All students know the feeling: stubbornly dragging yourself across campus to your dreaded lecture classes where you’ll spend the next hour and a half mindlessly taking notes and trying to stay awake. Or if you’re like me, you might just skip the lecture all together...
In just a couple short decades, women have made amazing strides in advancing their careers and fostering a gender-equal work environment in the medical field. It was not until the latter half of the 20th Century that it became normal for more than 10 percent...
As a medical student, you know that you will be experiencing plenty of sleepless nights and 4am wake-ups - it just comes with the territory. What many students are not realizing is that there is a very fine line between harmless insomnia, and potentially dangerous...
As the United State’s population has continued to increase each year, it is both natural and vitally necessary that the number of students to enroll in medical school has risen as well. Enrollment rates have increased by 25 percent since 2002, slightly smaller than the...
Global standards in the healthcare industry have been recommended by thought leaders in medicine for decades who have said that worldwide uniformity could dramatically improve patient safety and increase the overall effectiveness of healthcare systems. While there are several organizations dedicated to uniting healthcare systems...
Simulation based medical education is defined as any educational activity that utilizes simulation aides to replicate clinical scenarios. Medical simulation is quickly becoming the learning method of choice throughout medical academia, with renowned medical organization accelerating the learning curve through competitions. Preclinical, clerkship, residency, and subspecialty...
Surgical specialists have historically been the most likely to get sued for medical malpractice, and current statistics prove that this is still the case. According to a 2015 Medscape survey, 83% of general surgeons have been sued. When investigating the reasons why the lawsuits were filed,...
Empathy is the cornerstone of compassionate and effective patient care, though the concept is more often seen as an abstract ideal rather than as a definitive principle of patient-physician interaction. This topic is frequently at the center of discussions surrounding medical ethics, as it is an...
Primary Care Today: Dr. Brian McDonough, a nationally recognized clinical expert, public speaker and writer, hosts this interview series about current issues and trends in primary care practice. Each episode, Dr. McDonough brings in a new medical expert to discuss the unique topic at hand,...
The tension surrounding pharmaceutical companies and their attempts to infiltrate students' medical education with marketing strategies is obvious, according to in-Training. This tension inherently exists because pharmaceutical companies and physicians both have agendas that operate in conjunction with one another in a never-ending healthcare cycle. The fact is every sale of a...
