We all know that pharma companies collect prescription data, but according to this article, one of the companies that collects this data for pharma, ImpactRX, goes a whole lot farther than most, if not all, other med trackers. The company provides...
Recommended reading from Anne Taylor-Vaisey: From the February 4 issue of The Lancet:
Margery H Davis and Gominda G Ponnamperuma. Medical education research at the crossroads. The Lancet 2006; 367:377-378.
From Anne Taylor-Vaisey (who is SACME's Web editor)...
I ran into a couple of folks from the American Medical Association at the Alliance conference after I posted this item on their session, and they said it was fine after all to post about the policies they discussed at their session, as long as I...
OK, this is just silly, but it cracked me up: Peep surgery. From the looks of the Peep that underwent manual CPR, I think this guy has a lot to learn about tailoring the treatment to the patient!
Recommended reading from Anne Taylor-Vaisey: Medical Teacher January December 2005; 27 (8). Some articles of possible interest...
I love this idea from Tom Peters...
...get a life. Here I am in beautiful San Francisco on a Saturday night, and I'm sitting in a hotel room typing up notes. Is that pathetic or what?? I have one more session to write up, but I think I'm going to call it quits for the night—my brain...
This is such an important topic for CME providers that I hope the Alliance gives it a marathon of its own next year. Now that New Jersey and California have rules mandating some form of cultural competency training for healthcare workers in place...
