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Certain medical students may be more likely to stay in their own countries or work in rural areas of their own countries when they qualify as doctors, suggests a study published in the British Medical Journal today. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-08-medical-students-doctors-countries.html Other Tue, 14 Aug 2012 18:30:05 EST news264165034 (Medical Xpress) -- Women with large breasts have a higher incidence of breast cancer than those with average-sized breasts, according to a study by medical students and researchers at The University of Western Australia and BreastScreen WA. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-07-large-breasts-cancer.html Cancer Wed, 25 Jul 2012 05:00:43 EST news262410872 Medical students around the country are graduating this month, and preparing for the milestone that culminates four years of hard training – their first job as a doctor. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-05-outset-careers-medical-students-workloads.html Pediatrics Wed, 16 May 2012 12:14:16 EST news256389116 (Medical Xpress) -- To provide elderly, hospitalized patients with the best care possible, the medical community needs to reevaluate its reliance on medical technologies, says Bruce J. Naughton, MD, associate professor of medicine at the University at Buffalo and a specialist in geriatrics, which deals specifically with the problems of aging. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-elderly-patients-intervention-geriatrics-specialist.html Health Mon, 16 Apr 2012 06:31:19 EST news253776647 (AP) -- Medical student Gregory Shumer studied the electronic health record and scooted his laptop closer to the diabetic grandfather sitting on his exam table. "You can see," he pointed at the screen - weight, blood sugar and cholesterol are too high and rising. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-healthbeat-doctors-human.html Health Thu, 29 Mar 2012 04:40:02 EST news252213669 An updated policy guiding pelvic examinations of women under anesthetic in Canada has created a gap in terms of consent, states an analysis in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal). http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-policy-consent-pelvic-exams-canada.html Obstetrics & gynaecology Mon, 26 Mar 2012 12:00:05 EST news251981675 The number of U.S. medical student seniors at medical schools choosing internal medicine residencies leveled in 2012 after two years of significant increases. According to the 2012 National Resident Matching Program, 2,941 U.S. medical school seniors matched internal medicine, nearly unchanged from 2011 when 2,940 matched internal medicine. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-internal-medicine-residency-virtually-unchanged.html Other Fri, 16 Mar 2012 18:42:08 EST news251142112 A new study conducted by Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) researchers shows that a majority of medical students in Yemen believe that chewing the plant khat is harmful to one's health but they would not advise their patients to quit. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-focuses-khat-yemeni-culture.html Addiction Wed, 07 Mar 2012 11:06:10 EST news250340764 A medical school in Ireland has successfully implemented a radiation protection program, improving knowledge of radiation protection among medical undergraduates, according to a study in the March issue of the Journal of the American College of Radiology. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-medical-school-successful-undergraduate-students.html Other Thu, 01 Mar 2012 04:50:01 EST news249799243 A study carried out by fourth year medical students of Universiti Malaysia Sarawak (UNIMAS) has shown that taking contraceptive pill is the most common method for birth control. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-02-pill-birth-malaysia.html Obstetrics & gynaecology Wed, 29 Feb 2012 08:06:55 EST news249725204 One in ten students now claim to know someone who is using prostitution to pay for university fees, a medical student writing for the Student BMJ claims. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-02-medical-students-prostitution-years.html Other Tue, 28 Feb 2012 18:30:03 EST news249670404 It is estimated that half of all deaths in the United States are linked to behavioral and social factors such as smoking, diet and physical inactivity. Despite these causal links, of the $2 trillion spent annually on health care in the U.S., only 5 percent of that is devoted to addressing behavioral and social risk factors. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-02-grant-behavioral-social-factors-linked.html Health Tue, 28 Feb 2012 12:56:40 EST news249656152 Researchers at Moffitt Cancer Center in Tampa, Fla., and the University of South Florida (USF) College of Medicine evaluated the experience of medical students who participated in videotaped sessions where they practiced conveying difficult news to "standardized patients" (SPs). The SPs role-played patients with a variety of cancers and who were receiving bad medical news. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-02-bad-news-patients.html Health Wed, 22 Feb 2012 11:57:21 EST news249134169 A unique board game developed by a group of medical students at Western University will help bridge gaps between various health disciplines to better educate students about their roles in interdisciplinary health teams. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-02-students-interdisciplinary.html Health Thu, 16 Feb 2012 17:10:39 EST news248634630 A Georgetown University School of Medicine professor's online anatomy dissector designed to assist medical students in learning gross anatomy is described as a "superb learning tool" in a review published in the February 15 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA). http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-02-jama-georgetown-professor-online-anatomy.html Other Tue, 14 Feb 2012 16:00:08 EST news248448542 (AP) -- At first, David Oliver ignored the bump on his neck that he noticed while shaving. The medical school professor assumed it was calcified scar tissue from a previous surgery. