What if you couldn't discipline disruptive physician behavior toward medical students because they technically don't work for you? That's what the University of Arizona Medical School is facing, as they...
What should a medical student do when faced with bad, or even abusive treatment from attending physicians? Med student Mayme Marshall talked about what she has encountered, and how she...
There are lots of topics being discussed at this year's convention of the Association of American Medical Colleges. So, what's the takeaway? We asked those at the heart of the...
Medicare is a complicated tangle of ever-evolving regulations, and a major source of funding for hospitals. Tracking the shifting policy landscape is a corps of government relations experts at the...
The evolution of medical school is changing the very look of the buildings where the students are taught. Architect Mary Jo Olenick tells us how new group learning structures are...
In 2014, The James J. and Joan A. Gardner Family foundation gave $14M to the University of Cincinnati Neuroscience Institute (UCNI). This transformative gift is an example of venture philanthropy...
The stress can be monumental and overpowering. Medical school is a lesson in life, as much as it is in practicing medicine. University of Utah Associate Vice President for Clinical...
While rude, disruptive behavior by physicians on TV may be funny, when it happens in real-life it's decidedly less amusing. And it's time we stop tolerating and ignoring disrespectful behavior...
While the nation has been preoccupied with delivering better, cheaper health care, medical training programs producing tomorrow's health leaders, have largely escaped public scrutiny.
University of Utah Hospitals and Clinics CEO David Entwistle discusses what transparency means when it comes to health care, and what people can expect when they attend Monday's 3:30pm session...
Harriet Hopf, M.D., associate dean for academic affairs at the University of Utah School of Medicine discusses how to keep tenured faculty performing at high levels throughout their careers, even...
As people evolve in their careers how do you keep them motivated to do the work they were hired to do? Harriet Hopf, M.D., associate dean for academic affairs at...
Academia is hierarchical, a space where faculty are judged by the size of their NIH grants and research portfolios. But entrepreneurs can have just as great an impact on patient...
Let patients grade us and post the scores online, the good, bad and ugly? Are you crazy? This wasn't the verbatim response of doctors to University of Utah Health Care's...
It's the $64 million question. Borrowing LEAN manufacturing principles from the auto industry, we've trained and empowered 2,536 of our front-line health workers–arguably the greatest do-gooders around–to do the good...
Transparency is a trending word in health care these days and one that is packed with possibility. Executive Editor of The New England Journal of Medicine Gregory Curfman, M.D., boiled...
Value. It's supposed to be the savior of U.S. health care, a fragmented and opaque delivery system where prices are completely divorced from costs, quality or customer satisfaction.
