CAMDEN - On a site once occupied by a methadone clinic and abandoned buildings, state and local officials celebrated the opening Tuesday of a medical school in Camden that was 40 years in the making.

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Governor Christie and George E. Norcross III, chairman of Cooper Board of Trustees, examine their scissors before the ribbon-cutting ceremony.

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Cooper Medical School of Rowan University

As you take a walk around this beautiful building today, you can see the community is changing, state Sen. Donald Norcross, D-Camden, whose father first envisioned the school four decades ago. In addition to that, its changing lives.

The dedication of Cooper Medical School of Rowan University, where Governor Christie and Senate President Stephen Sweeney, D-Gloucester, helped cut the ribbon, carried with it hope for a city that has the highest crime rate in the nation.

Camden Mayor Dana Redd said this was one of many steps that is leading to the citys long-awaited resurgence.

Im really overjoyed, she said. Im really overwhelmed at what has transpired here in our city. I want to thank our partners who are helping Camden move forward. Christie praised the opening of the school as another example of what can be done when partisan politics is put aside.

The folks who will come through here and learn here and then come and serve this community will be an ongoing example, a legacy, for all of us who played some small part in making it happen, he said.

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(Dignitaries cut a ribbon marking the opening of the Cooper Medical School of Rowan University, in Camden. Credit: Mike DeNardo)

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CAMDEN, N.J. (CBS) New Jerseys first new medical school in 35 years is now open in Camden.

Governor Chris Christie (fourth from left in top photo) joined legislative leaders in cutting the ribbon on the gleaming new Cooper Medical School of Rowan University.

Christie reached across the political aisle to credit Democratic power broker and Cooper board chairman George Norcross III (fifth from left) as the driving force behind the new $139-million building.

Without his commitment to this, it simple wouldnt have happened, said the governor. No matter what else you hear from anybody else who stands behind this podium, it wouldnt have happened without George.

(Credit: Mike DeNardo)

The school is so modern that theres only one lecture hall. Students will learn mostly from working on hypothetical patient cases and interacting with actual patients.

The schools first fifty students begin August 13th.

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CAMDEN Revitalization of a depressed city was on many minds Tuesday morning at a formal celebration for the new Cooper Medical School of Rowan University.

Scheduled to open to its first 50 students Aug. 13, an open house brought together more than 300 medical, academic, political and community leaders, including present and past governors.

The establishment of a four-year medical school in Camden is long overdue, said Gov. Chris Christie. Children throughout New Jersey who dream of one day becoming a doctor now have another medical school option, right in their own state.

Former Gov. Jim Florio also was in attendance to see the projects completion.

Camden Mayor Dana Redd said the new institution is expected to boost the local economy and its level of health care, while creating a population of medical scholars and physicians.

I believe it is an indicator and a catalyst for future development to come, she said. Im really overjoyed. Im really overwhelmed at what has transpired in this city. Its Camdens time.

State Sen. Donald Norcross, D-5 of Camden, whose father George, a Cooper Hospital trustee, was instrumental in moving the project toward fruition, said the new six-story structure replaced abandoned buildings and a methadone clinic that previously sat on the Broadway site.

Construction on the school began in October 2010. On Tuesday, a time-lapse video showed the audience the evolution of the building as the U2 song Beautiful Day played. The project, Norcross said, relied on a variety of building trades that created apprentice opportunities for young people to learn skills.

Changing communities and changing lives. Thats what this great facility will do, he said.

According to medical school officials, about half of the institutions inaugural class has chosen to reside in the city while pursuing their educations. Since the school does not offer dormitory housing, those students are finding accommodations in nearby neighborhoods.

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CAMDEN The Cooper Medical School of Rowan University has been touted as a state-wide win for New Jersey students.

But with the schools opening Tuesday, the Camden-based $139 million project is expected to have the most impact on Gloucester County the home of Rowan University and the city, which is anticipated to get a much-needed economic boost.

Gloucester County is one of the biggest winners in this mix, said Senate President Stephen Sweeney (D-3, of West Deptford).

His home county claims Glassboros Rowan University, which is now the second college in the country to offer doctors of medicine (MD) and osteopathic medicine (DO) programs, according to Sweeney.

The Cooper Health System partnership adds an MD program to the universitys already existing affiliation with the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey and DO program.

This is Rowans medical school ... we are going to be known as the center of excellence for education, Sweeney said. This is an amazing day. Im extremely proud of what we accomplished this last year ... and what weve done in Camden.

The six-story high medical school building has replaced the abandoned houses and buildings that lined Broadway between Benson and Washington Streets just two years ago. The East side view to abandoned houses, windows broken out or boarded, is a reminder of what the 200,000-square-foot building replaced.

