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J Am Geriatr Soc
October 2024
Division of Public Health Sciences, Department of Biostatistics and Data Science, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA.
Background: serious illness conversations (SIC), particularly for persons living with cognitive impairment (PLCI), inconsistently happen in primary care. Pragmatic, scalable strategies are needed to promote SIC for PLCI.
Design: Pragmatic, prospective single-arm pilot study that occurred between July 1, 2021 and May 30, 2022 across seven primary care practices in North Carolina.
Cureus
November 2022
Women's and Children's Health, Florida Atlantic University Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine, Boca Raton, USA.
Introduction: Many medical students' initial experience obtaining a history from a pediatric patient happens in their clerkship years. There is a shift in medical education to provide early clinical experiences to train physicians. To increase the exposure to pediatric history in the pre-clinical years, we developed this simulation-based session involving students in their second year of medical school.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe present article is the second in a series of Background Papers prepared as part of the AAMC's Medical School Objectives Project (MSOP). This report provides information about and insight into U.S.
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February 1998
Association of American Medical Colleges, Washington, DC 20037, USA.
Participants at the third meeting of the AAMC's Forum on the Future of Academic Medicine in June 1997 were asked to give their views of what the main characteristics of successful medical schools should be in the year 2010, given that market pressures are becoming increasingly dominant in the health care environment. The most-cited characteristics concerned structure and management systems. Participants were then asked how far along they thought schools had come in acquiring these and other characteristics they had named.
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February 1998
AAMC, Washington, DC 20037-1127, USA.
Leadership in improving the education of doctors, while impressive, is not happening fast enough. While there are many obstacles, there is no time to waste in restructuring medical education to repair its present deficiencies, for otherwise outside forces could overwhelm today's education leaders with imperatives to make improvements on their own terms. The first step in addressing present shortcomings is to establish measurable objectives for the education of doctors that are aligned with the legitimate expectations of society and the enduring precepts of the medical profession.
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