MedWorm provides a medical RSS filtering service. Over 6000 RSS medical sources are combined and output via different filters. This feed contains the latest medical blog items that have been tagged with 'graduates'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 02:33:25 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4975828&cid=t_219971_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FfE42ltbBPEc%2F By Neal McCluskeyIt looks like Peter Thiel won’t be unopposed advising kids to stay out of college Thanks to a new report from Georgetown University economist Anthony Carnevale, and a David Leonhardt column based on Carnevale’s study, over the last few days the college-for-all crowd has been striking back. But they seem to have missed something in their own college training: correlation does not equal causation. Carnevale, Leonhardt, and others’ argument is basically that there are big, positive returns on a college degree. It’s something, frankly, that’s not generally in dispute. I say “generally,” because while on average college grads make a lot more than people without a degree, there’s a lot more to the story than averages. Ind... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4975828 Tue, 28 Jun 2011 16:12:10 +0100 4975828 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4921520&cid=t_219971_109_f&fid=34750&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpsychcentral.com%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2011%2F06%2F09%2Fthe-seed-9-pieces-of-advice-for-graduates%2F In his new book, The Seed: Finding Purpose and Happiness in Life and Work, international and Wall Street Journal bestselling author Jon Gordon tells the story of Josh, a guy who, like so many of us, has lost his passion at work. When Josh’s boss challenges the young worker to take two weeks off to assess his attitude and intentions, Josh heads to the country. There, a farmer hands him a seed and tells him that when he discovers the right place to plant the seed his purpose will be revealed to him. This tale takes readers on a quest to explore their own passion, purpose, and happiness in life and work. The themes presented are most appropriate for graduates just embarking on their path. Here, then, are nine such lessons presented in the story, in the words of Gordon: 1. Focus on Get to i... World of Psychology blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4921520 Thu, 09 Jun 2011 15:45:54 +0100 4921520 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3915000&cid=t_219971_87_f&fid=39187&url=http%3A%2F%2Fgetbetterhealth.com%2Fus-medical-residencies-via-alleged-hospital-bribe%2F2010.08.30 In another one of the things I had no idea about, there’s a market to assist FMGs [foreign medical graduates] in getting U.S. residencies, which makes sense. Allegedly, this guy was willing to go the extra mile for his clients. Full marks for creativity, but… Mr. Everest allegedly provided an employee at the hospital with forged letters from a California hospital to show that the applicants had been accepted into a second-year program. And he gave her a check for $4,000, followed by another check for $2,000. She reported him to hospital officials, and later told him she knew the letters were forged. He then allegedly gave her $6,000 for time to get a letter from a different hospital—which was also forged—and gave her $3,000 more before he was arrested. Geez. - Via Hospital Bribe... Better Health blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3915000 Mon, 30 Aug 2010 12:00:41 +0100 3915000 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3872556&cid=t_219971_87_f&fid=39187&url=http%3A%2F%2Fgetbetterhealth.com%2Fdo-foreign-medical-graduates-doctor-better%2F2010.08.16 Yes, according to a study in today’s Health Affairs. (The full text of the study is available only to subscribers, but Kaiser Health News Daily has a good summary of its findings and links to other news reports.) The study compares inpatient death rates and lengths of stay for patients with congestive heart failure or acute myocardial infarction when provided by U.S. citizens trained abroad, citizens trained in the United States, and non-citizens trained abroad. Treatment was provided by internists, family physicians, or cardiologists. The differences were striking, according to the authors: “Our analysis of 244,153 hospitalizations in Pennsylvania found that patients of doctors who graduated from international medical schools and were not U.S. citizens at the time they entered... Better Health blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3872556 Mon, 16 Aug 2010 14:00:00 +0100 3872556 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3767076&cid=t_219971_87_f&fid=39187&url=http%3A%2F%2Fgetbetterhealth.com%2Fmedical-students-specialty-practice-and-more-money%2F2010.07.19 With medical students graduating, on average, with almost $160,000 of debt, it’s a major reason why they’re choosing more lucrative specialty practice, which can offer salaries multiple times more than those of primary care fields. In this clip from The Vanishing Oath, medical economist Amitabh Chandra, Professor of Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, discusses that influence, which contributes to a drastic decline of primary care residency slots being filled by American medical graduates. Of course, it’s not only money. Primary care practice has a litany of obstacles that can contribute to rapid physician burnout, compounded by the fact that good primary care role models are largely absent from