Not only will this wonderful facility be a boost to our economy, Redd said the scholars and physicians that emerge from the school and the services provided here will impact the delivery of health care in the city.

We are very grateful that Cooper Medical School of Rowan University has chosen Camden as its home, as its classroom, the mayor added. It exemplifies Camdens long-awaited, long-talked about resurgence.

The opening of the medical school marks Camdens time to come back, she said.

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All Cooper Medical School needs is students.

Gov. Chris Christie and a bevy of politicians, higher education officials and community leaders will gather Tuesday in Camden to cut the ribbon on New Jerseys first new medical school in nearly 35 years.

The school, part of Rowan University, will be housed in a new $139 million state-of-the-art building diagonal from Cooper University Hospital in the citys Lanning Square neighborhood. Its first class of 50 future doctors arrives next month.

As workmen buzzed around the lobby completing the building last week, founding dean Paul Katz said the incoming students are poised to make history.

"There is only one charter class ever in this school," Katz said. "And you have a certain responsibility and obligation to create the traditions and legacies that everyone will build upon."

Cooper Medical School has been decades in the making. Since the 1970s, South Jersey leaders have been pushing to bring a four-year allopathic medical school to Camden to help spur the revitalization of the troubled city.

In the end, it was South Jersey political power broker George Norcross, head of Cooper University Hospitals board, who helped lead behind-the-scenes efforts in Trenton to make the medical school a reality.

In 2009, Gov. Jon Corzine, who had been treated at Cooper after his near-fatal car accident two years earlier, signed an order giving the school the state money and approvals it needed to get started.

Cooper Medical School is opening amid great upheaval in New Jerseys higher education system. The states other three medical schools, which are all part of the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, are scheduled to be transferred to other universities under a higher education reorganization approved by the Legislature last month.

Under the plan, UMDNJs New Jersey Medical School in Newark and Robert Wood Johnson Medical School in Piscataway-New Brunswick will become part of Rutgers University in July 2013. UMDNJs School of Osteopathic Medicine in Stratford will be taken over by Rowan.

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A 46-year-old Ohio businessman inspired by the service of others is heading to medical school to become a doctor working in an urban setting.

Ive been inspired by the differences Ive seen other people make in the inner city, Bill Downing told The (Cleveland) Plain Dealer.

Pastors, doctors, nurses, social workers, urban pioneers. I felt I needed to invest the rest of my active career on a fulltime basis.

He will enroll at Cleveland State University in the fall in its new joint program with Northeast Ohio Medical University to provide doctors in underserved urban neighborhoods.

Rev. Duane Crabbs, who founded South Street Ministries in Akron with his wife, Lisa, 15 years ago, has worked with Downing for six years and calls him humble and a man of great integrity.

He understands that to impact in a substantial way there has to be a commitment to community, Crabbs said.

After graduating from Bowling Green State University, Downing began working full time at the familys Downing Enterprises in Copley Township near Akron. The company makes trade show exhibits and checkout counter displays.

Five years later, he enrolled at Harvard Business School and received a masters in business administration and now serves as chairman and CEO of the company.

A member of Grace Church in Bath, he began volunteering in urban Akron areas about 10 years ago. Thats how he met Crabbs and became active in his ministry.

About three years ago, Downing began thinking about a new career focused on helping those in the inner city.

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The tragedy that played out in an Aurora movie theater Friday was ironically paralleled as a classroom learning experience in a medical school in Parker the same day.

Rocky Vista University College of Osteopathic Medicine is in the middle of holding specialized classes in disaster life support for 150 second-year medical students. Along with response to natural disasters like hurricanes and floods and terrorist attacks, one of the scenarios being used to train the students is how to respond if a shooter fires at people in a movie theater and also uses a bomb in the attack.

"The irony is amazing, just amazing," said Rocky Vista Dean Dr. Bruce Dubin.

He said emergency specialist physicians from Parkland Hospital in Dallas as well as from several other emergency programs around the country are teaching the Advanced Disaster Life Support Training. Rocky Vista is the only medical school in the nation to make that training a part of the curriculum.

"They are trained to respond in every type of disaster," Dubin said.

The shootings in Aurora were incorporated into the teaching Friday, Dubin said.

"It made these medical students very aware that these kinds of things can happen anywhere," he said. "The events of this tragedy have helped to drive that home."

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by Ken Alltucker - Jul. 21, 2012 03:37 PM The Republic | azcentral.com

With the arrival of 80 fresh-faced medical students for classes this week at University of Arizona's medical school in Phoenix, Arizona's grand experiment to create a medical and research hub in downtown Phoenix takes another step forward.

