Latest Residents News

• Sexual Harassment Common in Surgical Training Programs About seven in 10 young female surgeons say they have experienced at least one form of sexual harassment during their training, according to a new survey.
  Reuters Health Information, April 2019
• Emergency-Medicine Residents Often Miscalculate IV Doses for Kids Emergency-medicine residents often miscalculate doses for a variety of intravenous medications used to treat children, according to new findings.
  Reuters Health Information, April 2019
• Interns Spend Most Time With EMRs, Not Patients Interns spent most of the day on indirect patient care; most of this time was spent working with electronic medical records (EMRs) and multitasking, according to the iCOMPARE study.
  Medscape Medical News, April 2019
• Medical Groups Support Bid to Add 15,000 Residency Slots Hospital and physician organizations are pressing lawmakers to expand Medicare funding for graduate medical education.
  Medscape Medical News, April 2019
• Fukushima Contaminants Found as Far North as Alaska's Bering Strait Radioactive contamination from Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant hit by a tsunami in 2011 has drifted as far north as waters off a remote Alaska island in the Bering Strait, scientists said on Wednesday.
  Reuters Health Information, March 2019
• AAPM 2019Novel Program Trains Nurse Practitioners to Manage Pain Patients In a unique educational program, nurse practitioners learned how to examine patients with shoulder and knee pain and how to determine which patients require specialist referral.
  Medscape Medical News, March 2019
• Alert Residency Match Day Is Largest in History A record 38,376 US and international applicants submitted program choices for 35,185 positions; 80% of applicants matched to PGY-1 positions, and 95% of PGY-1 positions were filled.
  Medscape Medical News, March 2019
• Longer Resident Hours Not Tied to Worse Outcomes New data can put the question of resident hours to rest, experts said.
  Medscape Medical News, March 2019
• For Diagnosing a Patient's Ills, There's Strength in Numbers Diagnoses may be more accurate if they are the result of online physician crowdsourcing, a new study suggests.
  Reuters Health Information, March 2019
• Overlapping Surgery for Training Surgical Residents Generally Safe Overlapping surgery is not associated with worse perioperative outcomes compared with nonoverlapping surgery, a large retrospective analysis suggests.
  Reuters Health Information, February 2019
• Free Tuition for First Classes of Kaiser Permanente Med School The California medical school will open in the summer of 2020 and will begin accepting applications to its inaugural class this spring.
  Medscape Medical News, February 2019
• DO Match Day Yields More Than 500 Primary Care Residents Primary care specialties make up 56% of matches, with orthopedic surgery tops in specialty placements.
  Medscape Medical News, February 2019
• U.S. Army Vows to Fix 'Broken' Housing at Fort Meade in Wake of Reuters Report The commander of one of the largest Army bases in the United States promised residents to fix a "broken" housing system in which maintenance lapses by a private landlord left military families in homes with health and safety hazards.
  Reuters Health Information, January 2019
• Med-Student Documentation Guidelines Need Careful Implementation New student-documentation guidelines from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) require careful implementation to avoid reductions in meaningful teaching physician involvement, according to a new report.
  Reuters Health Information, January 2019
• Students Urge Step 1 Fixes, Physician Leaders Reply With Insult The response seems to indicate a generational divide in the medical community.
  Medscape Medical News, January 2019
• New Commission Report Is Tough on MOC The commission formed by the American Board of Medical Specialties urged a switch from high-stakes summative exams to yearly, formative assessments.
  Medscape Medical News, January 2019
• More Nurse Practitioners Providing Primary Care Where MDs in Short Supply A growing number of nurse practitioners are providing primary care in rural and low-income U.S. communities where the physician workforce is shrinking, a new study suggests.
  Reuters Health Information, January 2019
• MOC Alternative Showing Success A 30-question assessment taken online quarterly gives immediate feedback, asks physicians to rate their confidence on each answer, and links questions with CME.
  Medscape Medical News, January 2019
• Cancer Mortality Continues to Spiral Downward in the US National snapshot of cancer in the US shows a continued decline in mortality rates for the most common cancers in men and women with a few notable exceptions.
  Medscape Medical News, January 2019
• After Bitter Closure, Rural Texas Hospital Reopens The 25-bed hospital in Crockett, Texas, abruptly closed its doors in 2017, but the community kept the faith and several doctors reopened the facility this year.
  Kaiser Health News, January 2019