Editor's Picks Hoping to stop the “I’m the physician, you’re not” mentality, the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine (U. of C.) recently launched an interprofessional practice program with nurses and medical students. The program, Understanding Nursing: Interprofessional Team-Based Experience, seeks to break down the silos that often exist in medical education between different healthcare professions.  2.png)
Members of the University of Buffalo Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences internal medicine residency program were recently awarded one of 30 Back to Bedside grants from the ACGME. The residents are using the grant to find ways to balance the increasing time spent entering data into electronic health records with the decreasing time spent on direct patient care. Residency Program Alert subscribers can peruse all of the online articles from the February 2018 issue of the newsletter here.
This month’s issue includes articles on: incorporating mindfulness training, the program coordinator’s role in physician wellness, using webinars to teach medical didactics, and optimizing rank order lists.
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