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AMA sets new course on key medical education issues

A more relevant and efficient maintenance of certification (MOC) process, evidence-based changes to resident/fellow duty hours to ensure patient safety, and improved access to care through innovations in residency program funding were among the actions called for by the AMA House of Delegates during the 2014 AMA Annual Meeting in Chicago.

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Tool helps equip residents to care for at-risk patients

A new online tool is helping residents and their training programs better understand at-risk populations—including the homeless, unemployed, underserved and uninsured—and improve their quality of care.

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How changing med ed will affect GME, CME

Innovative changes happening at medical schools across the country will produce future physicians with entirely different needs. As a result, graduate medical education (and continuing medical education will need to make changes, too, medical education leaders said at a recent Association of Hospital Medical Education meeting.

ChangeMedEd Initiative
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How med ed is addressing the skills new residents may lack

Whether the “July effect” is real or simply lore, for medical students transitioning to residencies, this summer month is tremendously stressful. Internal medicine program directors have expressed concern regarding new interns’ skill sets and the lack of skill set standardization, according to survey results that appeared in the March issue of Academic Medicine. 

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Patient safety culture crucial to effective residencies: Study

Patient safety is a growing part of effective residency programs, so much so that the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education has built quality and safety into its requirements. But a recent study in JAMA Dermatology suggests that improvements around patient safety cultures during residency may be necessary.

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Duty-hour review spotlights negative effects of restrictions

Resident duty-hour restrictions have negative impacts on patient outcomes and performance on certification examinations, according to an analysis of duty-hour studies, which was published in the March issue of Annals of Surgery.

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Duty-hour trials examine effects of dropping current standards

Two large national, multi-institutional resident trials could address key questions concerning the effects of duty-hour standards on patient care and safety and the professional training of physicians. 

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Resident duty-hour limits have no effect on patient safety: New study

Limits on the number of hours residents can work in a single shift have made no difference in patient safety outcomes, according to a new study.

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Unified GME system to bring MDs and DOs under one roof

An agreement reached Wednesday between allopathic and osteopathic medical communities will unite graduate medical education programs for physicians in training with either degree under a single accreditation system to ensure consistency in evaluation and accountability across all residency programs.

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