Dental Sleep Medicine Conference, Dentist Dr. David Rawson, Toronto, Ontario, Canada – Video

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New Tool Maps Family Medicine's Impact Around the World

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Pushing through the daily practice grind, family physicians might not have a moment to consider that family medicine is happening not only across the country, but also around the world.

The AAFP's new World Health Mapper tool offers physicians a chance to easily do just that -- explore data on country-level health indicators, health care costs and capacity, vital statistics, and contacts for family medicine opportunities abroad.

Andrew Bazemore, M.D., M.P.H., director of the Robert Graham Center for Policy Studies in Family Medicine and Primary Care, told AAFP News that this application was developed using the Graham Center/AAFP online mapping platform, HealthLandscape.(www.healthlandscape.org)

"The project is a result of ambitions to expand our HealthLandscape geospatial data platform globally, while making global health data more available and readily accessible for primary care providers with global health interests," Bazemore said. "I've been active in global health education and activities for many years, and have wished many times for easily accessible international comparison data relevant to health and primary care."

Bazemore added that the tool offers a snapshot of the status and spread of family medicine around the globe, enhanced with contextual information about health and health care in the countries where family medicine currently is being practiced or potentially could be someday.

The global mapping project was born in early 2014, when an opportunity presented itself to combine a HealthLandscape data visualization tool with primary data collection by Graham Center Fellow John Parks, M.D. The tool was built in 10 months without external funding.

Mark Carrozza and Jene Grandmont at HealthLandscape gathered and adapted the World Bank's World Development Indicators data catalog, as well as health data from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, and created an online visualization tool using HealthLandscape's existing platform.

Parks (currently working in Malawi) and a team of students gathered information on the status of family medicine in nearly every country in the world, Bazemore said. Alexander Ivanov, director of the AAFP Center for Global Health Initiatives, and Julie Wood, M.D., AAFP vice president of health of the public and science and interprofessional activities, supported the effort by disseminating the information and getting it integrated into the AAFP website.

Bazemore recommended interested family physicians start using the tool by selecting the "Global Family Medicine Project" button to view information on where family medicine training is happening, which countries' ministries of health or education have recognized family medicine, and where related family medicine organizations are located.

"Click on other national characteristics to see how the presence or absence of family medicine is associated with national health care costs, disease rates and demographics," Bazemore added.

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Nanomedicine shines light on combined force of nanomedicine and regenerative medicine

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31 March, 2015 - Nanomedicine has published a special focus issue on the combined force of nanomedicine and regenerative medicine; two fields that continue to develop at a dramatic pace.

Titled 'Engineering the nanoenvironment for regenerative medicine', the issue is guest edited by Professor Matthew J. Dalby (University of Glasgow, UK, and associate editor of Nanomedicine) and Dr Manus J.P. Biggs (National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland). It comprises 9 primary research articles and 3 reviews covering topics relevant to the current translation of nanotopography and nanofunctionalization for nanoscale regenerative strategies in medicine.

Indeed, the field of 'nanoregeneration' has grown exponentially over the last 15 years, and fields of study focusing on the nanobiointerface now include nanotopographical modification, formulation of existing biomaterials and modification of the extracellular matrix, as well as the development of targeting techniques using nanoparticles.

Nanoscale platforms are becoming increasingly recognized as tools to understand biological molecules, subcellular structures and how cells and organs work. Therefore, they could have real applications in regenerative medicine and increase our knowledge of how stem cells work, or in drug discovery and cell targeting.

"The fields of nanomedicine and regenerative medicine continue to evolve at a dramatic pace, with new and exciting developments almost a daily occurrence. This special focus issue highlights the translational research, reviews current thinking and 'shines a light' on the future potential of a field where nanomedicine converges with regenerative medicine," said Michael Dowdall, Managing Commissioning Editor of Nanomedicine. "We feel this is an important subject for our readers to have a comprehensive and contextual overview of. The special focus issue helps provide this context for researchers, by framing the potential applications of nanomedicine/nanoengineering in terms of the current 'state of the art' regenerative medicine techniques."

