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Why faculty development is crucial to med ed innovation

Academic physicians and faculty across the country are innovating new ways to teach the physicians of tomorrow, but first, the trainers must become the trainees.

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What physicians need to make better use of technology

How can tomorrow’s physicians integrate technology into their practice beyond simply using electronic health records (EHR)? One medical school outlined exactly how physicians of the future can be adept at making technology work for them.

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Project gets underway to ensure sustainable med school innovations

By applying principles of business organizational change to medical schools, faculty at some of the schools participating in the AMA’s Accelerating Change in Education consortium are seeking to measure schools’ readiness for change and ways to ensure changes can be maintained over time.

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Medical educators examine century-old problem at Harvard event

Today’s medical students—and tomorrow’s physicians—have a vast amount of information available to them, and teaching them to sort through the good information and use it appropriately is a challenge medical educators are working to solve.

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Exposure to pharma reps affects trainees' Rx knowledge: Study

Medical students and residents who report higher levels of pharmaceutical marketing interactions were more likely to prescribe brand name drugs and less likely to rely on evidence-based treatment options, according to a study in JAMA Internal Medicine.

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Medical education explores competency-based assessment

More medical schools are moving their learning models toward competency-based assessment, requiring greater collaboration and information-sharing in this relatively new area.

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The physician exam: A lost art

When physicians don’t conduct physical exams, patients are the ones that suffer. According to a recent article in Kaiser Health News, physical exams are giving way to the use of sophisticated, expensive tests in order to diagnose patients.

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Harvard symposium explores how to take med ed into the future

About 200 academic physicians discussed the role of technology in medical education during the Harvard Macy Institute (HMI) 20th Anniversary Symposium last week in Boston, sharing ideas for transformational learning in the face of a changing health care system.

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Where med schools are headed: 12 months of innovations

In the year since the AMA announced the participants in its unprecedented initiative to transform medical education and create new ways to train future physicians, there has been tremendous progress and consensus on new ideas.

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