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- Clinic To Disclose Doctors’ Industry Ties
- Coalition of Leading Medical Organizations Announce Launch of …
- Reflecting on Medical School Burnout
- Genetic Breakdown In Fanconi Anemia May Have Link To HPV …
Clinic To Disclose Doctors’ Industry Ties
NPR
But working with industry can give the appearance of a conflict of interest especially when doctors and researchers don’t disclose all of their financial relationships. One solution would be to block all interactions between industry and academia. But David Rothman president of the Institute on Medicine as a Profession says that while a complete moratorium is not necessary full disclosure is. “Patients should want to know the nature of the financial relationship between their physician and industry” he says. Cleveland Clinic physicians have to run their financial relationships past a board. If those relationships are approved the clinic posts them on its Web site.
Coalition of Leading Medical Organizations Announce Launch of …
MarketWatch
3 2008 JERSEY CITY N. Dec 03 2008 (BUSINESS WIRE) –The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine the National Osteoporosis Foundation Baylor College of Medicine the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners and the University of Kentucky Colleges of Pharmacy and Medicine along with Gullapalli & Associates announced today the development of the National Osteoporosis Educational Initiative (NOEI) a curriculum-based performance improvement continuing medical education (PI-CME) initiative to educate and train a multidisciplinary group of healthcare providers on early diagnosis and management of osteoporosis. The foundation for the NOEI will be a Faculty Curriculum Development Summit to be held in February 2009 on the Johns Hopkins medical campus. “The bone health status of Americans today is in jeopardy especially as the population ages. Osteoporosis and related bone diseases affect about 15 million Americans and cause approximately 2 million fractures annually figures that will rise significantly in the decades ahead unless action is taken now” states Wen Shen MD MPH FACOG Assistant Professor of Medicine and Director of the Menopause and Women’s Health Center at Johns Hopkins and Course Director for the NOEI. “The nature of the scope and design of the collaboration between the National Osteoporosis Foundation and these prestigious organizations will ensure that providers receive education that will enhance their overall approach and communication with patients at risk or living with osteoporosis” states Robert Recker MD president of the National Osteoporosis Foundation.
Reflecting on Medical School Burnout
Synapse CA
But if you ask any first- or second-year medical student at UCSF about their quality of life I guarantee that they will say they feel lucky to be here because friends and partners at other schools seem dramatically more overworked and burnt out. In stark contrast to this common perception among students at UCSF I have heard from many classmates who interviewed at another well respected UC medical school that students there told them “do not come here they work us too hard. ” The relative reprieve on first- and second-year burnout at UCSF is a testament to the tremendous job that the School of Medicine (SOM) has done to “trim the fat” from the classroom curriculum and make the course work clinically relevant. Reaching the 70% passing threshold is challenging and stressful but by relieving the stress of class rank and the drive to get honors UCSF SOM has taken a tremendous swipe at the burnout potential of training for a medical degree. But then come the clinical years. As a third-year medical student the excitement of finally getting to work primarily with patients (instead of sitting in lectures and preparing for exams) carried me through the first few months while I learned the ropes.
Genetic Breakdown In Fanconi Anemia May Have Link To HPV …
Science Daily (press release)
The most common is squamous cell carcinoma of the head neck skin or anogenital region. Current treatments for these cancers are limited mainly to surgery or radiation which is less than ideal because of underlying DNA instability in Fanconi anemia patients. The current study is part of a larger effort to find more effective and safer treatments said Dr. Wells also associate professor of pediatrics at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine. The FA gene complex and pathway are known to play an important role in DNA repair. According to this study which used skin cells from Fanconi anemia patients FA also helps maintain proper functioning of the cell cycle – specifically a cell’s exit from the duplication of genetic material prior to division. The current study examined Fanconi anemia-related squamous cell carcinoma with HPV because some research suggests a connection although molecularly it remains unproven.
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