas for teaching high-value care and stewardship to medical trainees.
https://immattersacp.org/weekly/archives/2014/11/11/7.htm
11 Nov 2014
An internist with many interests
Jock Murray, MD, MACP, is like an 18th-century physician, not in the sense that he prescribes bloodletting or mercury, but in the wide range of his knowledge and interests.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2015/01/profile.htm
1 Jan 2015
Students and residents are also burning out
Burnout and the loss of joy in being a doctor have become an ever-expanding concern and a major part of our rhetoric these days. For many physicians, it begins in training.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2015/01/presidents.htm
1 Jan 2015