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Editor-in-Chief: Steven L. Kanter, MD
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
ISSN: 1040-2446
Frequency: 12 issues per year

Current Issue: February 2010 - Volume 85 - Issue 2
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Media Highlights
  • Pauline Chen, MD, in her NY Times blog Doctor and Patient discussed a September 2009 study in which medical student reported inadequate instructional time in the practice of medicine, specifically medical economics.
  • ModernMedicine featured a February 2010 article chronicling the underrepresentation of minorities in the health professions a century after the Flexner Report.
  • The Chronicle of Higher Education featured a news story announcing that the February 2010 Flexner Centenary issue proposes major changes in how doctors are trained.
  • AMedNews featured a December 2009 study reporting that needlestick injuries during medical school frequently go unreported, which places medical students at risk for contracting bloodborne pathogens.
  • The Wall Street Journal's Health Blog featured a December 2009 study that detailed UCLA Medical Center's Measure to Achieve Patient Safety (MAPS) program to improve hand hygiene and patient identification.
On the Cover

February 2010

Artist's Statement: The Healer

Gertken, J T.

Academic Medicine.
85(2):272,
February 2010.
doi: 10.1097/
ACM.0b013e3181c88754


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