Blog Category: Education

NY Medical School Revamps Requirements To Lure English Majors

Rather than accepting medical students who majored in biology or chemistry, Mt Sinai New York have accepted applicants who came through a humanities-oriented program at Mount Sinai known as HuMed. As undergraduates, they majored in things like English or history …

Chair Summit 2014

A very successful 7th Annual Chair Summit 2014 took place this past weekend in Tampa, Fla. Faculty leading this interesting series of plenaries, breakout sessions and chart reviews are Chairmen of departments of psychiatry and neurology and the leading researchers …

Distracted Driving, Teens, ADHD and Texting

A study in JAMA Pediatrics evaluated newly licensed drivers ages 16-17 years old and the impact of distraction (via cellphone conversation or texting) on those with ADHD (n=28) and those without ADHD (n=33). The authors define distracted driving in 3 …

JAMA Changes Journal Names

All of the specialty journals in the JAMA network, as of Jan. 1, 2013, will drop the longstanding Archives designation from their titles in favor of the parent journal. Instead, the journals will go by the names: JAMA Facial Plastic …

May is Mental Health Awareness Month

For more than 50 years, Mental Health America and hundreds of affiliates from around the country have led the observance of May is Mental Health Month by reaching millions of people through the media, local events and screenings. This unified …

CME Outfitters Demonstrates Best in Class at the 37th Annual Alliance for Continuing Education in the Health Professions Conference

CME Outfitters (CMEO) receives outstanding responses from two CMEO poster presentations, and two interactive breakout sessions at the Alliance for Continuing Education in the Health Professions Annual Conference

CME Outfitters (CMEO), a leading international provider for continuing medical education, is …

Sleep education in medical school curriculum: A glimpse across countries

A study in Sleep Medicine assessed the prevalence of education about sleep and sleep disorders in medical school education and to identify barriers to providing such education.  Results suggest that there continues to be very limited coverage of sleep in …

Studying Bias in Evaluations of Doctors

According to an article in the British Medical Journal, official assessments of a doctor’s professionalism should be considered carefully before being accepted due to the tendency for some doctors to receive lower scores than others, and the tendency of …

Mental Illness Awareness Week 2011: Oct. 2-8, 2011

In 1990, the U.S. Congress established the first week of October as Mental Illness Awareness Week (MIAW) in recognition of the National Alliance on Mental Illness’ (NAMI) efforts to raise mental illness awareness. Since 1990, mental health advocates across the …