The 80 students represent the largest class since the UA College of Medicine established a downtown Phoenix campus five years ago. Those future doctors soon will share the newly opened health sciences education building with Northern Arizona University students who are studying to become physical therapists and physician assistants.

Beyond the new building, new programs and new students, the campus is scheduled to expand later this year with the groundbreakings of a 250,000-square-foot University of Arizona Cancer Center and a privately funded biotech lab next to the building anchored by the Translational Genomics Research Institute and International Genomics Consortium.

The downtown Phoenix campus also could receive renewed focus from the University of Arizona's new president, Ann Weaver Hart, and the Arizona Board of Regents' newly formed health committee.

Arizona leaders have high expectations that the Phoenix Biomedical Campus will sprout jobs, health-care professionals and medical discoveries that bolster Arizona's effort to grow its health-care and biotechnology sectors. And even though the biomedical campus has had challenges -- such as Arizona State University ending its partnership with UA's medical school and leadership changes -- university officials are optimistic about the biomedical campus' potential.

"It's important to show it is continuing forward progress," said Jay Heiler, who chairs the Arizona Board of Regents health committee. "It is critical not only for the universities. It is going to end up emerging as a very important piece of Arizona's economy."

Although the medical-school campus has classroom and lab space, it does not have clinical space where practitioners and health-care students can hone their craft and treat patients. The Arizona Cancer Center is slated to become the campus' first clinical presence with a scheduled groundbreaking later this year.

St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center and the University of Arizona are still negotiating lease terms for the $135 million cancer center even though the Phoenix wanted such details to be completed by the end of June. Both parties insist that they are on track to meet the most important goal established by Phoenix: starting construction by Dec. 22.

Plans call for St. Joseph's Hospital to operate the cancer center's clinic, and 70 percent of the building's area will be devoted to clinical space. But the exact amount of space that St. Joseph's will require is subject to ongoing talks between the two groups, said Dr. David Alberts, director of the Arizona Cancer Center.

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CAMDEN Cooper Medical School of Rowan University is hosting its long-awaited grand opening Tuesday, marking a monumental milestone for both the university and the hospital.

In June 2009, Rowan University and the Cooper Health System decided together to address the physician shortage locally and nationally, as well as to improve health care throughout the region.

They approached us and we said, Yeah, were in. Lets do it, Rowan University spokesman Joe Cardona said. We were ready and willing while other folks werent.

According to Cardona, Cooper had long been on the quest for its own four-year medical school for decades and turned to Rowan University when other entities didnt have the wherewithal to partner.

That same year, then-state Gov. Jon Corzine signed an executive reorganization order that would create a new allopathic medical school in Camden.

Three years later, the new six-story educational building will be the 135th medical school in the ground and the first new medical school in the state in more than 35 years.

With only a few finishing touches remaining before the opening this week, Dr. Paul Katz, founding dean of CMSRU, gave South Jersey Sunday a sneak-peak of the 200,000-square-foot, $139 million facility.

The 25 active learning rooms, a learning commons room and satellite medical library, the Clinical Simulation Center and laboratory and research space are all designed to breed hands-on healers of the future.

Our theme is hi-tech, hi-touch, Katz said, overlooking the 250-seat auditorium, which, like many of the learning spaces in the building, is fitted for audio and visual recording for future reference and review for students and alumni.

We wanted this to be an experience thats not sterile, Katz said.

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LITTLETON, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--

Mevion Medical Systems announced today that it has delivered the superconducting synchrocyclotron for the MEVION S250 Proton Therapy System currently under installation at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick, NJ, the flagship cancer hospital of The Cancer Institute of New Jersey and the principal teaching hospital of UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. This is the second MEVION S250 proton therapy system delivered in the past 6 months, both installed at NCI-designated Comprehensive Cancer Centers.

Powered by a TriNiobium Core, the MEVION S250 is a modern and first-of-its-kind proton therapy system that provides the same precise, non-invasive treatment capabilities and advantages of complex, large, and costly proton therapy systems but with a significantly reduced footprint, improved reliability, more advanced clinical systems, and lower implementation and operational costs. Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital has a proud history of clinical innovation and a commitment to provide the highest quality and value of services to its patients and community, says Stephen K. Jones, FACHE, President and Chief Executive Officer, Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital and Robert Wood Johnson Health System. We are excited to be the first in the northeast to receive this revolutionary technology and add this innovative proton therapy service to our comprehensive list of cancer services.

