Pulse

Briefs

Duluth medical students travel the world, tuned-up med school curricula, RPAP goes urban.

 

Grand Rounds’ Growing Pains

The venerable educational event is going back to its roots.

 

Learning Styles

No two physicians’ needs are quite the same when it comes to continuing medical education. It’s a good thing there are choices.

Credit for Change

Performance improvement CME has been touted as the future of continuing medical education. But will a good idea succumb to the burden of process?

 

End Notes

What Is It About? Reflections for My Residents

A poem by Hector Michelena, M.D.

 

 

Table of Contents | November 2010

Cover Story

Test Anxiety 

As specialty boards have raised the bar for recertification, many wonder, Does passing a test indicate competence.

By Howard Bell

 

Perspective

CME ASAP

A new idea to help us learn what we don’t know we don’t know.

By Donald L. Deye, M.D., FACP

 

Commentary

Linking Medical Education and Patient Care

Early exposure to practicing physicians shows medical students the importance of being lifelong learners.

By Keith Lindor, M.D., and Barbara L. Porter, M.A.
 

Reshaping Physician Education

Fragmented health care delivery is the product of an outdated approach to medical education.

By Frank B. Cerra, M.D.

 

Clinical and Health Affairs

Is the CME System Obsolete?

By Barbara Brandt, Ph.D., and Janet Shanedling, Ph.D.
 

Engaging Physicians in CME: The Power of Theater

By Carl A. Patow, M.D., M.P.H., FACS, and Debra J. Bryan, M.Ed.
 

Impact of New Duty-Hour Rules on Residency Training

By Alisa Duran-Nelson, M.D., Joan Van Camp, M.D., and Louis Ling, M.D.
 

Preventing Elective Induction before 39 Weeks

By Trudy Ohnsorg, M.P.H., and Jeff Schiff, M.D., M.B.A.

 

Editor's Note

Searching for Relevance in a Sea of CME 

 

MMA Viewpoint

Healing the Profession

 

MMA News Now

Expert Urges Doctors to Test ACO Model
MMA Calls on Congress to Stop Looming Medicare Cuts
MMA Launches President's Blog

 

Tracking Reform

 

Letters

 

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