Learning from the Navajos

Dec 21, 2005

In this article from KansasCity.com, Lori Arviso Alvord, a Navajo who grew up on a reservation in New Mexico who now is a surgeon and an associate dean at Dartmouth Medical School in New Hampshire, talks about a talk she gave to CME groups at St...

Joanne Rosenberg joins Scinexa Medical Education Group

Dec 21, 2005

From a press release...

Effective Practice & Organisation of Care (EPOC): Cochrane Reviews

Dec 21, 2005

This post courtesy of Anne Taylor-Vaisey: ...

Articles on ethics in healthcare

Dec 21, 2005

This post courtesy of Anne Taylor-Vaisey...

Reflection and teaching competence

Dec 20, 2005

This post courtesy of Anne Taylor-Vaisey: From the November 2005 issue of Journal of Philosophy of Education: Erlandson P. The body disciplined: rewriting teaching competence and the doctrine of reflection. Journal of Philosophy of Education 2005...

NYT weighs in on conflict of interest

Dec 16, 2005

Expect some blowback on this editorial in today's New York Times: Drugs, Devices and Doctors: In our medical system, conflicts of interest aren't the exception—they're the norm...

Scanga earns Cancer Control Merit Award

Dec 16, 2005

Kudos to Lynne Scanga! From the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette...

Caption this New Yorker cartoon

Dec 15, 2005

New Yorker magazine has been running this cartoon contest for a while, but this week's is too good to pass up. There are a couple of good ones for this cartoon over at DB's Medical Rants. My favorites: “This interview is being monito...

Looking for studies on case vignettes

Dec 14, 2005

I recently got this request from a reader, and was hoping you all could help. If you can, please leave a citation in the comments, or e-mail it to me and I'll pass it along. ...

Watch those document changes

Dec 14, 2005

This Forbes article explains how Microsoft Word added to Merck's Vioxx troubles...