March 2013
- Hands-On Medical Education in Rwanda
- Medical Schools Neglect Gay and Gender Issues
- Report examines variation in care, its importance in residency training
- Tackling the Problem of Medical Student Debt
- Can Medical Students Afford to Choose Primary Care? An Economic Analysis of Physician Education Debt Repayment
- Featured Student Programming: EVMS Anatomy Guy
- Call For Volunteers
Hands-On Medical Education in Rwanda
New York Times article that describes a program at Harvard University that addresses global health innovation in Rwanda. The program focuses on case studies to analyze difficulties specific to low income countries. Link
Medical Schools Neglect Gay and Gender Issues
New York Times Well Blog article that argues for more LGBT related training in the medical school curriculum. This community has higher rates of chronic diseases as well as certain transmitted diseases and there are disparities in access to healthcare. Link
Report examines variation in care, its importance in residency training
Residencies at hospitals with higher utilization patterns do not necessarily offer better training to students than those at other hospitals according to a new report. Link.
Tackling the Problem of Medical Student Debt
Everyone knows that medical student debt is a problem, but what are people doing to fix it? The new medical student scholarship fund at UCLA, while not replicable everywhere, draws attention to the issue. Link
Can Medical Students Afford to Choose Primary Care? An Economic Analysis of Physician Education Debt Repayment
Financial planning software showed that primary care remains a viable career option for medical students despite rising levels of debt, but multiple repayment and forgiveness programs may need to be utilized. Link
Featured Student Program: EVMS Anatomy Guy
In recent years the LCME and the AAMC have made several proposals to encourage schools to integrate basic medical sciences into the senior years of medical training and to develop an educational curriculum that engages the learner with “anytime-anywhere technologies.” The Anatomy Guy website was developed with both vertical and horizontal integration of medical curricula as a goal.
The site uses green screen technologies, a WordPress web frame and streaming video, as a means of delivering freely accessible, high quality medical education curriculum to the world. Growing from only 21 videos, the site now boasts over 250 videos--which include videos from anatomy, histology, pathology, neuroscience, immunology and physiology courses. In addition, several subspecialties videos are also available which include general surgery, rheumatology, ENT, emergency medicine, plastic surgery, neurology, radiology and family medicine.
The Anatomy Guy site has plans for growth and expansion of videos as well as packaged curriculum for meeting the needs of the modern premedical, medical and post graduate viewers.
For more information contact Ryan Barnette at [email protected].
Call for Volunteers
For those of you who weren't able to make it to the student showcase in San Francisco, Leo Lui (Geisel School of Medicine '13) presented undergroundmed.net, an innovative open-access website featuring short, practical, high-yield videos made by medical students for medical students covering topics that demystify life on the wards. The content of the website is faculty-reviewed and new videos are constantly being added.
The students leading the project are looking for medical students across the country that are interested in getting involved in the video-making process and also for a few individuals that might be interested in leading the efforts after Leo and the other founders of undergroundmed.net graduate at the end of this year. If you are interested, contact Leo at [email protected].
The 2013 OSR Medical Education Committee
Nicky Chopra, Southern Regional Delegate, [email protected]
Janice Farlow, Central Regional Delegate, [email protected]
Bo Espinosa-Setchko, Western Regional Delegate, [email protected]
Vivek Kumar, Northeast Regional Delegate, [email protected]
Meghan Crawley, National Delegate, [email protected]
New York Times article that describes a program at Harvard University that addresses global health innovation in Rwanda. The program focuses on case studies to analyze difficulties specific to low income countries. Link
Medical Schools Neglect Gay and Gender Issues
New York Times Well Blog article that argues for more LGBT related training in the medical school curriculum. This community has higher rates of chronic diseases as well as certain transmitted diseases and there are disparities in access to healthcare. Link
Report examines variation in care, its importance in residency training
Residencies at hospitals with higher utilization patterns do not necessarily offer better training to students than those at other hospitals according to a new report. Link.
Tackling the Problem of Medical Student Debt
Everyone knows that medical student debt is a problem, but what are people doing to fix it? The new medical student scholarship fund at UCLA, while not replicable everywhere, draws attention to the issue. Link
Can Medical Students Afford to Choose Primary Care? An Economic Analysis of Physician Education Debt Repayment
Financial planning software showed that primary care remains a viable career option for medical students despite rising levels of debt, but multiple repayment and forgiveness programs may need to be utilized. Link
Featured Student Program: EVMS Anatomy Guy
In recent years the LCME and the AAMC have made several proposals to encourage schools to integrate basic medical sciences into the senior years of medical training and to develop an educational curriculum that engages the learner with “anytime-anywhere technologies.” The Anatomy Guy website was developed with both vertical and horizontal integration of medical curricula as a goal.
The site uses green screen technologies, a WordPress web frame and streaming video, as a means of delivering freely accessible, high quality medical education curriculum to the world. Growing from only 21 videos, the site now boasts over 250 videos--which include videos from anatomy, histology, pathology, neuroscience, immunology and physiology courses. In addition, several subspecialties videos are also available which include general surgery, rheumatology, ENT, emergency medicine, plastic surgery, neurology, radiology and family medicine.
The Anatomy Guy site has plans for growth and expansion of videos as well as packaged curriculum for meeting the needs of the modern premedical, medical and post graduate viewers.
For more information contact Ryan Barnette at [email protected].
Call for Volunteers
For those of you who weren't able to make it to the student showcase in San Francisco, Leo Lui (Geisel School of Medicine '13) presented undergroundmed.net, an innovative open-access website featuring short, practical, high-yield videos made by medical students for medical students covering topics that demystify life on the wards. The content of the website is faculty-reviewed and new videos are constantly being added.
The students leading the project are looking for medical students across the country that are interested in getting involved in the video-making process and also for a few individuals that might be interested in leading the efforts after Leo and the other founders of undergroundmed.net graduate at the end of this year. If you are interested, contact Leo at [email protected].
The 2013 OSR Medical Education Committee
Nicky Chopra, Southern Regional Delegate, [email protected]
Janice Farlow, Central Regional Delegate, [email protected]
Bo Espinosa-Setchko, Western Regional Delegate, [email protected]
Vivek Kumar, Northeast Regional Delegate, [email protected]
Meghan Crawley, National Delegate, [email protected]