OTTAWA - The Honourable Leona Aglukkaq, Minister of Health, today announced federal funding of over $1.5 million to the Association of Faculties of Medicine of Canada (AFMC) to strengthen the postgraduate medical education system. The funding will help provide physicians in training with the necessary skills to meet the health care needs of Canadians.
"Our government is working to strengthen Cana...
Excessive computer use and working with heavy machinery have long been blamed for causing wrist pain, but according to a top medic, the reason behind the agony is: too much sex.
Writing in the journal Medical Hypotheses, researcher Dr John Zenian states that repetitive movements during lovemaking puts extra weight on the wrists. This causes carpal tunnel syndrome, reports The Sun.
The syndrome trap...
New Delhi: In order to combat the shortage of doctors in rural areas, the government has come up with a unique three-and-a-half-year bachelor course in medicine and surgery (MBBS) for students from villages. The catch is these doctors will not be allowed practise in urban or semi-urban areas.
Once the rural doctors get their degrees, they will be allowed to practise only in notified rural areas. To...
No less than 22 MBBS students will not be able to appear for their exams as their examination forms have been rejected by college authorities, taking into account their' scant attendance and failure in internal exams. The students are from city's B J Medical College and NHL Municipal Medical College and Vaghodiya's Sumandeep Medical College.
The first and third year MBBS exams are scheduled to beg...
FOREIGN medical students could soon buy training places in Queensland Health, potentially shutting out local students, secret Government documents reveal.
A Queensland Health medical advisory panel will look at developing a policy with Queensland medical schools to sell internships overseas – possibly for up to $200,000.
But the panel has also expressed concern about international medical gradua...
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