The ARHP is pleased to announce the first recipients of its new Graduate Student Recognition Award: Rahul Kanna and Denise Power. By supporting the efforts of non-medical graduate students interested in rheumatology, this new award program recognizes creative research projects that merge the theory and clinical practice of rheumatologic care in an effort to improve the lives of patients with rheumatic diseases.
Better Physicians—One Student at a Time
For Maribeth Morral, a third-year medical student at Penn State College of Medicine in State College, Pa., and ACR Research and Education Foundation (REF) Preceptorship winner, her first exposure to rheumatology was the product of a chance encounter. In the first year of medical school at Penn State, students are assigned to track a chronically ill patient throughout the year as a learning experience. Morral’s patient happened to be an 11-year-old girl diagnosed with juvenile RA.
Call for USBJD Young Investigators Applicants
The Research Committee of the United States Bone and Joint Decade (USBJD) has launched a series of workshops to provide early-career clinical investigators with an opportunity to work with experienced researchers in rheumatology, and to assist them in securing funding and learning other survival skills required for pursuing an academic career.
November Coding Scenario
Think you know all there is to know about coding? Here’s a chance to find out.
Take the Reins
Rheumatologists must guide the quality movement to improve patient care
The Rheumatologist
One of many information resources from ACR
A New Member of the Family
The youngest ACR publication gets a name
Office Visit
A Day in the Life of Cynthia Aranow, MD
Control Quality Anxiety
Rheumatologists positive but cautious about their brushes with the quality movement
Joint by Joint
X-ray expert John Sharp, MD, revolutionized RA tracking with the Sharp score