Social Network

For physicians, negotiation is a daunting — but essential — component of job searching and career advancement. Experts also say negotiating skills are key to helping physicians achieve their goals and career satisfaction.

HOUSTON — Using social network analysis, researchers were able to show how health care facilities in Colorado are connected by patient transfers, which allowed them to identify potential outbreak origins.

AUSTIN, Texas — In the keynote presentation at the National Kidney Foundation Spring Clinical Meetings, Lilia Cervantes, MD, detailed a framework for advocacy in the kidney community and called upon nephrologists to take action.

In this Healio video exclusive, Mohammad Bilal, MD, assistant professor at the University of Minnesota, discusses how physicians can effectively use social media in gastroenterology and other health care specialties.

A cholangiocarcinoma advisory board composed entirely of women has given physicians who treat the rare malignancy, as well as patients and their advocates, an opportunity to collaborate, share best practices and forge alliances.

Social media users attempting to track COVID-19 via Facebook, Twitter, personal blogs or forums are likely to encounter as much misinformation as reliable information. The pandemic has thrown into sharp relief the importance of truth and facts in the online universe.

Distributing free HIV self-tests may be an effective way to increase testing frequency among men who have sex with men, according to results from a randomized clinical trial published in JAMA Internal Medicine.