Latest Residents News

• What’s the Best Approach for Sustained Weight Loss? With nutritional, pharmaceutical, and surgical options available for obesity, clinicians are being called upon to make decisions about how to best help their patients lose weight and keep it off.
  Medscape Medical News, January 10, 2025
• Dementia Risk Higher for Stroke Survivors Dementia risk is nearly 80% higher in stroke survivors than in those without stroke, with risk declining within 1 year but remaining elevated for up to 20 years, data show.
  Medscape Medical News, January 10, 2025
• Why Aren’t More PCPs Offering Contraceptive Services? Experts say the primary care workforce is well suited to meet patients’ contraceptive needs but the numbers of primary care physicians offering prescriptions and procedures is strikingly low.
  Medscape Medical News, January 09, 2025
• Reducing Risk, One Mask at a Time: What the Science Says Could masks create a comeback as we move beyond COVID-19? Here are the latest insights into their impact and effectiveness on public health.
  Medscape Medical News, January 09, 2025
• Jumping Jacks and Cold Water: Mental Health Tools for Kids Emotional lashing out, chronic worry, depression, and self-harm are some of the mental health issues pediatricians are presented with, and patients deserve more than a referral to a mental health specialist, experts said.
  Medscape Medical News, January 08, 2025
• Politics in the Exam Room As political decisions increasingly affect healthcare, doctors weigh in on the changes and challenges they’ll likely see with the new administration.
  Medscape Medical News, January 08, 2025
• Obstetric VTE Risk Rose Significantly Over Past Decade Risk for venous thromboembolism during pregnancy increased significantly from 2009 to 2019, with an average annual percent change of 9.2%.
  Medscape Medical News, January 08, 2025
• FMT Shows Early Success in Type 1 Diabetes With Bowel Issues In the first study of its kind, researchers reported that fecal microbiota transplantation was a safe and beneficial approach for patients with type 1 diabetes and severe gastroenteropathy.
  Medscape Medical News, January 08, 2025
• Student-Run Clinics Seen Expanding With Promise and Pitfalls Medical students appear to be participating and managing more free clinics. A recent JAMA Internal Medicine article explored the benefits and potential risks of these programs.
  Medscape Medical News, January 07, 2025
• Med Students: Ready for Residency, but Not Career New survey results showed that some med students feel confident heading into the next phase of learning but not so much in their eventual jobs.
  Medscape Medical News, January 07, 2025
• Meta-Analysis Finding of a Fluoride-IQ Link Controversial Review finds an inverse association and a dose-response link between fluoride and IQ; editorialists disagree on the results and conduct of the study.
  Medscape Medical News, January 07, 2025
• Pilot Program Cuts ADHD Diagnosis, Treatment Times A Minnesota program reduced complaint-to-treatment times for ADHD with screening tools in primary care.
  Medscape Medical News, December 30, 2024
• Reality of Night Shifts: How to Stay Sharp and Healthy Taking stairs, packing healthy snacks, forgoing late-night caffeine, and other tips to ward off fatigue and remain alert when the sun goes down.
  Medscape Medical News, December 20, 2024
• Study Smarter: Best Ways Med Students Can Retain Knowledge Learning and retaining medical knowledge is literally a full-time job. But it’s only time well spent if students are using proven study habits.
  Medscape Medical News, December 20, 2024
• Physician Union Drives Have Skyrocketed, Data Show A new JAMA study finds that union drives by doctors rose dramatically in 2023 and 2024 compared to two decades prior.
  Medscape Medical News, December 19, 2024
• Enticing Rural Residents to Practice Where They Train Public and private healthcare funding, scholarships, and tuition reimbursement are among the incentives encouraging young doctors to practice in rural communities.
  Medscape Medical News, December 19, 2024
• Seeking Solutions to Burnout Among Emergency Physicians While the culture is changing slowly, today’s residents and early-career emergency physicians are feeling the stress just as much as previous generations.
  Medscape Medical News, December 18, 2024
• Can Space Technology Help Canada’s Healthcare System? Two pilot projects will investigate how space technology can reduce emergency department visits and improve outcomes for patients without a family doctor.
  Medscape Medical News, December 18, 2024
• Essential Skills Med Students Should Master Before Residency Perhaps it’s no surprise that learning how to take a patient history is one of the most important skills many physicians say they learned in medical school.
  Medscape Medical News, December 18, 2024
• The PA Boom: More PAs, More Options The PA boom is driving care delivery and creating more opportunities for both patients and providers.
  Medscape Medical News, December 12, 2024