Daniel Carlat ("Diagnosis: Conflict of Interest," Op-Ed, June 13) is simply wrong when he questions the educational value of continuing medical education programs supported by America's pharmaceutical research companies.
While Opus Dei does not seem as deeply involved in social work as some other Catholic groups, it does run medical and educational programs for the poor.
The panel, which is to report its findings by the end of June, will look at issues including aging buildings, endemic violence, high rates of recidivism, poor medical and educational programs and a reported "code of silence" among prison guards regarding abusive treatment of inmates.
As for continuing medical education programs, care providers mentioned the already large number of educational programs and their limited time to participate in these programs: "We are so overwhelmed.
Educational and training programs are essential to expanding emergency care in LMICs, yet there are few EM-specific medical education programs in these contexts [7].
Similar to medical education, physical therapy educational programs do not utilize standardized curricula, thus exposure to didactic and clinical education experiences related to the management of musculoskeletal conditions differs.
Many of the prisons that do have air-conditioning in areas where medical services or educational programs are provided to inmates do not offer it in the sections where they live.
Major League Baseball has taken steps to discourage chewing tobacco, like providing medical advice and educational programs, but Strasburg and other players who continue to use tobacco are proof that these have failed.
The clinic is to be the cornerstone of a medical-retail complex that will include a separate, stand-alone Walgreen's drug store and a rehabilitated brick factory that Lifespan, the state's largest hospital network, has agreed to lease for office space and possibly medical services and educational programs.