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-02-professor-documents-cancer-online-videos.html Cancer Thu, 02 Feb 2012 09:39:34 EST news247397963 Only 21 percent of surveyed medical students could identify five true and two false indications of when and when not to wash their hands in the clinical setting, according to a study published in the December issue of the American Journal of Infection Control, the official publication of APIC - the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-12-medical-students.html Other Thu, 01 Dec 2011 12:31:15 EST news241964947 An innovative program at the University of Missouri School of Medicine could help states deal with a dilemma in Washington, D.C. If deficit-reduction measures cut billions of dollars for training physicians who are already in short supply, who will care for the more than 30 million newly insured patients entering the health care system? http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-09-homegrown-solution-physician-shortage-academic.html Health Wed, 28 Sep 2011 10:41:07 EST news236425246 Johns Hopkins study suggests medical students may "learn" to treat nonwhite patients differently than white patients http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-09-roots-racial-bias-delivery-health.html Health Tue, 06 Sep 2011 16:44:19 EST news234546249 Medical students who practiced on a patient simulator before assisting in real-life vaginal deliveries scored significantly higher on their final examinations than did students receiving a lecture only at the start of an obstetric clerkship. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-09-simulation-obstetric-clerkship-medical-students.html Other Fri, 02 Sep 2011 10:53:15 EST news234179583 Doctors should be allowed to object to any procedure that conflicts with their personal, moral, or religious beliefs, reveals a survey of medical students, published in the Journal of Medical Ethics. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-07-conscientious-procedure-doctor-medical-students.html Other Tue, 19 Jul 2011 03:05:26 EST news230263509 A new study gauging the impact of consuming more fish oil showed a marked reduction both in inflammation and, surprisingly, in anxiety among a cohort of healthy young people. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-07-omega-anxiety-inflammation-healthy-students.html Health Wed, 13 Jul 2011 11:05:11 EST news229773884 (Medical Xpress) -- What started as a 2 a.m. conversation over coffee – a commiseration, really – between two fourth-year medical students, ended with the development of a free mobile medical translation application with the potential to profoundly impact patient care worldwide. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-06-medical-students-free-app-conquering.html Health Thu, 23 Jun 2011 06:44:13 EST news228030212 Medical students in the United States are frequently exposed to pharmaceutical marketing, even in their preclinical years, and the extent of their contact with industry is associated with positive attitudes about marketing and skepticism towards any negative implications. These findings from research led by Kirsten Austad and Aaron S. Kesselheim from the Harvard Medical School in Boston, USA, published in this week's PLoS Medicine, suggest that strategies to educate students about interactions with the pharmaceutical industry should directly address widely-held misconceptions about the effects of marketing. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-05-medical-students-substantial-exposure-pharmaceutical.html Other Tue, 24 May 2011 17:48:06 EST news225478065 Most medical students feel they lack the skills and legal knowledge required to challenge poor clinical practice and promote better patient care, reveals research published ahead of print in the Journal of Medical Ethics. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-05-medical-schools-legal-skills-medicine.html Other Mon, 16 May 2011 19:04:20 EST news224791386 Rice University bioengineering students have modified a child-size training mannequin to give medical students hands-on pediatric experience so that real patients can be spared further stress and pain. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-05-child-size-mannequin-hands-on-real-patients.html Other Mon, 16 May 2011 16:39:28 EST news224782717 Kidney disease affects 1 in 9 US adults, and by 2020 more than 750,000 Americans will be on dialysis or awaiting kidney transplant. Despite this growing health problem, every year fewer US medical students adopt nephrology as a career, according to a review appearing in an upcoming issue of the Clinical Journal of the American Society Nephrology (CJASN). http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-05-medical-students-kidney-careers.html Other Thu, 05 May 2011 17:47:34 EST news223836434 Medical educators need to be aware of the cultural context in which they teach because these outside forces can affect what is taught and how information is received by students. Drawing upon their experiences teaching medical students the same formal curriculum, researchers at the Weill Cornell Medical College in New York and in Doha, Qatar, urge other educators to pay attention to cultural patterns outside their medical schools to be sure that their lesson plans don't go astray because of missed cross-cultural signals. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-04-social-context-medical-health.html Other Tue, 12 Apr 2011 14:11:40 EST news221836291