Whether MOC should be mandatory for all is often debated among providers, but new findings indicate that opting not to participate may affect patient care.
The model’s aim is to help make sure tomorrow’s physicians learn not only how to practice medicine with ethical intentionality but also how to lead others with sound character, specific skills and concerted efforts.
A Nexford University blogger set out to find the best bets for college students making career plans in healthcare. The research led to medical director in the No. 1 slot. (Wait. What?)
“The creation of an associate dean in AI speaks to the fact that AI has become central to research, education and clinical operations in the health care system."
A primary aim of medical humanities as a field today is teaching medical students how to harmonize technological innovations with care models such that patients are treated as whole persons: They have not just bodies but also minds, relationships—and lives.
After their proposal for a new American Board of Cardiovascular Medicine was shot down earlier this year, cardiology groups have asked the AMA for some support. "We feel like it's time for us to blaze our own path," one specialist explained.
The Pearl, a new innovation hub in North Carolina, will soon be home to the first training center of its kind. Many of the advanced technologies on hand will be designed by Medtronic.
American Medical Association President Bruce Scott, MD, explains some of the key issues facing physicians, including burnout, growing medical staffing shortages, doctors leaving rural areas, increasing patients and declining Medicare payments.
