Category: MedicalEducation

JGrimes
Connecticut’s Quinnipiac University announced earlier this year that it wanted to open a medical school, beginning a push that will take until 2013 or 2014 to get the first med students in the door.
The new school would be located in several buildings that the university, located near New Haven, purchased in nearby North […]

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William Chin, Eli Lilly’s senior VP for discovery and clinical research, is going to take a newly created job at Harvard Medical School.
He’ll be the “executive dean for research.” It sounds like at least part of his job will be figuring out how Harvard researchers should interact with industry, as well as […]

Jacob Goldstein
Is a $3 million grant from Pfizer the answer to creating continuing medical education courses that are free of industry influence? Yes, according to Stanford’s med school.
In a statement this morning, Stanford said the three-year grant comes with “no conditions, and the company will not be involved in developing the curriculum.”
Drug companies, […]

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Sorry, one more New Year’s story to get out of the way: Top doctors at Mass. General and Brigham & Women’s — two of the most prestigious hospitals in the country — have to limit their financial ties to the drug and device industries under rules that kicked in on the first […]

Jacob Goldstein
Where’s the best place for doctors at a county hospital in Northern California to keep up to date with medical developments?
Auditors looking at three years of spending on continuing medical education found 339 docs at Santa Clara Valley Medical Center spent time in Canada, Mexico, Switzerland, Italy, South Africa, Puerto Rico, Spain, […]

JGrimes
A faculty doc at UC San Francisco fell for an email phishing scam, opening up access to personal information on some 600 patients and others to hackers, the university said yesterday.
The school didn’t identify the doctor involved in the breach, which took place in September, and it said there’s no indication that the […]

JGrimes
One more big health-care institution has started reporting financial ties between doctors and the drug and device industries. This time it’s Northwestern’s med school, where the online faculty profiles now include docs’ service on boards of directors, consulting gigs, investment interests, royalties, lectures and participation in scientific advisory boards, the school said yesterday.
Stanford’s […]

JGrimes
When medical residents work 30-hour shifts, should they be guaranteed a five-hour nap? The Institute of Medicine thinks so, but the AMA disagrees.
At its recent meeting, the AMA adopted a new policy to oppose the guaranteed sleep time. Mandatory naps could “have significant unintended consequences for continuity of patient care and safety, as […]

JGrimes
The NIH gives out more than $20 billion a year in research money, and the institutions that get it — universities and med schools, among others — are supposed to track potential conflicts of interest among their researchers and report back to the NIH. But who decides what constitutes a potential conflict of […]

JGrimes
There aren’t enough bodies to go around for everyone who needs a steady supply of cadavers for training and experiments. That shortage is helping turn the process of procuring cadavers into a functioning market, says a Harvard professor.
Most cadavers are obtained through medical-school programs that allow people to donate their body to science. […]