The Certification Board for Professionals in Patient Safety will soon launch the Certified Professional in Patient Safety exam, according to a news release. The exam will officially launch during ...

There is a shortage of nurses trained to conduct sexual assault victim examinations. This nurse is trying to change that Fri.

How well a newly minted doctor scores on their medical board exam appears linked to patients’ odds of dying or being readmitted to the hospital. Doctors’ performance on ratings of knowledge and skill ...

How do we know whether newly minted doctors have what it takes to prevent patient deaths? After completing residency training, graduating physicians typically take board certification exams at the ...

As part of their training, medical students sometimes perform intimate physical examinations on surgical patients who are under anesthesia. Federal guidelines now prohibit this teaching practice ...

No, replied Amanda Struiksma. It was in fact her eighth — in less than an hour. Struiksma is a “model patient,” helping first-year internal medicine residents from the University of Washington learn ...

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MidMichigan Health is now accepting applications for its Ambulatory Patient Care Technician Trainee Program, a two-week paid training program. The goal of the program is to provide participants with ...

Savanah Harshbarger estimates she performed as many as 10 pelvic exams last year on patients before gynecologic surgeries, feeling for fibroid tumors or other abnormalities. The Duke University ...