PROVIDENCE, R.I.The Rhode Island House has voted to allow a for-profit osteopathic medical school to open in the state.

The 65 to 6 vote Tuesday would permit the school to open, if it meets applicable academic standards.

Supporters say the Rhode Island School of Osteopathic Medicine would help address a projected shortage of primary care doctors, and would create 300 jobs in the state.

Opponents questioned the requirements for admittance to the school.

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LSU Health budget cuts

Shreveport’s largest employer is being faced with staggering cuts to its operational budget that would cripple the LSU Health Shreveport Medical School.

“State funding would be reduced to a point that we couldn’t operate anymore,” says Sally Croom, spokesperson for LSU Health Shreveport.

Croom says if the state’s proposed $25 million budget cuts pass the senate, the medical school and hospital would eventually collapse.

“Hundreds of thousands of people depend on this institution for health care,” says Croom.

People like Aaron Selber, who not only serves on the LSU Foundation Board but also visits the hospital as a patient.

“I’m older. I know I’m gonna get sick and I’d like to be treated by a competent medical staff,” Selber says.

Selber says the Med School produces about 70 % of the doctors who practice in Louisiana.

He says the closure of the school would send shock waves throughout the community.

“This represents a tremendous potential step backwards,” he says.

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The University at Buffalo has chosen an architectural firm to design its new $375 million medical school at Main and High streets.

The well-known, international firm HOK Helmuth, Obata & Kassabaum was selected to lead the building design over the next 13 months in preparation for the groundbreaking in fall 2013, UB announced.

Part of the process includes exhibiting four design concepts for public feedback.

“You don’t get many opportunities to do a project of this size and scope on Main Street,” said Robert G. Shibley, dean of the UB School of Architecture and Planning. “It’s just a tremendous opportunity for downtown, Allentown and the entire neighborhood.”

UB plans to move its School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences from the South Campus on Main to the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus by 2016.

Nineteen architectural teams were pared down to four finalists that were asked to compete for the UB contract by designing a concept for the new medical school.

UB anticipates building a 12-, nine- or seven-story medical school with more than a half-million square feet of space.

The architectural competition was a chance to consider possibilities for a building on a site with some complex urban-design challenges: adding green space, walkways and an extension of Allen Street; incorporating the Allen-Medical Campus Metro Station; blending with Allentown and several historic buildings nearby; and serving as a signature “front door” for the Medical Campus along Main.

“We will not build any of the four designs,” Shibley said. “This process was never intended to produce a winning design, but to reveal how the architects were thinking about and approaching the project.”

The four design concepts will be on display for public input in the Greatbatch Pavilion of the Darwin Martin House, 125 Jewett Parkway, through next Thursday and then in the Central Library on Lafayette Square through June 8.

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At one Indiana medical school, students are taught to think of their cadavers as their first patients and may even meet their families. Critics contend this may cross an ethical line and put students in an uncomfortable position.

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First year medical students dissect a cadaver at a gross anatomy lab at Georgetown University Medical Center in Washington, Nov. 5, 2009.

Kyle Gospodarek expected to feel nervous about seeing a dead body up close on his first day of anatomy lab. He steeled himself for the smell a pungent blend of latex, embalming fluid and something indescribable whose odor would cling to his clothes for days but he never imagined he would have to get in touch with the cadavers family. Ill be honest: when I first heard about what we were doing, I was weirded out, he says. I didnt know what to say to them.

At Indiana University Northwest, an IU branch campus located in Gary, Ind., anatomy professor Ernest Talarico instructs his medical students to probe beyond the nerves and muscles of the bodies lying on their examination tables and think of the cadavers as their first patients. We ask students to use the name of the patient out of respect and to acknowledge that this was a person, he says. His students also typically exchange letters with family members to glean more information about their patients medical histories, hobbies and interests. They may even meet the family in person at the conclusion of the course during a memorial service held in the laboratory.

