Search results for: pediatric rheumatology

REF Fellowship Training Award Expanded

Staff | October 1, 2007

Workforce training should be at the forefront of every rheumatologist’s mind. The release of the 2006 Rheumatology Workforce Study, commissioned by the ACR, confirms that the current shortage of rheumatologists will continue to increase, affecting current and future patient care.

Urge Congress to Support the Arthritis Act

Staff | October 1, 2007

The ACR strongly urges Congress to enact the “Arthritis Prevention, Control, and Cure Act of 2007” (S. 626/H.R.1283), introduced by Senators Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.) and Christopher Bond (R-Mo.) and Representatives Anna Eshoo (D-Calif.) and Chip Pickering (R-Miss.).

Education Beyond the Classroom

Jane Jerrard | October 1, 2007

The Committee on Education provides the resources you need to keep up to date

Disappearing Dollars

Mariana J. Kaplan, MD, and Virginia Pascual, MD | October 1, 2007

What’s happening to federal research funding in rheumatology?

It’s a Small World After All

Neal S. Birnbaum, MD | September 1, 2007

Global collaboration can improve care

Make Education A Priority

Neal S. Birnbaum, MD | July 1, 2007

All rheumatologists need to train and support the specialty’s next generation

PAC a Punch on Capitol Hill

Elaine Zablocki | May 1, 2007

New political action committee will be a voice for rheumatology

Your Representatives on Capitol Hill

Jane Jerrard | March 1, 2007

Government Affairs Committee advocates on behalf of the ACR and all rheumatologists

Reading RHEUM

Robyn T. Domsic, MD; Kathleen A. Haines, MD; Daniel H. Solomon, MD, MPH; | November 1, 2006

Handpicked Reviews of Contemporary Literature

Better Physicians—One Student at a Time

Staff | November 1, 2006

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.