While pharma is, generally speaking, well aware of the need to train company employees in industry and company rules and regs, device companies aren't exempt. According to a press release sent to promote a link to this white paper, "Tracking &...
GrrlScientist did a great job with this week's Grand Rounds, where physicians and others muse about all things medical. Of particular interest to Capsules readers is Doctor Mo's Prescribing Under the Influence; and for comments on Board...
The press has been hammering the pharmaceutical industry for trying to sway medical professionals by injecting some bias into physician education, and it's easy to see why. Physician education is based on studies that largely are underwritten by...
Funny how I came across this article about docs learning Spanish through a program run by Common Ground right after I finished posting the cultural competency item below. It says that the classes are accredited by the National Academy of Family...
This post courtesy of Anne Taylor-Vaisey: In case you folks have nothing to do, there are quite a few new issues of medical education newsletters to read.
This post courtesy of Anne Taylor-Vaisey: The Professionalism Assessment Project is a response of the National Board of Medical Examiners (NBME) to the broad and growing demand for assessment of the fundamentals of professionalism. ...
The Canadian Medical Association Journal has started up its first blog as an experiment on what is and isn't appropriate for a medical journal--how interesting! It's being written by former CMAJ editorial fellow James Maskalyk, under the pen name...
Apparently so, according to a recent study by Manhattan Research. "The number of physicians stating that technology is essential to the way they practice medicine has grown from only 114,000 in 2002 to more than 380,000 in 2005," says a press...
While I was poking around on the AdvaMed site today (see below), I found this statement, "AdvaMed welcomed the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) release of a draft guidance outlining a new, evidence-based approach to national...