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Other plans include consulting with the General Medical Council and medical schools on the introduction of a four-year medical degree - one year less than the five it currently takes to complete - which, alongside a medical internship, would mean students coul...
Depending on the role and certification of the medical staff member, the credentialing process will differ. So not only are administration teams expected to manually track and execute 1000s of credentialing processes but they are expected to know each process and what the requirement...
In the United States, the State of Massachusetts has unveiled a long-awaited digital vaccine verification system. Known as "My Vax Records," the official app allows users to access a digital version of their COVID-19 vaccination credentials, which they can then use to enter venues where proof...
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To avoid this confusion also pervading this discussion, the next section clarifies the way in which NHS England’sEmpower the Persondigital strategy uses empowerment and introduces the concept of the ‘Digital Medical Gaze.’ Empowerment and the Digital Medical Gaze ...
One ofmy studiesindicates that if half of England's5 million smokersswitched to e-cigarettes or heated tobacco, the NHS would save more than £500 million a year. The shift away from cigarettes would lead to a decrease in cases of lung cancer, mouth cancer andheart disease. While the ris...
"Improving well-being is about more than better access tomental health servicesfor NHS staff. Those things are essential but prevention, as always, is better than cure. However, prevention here isn't easy or cheap: we need investment in better buildings, better rest areas, better working condi...
With remote access, you can remotely use specialized medical software systems running on high-end machines, including microscopes. This allows you to efficiently perform tasks like analyzing blood and tissue samples from anywhere. Teaching hospitals can also offer students the opportunity to view real-...
Authors suggest that we have consistently failed to bridge the gap between the two, labeling training for uncertainty as medical education's "most elusive ideal" (Ludmerer 1999). This contrib- utes to an educational climate which "rewards those who give correct answers, and often denigrates ...