Showing posts with label doctors. Show all posts
Showing posts with label doctors. Show all posts
Wednesday, November 3, 2021

Selection of Dutch doctors by lottery

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 Here's a recent article describing the once and future Dutch selection of medical students by lottery. (I believe that residency positi...
Monday, October 4, 2021

More on the UAE-Israel kidney exchange

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If you're just tuning in, you can follow the story  of the kidney exchange between the UAE and Israel  here . The pairs who exchanged ki...
Monday, September 27, 2021

Doctors and guns

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  Americans are divided about  guns, and so are American doctors. While the American Medical Association regards guns as a public health cri...
Wednesday, May 9, 2018

How many transplants could a transplant surgeon do if ...?

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The  Indy Star carried this story about Dr. William Goggins at Indiana University, on the occasion of his 2000th kidney transplant (which h...
Saturday, March 17, 2018

When an academic conference can save lives (market for interventional cardiologists)

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The Chronicle of Higher Ed has the story: Academic Conferences May Save Lives — by Keeping Big-Name Doctors Busy Here's the medical ...
Thursday, March 8, 2018

Solidarity between doctors and nurses in Quebec

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Canadian doctors--at least some of them--are different. The Washington Post has the story. Hundreds of Canadian doctors demand lower sal...
Saturday, October 7, 2017

Medical careers as investments

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From Statnews.com: How much do doctors really make? Compare your salary to various specialties 
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Thursday, March 16, 2017

What do immigrant doctors affected by the travel ban bring to America?

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"What do immigrant doctors bring to America" is the question asked (and answered) by The Immigrant Doctors Project , a website co...
Friday, September 2, 2016

A perfect match--documentary on the medical match by Dr Trisha Pasricha

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Here's a description of a forthcoming documentary on the National Resident Matching Program ( NRMP ), the resident match : A Perfect Ma...
Monday, May 16, 2016

Results of the 2015 Medical School Enrollment Survey

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Results of the 2015 Medical School Enrollment Survey "Key findings include:  • Medical school enrollment has grown 25 percent sinc...
Saturday, September 8, 2012

The supply of American doctors

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American medicine is a market with tightly restricted entry, at all levels. Proposed legislation offers a glimpse: Bill Would Create More Me...
Wednesday, May 30, 2012

The market for medical referrals

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The medical profession finds (explicit) advertising repugnant, but specialists depend upon referrals, so there's a marketing industry at...
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Tuesday, April 24, 2012

Yuichiro Kamada defends his Ph.D. dissertation

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Defense 2 (Offense 0) Yuichiro (in suit:), with Tomasz Strzalecki and Al Roth (and Drew Fudenberg and Attila Ambrus via skype) Yuic...
Wednesday, February 8, 2012

Medical (and pre-medical) culture: cheating on tests

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While some of the very best motivated and most talented students find their way into medicine, it is also a large, well-compensated professi...
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Friday, July 15, 2011

The job market in gastrointestinal endoscopy

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After completing a 3 year subspecialty match in gastroenterology, doctors wishing to specialize further can do a fellowship in advanced endo...
Monday, April 4, 2011

The gastro fellowship match after five years

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A recent article takes stock of the Gastroenterology fellowship match, five years after it was reinstated with some new design rules (about ...
Friday, January 28, 2011

Unraveling of pathology fellowships

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A forthcoming paper in the journal Human Pathology gives a detailed account of the unraveling of the market for Pathology subspecialty fell...
Thursday, October 29, 2009

Hours per week worked by (young) surgeons

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In Britain as in the United States, there is considerable debate about the hours worked by physicians and surgeons, and what these mean for ...
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Wednesday, September 16, 2009

NRMP to implement "managed scramble"

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After the medical match, some applicants and positions remain unmatched. Right now, that is handled through a fairly decentralized "scr...
Friday, September 11, 2009

Medical match policies (NRMP)

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The NRMP has some new rules for 2009, which suggests that there have been some new problems (I haven't been involved for a while). &qu...