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Introducing the Doctor of Nursing Practice
Donna Hathaway informs us that by 2015, all new advanced practice nurses in the United States will be educated at the doctoral level as envisioned by the AACN. (Source: MedGenMed Weekly Editorials from Medscape.com)
Source: MedGenMed Weekly Editorials from Medscape.com - April 7, 2006 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Donna Hathaway, PhD, RN, FAAN Source Type: podcasts

Sharing Everything We Write With Our Patients: Will Fully Transparent Electronic Medical Records Make or Break the Future?
Tom Delbanco, MD, Professor at Harvard Medical School, reminds us that HIPAA legislation mandates that patients have access to their medical records and how computer technology is beneficial. (Source: MedGenMed Weekly Editorials from Medscape.com)
Source: MedGenMed Weekly Editorials from Medscape.com - April 3, 2006 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Tom Delbanco, MD Source Type: podcasts

Breakthrough in Silencing "Bad" Genes
Dr. Anthony Komaroff, Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, explains how a new tool for silencing bad genes, called RNA interference, or RNAi, is revolutionizing biological research. (Source: MedGenMed Weekly Editorials from Medscape.com)
Source: MedGenMed Weekly Editorials from Medscape.com - March 31, 2006 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Anthony L. Komaroff, MD Source Type: podcasts

Pay for Performance: The Train Has Left the Station, but Where Is It Taking Us?
Dr. Carolyn Clancy, Director of the US Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, explains how the pay-for-performance strategy brings quality and safe healthcare to Americans. (Source: MedGenMed Weekly Editorials from Medscape.com)
Source: MedGenMed Weekly Editorials from Medscape.com - March 27, 2006 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Carolyn Clancy, MD Source Type: podcasts

A New Vision for Continuing Medical Education
Dr. Jordan Cohen, President of the Association of American Medical Colleges, explains why our country's CME system must be transformed if patients are to benefit. (Source: MedGenMed Weekly Editorials from Medscape.com)
Source: MedGenMed Weekly Editorials from Medscape.com - March 24, 2006 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Jordan J. Cohen, MD Source Type: podcasts

Physicians on the Take
Dr. Jerome Kassirer, Professor at Tufts University and former editor of The New England Journal of Medicine, encourages professional and academic organizations to eliminate pharmaceutical largesse. (Source: MedGenMed Weekly Editorials from Medscape.com)
Source: MedGenMed Weekly Editorials from Medscape.com - March 20, 2006 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Jerome P. Kassirer, MD Source Type: podcasts

Global Warming May Be a Graver Public Health Threat Than Nuclear War. Part 1 -- Getting Your Attention
Dr. Lundberg predicts that disease effects of global warming will join nuclear war as the two greatest 21st-century threats to human health. (Source: MedGenMed Weekly Editorials from Medscape.com)
Source: MedGenMed Weekly Editorials from Medscape.com - March 17, 2006 Category: Journals (General) Authors: George D. Lundberg, MD Source Type: podcasts

Cancer Survivorship: The New Chronic Condition
Dr. Harvey Fineberg, President of the Institute of Medicine, explains why cancer survivorship should be treated with coordinated and ongoing care. (Source: MedGenMed Weekly Editorials from Medscape.com)
Source: MedGenMed Weekly Editorials from Medscape.com - March 13, 2006 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Harvey V. Fineberg, MD, PhD Source Type: podcasts

How to Prevent Strokes in African American Patients
Dr. Olajide Williams, Director of Harlem Hospital's Stroke Initiative in NY, explains why African Americans, especially, should take preventive measures to combat the risk of having a stroke. (Source: MedGenMed Weekly Editorials from Medscape.com)
Source: MedGenMed Weekly Editorials from Medscape.com - March 10, 2006 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Olajide Williams, MD Source Type: podcasts

Board Certification -- A Hot Topic for Patients and Physicians
Dr. Christine Cassel, President of the American Board of Internal Medicine, explains why physicians should commit to achieving board certification and ongoing Maintenance of Certification. (Source: MedGenMed Weekly Editorials from Medscape.com)
Source: MedGenMed Weekly Editorials from Medscape.com - March 6, 2006 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Christine K. Cassel, MD, MACP Source Type: podcasts

A Daily Dose of Continuing Education: Good News for Nurses
Medscape now offers nurses partial CE hours through Medscape Medical News service. In 15 minutes a day, nurses can be assured of at least 1 ANCC contact hour a week. (Source: MedGenMed Weekly Editorials from Medscape.com)
Source: MedGenMed Weekly Editorials from Medscape.com - March 3, 2006 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Laurie Scudder, MS, PNP; Susan Yox, RN, EdD Source Type: podcasts

The Effective Health Care Program: Evidence-Based Medicine Joins the Consumer Age
Dr. Carolyn Clancy, Director of the US Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, explains a new program that allows you to compare treatments for high-priority medical conditions. (Source: MedGenMed Weekly Editorials from Medscape.com)
Source: MedGenMed Weekly Editorials from Medscape.com - February 27, 2006 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Carolyn Clancy, MD Source Type: podcasts

"Personalized Genomics" Gets Closer
Dr. Anthony Komaroff, Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, explains why the two most recent developments in gene study are so important. (Source: MedGenMed Weekly Editorials from Medscape.com)
Source: MedGenMed Weekly Editorials from Medscape.com - February 24, 2006 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Anthony Komaroff, MD Source Type: podcasts

Preventing Childhood Obesity: An Open Letter to the US Congress
Dr. Michael Dansinger, of the Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Metabolism at Tufts-New England Medical Center, explains why banning food advertising to children is vital. (Source: MedGenMed Weekly Editorials from Medscape.com)
Source: MedGenMed Weekly Editorials from Medscape.com - February 17, 2006 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Michael Dansinger, MD, MS Source Type: podcasts

What New Doctors Must Learn
Dr. Jordan Cohen, president of the Association of American Medical Colleges, explains why instilling virtue in the learning environments in which future physicians are educated is so important. (Source: MedGenMed Weekly Editorials from Medscape.com)
Source: MedGenMed Weekly Editorials from Medscape.com - February 13, 2006 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Jordan J. Cohen, MD Source Type: podcasts