It's the new frontier of patient-centered medicine. It's called patient-reported outcomes (PROs), and it's being implemented at the University Orthopaedic Center.
It's not for the faint of heart, but with over one-half million views, it's clear that there is something about the University of Utah Brain Institute video, "The Unfixed Brain"...
Many people think of transplantation as if our bodies were cars and we just need to replace a single part. Of course, we're much more complex than machines, and that...
What would motivate employees to make their organization more efficient? Intuitively, employees could view Lean projects as threats to their own employment and professional growth. So how does any health...
Bias has no home in medical research. But as relationships between multi-billion dollar pharmaceutical companies and academic medical centers become dangerously intertwined, bias is now unavoidable.
Physician assistant degrees continue to be in strong demand, particularly at the University of Utah where more than 1,000 applicants are expected to contend for 44 slots next year.
Spring means tulips and conferences. And joining social media can be a terrific way to interact with other conference-goers or see what's happening at a conference across the country without...
Thanks to volunteers from around Utah and The University of Utah's School of Dentistry, 252 children have a new smile, as the U of U teamed up with Salt Lake...
As a middle class taxpayer, Liana Orsolini Ph.D, R.N., wants health care that's safe, effective, affordable, and accessible to everyone. Impossible? Orsolini doesn't think so. As a consultant for Clinical...
Boston University anesthesiologist Rafael Ortega, M.D., believes that creating digital content means much more than just posting a pdf of a textbook online. True multimedia content is designed to be...
Attention students: librarians want you to know that libraries still exist and have value. In fact, a student and librarian partnership could results in better outcomes. Jean Shipman, director of...
David P. Sklar, M.D., is editor-in-chief of Academic Medicine. Listen as he explains the role of an academic journal in health care transformation and shares insights on how writers and...
Rohaid Ali, undergraduate student at University of Pennsylvania and Rhodes Scholar finalist, discusses how incorporating iPads has impacted medical education at Perelman. He also discusses their value for students and...
Listen in as Cynthia Manley of Vanderbilt University Medical Center and Dennis Jolley of University of Utah Health Care have a conversation about the increasingly important role of social media...
Most medical schools are seen as ivory towers filled with intellects that have little in common with average people. In this era of change, it's not the image most Universities...
For almost 90 year- and through four name changes - Academic Medicine has been a forum of information and exchange for administrators and faculty of academic medical centers in the...
