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Med ed gets evaluated in special JAMA issue

A special theme issue of JAMA focuses on important topics in the continuum of medical education, including health care spending, resident duty hours and maintenance of certification (MOC).

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What future doctors need to know about health determinants

Tomorrow’s doctors are learning more about socioeconomic status, gender, sexual orientation and other social determinants of health. Physicians nationwide support integrating more training on the social determinants of health into undergraduate medical education—they voted to make it AMA policy at the 2014 AMA Interim Meeting.

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Real-time tracker puts education decisions into students' hands

The Oregon Health and Science University School of Medicine's REDEI system (Research and Evaluation Data for Educational Improvement) will let medical students, their coaches and school leaders immediately input and track evaluation information, displaying a snapshot of each student’s performance in real time.

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Real clinical data gives medical students new perspectives

Medical students now can use real clinical data to examine patient populations and the value of health care with new, free tools from New York University School of Medicine.

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How one medical school created a “student GPS”

At Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, a new program is tracking where and how students learn, gathering data on a variety of metrics to provide students with a real-time snapshot of their progress through medical school.

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Tomorrow’s doctors should question the status quo: TEDMED 2014

If physicians are going to lead health care changes, they’ll need to take unconventional approaches, ask a lot of questions and support innovation, speakers emphasized at TEDMED 2014.

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Why physicians should admit what they don't know: TEDMED 2014

On the first day of TEDMED, the annual health and medicine edition of TED, transformative thinkers encouraged listeners to question current knowledge. Instead of putting imagination on trial, Jay Walker, curator and chairman of TEDMED, urged listeners to embrace new ideas.

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Video: How to manage and embrace the future of medicine

From his unique position to learn about groundbreaking research, Dr. Bauchner walks physicians through what’s to come in the future—and how to manage changes in preparing for that care in an AMA “Innovations in Medicine” talk.

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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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