Yesterday, my colleague Ruthann Richter met with Johan Guillaume, a first-year Stanford medical student who was born in Haiti. He shared with Ruthann his concerns …
Category: Medical Education
Stanford sends medical team to Haiti
A team of emergency medicine physicians and nurses from Stanford departed for Haiti early this morning to aid with relief efforts. The medical team will …
Stanford professor Hank Greely talks about health care and research in 2010
As 2010 gets underway, there remains a number of unanswered questions about the state of health care and biomedical research in the U.S. It is …
Finally, a way to fix broken enzymes
I've been interested in Daria Mochly-Rosen's research into a mutation that messes up alcohol processing for personal reasons. If I imbibe more than a sip …
Stanford develops new industry-funded model for continuing education of physicians
A story in this morning's New York Times detailed plans by the Stanford University School of Medicine to design and implement a new model for …
Historic scientific books now available on the Web
The U.S. National Library of Medicine has made six historic science books available on the Web in high resolution. The browsing experience is fairly good …
History of medicine image quiz
If you've got a thing for odd medical artifacts, here's the quiz for you. These images even stumped some of the experts in medical history …
Science podcasts for the holiday traveler
As the second wave of holiday migration is upon us, zillions of soon-to-be travelers are girding their loins, knowing that no matter which mode of …
Northwestern's medical school now disclosing doctor-company relationships
As reported by the Wall Street Journal's Health Blog this morning, Northwestern's Feinberg School of Medicine is the latest medical school to disclose financial ties …
The French and U.S. approaches to training doctors
Among the many differences between the U.S. and the French health-care systems is the approach to medical training. While U.S. medical school graduates in 2008 …
New biomedical device textbook gets early praise
Stanford Biodesign's new primer on inventing biomedical devices, Biodesign: The Process of Innovating Medical Technologies (Cambridge University Press), has been on the market for a …
Federal bills call for disclosure of doctor-company ties
The New York Times ran an article today on so-called "sunshine" provisions being wrapped into Congress' health-reform bills. The legislation would require companies to disclose …
Academic medical centers bring billions to the economy
A recently released Association of American Medical Colleges report shows that academic medical centers are pretty big players in the economy. The report found that …
Will debt forgiveness program remedy doctor shortage?
A health care reform proposal to repay the student loans of doctors who choose primary care could encourage more medical students to enter the field …
Stanford Medicine Fall 2009: Where’s Sherlock Holmes when we need him?
The fall issue of Stanford Medicine magazine came out a few weeks ago while I was on vacation (mostly in Germany, visiting relatives and gaining …
Faculty consulting work: now on public view
Stanford School of Medicine is once again helping to set a trend among academic medical centers with steps to ensure integrity and transparency in its …