Hospitals may reach higher safety and quality levels with programs that give physicians real-time feedback about evidence-based care and financial incentives for providing it, research shows. Research at Johns Hopkins suggests hospitals may reach higher safety and quality levels with programs that give physicians real-time feedback about evidence-

MNT featured In February, Medical News Today reported that an Italian surgeon is to announce updated plans to conduct the world's first human head transplant within the next 2 years. Now, a 30-year-old Russian man is set to become the first person to undergo the procedure. The HEAVEN-GEMINI procedure - which is estimated to take 100 s

BY HASAN IFTIKHAR                            IN LIFE EXPERIENCES   On the 1st of April, my alarm wakes me up at 0530 on a bunker bed right in the middle of Chicago. I had landed here just a night earlier, and in a matter of hours I was all set to s

   Dr. MUDDASSER KHURSHID                 IN LIFE EXPERIENCES   It seems very good to be working in Saudi Arabia when a doctor is sitting abroad in an other country but when he reaches in Saudi Arabia he gets to know the ground facts and the thinking changes. Th

by Dr Pavan Kumar Bhamidipati How to start and go about the process of securing a residency position:  1. The Exams The USMLEs (United States Medical Licensing Examinations) are a set of medical exams designed to evaluate your readiness to safely enter the American medical system. The organisation that watch

Paul Kalanithi wrote essays for The New York Times and Stanford Medicine reflecting on being a physician and a patient, the human experience of facing death, and the joy he found despite terminal illness. MAR 11 2015 By ROSANNE SPECTOR Rosanne Spector is the editor of Stanford Medicine magazine   Paul Kala

Letting go of the Familiar People.... the Familiar Surroundings ....  an Article By Ronnie Ann Why does career change take so long? That very first time when we start to feel something gnawing at us. That feeling something is wrong with our job or career, although we’re not quite sure what. Why does the possibility of change feel

One million patients could lose primary care if residency training in underserved regions is eliminated The shortage of primary care doctors could worsen if funding for the Teaching Health Centers (THC), a program to train medical residents in underserved areas, is eliminated. Loss of funding - which has already been drastically reduced - coul

As a doctor, you always have too much to do each day. You may believe there is nothing you can do about this situation and its just the way things are. But this isn't so. Here are the five biggest mistakes you are making. Change these and your life will change too.   Agreeing to do whatever you are asked to do   No is a small word whi

As a junior doctor you can develop your leadership competencies by being proactive and consciously assuming greater responsibilities around leadership activities; the Medical Leadership Competency Framework provides a range of practical examples of opportunities for learning and development. Clinical training might include a higher degree in a sub