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Set boundaries, expectations to keep ‘mentorship malpractice’ from derailing career
1+ hour, 40+ min ago (388+ words) LAS VEGAS " Effective mentorship can accelerate careers, but toxic mentoring behaviors can just as easily derail academic progress if left unchecked, Frank I. Scott, MD, MSCE, warned attendees at Crohn's & Colitis Congress. Scott noted that the traditional mentor " one who forms…...
Global ophthalmology: Learning through teaching
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (1797+ words) Even before she became a physician, Cathleen M. McCabe, MD, knew she wanted to help people across the world. Growing up in New Hampshire, McCabe did not travel much, but her parents hosted people from more than 40 countries through a local…...
Course on shared medical appointments improves lifestyle medicine competency
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (443+ words) DALLAS " A lifestyle medicine education course using shared medical appointment simulations was practical and effective, data at the Lifestyle Medicine Conference showed. According to the Cleveland Clinic, shared medical appointments (SMAs) are group visits where patients with similar health conditions…...
Q&A: Alchemy Vision offers training to quickly onboard staff
2+ mon, 1+ week ago (606+ words) Getting new employees ready to do their jobs can be a big undertaking for an eye care practice, no matter its size. Training technicians, scribes and receptionists takes time and energy away from current staff members who already have a…...
Q&A: ACLM launches free online resources to address gap in nutrition education
2+ mon, 1+ week ago (239+ words) DALLAS " The American College of Lifestyle Medicine recently unveiled two open-source resources to educate health care professionals and patients about healthy eating and cooking techniques. Healio spoke with Hauser, who is also clinical associate professor and obesity medicine director at…...
The American Board of AI in Medicine educates, certifies health care professionals
2+ mon, 2+ week ago (303+ words) SAN DIEGO " The American Board of AI in Medicine educates health care professionals about the role of AI in medicine and provides a pathway to board-level certification, according to a presenter at AIMed25. According to Chang, the process for board certification…...
‘Doctor for a Day’ inspires children to become physicians
2+ mon, 3+ week ago (566+ words) Eighteen years ago, a medical student at the University of Washington wanted to design an outreach program to inspire kids in Seattle, where she grew up, to enter medical school. Joy Thurman-Nguyen, MD, MPH, now a family physician at Kaiser…...
From Awareness to Action: Early Diagnosis and Treatment of ATTR (Transthyretin) Amyloidosis
2+ mon, 4+ week ago (504+ words) Get notified when your In Progress activities are expiring Provided by Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine's Center for Continuing Education Credit Types: CME, CNE Number of credits: 1 Estimated time to complete: 60 minutes This one-hour on-demand video learning module…...
What should the new Presidential Fitness Test look like? Experts weigh in
3+ mon, 11+ hour ago (1621+ words) On July 31, President Donald J. Trump signed an executive order to bring the Presidential Fitness Test back to schools in the United States. According to a White House press release, the fitness test "reestablishes a gold standard for youth physical fitness....
Presenter: Rheumatology students should ‘take caution’ when using AI, LLMs to study
3+ mon, 1+ day ago (302+ words) CHICAGO " Medical board-style questions created by AI and large language models were often grammatically correct but factually inaccurate, according to data presented at ACR Convergence 2025. "Current rheumatology fellows frequently seek out and prepare for studying for boards using large amounts…...