Medical Education and Training News
May 21, 2024
Top Headlines
Mar. 13, 2024 Teachers might be more motivated to help students engage with their emotions and build their resilience when this work is part of lessons, rather than as an add-on intervention, a new study has ...
Sep. 19, 2023 A new study shows that human instruction is still necessary to detect and compensate for unintended, and sometimes negative, changes in neurosurgeon behavior after virtual reality AI training. This finding has implications for other fields of ...
Aug. 9, 2023 What do superheroes Deadpool and Elastigirl have in common? Each was used in a college anatomy class to add relevance to course discussions -- Deadpool to illustrate tissue repair and Elastigirl, aka Mrs. Incredible, as an example of ...
Aug. 6, 2023 The success of artificial intelligence technologies depends largely on how physicians interpret and act upon a tool's risk predictions -- and that requires a unique set of skills that many are currently lacking, according to a new perspective ...
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Apr. 17, 2024 More than five million central lines are placed in patients who need prolonged drug delivery, such as those undergoing cancer treatments, in the ...
Oct. 19, 2022 The more hours someone works each week in a stressful job, the more their risk of depression rises, a study in new doctors finds. Working 90 or more ...
Nov. 15, 2021 A 13-year effort to track the mental health of new doctors in their most stressful time of training shows signs that things have gotten better. But those first-year residents, also called interns, ...
July 20, 2021 Every spring, the Daylight Saving Time shift robs people of an hour of sleep - and a new study shows that DNA plays a role in how much the time change affects individuals. People whose genetic ...
July 6, 2021 A new report could help improve how immersive technologies such as Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR) are used in healthcare education and ...
Earlier Headlines
Sep. 15, 2022 A study assessed resident physicians' perceptions, coping strategies and self-reported levels of depression, anxiety and stress experienced during the early phase of the ...
Apr. 29, 2022 First-year surgery residents, and first-year medical residents in all fields who are members of sexual minorities such as LGBTQ, are more likely than others to develop depression during the stressful ...
Feb. 22, 2022 The COVID-19 pandemic has presented both challenges and opportunities for medical training. Remote learning technology has become increasingly important in several fields. A new study finds that in a ...
Feb. 8, 2022 A large-scale study has found that simulation-based surgical training produced an increase of surgeons' skills for more complex ...
Oct. 18, 2021 Interviews with two dozen emergency medicine residents in academic medical center found most placed importance on learning to deliver high-quality care to diverse populations. However, many did not ...