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How admitting mistakes may improve medicine

As a resident or fellow, have you ever made a mistake—and kept quiet? One physician opened up about her experience as a medical trainee during TEDMED 2014.

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GME reform essential, but how to proceed? Experts debate

A dozen experts—many of them physicians directly involved in medical education—presented an array of perspectives on the current state of GME and how to revise the system for the 21st century at a forum hosted by Health Affairs.

GME Funding
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Move to align GME accreditation paves way for “ideal” continuum

With a “strong affirming vote” from the American Osteopathic Association (AOA) House of Delegates, the plan to implement a single accreditation system for all U.S. graduate medical education (GME) programs moves forward, a significant step in efforts to create an ideal medical education continuum.

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Exposure to pharma reps affects trainees' Rx knowledge: Study

Medical students and residents who report higher levels of pharmaceutical marketing interactions were more likely to prescribe brand name drugs and less likely to rely on evidence-based treatment options, according to a study in JAMA Internal Medicine.

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Duty-hours innovation needed: Report

While the medical profession needs continued investigation of resident duty-hours, it also needs to encourage new models for duty-hours requirements, physicians, residents and medical students agreed last month.

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AMA sets new course on key medical education issues

A more relevant and efficient maintenance of certification (MOC) process, evidence-based changes to resident/fellow duty hours to ensure patient safety, and improved access to care through innovations in residency program funding were among the actions called for by the AMA House of Delegates during the 2014 AMA Annual Meeting in Chicago.

AMA Policies
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Tool helps equip residents to care for at-risk patients

A new online tool is helping residents and their training programs better understand at-risk populations—including the homeless, unemployed, underserved and uninsured—and improve their quality of care.

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How changing med ed will affect GME, CME

Innovative changes happening at medical schools across the country will produce future physicians with entirely different needs. As a result, graduate medical education (and continuing medical education will need to make changes, too, medical education leaders said at a recent Association of Hospital Medical Education meeting.

ChangeMedEd Initiative
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How med ed is addressing the skills new residents may lack

Whether the “July effect” is real or simply lore, for medical students transitioning to residencies, this summer month is tremendously stressful. Internal medicine program directors have expressed concern regarding new interns’ skill sets and the lack of skill set standardization, according to survey results that appeared in the March issue of Academic Medicine. 

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