Archive for September, 2006

HIV Prevalence Among Blacks In South Florida Still Disproportionately High, Report Says

Posted on September 11, 2006. Filed under: Medical News |

Although there has been progress in recent years, blacks in south Florida are more than three times as likely to be HIV-positive than whites in the region, according to a report from the Florida Department of Health, the Miami Herald reports (Goldstein, Miami Herald, 9/7). The report, titled “Silence is Death: The Crisis of HIV/AIDS [...]

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Medical Education Must Adapt To Society’s Changing Attitudes

Posted on September 11, 2006. Filed under: Medical News |

What are the challenges facing medical education? This question is discussed in this week’s BMJ, ahead of the annual meeting of the Association for Medical Education in Europe.
Medical education needs to adapt to society’s changing attitudes, write experts from the University of Maastricht, and they outline four major challenges that need to be tackled if [...]

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