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Policy
Medicaid GME: AAIM's Signature Issue for the Start of 2008
AAIM provides the relevant data and information to help memberes advocate for federal and state Medicaid funding to support graduate medical education funding. The one-year moratorium on eliminating federal Medicaid matching funds for GME expenses states incur expires May 2008.
States Lead US Health Care Reform Efforts
As the presidential campaigns heat up, health care reform is a headline issue. National policy efforts will likely take cues from plans to provide universal health care coverage and expanded access to affordable health care in California and Massachusetts.
Medical Education
Teaching Medical Humanities in an Internal Medicine Residency Program
Humanities education during residency improves patient care delivery through communication, the physician-patient relationship, end-of-life issues, delivery of bad news, self-reflection, and moral and professional development as well as teaches compassion and empathy to young physicians exposed to the suffering of others.
Putting Continuity Back into Resident Clinics
A novel approach to managing resident clinic provides a sense of ownership among residents, true continuity, and increased patient satisfaction in an era of increasing clinical costs and restricted duty hours.
Diversity
Evolution of Medicine: Gender Disparities in Academic Medicine
Despite an influx of female medical students, women are still disproportionately represented and supported in upper levels of academic medicine. Women are disadvantaged by the lack of role models, poor start-up packages, and tenure requirements that make no allowances for work-life balance.
Clinical Care
Evaluating Clinical Guidelines for the Care of Older Adults
As the number of older adults who have multiple chronic conditions continues to increase, clinical guidelines--in their current form--fail to provide guidance relevant to caring for the growing proportion of Americans aged 65 and older. ASP, Atlantic Philanthropies, the John A. Hartford Foundation, and 11 specialty societies will collaborate to produce clinical policies designed to address the needs of the increasing elderly population.
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