Search results for "Medical Education"
E-learning for everyone
Virtual patients expose students and physicians to a wide range of clinical scenarios.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2008/02/elearning.htm
15 Feb 2008
A different kind of competency
Juan Lopez, a Hispanic man with limited English proficiency, is admitted to your hospital with severe abdominal pain. You think he needs surgery, but he insists that the pain is the result of a hex, and requests treatment from a witch doctor. How do you respond?.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2008/03/cover.htm
15 Mar 2008
Keeping track of mistakes that don't happen
Near-miss tracking project for residents aims to improve hospital care.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2008/04/nearmiss.htm
15 Apr 2008
Hospitals tighten rules on gifts, meals, education from pharma
Some institutions, mainly academic medical centers, are taking a newer, hard-line approach to physicians’ relationships with pharma. Our cover story looks at some of these new policies as well as the potential impact of this growing movement.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2008/05/cover.htm
15 May 2008
In the News
CDC reports sharp rise in kidney disease hospitalizations.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2008/06/itn.htm
15 Jun 2008
The hospitalist teacher
Bedside rounding combines medical education and patient care.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2008/08/teacher.htm
15 Aug 2008
A legal primer for international medical graduates and their employers
Carl Shusterman, JD, answers FAQs about how immigration law applies to doctors.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2008/10/img.htm
15 Oct 2008
When hospitalists marry: A boon for work-life balance
On-call hours and the unpredictability of many medical specialties can leave married physicians as ships passing in the night—or the front hallway. Yet by working as hospitalists in the same practice, some doctors are able to take care of families and spend quality time together.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2008/10/balance.htm
15 Oct 2008
Lunch with Lynch
Lunch with a former residency director leads to reflections on a career in medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2009/06/newman.htm
15 Jun 2009
Hospital medicine around the world
The field is catching on in several countries outside the U.S., Canada and Europe. Although the health care systems and situations may differ, supporters’ reasons for wanting hospital medicine to flourish there are often the same, and the barriers are often similar, as well.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2009/07/world.htm
15 Jul 2009