Medical Education and Training News
January 23, 2025
Top Headlines
Dec. 18, 2024 — A new comprehensive literature review of the benefits and challenges of integrating haptics-enhanced virtual reality training, or VR-haptics for short, in dental education curricula highlights the transformative potential of VR-haptics in dental ...
Nov. 13, 2024 — Hospitals are already deploying artificial intelligence (AI) to enhance patient care. But can it actually improve doctors' diagnoses? A new study has surprising ...
Nov. 6, 2024 — A new study shows how students can better understand and interpret conditional ...
Mar. 13, 2024 — Teachers might be more motivated to help students engage with their emotions and build their resilience when this work is part of lessons, rather than as an add-on intervention, a new study has ...
Latest Headlines
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Apr. 17, 2024 — More than five million central lines are placed in patients who need prolonged drug delivery, such as those undergoing cancer treatments, in the ...
Sep. 19, 2023 — A new study shows that human instruction is still necessary to detect and compensate for unintended, and sometimes negative, changes in neurosurgeon behavior after virtual reality AI training. This ...
Aug. 9, 2023 — What do superheroes Deadpool and Elastigirl have in common? Each was used in a college anatomy class to add relevance to course discussions -- Deadpool to illustrate tissue repair and Elastigirl, aka ...
Aug. 6, 2023 — The success of artificial intelligence technologies depends largely on how physicians interpret and act upon a tool's risk predictions -- and that requires a unique set of skills that many are ...
Oct. 19, 2022 — The more hours someone works each week in a stressful job, the more their risk of depression rises, a study in new doctors finds. Working 90 or more ...
Earlier Headlines
Nov. 14, 2024 — Researchers have found teaching artistic observation to neurology residents contributed to the development of well-rounded physicians with the capacity to be both skilled clinicians and compassionate ...
Sep. 15, 2022 — A study assessed resident physicians' perceptions, coping strategies and self-reported levels of depression, anxiety and stress experienced during the early phase of the ...
Apr. 29, 2022 — First-year surgery residents, and first-year medical residents in all fields who are members of sexual minorities such as LGBTQ, are more likely than others to develop depression during the stressful ...
Feb. 22, 2022 — The COVID-19 pandemic has presented both challenges and opportunities for medical training. Remote learning technology has become increasingly important in several fields. A new study finds that in a ...
Feb. 8, 2022 — A large-scale study has found that simulation-based surgical training produced an increase of surgeons' skills for more complex ...