Medical Education

What The Study Did: This survey study examined differences between male and female physicians in the use of social media and reported career and professional benefits. Authors: Shikha Jain, M.D., of the University of Illinois at…

LOS ANGELES (May 12, 2021) - UCLA Health has received a $750,000 grant from the U.S. Economic Development Administration to scale healthcare innovations for COVID-19 response and recovery and to support health equity through BioFutures, a…

Credit: University of Missouri COLUMBIA, Mo. - When Ram Raghavan heard from a former colleague at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that a 7-year-old girl had died from Rocky Mountain spotted fever as the result of a tick…

Men physicians reap more professional benefits from online networking than women physicians CHICAGO --- For men physicians, the professional perks of networking on social media, like being asked to give a talk, are abundant, a new…

New Orleans, LA - Research conducted by an international team of scientists discovered a mechanism that leads to Herceptin resistance, representing a significant clinical obstacle to successfully treating HER2-positive breast cancer. They…

The study focuses on students who change plans within the pipeline A new study by the University of Georgia revealed that more college students change majors within the STEM pipeline than leave the career path of science, technology,…

While patients are embracing telemedicine, significant numbers of cardiology trainees are uncomfortable with telemedicine according to survey results reported in the Canadian Journal of Cardiology Philadelphia, May 12, 2021 - The COVID-19…

Philadelphia (EMBARGOED UNTIL May 11, 2021 at 6:30 PM EST) -A new study published in The Lancet today showed that a policy establishing minimum nurse-to-patient staffing ratios in hospitals in Queensland, Australia saved lives, prevented…

ESMO Breast Cancer 2021 Virtual Congress, 5-8 MayCredit: ESMO Lugano, Switzerland, 8 May 2021 - The finding that breast tumours can evolve to express low HER2 potentially widens the number of patients who can benefit from new…

Anonymized real-world platform gives learners realistic experience with health ITCredit: Regenstrief Institute INDIANAPOLIS - As electronic medical records (EMRs) are increasingly used across the United States, the next generation…

Credit: The American Chemical Society WASHINGTON, May 6, 2021 -- Opioids are the most powerful painkillers we have, but they're incredibly addictive. Tens of thousands of people in the U.S. die of an opioid overdose every year. Will we…

Surgeons from traditionally underrepresented groups are largely shut out of university leadership positions, study showsCredit: VCU Massey Cancer Center Among the upper echelons of academic surgery, Black and Latinx…

An analysis of published studies indicates that Twitter may be a useful learning tool in dental education. The analysis, which is published in the Journal of Dental Education, included 7 studies. Studies indicated that the real-time…

Which are reciprocally transmitted from animals to humansCredit: Zucca P et al. The EU-funded BIO-CRIME project - with support from the Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research (Leibniz-IZW) - conducted a scientific…

ESMO Breast Cancer 2021 Virtual Congress, 5-8 MayCredit: ESMO LUGANO, Switzerland, 3 May 2021 - As breast cancer becomes a largely curable disease, with more than 70% of women surviving at least 10 years after diagnosis across most…

More than 40 percent of recipients received multiple NIH grants Boston, MA (May 2, 2021) - A new study, presented today at the AATS 101st Annual Meeting, finds that AATS Foundation fellowships support success in academic surgery career…

Boston, MA (May 2, 2021) - A new study, presented today at the AATS 101st Annual Meeting, shows an association between decreased survival at five years and leaving an atrial communication at biventricular repair of unbalanced AVSD after…

Proportion of patients with segmental disease has increased dramatically over the last 15 years; 76% of patients with segmental disease treated with PEA were highly functional within 12 months of procedure Boston, MA (April 30, 2021) - A…

Up to 95% are precluded from mitral repair surgery Boston, MA (May 1, 2021) - A new study, presented today at the AATS 101st Annual Meeting, and simultaneously published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology, finds that…

joint AATS and ESTS panel releases evidence-based guidelines for thoracic surgery patients Boston, MA (April 30, 2021) - A new set of guidelines, developed by AATS and ESTS (European Society for Thoracic Surgery) presented today at the…