Hematology

Preparing patients for surgery is a complicated process. What are the best tools for assessing surgical risk? What are the strategies for management of preoperative and postoperative anticoagulation? What about other medications? What are approaches for management of pain in surgical patients? Please join us for another installment of our...

An estimated 800,000 new research articles are published in the biomedical field each year. With so much new research, how can residents and medical students keep up and stay informed? How do we differentiate between the most relevant articles and those that are not? And how can keeping up with the evidence base be integrated into our daily work? Join our panel of experts and moderators for a discussion on how to keep up with the evidence base during your years of training.

We have invited the residents and faculty from the MetroWest Medical Center Internal Medicine Residency Program to engage in a journal club discussion about the recent NEJM article, "Adjunctive Intermittent Pneumatic Compression for Venous Thromboprophylaxis," which can be found at...

Communication is key in all relationships. Effective and compassionate communication by physicians and other health care providers has been demonstrated to improve clinical outcomes, treatment adherence, patient satisfaction, and to reduce malpractice claims. For health care providers...

Although every resident develops his or her own style for each of these roles, the following practical strategies were discussed in a NEJM Resident 360 discussion (How to Lead a Team on the Wards: The Art to Being an Effective Resident).

For many medical trainees, transitioning from having a question for a research project to taking the next steps is difficult. Finding an appropriate mentor, getting ethics approval, collecting data, performing analyses, and writing up a project for publication are particularly hard when added to the pressures and stresses of medical school or residency.