academic settings. But there’s no denying that the salary dispar... Better Health blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3767076 Mon, 19 Jul 2010 18:00:39 +0100 3767076 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3652406&cid=t_219971_87_f&fid=39187&url=http%3A%2F%2Fgetbetterhealth.com%2Fcapping-day-for-nurses%2F2010.06.11 Nurses Capping Day – a joyous occasion! So why do half of these new nurses looked ticked off? (Did they realize their caps look like used gauze?) And the one getting capped? There’s one of those in every class. *This blog post was originally published at Emergiblog* (Source: Better Health) Better Health blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3652406 Fri, 11 Jun 2010 12:00:54 +0100 3652406 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3611908&cid=t_219971_87_f&fid=39187&url=http%3A%2F%2Fgetbetterhealth.com%2Ffor-high-school-graduates-education-first-career-second%2F2010.05.29 It’s here again: High school graduation season — that annual rite of passage for high schoolers coast to coast to embark upon that much-anticipated journey from home to that first true independent step outside the safety net of their childhood communities. What always amazes me is the pressure high school kids feel as they embark upon this journey and how often I hear these kids express anxiety over not knowing what they want to be “when they grow up.” And, let’s not forget that we are still talking about kids — these are still teenagers, still developing and maturing. (more…) *This blog post was originally published at Dr. Gwenn Is In* (Source: Better Health) Better Health blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3611908 Sat, 29 May 2010 18:00:04 +0100 3611908 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3149005&cid=t_219971_87_f&fid=34765&url=http%3A%2F%2Fhcrenewal.blogspot.com%2F2010%2F01%2Fto-whom-does-leading-off-shore-medical.html ConclusionsSo here we have a new kind of example of what laissez faire unregulated capitalism has wrought for US health care.  The medical school in tiny, impoverished Dominica exists only to train physicians for the US not for Dominica, or the Caribbean area.  Nonetheless, the school does not do a great job: one-third of its students do not graduate even in six years, and one-fifth of those graduates never even start a residency.  Yet the students pay more than $30,000 a year in tuition, and graduate with an average debt much higher than US trained medical students.   In fact, the school is actually a subsidiary of a large, US for-profit corporation, although it is not clear if this is made obvious, or even revealed to prospectiv... Health Care Renewal blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3149005 Wed, 06 Jan 2010 22:50:00 +0100 3149005 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3084752&cid=t_219971_87_f&fid=34935&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmedicine.com.my%2Fwp%2F%3Fp%3D8122 The NST reported that an International Medical University is planned in the state of Perak. An international medical university will be built in Perak next year in collaboration with several leading universities, mainly from India, Menteri Besar Datuk Seri Dr Zambry Abdul Kadir said yesterday. He said the project, which would involve an investment of RM7 billion to RM8 billion, had been planned for the past two years through private initiatives and the state government would have equity in it. “It’s some kind of (university) consortium. Initially, the Malaysian-based company will invest RM300 million. We hope they can start operation by next year with a minimum intake. They can have pre-university courses first,” he said at a meeting with Malaysian students in the United... Malaysian Medical Resources blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3084752 Sun, 13 Dec 2009 00:00:00 +0100 3084752 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3071137&cid=t_219971_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2F0Ro4uvhCvlk%2F By Ilya ShapiroMany law firms are asking their incoming first-year associates to defer their start dates (from a few months to a full year) and are offering stipends to these deferred associates to work at public interest organizations. Cato has been running a deferred associates program for the last few months and we are now extending it for as long as top-notch candidates want to ride out the economy with us. The Cato Institute invites third-year law students and others facing firm deferrals to apply to work at our Center for Constitutional Studies. This is an opportunity to assist projects ranging from Supreme Court amicus briefs to policy papers to the Cato Supreme Court Review. Start and end dates are flexible. Interested students and graduates should email a cover letter, resume, tra... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3071137 Wed, 09 Dec 2009 13:35:19 +0100 3071137 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2958822&cid=t_219971_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2F_5LP2zHfIxY%2F Based on my regular reading on education, but not China specifically, I know that the world’s most populous nation has had a lot of trouble finding jobs for its throngs of recent college graduates. I wrote a bit about that yesterday, pointing out that the important higher education lesson from China is that pumping out more college grads is meaningless if they don’t have skills that are in demand. Well, thanks to a very helpful Cato@Liberty reader who actually lives in China (and wishes to remain anonymous) I now have a much better idea just how important that lesson is. He directed me to this Asia Times article that includes, among many fascinating tidbits, this startling revelation: An explosive report released by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) in Sept... