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Thursday, April 19, 2012

AAMC reports 20% of Medical Students are Mistreated

One of this months top stories from the AMA MedEd Update News was about the mistreatment of medical students and the move to more accurately gather information on the prevelance of this problem in order to raise awarness and to better address the issue.

"...the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) has made significant changes to its annual questionnaire of graduating medical students to improve collection of data on medical student mistreatment."

In the current 2012 survey, questions regarding mistreatment will be more visible.

"Current data from previous questionnaires show that approximately one in five medical students report that they have experienced mistreatment. Data from the 2012 questionnaire, which is currently in the field, will be available for release by the fall."

Labels: AAMC, abuse, medical education, medical student mistreatment, medical students, mistreatment, survey

Thursday, April 28, 2011

Would they do it all again?

Medscape has released the results of the first annual
"Physician Compensation Report 2011".
The survey conducted between February 2 and March 30, 2011, fielded 455,000 physicians from 22 specialties who are practising medicine in the United States. The results reflect the opinions of the 15,794 physicans who responded.
An interesting statistic for medical students to note came in response to the question "Would they do it all again?". Almost 70% answered in the affirmative! Click the links to Medscape to access the full report [ registration with the site is required but there is no charge ].

Labels: job satisfaction, Medscape, monetary compensation, primary care physicians, salary comparison, survey

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