Current Issue: Vol. 300, No. 10, September 10, 2008. Theme Issue: Medical Education
This Week in JAMA
Original Contributions
- Student Body Racial and Ethnic Composition and Diversity-Related Outcomes in US Medical Schools
- Association of Workload of On-Call Medical Interns With On-Call Sleep Duration, Shift Duration, and Participation in Educational Activities
- Factors Associated With Medical Students' Career Choices Regarding Internal Medicine
- Characteristics and Career Intentions of the Emerging MD/PhD Workforce
- US Residency Training Before and After the 1997 Balanced Budget Act
Clinician's Corner: Review
Commentaries
- Building Physician Work Hour Regulations From First Principles and Best Evidence
- Emotional Intelligence and Graduate Medical Education
Editorials
- Diversifying the Medical Classroom: Is More Evidence Needed?
- Improving Accountability for the Public Investment in Health Profession Education: It's Time to Try Health Workforce Planning
- MD/PhD Programs—A Call for an Accounting
Audio Commentary
- JAMA Audio Commentary. Dr DeAngelis, Editor in Chief of JAMA, summarizes and comments on this week's issue.
Complete Table of Contents
Top Content
Most Viewed Articles
- Nut, Corn, and Popcorn Consumption and the Incidence of Diverticular Disease
- Benefits and Risks of Tight Glucose Control in Critically Ill Adults
- Lead, Mercury, and Arsenic in US- and Indian-Manufactured Ayurvedic Medicines Sold via the Internet
- Effect of Allopurinol on Blood Pressure of Adolescents With Newly Diagnosed Essential Hypertension
- Actual Causes of Death in the United States, 2000
- Effect of Physical Activity on Cognitive Function in Older Adults at Risk for Alzheimer Disease
- Tight Glycemic Control in Critically Ill Adults
- Silver-Coated Endotracheal Tubes and Incidence of Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia
- Mortality and Cardiovascular Events in Patients Treated With Homocysteine-Lowering B Vitamins After Coronary Angiography
- Diabetes Mellitus—A Call for Papers
Most Sent Articles
- Ectopic pregnancies in upstate New York
- Sexual Dysfunction in the United States
- Respiratory Symptoms, Pulmonary Function, and Markers of Inflammation Among Bar Workers Before and After a Legislative Ban on Smoking in Public Places
- On Call: A New JAMA Forum for Postgraduate Education and Training
- Nut, Corn, and Popcorn Consumption and the Incidence of Diverticular Disease
- Lead, Mercury, and Arsenic in US- and Indian-Manufactured Ayurvedic Medicines Sold via the Internet
- Silver-Coated Endotracheal Tubes and Incidence of Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia
- Sildenafil for Treatment of Erectile Dysfunction in Men With Diabetes
- Benefits and Risks of Tight Glucose Control in Critically Ill Adults
- Clinical and Echocardiographic Follow-up of Patients Previously Treated With Dexfenfluramine or Phentermine/Fenfluramine
Explore & Interact
Readers Respond
A 60-Year-Old Woman With Mild Memory Impairment
Read the case and respond by September 24, 2008; your response may be posted online. You also may read and respond to previous responses.
Author in the Room™
Sildenafil Treatment of Women With Antidepressant-Associated Sexual Dysfunction
Join H. George Nurnberg, MD for the Author in the Room teleconference on September 17, 2008, from 2 to 3 PM ET. Sign up for the teleconference at the IHI Web site.
You can also subscribe to the Author in the Room podcast and listen to past teleconferences.
Ablation Therapy for Atrial Fibrillation
View a new video that illustrates radiofrequency circumferential pulmonary vein catheter ablation for treatment of atrial atrial fibrillation as described in Catheter Ablation Therapy for Supraventricular Arrhythmia.
CALL FOR PAPERS: Diabetes Mellitus
JAMA will publish a theme issue on diabetes and its associated comorbidities in April 2009. Submission deadline: November 1, 2008