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via Paul Levy’s blog post…
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Here’s a great fellowship opportunity in biomedical imaging being offered by the Madrid-MIT M+Visión Consortium program. Applications are welcome from people of all nations, and with a variety of backgrounds. Here is an excerpt from the description:
With a focus on accelerating innovation in biomedical imaging, promoting translational research, and encouraging entrepreneurship, [...]

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Three news articles in the first two days of the new decade indicate that the Medical Council of India is contemplating a major overhaul of medical education in India
Beginning with undergraduate medical education (MBBS).
The Hindu: MCI suggests major reforms in undergraduate course [my comments in bold italics in parentheses]

The MCI has recommended major reforms in [...]

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From the transcript of a video by Dr. Mark G. Kris, MD, Chief, Thoracic Oncology, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, published in MedscapeRadiology [Registration required. Free] speaking on the recent announcement by the National Cancer Institute about the release of data from the National Lung Screening Trial [Abstract & link below].

…we have never had a screening [...]

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H/T this retweet by my friend Ramona.
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From the The Local:

Berlin’s Charité Hospital has achieved a world-first by creating MRI images of a baby being born in order to provide extraordinary insights into the birthing process. A team comprised of obstetricians, radiologists and engineers have built an “open” MRI scanner that allows a mother-to-be to fit [...]

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via DNA - Centre cracks the whip on Indian Medical Association for endorsing products.
Sending a strong signal to doctors endorsing products for private companies, Medical Council of India (MCI) has banned top office-bearers of Indian Medical Association (IMA) from practising medicine for six months. IMA’s national president Goparaju Samaram and secretary Dharam Prakash have been removed from [...]

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I got an email from Mari (M4ID_Mari in twitter) on behalf of the WHO’s Emergencies and Humanitarian Action team in South East Asia, based in New Delhi about the WHO’s first social media driven effort, aiming to engage 1 million people in the issue of hospitals safe in disasters.
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Floods, tsunamis, earthquakes, cyclones - the WHO [...]

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Via this tweet by @thestudentdoc.

[Raphael was alluding to these two posts]
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What makes a 300-year-old pocket watch tick? : Nature News

State-of-the-art X-ray scans have revealed the internal mechanisms of a corroded, barnacle-covered pocket watch recovered from a seventeenth-century wreck. The watch looks little more than a lump of rock from the outside, but the scans show [...]

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The Times of India - Credibility of MCI will be restored, says Azad:

As MCI continues to reel under a severe crisis of credibility, health minister Ghulam Nabi Azad on Tuesday said it was the government’s immediate objective to ensure that the body responsible for regulating medical education in the country worked in a fair [...]