The New Yorker magazine ran an excellent article a little while back by Jerome Groopman on how medical simulators are changing the way doctors are trained. It's long, but it's a very well-written look at how this technology is changing things for...

I've been doing a lot of thinking about New Jersey's new mandatory cultural competency training, and about mandatory CME in general. While I laud the intent to improve healthcare workers' cultural competency, how on earth are we supposed to know...

According to this announcement in Medical News Today...

This post courtesy of Anne Taylor-Vaisey: Table of contents for the May 14 BMJ Here's one I want to read: Open access and openly accessible: a study of scientific publications shared via the internet, Jonathan D. Wren, BMJ 2005-1128 ( Link)

This post courtesy of Anne Taylor-Vaisey: Research Question: On-line interactive learning: What are physicians' perspectives of it? Is it effective? ...

You canregister online now for the 16th Annual Conference on CME Provider/Industry Collaboration, scheduled for Oct. 24-26 in Baltimore--if you register before Sept. 1, you get the early-bird discount...

This post courtesy ofAnne Taylor-Vaisey: Here is a feature I use almost every working day of my life. It is a great ...

Who would have guessed that the land of cows, antiques, and ski areas would be worth $3.11 million in drug marketing dollars? But that's what 48 pharma companies spent from July 1, 2003 through June 30, 2004 to market their wares to docs and...

This post courtesy of Anne Taylor-Vaisey: From the June 2005 issue of Allergy: ...

I know we've been posting a lot lately about the trustworthiness of medical publications (here, here, and here, for example). Now, thanks to Anne Taylor-Vaisey, I read this article about how journals are fighting back. A snip: ...