Leading education and research charity Education for Health has launched a new interactive eLearning resource on spirometry as part of its eLearning vision.* The new National Clinical Strategy for COPD and revised NICE guidelines on COPD highlight the importance of high quality spirometry in primary care and the new Diploma and Degree level courses aim to meet this need. In recent years, the accuracy of spirometry readings and interpretation in primary care has come under criticism...

Overcoming a learning disability to become a physician will actually help in being compassionate toward patients, writes a medical student of his struggle with a severe reading disability in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal). Daniel Heffner, a medical student at the University of British Columbia who will graduate in 2013, ...

Dramatic changes are needed in medical student education, including a substantial reduction in the number of traditional lectures, according to a perspective piece published in the New England Journal of Medicine by two Stanford University professors. Medical education has changed little in the past 100 years despite dramatic changes in ...

Tablet based conference mirroring is giving residents an up close and personal look at images and making radiology case conferences a more interactive learning experience, a new study shows. Residents at Northwestern University in Chicago are using tablets and a free screen sharing software during case conferences to see and ...

A study in BMJ (British Medical Journal) shows that medical schools that use the UK Clinical aptitude Test (UKCAT) as part of their admission process, enable more students from certain socioeconomically disadvantaged groups to study. Even though efforts, such as access to higher education, have been made in order to ...

Public scrutiny and the threat of government regulation are leading to a decline in industry-sponsored funding of accredited continuing medical education (CME) for physicians, and this decline represents an opportunity to make CME more relevant, cost-effective and less open to bias, wrote a group of physicians from the San Francisco ...

Measure twice and cut once is a well-known phrase among surgeons, but this is not always what happens. To better prepare new surgeons for the operating room, University of Houston (UH) computer scientists are working with medical researchers at the Methodist Institute for Technology, Innovation and Education (MITIE) to improve ...

In a groundbreaking White Paper published today, 1 March 2012, in the European Heart Journal, the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) has set out its perspective on the relationship between the healthcare industry and professional medical associations with regard to the funding and delivery of continuing medical education (CME). ...