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Whether your aim is to find a nursing school in Florida, a medical assisting program in Texas or a radiology course in California, these information resources and school search links will help you learn more about the health care career you're considering, and help you locate your school.

List of how twitter could be used by physicians from BMJ careers

This week when I lead a faculty development workshop* I'll ask participants to consider their readiness to make use of social media. Are you feeling ready, but you wonder how to take the first (or next) steps? Do you want to find out what all the fuss is about? Are you skeptical about mixing social media with your career as a health care professional, medical educator, trainees, and/or student?

"A SHORTAGE of senior medical educators and growing demand for their expertise has prompted leading Australian educators to call for a more defined career pathway for medical education"

An article about Emotional Intelligence in medicine

Welcome to doc2doc // Connecting doctors worldwide - doc2doc registration is free and connects you to colleagues around the world. * Get answers to your clinical questions from a community you can trust. * Start a discussion about anything from the latest research to careers advice. * Find colleagues you used to work with. * Create your own online meeting place for your friends, colleagues, hospital or society.

Welcome to doc2doc // Connecting doctors worldwide - doc2doc registration is free and connects you to colleagues around the world. * Get answers to your clinical questions from a community you can trust. * Start a discussion about anything from the latest research to careers advice. * Find colleagues you used to work with. * Create your own online meeting place for your friends, colleagues, hospital or society.

This page provides help if you want online and distance learning health degree programs that will prepare you for a career in health and medical professions.

 Find out about patient care technician certification, learn about the courses, where they can be taken, the career prospects, and more ...

"Much of what medical researchers conclude in their studies is misleading, exaggerated, or flat-out wrong. So why are doctors-to a striking extent-still drawing upon misinformation in their everyday practice? Dr. John Ioannidis has spent his career challenging his peers by exposing their bad science."

Overall, there are two types of medical assistant -- clinical and administrative -- though there are many gray areas where medical assistants perform both tasks to various degrees.

Dental assistants work alongside dentists, performing a variety of tasks to maintain patient comfort and smooth office function.

Admissions and personnel decisions rely on stable predictor-criterion relationships. The authors studied the validity of Big Five personality factors and their facets for predicting academic performance in medical school across multiple years, investigating whether criterion-related validities change over time. In this longitudinal investigation, an entire European country's 1997 cohort of medical students was studied throughout their medical school career

"Online role-play encouraged distributed participation among a highly diverse international group of participants, supporting the conclusion that role-playing can be used effectively with mid-career health professional faculty members in the online environment."

Are you looking forward to a career in health or medicine? If so, it can help to read blogs and get a feel for what is available. There are a number of health education and medical information blogs out there. These blogs look at medical education, address different possibilities in the health care field and discuss policy issues. You might be surprised at the number of possibilities there are. Here are 50 of the top health and medical education blogs

"We are sometimes unconscious of the hidden curriculum, but even when conscious of it we are silent or reluctant to act. We need a frank dialogue with students, residents, and each other about the lived experience of a career in medicine as the struggle it often is; about the challenges of living up to our profession's stated ideals; about the dangers of technological expertise without caring human relationships; about conflicts of interest and the difficult professional challenges of dealing with unprofessional colleagues; and about behaviour that imperils patients. We need to add "Above all be not silent" (Primum non tacere)17 to "First do no harm" as tenets to live by, and we must emphasize to students that what they are like as physicians is just as important as what they know. Thus will we build resistance to the hidden curriculum and reclaim our authenticity as trusted generalists whose knowledge is attached to values we truly uphold, model, and reproduce. "

For the right person, becoming a registered nurse can be a challenging and rewarding career move. Nurses are the most numerous health care professional in the country, but despite their numbers...

Different entry-level jobs you can have in the medical industry, most with a year or less of training.

The medical billing and coding programs at these career colleges offer a glimpse into medical billing education across the US. Though the course curriculum varies slightly from school to school, each of these colleges offers a quality learning experience for students entering the field of medical billing.

These established career schools and colleges provide reputable training in diagnostic medical sonography, preparing students for employment as ultrasound technicians. Programs include associate's and bachelor's degrees, as well as certificates for students who already hold a degree in another field.