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The Future of Training: How Virtual Reality Can Protect Clinicians from Healthcare-associated Infections

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The post The Future of Training: How Virtual Reality Can Protect Clinicians from Healthcare-associated Infections appeared first on MedCity News. The technology also heightens users’ senses, drawing their attention to things they would be unable to see in traditional learning environments.

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Can Providers Scale Value-Based Care Sustainably?

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Value-based care results in a lot of added administrative tasks for physicians — so much so that one health system leader believes value-based care will never reach true scale unless providers figure out how to ease that burden.

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Can AI Help Fix Our Demographic Time Bomb?

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expects shortages of 200,000 nurses and 124,000 physicians snd similar shortages are already being felt in the U.K. Here’s how to build and train a modern healthcare workforce in the age of AI The post Can AI Help Fix Our Demographic Time Bomb? By 2030, the U.S. and elsewhere. appeared first on MedCity News.

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Pharmacists Could Play a Big Role in Addressing the PCP Shortage

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Integrating pharmacists into primary care teams could be a key way to address the primary care physician shortage, according to a new report. The pandemic made it clear that pharmacists are clinically trained and want to provide care beyond filling prescriptions, the report said.

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Emerging Investigators Are Pivotal for Meeting Current, Future Drug Development Needs

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We must engage, train and support more physicians as investigators to enable the opportunity for their patients to have access to clinical trials. As an industry, we should be adding anywhere from 10% to 20% new investigators every year to meet the patient access needs for clinical trials.

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Diversity Training and Education Among MD’s and Residents: Part 1

InCrowd

InCrowd conducted 2 surveys to 209 attending physicians and 454 medical residents to understand what their perspective is regarding the status of diversity training and education they receive and what their experiences are in the professional environment. Of the attending physician responders, 53.1% identified as men, 45.5%

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3 Measures Children’s Hospitals Need to Survive in 2023

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He recommended Congress enact 12-month continuous eligibility for children covered by Medicaid or CHIP, allocate more money to pediatric physician training, and enhance Medicaid’s low reimbursement rates for pediatric care.