Career educational institution Legacy Education welcomed the newest member of its family of career training schools, High Desert Medical College, Inc. The medical training school prepares aspiring medical professionals for careers that include ultrasound technician, massage therapist, medical assistant and full and part time vocational nurse...
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), which is tasked with enforcing safety and health legislation, should take doctors-in-training under its purview, consumer and health advocacy groups said today in a petition sent to the agency. Resident physicians work shifts as long as 30 hours as often as three times a week, which can lead to physician fatigue and medical errors...
A new medical school training undergraduate doctors in Singapore and awarding joint Imperial College London and Nanyang Technological University (NTU) degrees is to be established by 2013, it was confirmed...
AMIA, the U.S.-based association for informatics professionals, has launched a non-profit, wholly owned subsidiary organization called the Global Health Informatics Partnership (GHIP) to serve as an international center for collaborative initiatives on health informatics...
Uncertain where your career in medicine will take you? Physicians Practice has ranked the states based on physician density, liability premiums, cost of living, and taxes. This financial perspective may give help to shape your thinking.
Best States to Practice 2010 [Physicians Practice]
The Canadian government started rolling out its maternal health program in Africa as Minister of International Co-operation Bev Oda embarked on a seven-day visit to Mali and Mozambique, the Globe and Mail reports (York, 8/27)...
When reconsidering the role of an automobile during medical school, weigh the demands of scattered clinical rotations against the direct and opportunity costs of ownership and upkeep. The Economical Academic poses useful questions to aid your decision.
2. If I lived in a place where I wouldn’t drive my car to work, what else would I use my car for? How much will I use it? How inconvenienced would I be if I didn’t have it for those things?
3. How expensive will it be to maintain a car where I am moving? Will my car insurance go up? State/county/city vehicle registration costs? Parking fees? Parking tickets? Gas prices? If you are moving across the country, how expensive will it be to tow/drive my car there?
4. How and how often will I travel outside my city? Can I travel by bus, train, or plane for trips that I might drive if I had a car? How expensive/inconvenient will it be to visit my family/significant other/best friend without a car?
When creating your cost estimates of ownership, do not forget to factor in the cost of parking and speeding tickets based on your personal driving history ($ per mile driven is a useful unit of measure). The same estimate should be made for accident costs.
Deciding to be car-free [The Economical Academic]
Some practical advice for those medical students finding it difficult to make deadlines…
2. Surround yourself with clocks (not just the one on your cell phone)
4. Give yourself a handicap. If you’re a bad estimator, double the time you think it will take to get there.
7. Don’t try to do too much. Keep a detailed schedule and don’t be distracted by tasks not on it.
Time is not money for everyone, but it is a resource. If you waste someone’s, they can’t get it back. Punctuality is about consideration
9 Waye to Never be Late Again [Dumb Little Man]
The University of Arizona Center for Education and Research on Therapeutics provides a handy list of medications associated with Torsades de Pointes, a ventricular tachyarrhythmia often seen in the setting of hypokalemia, hypomagnesemia, hypocalcemia, diarrhea, or alcoholism.
Torsades has the dangerous potential for degeneration into ventricular fibrillation and is treated with magnesium sulfate infusion and, if necessary, defibrillation. Removal of predisposing drugs is essential for long-term protection. Refer to Arizona’s drug lists when you notice QT prolongation on EKG.
Torsades List [Arizona Cert]
An excerpt from Kendra Campbell’s 8 pointer’s for first-year residents — equally applicable to medical students…
1. Show up early, stay late.
2. Know as much as possible about your patients.
3. Be BFFs with the nurses.
4. Do things without having to be asked. Figure out what needs to be done, and do it (unless it’s a questionable procedure).
5. Don’t do anything you feel uncomfortable doing!
6. Always ask questions and inform your higher ups …You will never get in trouble for asking questions or asking for help, but you WILL get in trouble for NOT asking questions or not asking for help!
