Editor's Picks “If we can pursue personalized medicine, why can’t we pursue personalized medical education? Innovation in medical education should allow for the educational process to complement each student’s individual strengths and weaknesses.”
- Third-year medical student R. Logan Jones discusses transforming medical education with AMA Wire.  As the debate over allowing residents to work longer shifts continues, a study published in the Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine found that working more hours may lead to higher risk for heart disease. The results of HCPro’s 2015 Residency Coordinator Salary Survey showed no changes in the percentage of respondents who reported earning salaries in the lower ranges compared to the 2014 survey results. It did show decreases in those earning mid-range salaries and slight gains in some of the higher salary ranges. The orthopedic surgery program at Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx is employing a technique often associated with training dogs to teach its residents basic surgical techniques.
Marketing Spotlight ACGME-accredited programs are required to establish a clinical competency committee (CCC) to evaluate their residents—a task made even more complicated by the lack of guidance on how to properly run a CCC.
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