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2958822 Tue, 03 Nov 2009 20:21:56 +0100 2958822 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2954496&cid=t_219971_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FNwJapahUV3k%2F Everyone has heard that China is leaving us in its dust when it comes to producing college graduates, and if we don’t do something drastic to catch up they’ll crush us economically as well. Indeed, it’s a driving force behind efforts to ramp up federal higher education intervention. As President Obama proclaimed when introducing his American Graduation Initiative, which is now part of the ironically titled Student Aid and Fiscal Responsibility Act: By 2020, this nation will once again have the highest proportion of college graduates in the world….Already we’ve increased Pell grants by $500. We’ve created a $2,500 tax credit for four years of college tuition. We’ve simplified student aid applications….A new GI Bill of Rights…is... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2954496 Mon, 02 Nov 2009 18:58:44 +0100 2954496 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2648970&cid=t_219971_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2Fd0G9SHVipA8%2F Inside Higher Ed features a terrific essay today by economist Michael Rizzo. Rizzo takes issue with President Obama’s goals to have all Americans complete at least one post-secondary year of education or job training, and for the nation to have the world’s highest percentage of college graduates by 2020. I’ve opined about this before, but Rizzo does it much more comprehensively, noting especially that - surprise! - education can suffer from “diminishing returns.” Here’s the meat of Rizzo’s piece, but you really should read the whole thing: More education has to be a good thing. After all, receiving more schooling can’t make you less productive, right? Education is like exercise, reading, spending time with one’s children, and sleeping –... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2648970 Tue, 28 Jul 2009 14:42:27 +0100 2648970 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2405022&cid=t_219971_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FRiMBjn2iPXc%2F While much of the debate around the so-called “Credit Cardholders’ Bill of Rights” has been on ending various card policies aimed at disguising different credit risks, one group of cardholders is certain to lose their right to credit under this bill: adults between the ages of 18 and 21. Under the current Senate bill, the only way for someone under the age of 21 to get a credit card would be either: 1) they have a co-signer, such as their parent, sign for it, or 2) they maintain a job with sufficient income to cover any obligations arising from the credit card. By contrast, neither of these requirements is put in place for student loans; there is the clear expectation that you pay those loans back in the future from your increased future income that results from going to ... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2405022 Thu, 14 May 2009 17:51:06 +0100 2405022 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2074169&cid=t_219971_87_f&fid=34935&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmedicine.com.my%2Fwp%2F%3Fp%3D5714 Apparently some do not agree with the 18 months Credit Transfer Programme into Local Government Universities. Hello? Last chance for recognition chaps. If you are good enough, the 18 months should not be a problem if you really want to practice medicine in Malaysia. Do these people want a free ticket or what? They insist that the Government “absorb immediately all the unrecognised Graduates into the government service as housemanship without the qualifying examination under the supervision of Consultants, Specialists or Senior Doctors”! As limkamput in the comments section says: You fellows have entered unscheduled universities with your eyes wide open. No one has forced you to study in those universities in the first place. Having done that, why are you blaming the whole world... Malaysian Medical Resources blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2074169 Tue, 30 Dec 2008 05:00:00 +0100 2074169 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1344300&cid=t_219971_145_f&fid=35710&url=http%3A%2F%2Fstoryofhealing.com%2F2008%2F04%2F01%2Fdith-pran-a-farewell%2F For many of us who were too young at the time to fully grasp the human atrocities suffered by the people of Cambodia during the regime of the Khmer Rouge, The Killing Fields was the very powerful movie in the 1980s that showed us an overflowing album of the saddest pictures in that part of the world. I have watched that year’s Oscars that awarded the late physician and actor Dr. Haing S. Ngor (1940-1996) for his soulful portrayal of the translator and photojournalist Mr. Dith Pran. But I have seen the film in full only in 2004.   The New York Times announced yesterday the passing away of Mr. Pran, losing to his pancreatic cancer. Dith Pran, a photojournalist for The New York Times whose gruesome ordeal in the killing fields of Cambodia was re-created in a 1984 movie that g... the story of healing blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1344300 Tue, 01 Apr 2008 23:50:14 +0100 1344300