The CEOs of two academic hospitals are upset that Congress may reduce the funding for Graduate Medical Education (GME) paid through Medicare. To fight back, they’ve written a scare story for the Wall Street Journal Op-Ed page (We Can’t Afford to Train Fewer Doctors) that’s full of omissions and misleading statements.To summarize their [...]

Those hoping to pursue a career in nursing can choose between three different levels of the profession. Each level requires specialized coursework and that graduates, of the various specializations, sit for and pass the appropriate licensing exam in their state.

Since starting this blog I have had the opportunity to stumble across interesting business terms currently in use in health care.As a service to our graduating medical students and residents entering our evolving world of medicine, I thought I’d assemble a reference source of important business terms for their use.This list [...]

The Northeastern Ohio Universities Colleges of Medicine and Pharmacy is closer to a new, shorter name after the Ohio House of Representatives passed a measure that would make the school known as Northeast Ohio Medical University.House Bill 139 passed by a vote of 94-1 and moves onto the Ohio Senate. An “emergency” clause in the [...]

In 18 months, students enrolled in a medical assisting diploma track can walk away with an array of clinical, administrative, and general skills that naturally transfer into a new career as a medical assistant.

Baldwin-Wallace College is adding a public health major for undergraduate students.

Residents have such long work hours! I fully support residents only having to work 56 hours a week:Last week several groups, including Public Citizen and the American Medical Student Association, along with leading medical researchers, petitioned the Occupational Safety and Health Administration to step in and limit the number of hours [...]

In the end, Matt Kramer’s departure from the University of Minnesota was a lot more low key than his hiring less than a year ago.With great fanfare, the school had hired Kramer in July 2009 to run what was then known as the Academic and Corporate Relations Center. The university had good reason to crow: [...]

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What makes a good doctor in the United States?Certainly one that graduates from a prestigious American medical school. And one that’s also pretty good at the sciences, like physics and chemistry.But two recent studies suggest we should think more broadly — both figuratively and literally.var page_count = “off”; [...]