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The annals of medical school training are filled with sordid tales of students taking glam shots with corpses or assigning unflattering nicknames to cadavers. When Talarico was in medical school, he remembers his classmates calling one cadaver Salty because of the tattoo of the naked woman on his chest. These people had lives and names, he says, and to use other names disrespects them.

Talarico believes his approach not only helps students be more respectful of the individuals who have given their bodies to science but also prepares them to act as empathetic clinicians when theyre faced with the cold, hard medical decisions theyll have to make in their careers. He has no formal data to prove his approach gets better results, but anecdotally, the students say they feel better prepared to address patients as individuals and consider their feelings. As one student, Adam Harker, explains: I think it translates into better post-op care and compliance.

While Talarico has won praise from many of the individuals involved in the program, hes also raised concerns among critics who question the ethics of his teaching technique. When donated bodies are passed on to medical schools, the institutions are usually only given the basics the donors name, gender, age and immediate cause of death. The name of the donor is typically not shared with students, and students do not usually interact with the donors next of kin.

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ATLANTA (AP) – The Emory University School of Medicine has received a commitment for a $5 million gift for its pediatrics department.

The money from the Marcus Foundation, Inc., will be used to create the Marcus Society in Pediatrics. The society will be the “intellectual home” for 15 Marcus Professors in Pediatrics_six existing Marcus Professors and nine who are newly funded. The society will also host an annual visiting scholar.

The nine new Marcus Professors will specialize in the following areas: rheumatology, general pediatrics/adolescent medicine, emergency medicine/faculty development, cystic fibrosis, neurology, immunology, cardiology, general academic pediatrics/hospital medicine and hospital epidemiology/infection control. The six existing Marcus Professors specialize in pulmonology, infectious diseases, nephrology, gastroenterology, endocrinology and neonatology.

The foundation and the department of pediatrics have a longstanding philanthropic relationship.

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PROVIDENCE, R.I. — The House voted 65 to 6 Tuesday to permit a for-profit osteopathic medical school to open in Rhode Island, provided it meets applicable academic standards.

State Rep. Joseph M. McNamara, D-Warwick, presented the proposal as a boost to economic development that will create 300 jobs and bring construction of a 250,000-square-foot facility.

He also said the new Rhode Island School of Osteopathic Medicine would help address a projected shortage of primary care physicians in the next decade.

But State Rep. Edith H. Ajello, D-Providence, said the shortage of doctors stems from low reimbursement rates. She raised concerns that the school might not require students to have bachelors degrees and that it would strain available clinical placements for upper-level medical students.

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Medical school can be a grueling four-year journey consisting of never-ending memorization, clinical rotations and sleepless nights. So why do some students extend their medical school status by plunging into a research lab for an extra year of studies?

Its all about the why, explains Dylan Wolman, a medical student at Tufts University School of Medicine. A year of research provides an avenue to practice what should be an essential skill in any scientific field: questioning ‘why. It is a thought exercise that will serve you there by teaching you to question why an unexplained symptom in a particular disease constellation occurs, and perhaps even help you develop the spark necessary to pursue that question to its answer, Wolman says.

Wolman and another medical student awardee will immerse themselves in a year of intense lab research at the Howard Hughes Medical Institutes Janelia Farm Research Campus as part of the HHMI Medical Research Fellows Program, a $2.5 million annual initiative to increase the training of future physician-scientists. In all, 70 students from 27 medical schools across the country will participate in the year-long Medical Research Fellows Program. More than 1,400 students have participated in the Medical Research Fellows program since its inception in 1989.

A year spent focused on research has been transformative for many fellows, and shaped their interest and determination to become physician-scientists. Sean B. Carroll

Wolman, who is halfway through his medical studies at Tufts, is taking a year off from medical school to conduct cutting-edge research on brain wiring at Janelia Farm in Ashburn, Virginia. At Janelia Farm, Wolman will use light and electron microscopy techniques to study the neural connectivity between the mouse motor and barrel cortex. He will work under the mentorship of Janelia Farm fellow Davi Bock and group leader Karel Svoboda.

