http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. Americans with brain diseases such as Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease or multiple sclerosis (MS) who need to see a neurologist may face longer wait times or have more difficulty finding a neurologist, according to a new study published in the April 17, 2013, online issue of Neurology, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology. The findings are being released as nearly 150 neurologists will descend on Capitol Hill next Tuesday, April 23, 2013, to encourage Congress to protect patients' access to neurologists and ensure there will be care for the one in six Americans currently affected by brain disease. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-neurologist-shortage.html Neuroscience Wed, 17 Apr 2013 16:00:02 EST news285429385 Medical school graduates entering one family medicine residency program might receive training that is markedly different than another family medicine residency program. While these new medical school graduates, called residents, will gain the clinical knowledge needed to practice medicine, their scope of skills depend on their specific experiences as residents. A team of healthcare professionals from the Family Medicine Residency Program at Tufts University School of Medicine have published a paper in the Journal of Graduate Medical Education that suggests a way to evaluate family medicine residents based on their level of competency. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-scope-skills-family-medicine-residencies.html Health Tue, 09 Apr 2013 13:42:12 EST news284733681 (HealthDay)—Amid signs of a growing shortage of primary care physicians in the United States, a new study shows that the majority of newly minted doctors continues to gravitate toward training positions in high-income specialties in urban hospitals. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-efforts-boost-primary-doctors.html Health Thu, 10 Jan 2013 13:50:02 EST news277044825 (Medical Xpress)—It appears that long, arduous hours in the hospital are causing more than stress and fatigue among doctors-in-training—they're crashing, or nearly crashing, their cars after work, according to new Mayo Clinic research. Nearly half of the roughly 300 Mayo Clinic residents polled during the course of their residencies reported nearly getting into a motor vehicle crash during their training, and about 11 percent were actually involved in a traffic accident. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-resident-fatigue-stress-trigger-motor.html Other Mon, 17 Dec 2012 11:03:58 EST news274964630 Medical residents training to work in the emergency department need more formal stroke training, says a study presented today at the Canadian Stroke Congress, noting that, as the first point of contact in stroke care, they see nearly 100 per cent of stroke patients taken to hospital. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-emergency-grade.html Cardiology Mon, 01 Oct 2012 03:00:44 EST news268279231 Medical residents are an essential part of the hospital workforce. Although still in training the take on much of the day to day care of patients. A systematic review published in BioMed Central's open access journal BMC Medicine shows that patient by properly supervised residents care is safe and of equal quality to that of fully trained doctors. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-06-patient-residents-good-fully-doctors.html Health Thu, 28 Jun 2012 03:25:02 EST news260072694 A Henry Ford Hospital study found that simulation training improved the critical decision-making skills of medical residents performing actual resuscitations in the Emergency Department. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-05-simulation-critical-decision-making-skills-er.html Other Fri, 11 May 2012 17:16:23 EST news255975377 Pediatricians who show an unconscious preference for European Americans tend to prescribe better pain-management for white patients than they do for African-American patients, new University of Washington research shows. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-pediatricians-pain-medication-judgments-affected-unconscious.html Health Mon, 19 Mar 2012 12:44:26 EST news251379851 Providing personal mobile computers to medical residents increases their efficiency, reduces delays in patient care and enhances continuity of care, according to a "research letter" in the March 12, 2012, issue of the Archives of Internal Medicine. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-personal-mobile-doctors-efficiency.html Other Mon, 12 Mar 2012 16:00:04 EST news250779376 (HealthDay) -- Double gloving during surgery reduces the risk for transmission of bloodborne pathogens to medical personnel as well as minimizing the transfer of health care-associated infections to patients, according to a study published in the March issue of the AORN Journal. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-gloving-exposure-pathogens.html Surgery Wed, 07 Mar 2012 14:00:01 EST news250350324 In a newly published study, researchers found the majority of medical residents surveyed experienced a decline in empathy over the course of the oft-used "long-call" shift. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-01-medical-residents-empathy-declines-long-call.html Health Tue, 31 Jan 2012 08:50:01 EST news247220436 The new limits on hours that physicians-in-training can work will prove costly for U.S teaching hospitals, which will need to spend up to $1.3 billion a year, and possibly more, to effect the changes, a new UCLA study suggests. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-09-limits-physician-hours-costly-hospitals.html Other Thu, 08 Sep 2011 15:47:12 EST news234715602 Sleep deprivation is an issue that affects practising physicians and not only medical residents, and we need to establish standards for maximum work and minimum uninterrupted sleep to ensure patient safety, states an editorial in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal). http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-05-deprivation-doctors.html Health Tue, 24 May 2011 12:22:14 EST news225458518