Latest Residents News

• The 'Grubby' Affair of the EXCEL Trial and the European Guidelines A major trial comparing stents and surgery influenced European guidelines, but allegations of misconduct and hidden data have led many cardiologists and researchers to demand an independent analysis.
  Medscape Medical News, October 30, 2020
• Superspreaders Spur Record New U.S. COVID Cases Less than a week ago, a daily record was set with 83,000 new cases.
  WebMD Health News, October 30, 2020
• COVID and Med Ed Cost: Are Future Docs Paying More for Less? As the cost of medical education continues to rise, the pandemic has restricted opportunities for medical trainees. Is the next generation of doctors still getting their money's worth, or are changes ahead?
  Medscape Medical News, October 30, 2020
• The Trump Medicaid Record: Big Goals, Yet Few Successes His administration supported repealing the Affordable Care Act's Medicaid expansion, which has added millions of adults to the federal-state health program for lower-income Americans.
  Kaiser Health News, October 29, 2020
• Black Resident Dies After Childbirth, Highlights Tragic Trend Experts say Chaniece Wallace's death highlights a grim statistic: Black women in the US are up to three times more likely to die of pregnancy-related causes.
  Medscape Medical News, October 28, 2020
• Hospitalists Are Natural Leaders in the COVID Battle Four hospitalists share their experiences in treating patients with COVID-19.
  Medscape Hospital Medicine, October 28, 2020
• CHEST 2020 Pandemic Pushes Residents to Improve Patient Communication The experience of many residents and interns in New York City during the COVID-19 peak in the spring helped them hone their communication skills related to goals-of-care discussions, survey data show.
  Medscape Medical News, October 27, 2020
• ASRM 2020 Telehealth Expands Access for Male Infertility Visits More than a third of male infertility visits were with providers other than urologists, one study found, but telehealth options have become a feasible alternative to expand access.
  Medscape Medical News, October 27, 2020
• COVID-19 Taking a Toll on Med Students, Survey Shows Medical students are concerned that pandemic-related interruptions will delay their graduation and may negatively affect their ability to practice medicine as they start their careers.
  Medscape Medical News, October 26, 2020
• Teledentistry Makes Some Dentists Wince Adela Planerova, MD, looked into his mouth from 28 miles away as Pogue pointed her laptop’s camera into her son’s mouth. Planerova determined they did not need to make an emergency one-hour drive to her clinic.
  Kaiser Health News, October 21, 2020
• Patients Can Read Your Clinical Notes Starting Nov 2 Traditionally, clinical notes have been written by doctors for other doctors and various administrators, but a federal mandate now gives patients immediate and easy access too.
  Medscape Medical News, October 21, 2020
• Most Home Health Aides Need to Work, Even When Lacking PPE During the pandemic, home health aides have buttressed the U.S. health care system by keeping the most vulnerable patients — seniors, the disabled, the infirm — out of hospitals.
  Kaiser Health News, October 20, 2020
• Ireland Announces 6-Week Lockdown Restrictions "The evidence of a potentially grave situation arising in the weeks ahead is now too strong," Michael Martin, the prime minister of Ireland, said in a national address on Monday night.
  WebMD Health News, October 20, 2020
• SCCM COVID-19 2020 COVID-19 Transforms Medical Education: No 'Back to Normal' The COVID-19 pandemic has thrown a monkey wrench into the medical education landscape across the entire health care spectrum.
  Medscape Medical News, October 20, 2020
• Four U.S. Counties Remain COVID-Free "Is it that they don't have access? Or are they so remote that they essentially serve as their own version of the NBA bubble?"
  WebMD Health News, October 19, 2020
• Doctors: Lonely and Burned Out in COVID-19. How Are They Coping? A recent Medscape survey found high levels of loneliness, stress, and burnout in physicians during COVID-19. Isolation and relationship stress add to the problem.
  Medscape Medical News, October 19, 2020
• Study Finding Patients of Female Surgeons Fare Better is Removed An Elsevier journal has, for the moment, removed a paper that found that the patients of female surgeons fare better than those treated by men.
  Medscape Medical News, October 16, 2020
• The Horror of Medical School Captured on Film   To draw attention to how medical school administrations often fail to fully address student concerns, Phillip Anjum made a film. His hope is that a horror movie will be harder to ignore than an email.
  Medscape Medical News, October 16, 2020
• All-Female Surgical Residency Class Defies Stereotypes Overcoming misperceptions, bullying, and challenging family obligations, the women of Saint Louis University's first all-female class of surgeons hope their story inspires those who follow.
  Medscape Medical News, October 15, 2020
• Is Patient Suicide in Psychiatry a 'Medical Error'? When a psychiatrist loses a patient to suicide, grief-stricken families often point the finger at the doctor. But should psychiatrists be held liable for suicide by patients with mental illness?
  Medscape Medical News, October 14, 2020