Changing premed requirements and the medical curriculum

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The Council on Medical Education was created and published by the American Medical Association on the first minimal standards for medical schools and an ideal medical curriculum a century ago. It has proposed changes that can have dramatic improvements in physicians' interaction with patients as well as structure of the delivery system to ensure that patients receive known effective interventions.

Evaluation, Physician and patient, Physician-patient relations, American Medical Association, Medical education, Curriculum-based assessment, Curriculum based assessment

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Essential elements of a technology and outcomes assessment initiative

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The increasing health care expenditures in the U.S. have initiated the U.S. Federation and health plan organizations to look for a new technology. It should be built with trustworthy methods, which would offer to balance the benefits of medical technologies and the costs that results from their adoption

Medical technology, Medical laboratory technology

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Why well-insured patients should demand value-based insurance benefits

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The articles discusses that all US citizens with good health care insurance should demand value-based insurance benefits as it may pose threat on health care spending.

Accident & Health Insurance, Insurance Carriers, Direct Health and Medical Insurance Carriers, Hospital and medical service plans, Medical Care Insurance, Health insurance

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