In addition to offering proton beam therapy and Gamma Knife Perfexion for the treatment of brain tumors, The Cancer Hospital at RWJUH is the flagship hospital of The Cancer Institute of New Jersey (CINJ), the states only National Cancer Institute-designated Comprehensive Cancer Center and the hospitals cancer program has been accredited by the American College of Surgeons Commission on Cancer. The partnership between RWJUH, UMDNJ-RWJMS and CINJ offers patients a unique opportunity to benefit from clinical research performed at CINJ while receiving expert care from faculty and community physicians in a state-of-the-art environment at RWJUH. RWJUHs cancer program was recently ranked among the top 50 programs in the United States by U.S.News & World Report as part of its 2012 ranking of Americas Best Hospitals.

Manufactured in Massachusetts, it took only one day for the MEVION S250 accelerator to travel to New Jersey and only a few hours to be brought inside the proton center. The proton therapy modernization and size reduction that we deliver today has redefined the economics and accessibility of proton therapy, says Joseph K. Jachinowski, Chief Executive Officer of Mevion Medical Systems. We are delighted to be entering this final installation phase of the MEVION S250 proton therapy system at another leading cancer hospital.

The MEVION S250 has recently received United States Food and Drug Administration 510(k) clearance and CE Certification enabling Mevion customers to treat patients. With four centers under installation or construction and more than a dozen under planning, Mevion has quickly established itself as a leading proton therapy supplier worldwide.

ABOUT MEVION MEDICAL SYSTEMS Mevion Medical Systems, Inc. is a radiation therapy company dedicated to advancing the treatment of cancer. As the pioneering developer of modern proton therapy systems, Mevion provides innovative, safe, and effective solutions by transforming advances in medical technology and science into practical clinical reality.

Mevions flagship product, the MEVION S250 Proton Therapy System, is designed to preserve all of the treatment benefits of traditional proton therapy systems while removing the obstacles of size, cost, and complexity. Realizing this vision, Mevion has forever changed the economics and accessibility of proton therapy worldwide.

Founded in 2004, Mevion is a privately held company headquartered in the Boston metropolitan area with international offices in the United Kingdom and Japan.

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James Holmes, the suspect in the Colorado shooting rampage, is described as a quiet, standoffish medical student from San Diego who recently dropped out of a doctoral program at the University of Colorado medical school.

A profile of the 24-year-old suspect is beginning to emerge hours after a gunman opened fire in a crowded movie theater showing the new Batman film, The Dark Knight Rises, killing 12 people.

USA TODAY's Kevin Johnson quotes federal law enforcement officials as confirming the identity of the shooting suspect as Holmes, but he apparently did not have a record.

The Denver Post, citing "information provided" to the newspaper, reports that the suspect described himself last year in an apartment rental application as a student who was "quiet and easygoing."

Denver's Fox31 says police documents show he moved to Colorado from San Diego to pursue a Ph.D. in Denver.

The Associated Press reports that Holmes began a program in neurosciences at the University of Colorado in the fall of 2011 but withdrew last month.

University spokeswoman Jacque Montgomery confirms Holmes was a graduate student at the school of medicine until last month. On May 8, he was scheduled to present a paper on MicroRNA biomarkers for a class on psychiatric and neurological disorders.

The suspect, dressed in black and wearing a protective vest, was arrested by police near his car behind the movie theater during a midnight showing of the Batman film. They seized an assault rifle, shotgun and two pistols at the scene, the Associated Press reports.

"He did not resist. He did not put up a fight," says Aurora police spokesman Frank Fania.

New York Police Commissioner Ray Kelly, who was in touch with Colorado authorities, said the gunman had dyed his hair red and called himself "The Joker," referring to Batman's arch-nemesis.

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Congressional candidate Stan Flemming, a Pierce County councilman, touts numerous public and civic accomplishments to underline his leadership skills. They include his tenure from 2007 to 2009 as president of the Pacific Northwest University of Health Sciences, a medical school in Yakima.

However, Flemming doesnt mention that his stint ended in a flurry of lawsuits and acrimony.

Court records tell two stories of Flemmings term as president. Both revolve around money.

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In 2007, Flemming reluctantly takes charge of Pacific Northwest University of Health Sciences, a new nonprofit college built on shaky financial footing and a dubious business model.

Flemming steers the place to long-term viability. He departs in November 2009 after local powers usurp his authority, offend his ethics and violate his contract. He sues the university for his severance pay: $708,000.

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University leaders sue Flemming, saying he doesnt deserve his severance pay. They contend he verbally resigned his position on Nov. 10, 2009, after a period of escalating misconduct, fiduciary and contractual breaches that would have otherwise led to his termination.

The stories ended at the same moment in May 2010: a settlement agreement with strict confidentiality provisions, noted at the end of the case file in Yakima County Superior Court.