A year spent focused on research has been transformative for many fellows, and shaped their interest and determination to become physician-scientists, says Sean B. Carroll, HHMIs vice president for science education.

One of the medical research fellows will spend a part of his year researching tuberculosis in South Africa. Eric Kalivoda, a student from the University of Vermont College of Medicine, will work at the KwaZulu-Natal Research Institute for Tuberculosis and HIV (K-RITH), in Durban, South Africa, for several months under the mentorship of HHMI investigator William Jacobs. This is the first time that one of the medical fellows will be spending a portion of the fellowship year at K-RITH.

K-RITH is a groundbreaking collaboration between HHMI and the University of KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa. K-RITHs mission is to conduct outstanding basic science research on tuberculosis (TB) and HIV, translate the scientific findings into new tools to control TB and HIV, and expand the educational opportunities in the region. Kalivoda will travel to Durban mid-way through his fellowship, and then return to the United States to spend the rest of the year in Jacobs lab at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York.

K-RITH offers the unique perspective to study and address HIV/XDR-TB at its epicenter, and I look forward to working with my mentor and the K-RITH team of scientists to develop improved diagnostics for rapid TB drug-susceptibility testing, said Kalivoda.

David McMullen, a fellow from the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School in New Jersey, will spend the year doing research on brain-computer interfaces in a non-HHMI lab at Johns Hopkins University. McMullen will work with Hopkins scientists who are developing brain-computer interface technology as a potential treatment that would help patients with neuromuscular damage regain motor function.

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GRAND FORKS, N.D. (AP) The University of North Dakota medical school is holding its spring commencement ceremony.

The school says doctor of medicine degrees will be conferred on 61 people during the Sunday afternoon ceremony at the Chester Fritz Auditorium on the Grand Forks campus.

A ceremony for the school’s physician assistant class was being held Saturday. Fifty-five people were eligible to receive that degree.

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Ministers are to be asked by Plymouth City Council to review a decision to divide a medical school.

Plymouth and Exeter universities announced in January that they wanted to separate the Peninsula College of Medicine and Dentistry.

Councillors are concerned about the potential impact of the de-merger on the economy and healthcare provision.

The universities said separate schools in each city would result in places for more students.

The college currently has places for 200 medical and 64 dentistry students.

The de-merger would see a medical and dentistry school in Plymouth and a medical school in Exeter.

The council decision to write to ministers comes after Plymouth University announced its leadership team for the city’s new school, due to open in 2013, earlier this month.

The city council had requested a 12-week consultation into the de-merger proposals.

A Conservative councillor and former member of the now Labour council’s health scrutiny panel, Dr David Salter, said: “We do not want these universities to pull apart without us being sure on behalf of our citizens that healthcare will continue to be good in our area.”

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The University of Miami’s medical school on Tuesday started laying off up to 800 workers, NBC 6 learned.

The layoffs at the Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine will be completed by May 31, the end of UM’s fiscal year. A Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification was posted to floridajobs.org.

A UM spokeswoman told NBC 6 that no clinical staff workers who directly deal with patients are affected and that some workers will be rehired in restructured positions.

In a letter sent to employees April 24, Miller’s Dean Dr. Pascal Goldschmidt announced the reductions, calling them “painful but essential.”

“There are no easy choices due to decreases in government funding, health insurance changes, and the financial struggles of our valued partners at Jackson Memorial Hospital, and it is clear that part of our strengthening must involve rightsizing our organization and reducing our workforce,” Goldschmidt said. “To remain focused on providing better care to our community, we are reducing administrative duplication and unfunded research so we may deploy more resources to our clinical operations.”

Goldschmidt told NBC 6 that “patient care is entirely untouched.”

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A dehydrated squirrel monkey died at a Harvard Medical School research facility in December — the third monkey to die at the New England Primate Research Center in 19 months — and animals there also suffered a fracture and other injuries over the past three months, according to a federal inspection report released today.

