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Trends in Medical Students’ Legal Concerns Regarding Abortion Care in the Wake of the 2022 Dobbs v Jackson Women’s Health Organization Decision

Objectives: The 2022 Dobbs v Jackson Women’s Health Organization US Supreme Court decision dramatically shifted the legal landscape in health care, leaving state legislatures to redefine the ethics of medical practice. As gold-standard medical procedures become banned and criminalized, physicians are facing heightened legal uncertainty and grappling with moral dilemmas…

Internal Medicine Faculty Receive Hands-On POCUS Training

Internal Medicine faculty at Saint Peter’s University Hospital received hands-on point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) training, provided by SMA, and that included a series of live demonstrations, case-based simulations, and didactic lectures.

DEA Issues New Training Requirement for Substance Use Disorders

Practitioners are now required to complete 8 hours of training for Medication Assisted Treatment as part of the MATE Act. This new training requirement goes into effect June 21, 2023, and the deadline for completion is the date of a practitioner’s next scheduled DEA registration submission.

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Public CPR and AED Knowledge: An Opportunity for Educational Outreach in South Carolina

Objectives: Sudden cardiac arrest (SCA) remains a significant cause of morbidity and mortality, and the key to increased survival is emergent bystander intervention. A growing body of evidence has shown that timely bystander-initiated cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and defibrillation are significantly correlated with an increased likelihood of survival. Despite these demonstrated…

Spirituality/Medicine Interface Project

What Training Should Be Required as an Education Standard for Healthcare and Hospital Chaplains?

Abstract:This document discusses training for hospital and healthcare chaplains in the light of different UK standards applied by various interested parties. It considers the different standards and concludes that there is no single applied standard for training for National Health Service (NHS) hospital chaplains across the UK. Those models that…

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Primary Care House Staff Attitudes Toward Osteoporosis Management

Objective: This study assessed possible institutional and patient-related factors influencing the delivery of postmenopausal osteoporosis (PMO) care and the diagnostic priority placed on addressing PMO, relative to other common medical conditions, by primary care house staff at our institution. Methods: A questionnaire was designed and distributed to eligible house staff…

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Pre-event Willingness to Receive Smallpox Vaccine Among Physicians and Public Safety Personnel

Background: Planning for voluntary smallpox vaccination of health and safety officials began in December 2002. Materials And Methods: Surveys were conducted among physicians and fire and police department personnel in Atlanta, Georgia. Information on demographics, willingness to receive smallpox vaccine, self-reported knowledge level, and potential vaccine contraindications was analyzed. Results:…