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Image of the Week: Italian anatomical waxwork
This week's image comes from the Italian anatomical waxworks set on the Stanford Medicine Flickr photo stream. The sculpture itself was created by Clemente Susini …
Stanford’s medical school expands its policy to limit industry access
The New York Times today outlines new rules at Stanford that will prohibit its volunteer teaching staff from giving paid speeches written by drug or …
American College of Physicians: 2010 residency match doesn't address primary care shortage
As medical students across the nation excitedly celebrate the outcome of yesterday's Match Day, the American College of Physicians has issued statement that the match …
From Gestapo interrogation to Stanford lectures: A late psychiatrist's amazing story
Follow me: Twitter’s role in medical practice
How can Twitter be used in medical practice? Calling tweeting a "valuable way to reach thousands of people at once," Case Western Reserve University breaks …
Lower costs, convenience drive growth of CME online
Over the next several years physicians will increasingly turn to the Internet for continuing medical education courses, according to a study recently published in the …
A prescription for improving science education
Science education isn’t faring well in many U.S. high schools, with American teenagers being outperformed by their counterparts in several other developed countries. But universities …
New program teaches MDs how to be journalists
Physician-journalists aren't exactly uncommon (Dr. Gupta, anyone?), but thanks to Mayo Medical School, we could see an influx of them in coming years. Starting this …
Haiti day 4: Life after the quake
On a workbench in the backroom at the new rehabilitation facility is a brown plastic foot, about a woman's size 6, with a carefully carved …
Haiti: In pictures
This is David Charles, one of just a dozen Haitian physical therapists in the entire country. David works at Hospital Albert Schweitzer. He trained in …
Haiti day 2: At the hospital
I can bear the adult patients with amputated limbs, red and raw stumps oozing, waiting stoically on cots spilling out into the hallways. The toes …
Image of the Week: Genetic inheritance
This isn't, strictly speaking, a medical image, but it is nevertheless a delightful visualization of the concept of genetic inheritance. Photo by bennybb Via kottke.org
Haiti day 1: Arrival
I took American Airlines flight #18 from JFK airport to Port-au-Prince on Feb. 24, only the second such commercial flight to land in post-earthquake Haiti …
Obscura Day features pneumatic tube system at Stanford
Stanford University Medical Center's pneumatic tube system, one of the largest such networks in the world, will be on display March 20 as part of …