The US Department of Agriculture cited Harvard for three serious incidents, which occurred after the medical school had responded to a series of other problems by replacing the centers leadership. Harvard could face fines or receive a warning because of the failures to comply with federal animal welfare regulations.

Harvard officials and the Agriculture Department report, posted on the agencys website, attributed the December 27 death and the non-fatal dehydration of a second monkey to employees failure to check a water dispensing system that had malfunctioned sometime after both monkeys arrived at the center Dec. 7.

Another squirrel monkeys leg was fractured in January, when it was caught under a door. And a group of rhesus macaques escaped from their pen in December, resulting in an injury to one monkeys foot.

The Agriculture Department considers all three incidents direct noncompliance issues, meaning there is a direct, adverse impact on the welfare of animals, or the high potential of such an effect. In fiscal year 2011, there were 25 direct noncompliance issues at research facilities nationwide.

Theyve had a tough stretch, and its certainly something thats gotten our attention and we look forward to them correcting the situation, said David Sacks, a USDA spokesman.

William W. Chin, executive dean for research at Harvard Medical School, acknowledged in an interview that there have been deficiencies in what weve been doing, leading to a number of incidents. These are regrettable. … I would say theyre frankly unacceptable.

Chin discussed the new issues and broader problems at the primate center during a 45-minute interview earlier this month, on the condition that the Globe would not report his comments until the Agriculture Department posted the latest findings. It was the first time a medical school official had agreed to discuss the situation at the Southborough research center in depth.

He said problems with management systems and the implementation of basic procedures were discovered through a review launched in the summer of 2010, after the first monkey died. Those issues are being addressed, Chin said, through the change in the leadership team last September, disciplinary actions, new policies and procedures, and the formation of a six-member team that will perform continual reviews, training, and testing of staff, and conduct random audits.

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The U.S. News Short List, separate from our overall rankings, is a regular series that magnifies individual data points in hopes of providing students and parents a way to find which undergraduate or graduate programs excel or have room to grow in specific areas. Be sure to explore The Short List: College and The Short List: Grad School to find data that matters to you in your college or grad school search.

For students interested in a medical school education, the investment of time and money may be steep. Students who attend some of the highest ranked–and often most expensive–programs may face costs of more than $50,000 annually.

Across the country, private medical programs may stretch a student’s budget more than public school options. Among the 49 private medical schools that submitted tuition and required fees data to U.S. News for the 2011-2012 school year, the average annual cost was $45,870.

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Students may find better deals on medical programs at public schools–and even more cost-friendly deals in their state of residence. Of the 64 public schools that submitted in-state tuition and fees data to U.S. News, the average annual cost was $28,812–compared to $50,556 a year for out-of-state students.

While tuition and fees in your state of residence may be more budget-friendly, some programs charge their in-state residents nearly as much as out-of-state students. Among the 10 most expensive public medical schools for in-state students, the average cost for the 2011-2012 school year was $38,745.

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The University of Pittsburgh tops the list of most expensive public medical schools for in-state residents, with an average annual tuition and fees package of $44,207–about $15,000 more than the national average. Among the list of 10 most expensive public medical programs for in-state students, Pittsburgh is the highest-ranked institution for research (it ranked 15th overall in that category). Oregon Health and Science University, which costs in-state students $37,282 in tuition and fees, is the highest-ranked school on this list for primary care (it ranked third in the nation).

The F. Edward Hebert School of Medicine at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, a federal service postgraduate academy that charges $0 in tuition and fees in return for military service, was excluded from this list. Schools that were designated by U.S. News as Unranked also weren’t considered for this report. U.S. News did not calculate a numerical ranking for Unranked programs because the program did not meet certain criteria that U.S. News requires to be numerically ranked.

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The University of Miami medical school is laying off 800 people, a state website reported at mid-day Tuesday.

As required by law, UM filed a WARN notice announcing the layoffs. The layoff date is July 31.

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