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...feeling is that instead of focusing on these special visits, we should focus on the services that we think are most important. So instead of saying that we should focus on making sure every 25-year-old woman comes in for a preventive exam, what do we really want to make sure that woman has received? A pap smear, maybe a cholesterol screening - and similarly [come up with guidelines] for other age groups, and really focus on those key services we think are important...
Sometimes there is confusion about preventive health exams versus preventive care in general. Things like mammograms, pap smears, PSA testing, those are considered preventive care procedures - and there's a clear evidence base that these are very important for patients to receive. What we're talking about [in our] study is the special visit for [general] preventive care. Physicians say, "The preventive exam is the only time I can really devote to focusing on preventive care." But we found that 80% of preventive services are provided at other types of visits. The vast majority of patients who come...
...that law school officials have talked to a large number of individuals from Yale in designing the new grading program. “We wanted to get a better sense of the consequences,” Kramer said. “I think the main benefits are it reduces exam pressure inside so that students can focus less on grades and more on the subject.” Students were notified of the decision in an e-mail by Kramer on Thursday. “No grading system is perfect, but the consensus is that the reform will have significant...
...Harvard. In keeping with that theme, a group of friends decided that a trip to see the Red Sox and Royals was in order last month. Kansas City isn’t the most exciting team to watch, and several of us were woefully unprepared for a final exam set in two days.A few hours into the night, as refrains of Neil Diamond’s “Sweet Caroline” coursed through the red-clad crowd in the eighth inning, I glanced up and noticed a zero on the scoreboard. Boston starting pitcher Jon Lester was working...
...took the team all the way to the ECAC finals, where it fell to Princeton. “We definitely had our ups and downs,” junior forward Jimmy Fraser said. “We started off really well, [but] come the end of December and then exam time, we kind of hit a wall. We were able to pull it together by the end [of the season], but unfortunately we just couldn’t pull through in the finals.”Harvard began its season in commanding fashion, notching big wins over its ECAC rivals...