IAME Receives Re-Accreditation from ACCME.
RYE, N.Y., Feb. 6 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Institute for Advanced Medical Education (IAME) has been resurveyed by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) and awarded accreditation for four years as a provider of continuing medical education for physicians. "IAME has a history of innovative programming...

Medical Doctor Associates, Inc. Signs Agreement with VHA To Assist Healthcare Providers With Temporary Staffing During Emergency Absences and Seasonal Fluctuations.
ATLANTA, July 24 /PRNewswire/ -- Medical Doctor Associates, Inc., (MDA), the nation's largest privately held medical staffing company announced today it was chosen by VHA Inc., a nationwide network of community-owned healthcare providers, as the provider of choice for Locum Tenens (LT) physician contract staffing. ...

Part 2: pay physicians more to practice in underserved areas. (Attracting Qualified Physicians to Underserved Areas).
OVER THE LAST QUARTER century, the strategies of building additional medical schools and, thereby, supplying more doctors; expanding the National Health Service Corps (NHSC) program; or, increasing the number of international medical graduates (IMGs) have not resulted in a sufficient number of physicians being available to deliver quality care...

The CARE bill gets a makeover for 2007: consistency, accuracy, responsibility and excellence.
The Consumer Assurance of Radiologic Excellence bill is no more. Welcome in the CARE bill of 2007--Consistency, Accuracy, Responsibility and Excellence in Medical Imaging and Radiation Therapy. Changing Names The Alliance for Quality Medical Imaging and Radiation Therapy, a group of 18 radiologic science organizations...

Advanced practice in radiation therapy.
The continuously changing health care system demands the highest level of practice from professionals. (1) Today's radiation therapists are pushing at traditional boundaries for their profession, and some have expressed the desire for professional advancement opportunities. (2,3) In September 2004 the American Society of Radiologic Technologists (ASRT)...

Dental hygienists' role in establishing dental homes for head start children.
Overview of Head Start Over the past 50 years, major improvements in oral health have been seen nationally. Progress has been made in reducing the extent and severity of common and often preventable oral diseases. However, for many Americans, especially children from minority racial and ethnic groups...

The role of the cancer nurse coordinator in neurology.
INTRODUCTION Access to specialist neurological cancer services for patients in the metropolitan area of Western Australia has improved with the addition of the speciality cancer unit at Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital. However patients and service providers alike identified a lack of coordination between various services and a...

Establishing a multi-disciplinary foot ulcer clinic--a practical approach.
Keywords: multi-disciplinary foot ulcer clinic, diabetic foot INTRODUCTION The benefits of multi-disciplinary foot ulcer clinics (MDFUC) for patients suffering from chronic non-healing diabetic foot ulcers have been well reported in the medical literature. (1-6) Reduction in wound healing time, increased percentage of healed ulcers, diminished...

History of tumor site conferences at Baylor University Medical Center.
In the late 1960s and early 1970s, Baylor Hospital had a tumor board every Friday morning in the Braniff room in the Hoblitzelle building (present location of the Baylor Radiosurgery Center). During this conference, tumors of all types were presented and discussed. Medical, radiation, and surgical oncologists as well...

Fieldwork rotation: a model for educating social work students for geriatric social work practice.
WITH THE SUPPORT OF THE JOHN A. HARTFORD FOUNDATION, social work education is addressing the urgent need to increase the number of well-trained social workers for practice in the field of aging. The Geriatric Practicum Partnership Program, launched in 1998, is one of several programs in the foundation's Geriatric...