Search results for "Medical Education"
Dr. Steven Weinberger receives AMA Lifetime Achievement Award
The award honors a medical association executive who has contributed substantially to the goals and ideals of the medical profession.
https://immattersacp.org/weekly/archives/2016/11/22/4.htm
22 Nov 2016
Still time to submit applications for ACP's Dragon's Lair Competition
ACP's Dragon's Lair Competition at Internal Medicine Meeting 2017 in San Diego will be a “Shark Tank”-themed competition that takes place in front of a live audience.
https://immattersacp.org/weekly/archives/2016/12/13/5.htm
13 Dec 2016
A can't-miss cause of resistant hypertension
More than 20% of patients with resistant hypertension have primary aldosteronism, an underrecognized cause of hypertension and cardiovascular disease.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2021/05/a-cant-miss-cause-of-resistant-hypertension.htm
1 May 2021
New research links empathy to outcomes
Everyone wants to have a physician who understands what they're feeling, but it's not just about human contact; better clinical outcomes can result from physician empathy.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2013/03/empathy.htm
1 Mar 2013
Learning to learn: Simulators are easy, inexpensive to make
There's no need to spend hundreds of dollars on learning simulators when they can be made with supplies that cost pocket change and a few hours of time. Examples from the Herbert S. Waxman Clinical Skills Center provide step-by-step instructions for learning to drain an abscess.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2010/10/waxman.htm
1 Oct 2010
Newest title in ACP's Teaching Medicine series available
“Teaching Clinical Reasoning” is designed to help medical educators enhance their clinical reasoning abilities.
https://immattersacp.org/weekly/archives/2015/08/18/6.htm
18 Aug 2015
Defining our identity does not include the ‘P word’
The term “health care provider” implies that health care can be conceptualized as just another commodity, when it is really about helping people who are suffering, managing complex problems, and counseling them how to live.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2019/09/defining-our-identity-does-not-include-the-p-word.htm
1 Sep 2019
Millennials, the same doctors in a changed environment
Some older physicians may peg millennials as entitled, self-centered, and lazy, lacking the dogged passion for medicine of generations before them. But those who teach them say that behavioral differences among this group may have more to do with environmental and individual factors than generational ones.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2016/10/millennials.htm
1 Oct 2016
New online opioid education modules, video now available
Training modules provide comprehensive educational information for primary care clinicians and can be completed for CME credit.
https://immattersacp.org/weekly/archives/2015/08/25/6.htm
25 Aug 2015
Vigilance needed to combat osteoporosis
This issue covers such topics as osteoporosis, nutrition, vertigo, and opioids and medical education.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2017/01/editors-note.htm
1 Jan 2017