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Teaching Hospitals to be Notified About Resident Slots
Teaching hospitals that applied for additional Medicare resident cap slots are scheduled to receive their final letters from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) shortly, notifying them whether their resident caps have increased and by how much.
Academic Medical Centers
Clash with Insurance Providers
When contracts between academic medical centers and insurance providers reach their annual termination dates, most are renewed without incident. But the past year has seen a small spate of disputed contracts.
50 Years After Salk's Discovery, Polio Vaccination Still Necessary
One afternoon when she was 12 years old, Beatrice Sharp Slutsky suddenly discovered that she was unable to move.
Passing the Torch:
New Approaches for a New Generation
Every generation of young people enters the workforce determined to chart their own path and apply a career philosophy that often differs vastly from their elders.
In Every Issue
A Word from the President:
"If It Ain't Broke, Don't Try to Fix It"
Viewpoint:
"Improving Health Care Quality Is a Worthy Investment" by William L. Roper, M.D., CEO of the University of North Carolina Health Care System, Vice Chancellor for Medical Affairs, Dean of the UNC School of Medicine
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Disaster Training:
Medical Students Prepare for the Worst
In a trauma center outside Chicago, doctors, nurses, and emergency technicians race from patient to patient, using every available resource to help each one—all victims of a chemical explosion that was part of a bioterrorism attack.
Clinical Trials Registry
Requirements Advance
With one key deadline for entering the protocols of clinical trials in a publicly accessible, national database already past, and another looming in September, debate continues over just how a national clinical trials registry should be established and what it should look like.
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