Rachel Witkowski is an award-winning journalist whose 20-year career spans a wide range of topics in finance, government regulation and congressional reporting. Ms. Witkowski has spent the last decade ...

Standardized patients are individuals who are specially trained to act as patients for the instruction, practice and assessment of medical examination skills of medical students, fellows, residents ...

A physical examination is a routine test wherein a healthcare professional inspects, feels, or listens to different parts of a person’s body. Other names for a physical include a complete physical ...

Nurse Practitioner AANP exam studying A recent FNP graduate breaks down how he prepared to take (and pass) the AANP exam. Ring a bell! Bang a gong! Ding-dong, the witch is dead! With much joy and ...

Medical learners in the 21st century spend less time with patients during training than their counterparts did in the 20th century, which decreases the knowledge and practice of bedside clinical ...