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American Medical Student Association Applauds Pharmaceutical Industry For Voluntary Ban; Continues To Call For Federal Regulation
The American Medical Student Association (AMSA), the nation's oldest and largest, independent association for physicians-in-training, applauds the pharmaceutical industry for implementing a voluntary ban on gifts to physicians, which began on January 1, 2009. Enacted by the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA), the ban will prohibit pens, coffee mugs and other branded gifts.

Benedictine University Launches New Online Program, Master Of Science In Nursing
To prepare nurses to meet the growing demand for highly qualified nurse administrators, nurse leaders and nurse educators, Benedictine University's School of Health Sciences is excited to launch its fully online Master of Science in Nursing (M.S.N.) program. In launching the program, the university is responding to a specific need in the industry for individualized education.

Presidential Early Career Award
The White House announced recently that Maura Borrego, an assistant professor in the Virginia Tech College of Engineering's Department of Engineering Education received a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) for the development of methods that will better prepare faculty and graduate students for interdisciplinary research. Borrego's award represents the first one given to an engineer in the area of engineering education research.

Deficits In Urological Knowledge Among Medical Students And Primary Care Providers: Potential For Impact On Urological Care
UroToday.com - Increasing attention is being directed to the urological education of medical students. Recently a decline in this teaching at the medical school level has raised concerns with regards to general clinician knowledge of clinical problems related to urology and to the recruitment of students to urology residency training.

Boston University Medical Center Gynecologist Named One Of America's Top Doctors
Newton resident Linda Heffner, MD, PhD, chair of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Boston Medical Center (BMC) and professor of obstetrics and gynecology at Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) was recently named one of America's Top Doctors by Castle Connolly Medical Ltd. The America's Top Doctors guide, recognized by consumers seeking high-quality medical care, is a trusted and authoritative resource for identifying top doctors in the United States.

Records Of Sick Children During Victorian And Edwardian England Revealed
Historians from Kingston University have teamed up with Great Ormond Street Hospital to reveal the medical records of sick children cared for during Victorian and Edwardian times. New touching stories offering a glimpse into the traumatic lives of poor, chronically sick children during Victorian and Edwardian times have been revealed thanks to a project undertaken by Kingston University and Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Trust.

NCCN Provides Oncology Training For Nearly 200 Medical Professionals In Philadelphia
With the recent news that cancer is expected to be the world's new leading cause of death by 2010, it is crucial that individuals who help manage patients with cancer are educated on the latest advances in oncology care.

Attrition In Residency Associated With Several Factors
Graduates of medical school who enter residency programs seem more likely to change specialty or discontinue completely if they are highly qualified academically, pursuing general surgery, or a five-year surgical specialty, according to an article released on December 15, 2008 in Archives of Surgery, one of the JAMA/Archives journals. The graduate medical education system is structured in a specific way.

New Legionella Course Includes Hands-On Assessment Training
HC Info's new three-day training course, "Performing High Quality Legionella Assessments," will be held May 19-21 at the Carlsbad Inn Beach Resort in Carlsbad, Calif. The course is for engineers, water treatment specialists, and industrial hygienists that want to provide Legionella assessment services for hospitals, hotels, or industrial facilities; and for public environmental health officials that investigate Legionnaires' disease.

Internists Ask President-elect Obama To Include Aid For Primary Care In Stimulus Proposal
At the request of the presidential transition team, ideas on advancing health care reform in the stimulus package were provided today by the American College of Physicians (ACP). ACP represents 126,000 internal medicine physicians and medical student members. It is the nation's largest medical specialty society and it is the second largest physician membership organization.

New Medical Defence Union Journal For Foundation Year Doctors, UK
Ward Round, a brand new journal for foundation year doctors, has been launched by the Medical Defence Union (MDU), the UK's leading medical defence organisation. Ward Round, will be published twice-yearly and sent to the MDU's F1 and F2 members. The first issue* focuses on what F1 and F2 doctors need to know about patient capacity and the Mental Capacity Act 2005. MDU solicitor, Ian Barker, looks at a number of scenarios and explains how the law will work in practice.

Certain Factors Associated With Attrition During Graduate Medical Education Training
Graduates from a single medical school who began graduate medical education (residency) programs appear more likely to change specialty or discontinue graduate medical education training if they are academically highly qualified or are pursuing training in general surgery or a five-year surgical specialty, according to a report in the December issue of Archives of Surgery, one of the JAMA/Archives journals.

Small And Special - The Lives Of Victorian Children Revealed
New touching stories offering a glimpse into the traumatic lives of poor, chronically sick children during Victorian and Edwardian times have been revealed thanks to a project undertaken by Kingston University and Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Trust. Around 10,000 records, detailing the admissions of children who went to the hospital's Cromwell House convalescent home in North London, have been published on the Small and Special website - an online educational tool.

Bayer USA Foundation Awards $279,000 Grant To Exemplary STEM Education Diversity Program
Reaffirming its longstanding commitment to help strengthen science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) education and bring more women and minorities into STEM fields, the Bayer USA Foundation today awarded a $279,000 grant over three years to the nationally lauded Mathematics, Engineering, Science Achievement (MESA) program to help educationally disadvantaged students in the San Francisco Bay area to achieve and succeed in these subjects.

Chinese Women To Gain Management And Leadership Education Through Yale-Tsinghua Partnership
The Yale School of Public Health is partnering with Tsinghua University in Beijing to provide management and leadership education for 500 underserved women in China working in the healthcare field. The partnership, beginning in 2009, is part of the Goldman Sachs 10,000 Women initiative.