Professor Dalby commented: "This special focus issue on nanoscale regenerative strategies focuses on basic and translational aspects of nanotopography and nanofunctionalization, and also gives perspective to future fundamental developments in the field, helping provide a future translational pipeline."

Members of RegMedNet, the online community for those working in the field of regenerative medicine, can access select articles from the special focus issue through the online platform.

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Dr. Malolepszy received his medical degree from Dartmouth Medical School and completed his internship and residency at New England Deaconess Hospital. He is board certified in internal medicine.

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Exercise largely absent from US medical school curriculum, study shows

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Exercise may play a critical role in maintaining good health, but fewer than half of the physicians trained in the United States in 2013 received formal education or training on the subject, according to new research from Oregon State University.

A review of medical school curriculums showed that a majority of U.S. institutions did not offer any courses on physical activity, and when the courses were offered, they were rarely required, said Brad Cardinal, a professor of exercise and sport science in OSU's College of Public Health and Human Sciences. That could leave doctors ill-prepared to assist patients who could benefit from exercise, said Cardinal, the study's lead author.

"There are immense medical benefits to exercise; it can help as much as medicine to address some health concerns," said Cardinal, who is a national expert on the benefits of physical activity. "Because exercise has medicinal as well as other benefits, I was surprised that medical schools didn't spend more time on it."

An article on the findings has been accepted for publication in an upcoming issue of the Journal of Physical Activity and Health. Co-authors are Eugene A. Park and MooSong Kim of OSU, and Marita K. Cardinal of Western Oregon University. The study was supported by OSU.

For the study, researchers reviewed U.S. medical schools' websites, looking for all physical activity-related coursework. They reviewed both public and private schools, and schools of medicine and osteopathic medicine. In all, 118 of the 170 accredited schools had curriculum information available online.

Of those, 51 percent offered no physical activity related coursework, and 21 percent offered only one course. And 82 percent of the schools reviewed did not require students to take any physical activity-related courses.

Schools may be spending more time on the topic than appears in the published curriculum, but the absence of physical activity in those documents suggests exercise education is not formalized or institutionalized to the degree it ought to be, given its role in helping people stay healthy, Cardinal said.

"I'm an outsider looking in, and I was expecting to see more than what we did," he said.

Lifestyle-related chronic illnesses such as heart disease and diabetes are among the leading causes of death and disability, and one of the most important ways to prevent such chronic diseases is through regular physical activity participation, he said.

Physicians play a significant and influential role in encouraging and assisting patients who need or are trying to get more exercise, but past research has shown that many physicians lack the education, skills or confidence to educate and counsel patients about their physical activity, Cardinal said.

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Candidates to resit Graduate Medical School Admissions Test due to printing error

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"How could they afford this error to happen?" More than 250 students may resit the GAMSAT after their exam booklets were affected by a printing error.

More than 250 candidates who sat the Graduate Medical School Admissions Test (GAMSAT) last month may resit the exam, due to an extensive printing error in a section of their exam booklet.

Things ran smoothly for most of the 10,000 candidates sitting the exam on March 21, but about 260 found serious errors on the page within moments of opening their exam booklets.

"As you looked around the room about 10 seconds into reading time everyone in the whole section had their hands up," said Matthew, who has asked that his name be changed for fear of jeopardising his future success in the GAMSAT.

Not for everyone: A post on the GAMSAT Facebook page, following the exam in which the booklets of 260 students were affected by a printing error. Photo: Facebook

The GAMSAT is developed by the Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER) in conjunction with the Consortium of Graduate Medical Schools and costs $455 to sit.

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The paper is structured into three parts: Reasoning in humanities and social sciences, written communication and reasoning in biological and physical sciences.

But for candidates like Matthew, science questions were scattered throughout section one.

"We were told to put our hands down and they were on the phone to ACER trying to clarify what was happening ... they interrupted our whole reading time," he said.

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