Medical Education

Jean-Philippe Masson -- Chairman, Forcomed

Forcomed has retained Carestream’s Vue Cloud solution as the technical architecture for its new digital mammography e-learning programme. Jean-Philippe Masson, Chairman of Forcomed, was happy to answer our questions.[read more]

social media & physicians / shutterstock

Although there have been many doctor advocates for social media, there are still limited social media training resources for doctors, especially for young doctors. Should doctors undergo a formal social media training program? The answer from Mayo Clinic is “yes.”[read more]

Social media & healthcare / shutterstock

The currency of social media is sharing. Medicine and medical education need to abandon the Read Only assumptions about teaching materials and embrace a Read/Write culture: students can become participants in their own education, and authors of a personalized textbook.[read more]

Walter Feldesman

Walter Feldesman published the first edition of his Dictionary of Eldercare Terminology. It remains the first and only dictionary defining eldercare words and terms. At 95, Feldesman has just released the third edition of the dictionary and is making it available online.[read more]

caregiver/shutterstock

Increasingly, family caregivers with no formal training are doing the kind of work more commonly associated with hospital-based nurses: operating dialysis machines and ventilators, administering IVs and injections, and using monitors for blood glucose, oxygen saturation and more.[read more]

HealthTap mobile app

Through a new resource called HealthTap, you can submit questions to a physician via mobile and receive vetted, peer-reviewed health information back. Through HealthTap Spectrum, now a part of all HealthTap’s apps on mobile devices and online, people can find doctor-created and rated content.[read more]

Is Obamacare working?

To fulfill one campaign promise may mean breaking another. Let’s start with healthcare affordability, one of the pillars of the Affordable Care Act. The goal was to provide more affordable health insurance to more Americans. But it now appears that there will be a significant increase in premiums.[read more]

MOOC

The new darling of the online educational community is Massively Open Online Courses (MOOCs). The question is whether the promise of MOOCs, or their inability to deliver, will characterize MOOM: Eric Topol's neologism, "Massively Open Online Medicine," used in his HIMSS 2013 keynote.[read more]

teamwork/shutterstock

Physicians face medical, professional, financial and emotional challenges every single day. Today’s healthcare environment demands more of providers than ever before. Successful physicians must not only have high IQs and be able to quickly assimilate knowledge and understanding in a way that can be applied to the care of the sick patient BUT must also be able to relate positively to others and work successfully as both a leader and a member of a team.[read more]

According to the results of the AAMC’s Center for Workforce Studies 2012 Medical School Enrollment Survey, the nation is on track for a 30 percent increase in medical school enrollment by 2017. This increase is due in part to the 16 new medical schools granted full, provisional, or preliminary accreditation by the Liaison Committee on Medical Education (LCME) since 2002. Several of the new medical schools have programs specifically focused around training primary care physicians.[read more]

HCSM/shutterstock

While we all strive for that elusive work-life balance, it is increasingly difficult to separate our personal and public personas. Anyone can walk into my office, listen to me at a hospital fundraiser or potentially hear at a coffee shop from another person whether I treated someone well or not. As we adopt social media, the signatures of our conduct become magnified.[read more]

BRAIN initiative / shutterstock

In announcing the BRAIN Initiative, President Obama described a new collaborative effort to map the human brain which is intended to better understand how the brain works. Researchers will attempt to discover how activity in specific cells of the brain affect behavior.[read more]