AAMC Reporter: January 2000

Volume 9,
Number 4

Jordan J. Cohen, M.D., President

January 2000

transplant surgeons at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Organ Transplant Rule Raises More Questions Than Answers
According to the Institute of Medicine, better allocation of available organs for transplant could decrease mortality significantly.

Advocacy Efforts Help Yield Relief from BBA Cuts
A major victory for teaching hospitals, skilled nursing facilities, and other health care providers hit hard by the sweeping cuts.

'ER' characters Rocket and Elizabeth Making Housestaff Organizations Work.
Enter the housestaff organizations -- also known as resident councils.

Photo of John McGill, M.D.
It's Not Academic: Teaching Physicians Hit the Front Lines with Doctors Without Borders
At a time when many of his medical school classmates were building lucrative private practices, John McGill, M.D., was running for his life across eastern Afghanistan.

AAMC Reporter Convenes New Advisory Board

Spotlight: Group on Student Affairs
The AAMC's 12 professional development groups are the point of entry for many AAMC constituents. Each month this year, the AAMC Reporter will describe a group's activities.

National Clinical Research Summit Unites Stakeholders, Sparks Legislative Agenda
participants in the Clinical Research Summit

Clinical research is "the neck of the scientific bottle," declares the report of the National Clinical Research Summit, released Nov. 15 on Capitol Hill.

"Why, Sir William, You Don't Look a Day Over 140!"
Medical students still hear the name murmured in class, and doctors may drop the name at professional meetings, but at the sesquicentennial of Sir William Osler's birth, it is his legacy as a teacher that lives on.

Resident Drew Cronyn treating a child in the ER at Jacobi Medical Center in the Bronx.

Becoming a Doctor: Images of a Transformation
Photographs from medical students and residents selected as winners of the AAMC's 1999-2000 photography contest.
Photo above submitted by Steve I. Caddle, Pediatrics/Primary Care intern, Albert Einstein College of Medicine/Montefiore Medical Center

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