Many medical schools in America are emphasizing preventive care with the hope that students will understand its value early in their careers. The idea they are trying to drive home is that a relatively minor medical condition, if left undiagnosed or untreated, can fester and...
A physician professor at Penn State College of Medicine has devised a creative method of using comic books to teach med school students. Michael Green, MD, an internist, bioethicist and the vice chair of the department of humanities and director of the program in bioethics at...
The Mayo Clinic and the Arizona State University have collaborated for more than a decade on various projects including nursing education, dual degree programs, joint research, intellectual property disclosures, and faculty appointments. Now, the two institutions have teamed up once again to offer a new...
Every year, scientists and researchers discover and develop new drugs, devices, and vaccines that improve the health of millions of people. These innovations range from complex inventions that take decades to develop to ingeniously simple devices that benefit the most vulnerable populations in the world. Here are...
With society becoming increasing more accepting of transgender people, a growing number of physicians are finding they are unsure of how to treat these members of society with sensitivity. Besides doctors, there is also a lack of understanding amongst support staff in medical practices on...
With expanding technologies and the digitalization of information storage, modern industries and fields of research, from science to economics, now find more and more use for digital data visualization. Data visualization is the visual representation of abstract data, usually through graphs and charts, that can be...
A 2015 publication released by JAMA found that over 80 million computed tomography scans are performed per year in the United States. This is undoubtedly a surprising volume of CT scans, but what makes the statistic alarming is that researchers also estimate that 29,000 cancer...
Psychiatrists Ryan C. W. Hall and Susan Hatters-Friedman discussed how they use analyses of Star Wars characters as diagnostic tools during the American Psychiatric Association's annual meeting (APA 2016) in Atlanta, Georgia. For students of psychiatry, it can be hard to take textbook definitions of psychopathology and imagine...
Today marks the first day of National Physician Assistant Week, a career path that has risen in demand by 300% in the past three years. PAs are in the 7th spot in Glassdoor's list of top 25 best jobs in America, and up to 82%...
Teamwork. The Merriam-Webster Dictionary definition is: work done by several associates with each doing a part but all subordinating personal prominence to the efficiency of the whole. ...
