Grand Rounds in Pediatrics

Beginning September, Grand Rounds at Children's Mercy Hospitals & Clinics will be freely accessible over the web, with CME. Read all about it at https://www.childrensmercy.org/GrandRounds/

Grand Rounds will be available online within two business days of their live presentation at Children's Mercy Hospital, and will remain available for sixty days. Upcoming programs are:

Sept 1: "Sudden Unexpected Infant Death Investigation and Sleep Environment", Mary Dudley MD, Jackson County MO Medical Examiner

Sept 8: "Current Management of Appendicitis", Whit Holcomb MD, MBA, Surgeon-in-Chief, Children's Mercy Hospitals and Clinics. Dr. Holcomb is the current editor of the well-known textbook, Ashcraft's Pediatric Surgery.

Sept 15: "Thoughts on Humanistic Pediatric Leadership", Lewis First MD, Editor in Chief, Pediatrics, Professor and Chair, Dept of Pediatrics, University of Vermont College of Medicine. Kantor Memorial Grand Round

Sept 22: "Chronic Pain in Children and Adolescents: A Multidisplinary Approach to Neuropathic Pain", Steve Weisman MD, Professor of Anesthesia and Pediatrics, Children's Hospital of Wisconsin

Sep 29: "Women, Changing the Face of Pediatrics", Renee Jenkins MD, FAAP, Professor and Chair Emeritus, Dept of Pediatrics and Child health, Director, Office of Faculty Development, Howard University College of Medicine

Johns Hopkins University: a radical new approach to post-graduate training

Leaders in biomedical education at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine "are calling for a radical new approach to post-graduate training in the life sciences to address significant challenges, including an avalanche of new discoveries in the last decade and the need to transcend traditional departmental boundaries to understand biological processes at multiple levels." In a Leading Edge commentary published in the August 19, 2011 edition of Cell, the authors "present a new model for biomedical education that would break down current silos of particular disciplines, such as biochemistry, cell biology and physiology, and instead teach students to work across those disciplines to study organisms at all levels, from molecules and cells to an entire organism."
http://tinyurl.com/3plnuk3
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/articles/pii/S0092867411008804

NY Times editorial: Medicare

An op-ed column in Tuesday's NY Times from Ezekiel J. Emanuel and Jeffrey B. Liebman began, "Medicare is going to be cut. That is inevitable. There is no way to solve the nation's long-term debt problem without reducing the growth rate of federal health care spending. The only question is whether the cuts will be smart ones." According to the two former White House advisers, "Smart cuts eliminate spending on medical tests, treatments and procedures that don't work -- or that cost significantly more than other treatments while delivering no better health outcomes. And they can be made without shortchanging patients. There are plenty of examples..." They use the rest of their column discussing such examples. http://tinyurl.com/3uepbc4