NAPCRG LAUNCHES TRAINEE ENGAGEMENT PROGRAM

California launches nation's first green chemistry program.

ger's (R-CA) signature on Sep-tember 29, California became the first U.S. state to approve two laws that will move its regulatory scheme toward a comprehensive chemicals policy. The legislation is intended to improve public and environmental health protection and encourage green chemistry-the design of chemical products and processes that reduce or eliminate the use or generation of hazardous s...

The Joint Commission launches new comprehensive stroke certification program.

requires varying degrees of care and intervention because it affects individuals in different ways. To improve the quality and safety of care for patients with complex strokes—who require more specialized diagnostic testing, interventions, and care than those receiving care at Primary Stroke Centers (PSCs)—The Joint Commission developed a new Disease-Specific Care Advanced Certification program...

WHO launches global program for safe surgery, with checklist.

A bibliometric analysis of an international research ethics trainee program.

We used bibliometric analysis to evaluate the citations associated with publications by trainees in the Fogarty International Center's International Research Ethics Education and Curriculum Development program. Papers published between 2004 and 2008 were identified for analysis. The outcome measures were total citations, h-index, and i-10. A total of 328 manuscripts were identified, with a year...

Family medicine, NAPCRG, and the Great Mandella.

believe that the growing ability to measure clinical outcomes is an opportunity to more clearly demonstrate that family physicians are this nation’s best hope to create a higher quality, lower cost health care system, but we must provide residents new skills to lead PCMHs and ACOs. Innovation, new ways of looking at and solving problems, therefore, is an imperative for our specialty. We may nee...