Staff News Writer

With the percentage of Americans with diabetes more than doubling in the past two decades, it’s important to know how to manage the disease’s complications. A continuing medical education activity can help.

When is “Googling” patient information appropriate for physicians? A recent case in the Journal of General Internal Medicine examines this question. Some researchers contend that professional medical societies must update or amend their Internet guidelines to address the ethics behind it.

As health care transforms to make population health management and patient-centered care some of its highest priorities, who is best suited to lead? An article in Becker’s Hospital Review discusses how the need for clinical leadership is becoming more apparent.

Do physicians owe a duty of care to someone other than their patients? This question is at the center of a case before the New York Court of Appeals after a bus driver was injured in a head-on collision with a car driven by a recently discharged patient.

For the second Medical Student Advocacy Day in a row, a snow storm that shut down Washington, D.C. didn’t deter more than 150 medical students from descending on Capitol Hill to ask Congress for new and innovative ways to fund graduate medical education.

Citing the need for a comprehensive and sustained effort to strengthen graduate medical education (GME), the Association of American Medical Colleges released its five-year road map to optimize GME.

Anesthesiology has expanded far beyond the operating room into obstetrics, pain management, critical care and the full range of perioperative care. The specialty’s growth has brought complex ethical questions with it.