Attorneys for both sides say they cant discuss terms of the settlement. Flemming says he never resigned. He says the university agreed to pay him in full, 100 percent.

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Columbus Regional and St. Francis have wasted a lot of time fussing when they should have been caring for the sick, but this week the dueling hospitals embarked on a project that has inspired them to put down their scalpels.

The presence of a medical school in Columbus is something the two facilities can celebrate, and over the past five months, they've joined forces to prepare for the arrival of 14 third-year students from the Mercer University School of Medicine.

For years the hospitals have engaged in turf wars that never made sense to anyone outside the upper echelons of the medical community. Proponents of the medical school somehow crossed bridges that no one thought were there.

Dr. David Mathis, an assistant dean and 1986 Mercer Medical School graduate, said leaders of the hospitals have openly acknowledged that they haven't always worked together and that the alliances formed by this project are a positive step.

Though progress has been made, students are spending this week filling out mounds of repetitive paperwork required to do business at the two facilities. "If there are duplications, we've advised the students to be patient," Mathis said.

Since 1982, Mercer has prepared physicians to practice medicine in underserved areas of Georgia on their traditional campus in Macon. Four years ago, an auxiliary campus opened in Savannah and plans to expand into Columbus were announced in February.

For now, the school is housed at the Bradley Center. A student coordinator will be hired and distant-learning facilities are being installed. Mathis will be based in Macon but will spend a lot of time here.

"The hospitals and the doctors in Columbus have been so welcoming," Mathis said. "Each hospital appointed a lead physician, and they've been extremely helpful."

Dr. John Bucholtz, a family-practice physician, represents the Medical Center. Dr. Luther Wolff III, an orthopedic surgeon, is the St. Francis appointee. A team of local doctors will serve as mentors.

Mercer's mission is unique. It accepts only students from Georgia and encourages graduates to practice in the state. After 30 years, two out of every three graduates are practicing in Georgia. This is crucial around Columbus, where 25 percent of the physicians are age 55 or older.

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Three days a week, Dr. Robin Richardson practices urgent care for Providence Health, while the other two days he spends on a passion far less profitable: primary care for more than 2,000 people.

I have one family where I take care of four generations. Its just a good feeling, he said of his family practice in Southeast Portland.

Richardson is one of dozens of Oregon osteopathic physicians who rallied to help a new medical school get its footing in Lebanon. Called the College of Osteopathic Medicine of the Pacific-Northwest, the new school has completed its first year.

Its the states second mainstream medical school after Oregon Health & Science University, and could help fill a wave of demand for primary care physicians caused by federal health reform.

The college has helped revitalize the former lumber town of 15,000 by leasing a 54,000-square-foot brick building from Samaritan Health Services, just across from Lebanon Community Hospital. COMPs main branch, in Pomona, Calif., has sent graduates for residencies at the hospital for years.

Now Richardson and other local doctors give occasional lectures, oversee students during their residencies and interview prospective new students once a month.

The school has energized Oregons osteopathic physicians who lacked a place to connect after Portlands Eastmoreland Hospital, with its focus on osteopathic medicine, shut down nearly a decade ago, says John Pham, an osteopathic physician from Portland who serves on the colleges faculty. Its like any small culture. We all help each other and we want to see each other succeed. I think its different from the MDs there are so many of them.

Osteopathic medicine started as a holistic offshoot of traditional medicine, but gained acceptance by the U.S. medical establishment long ago. Yet doctors of osteopathy, or DOs, remain a minority about 625 in Oregon versus 10,000 MDs.

The college hopes to start changing that and, along the way, provide new doctors where theyre most needed. My goal is 80 percent of our grads going into primary care, Richardson said.

About 107 students, 56 of them male, signed up for the schools inaugural class. Only two students took a leave of absence and didnt finish the year. It was due to personal reasons, not performance, says Paula Crone, the schools associate executive dean. Theyve already selected the class that starts in August.

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AN online campaign supporting Charles Sturt Universitys push for a medical school is closing in on its target of 25,000 supporters on its Facebook page.

Almost 17,000 people have now liked CSUs Doctors For The Bush page, supporting a campaign to bring more general practitioners to country areas and establishing a new medical school.

Thousands have also signed an online petition that states: I call on the Federal and NSW Governments to back CSUs plan to establish a Health and Medical Education Precinct in rural NSW and commit to providing $98 million in funding and 80 medical student places to make this a reality.

The online campaign is the latest plank in CSUs bid to pressure state and federal MPs to back CSUs ongoing push for an integrated medical school across the Bathurst and Orange campuses.

It would be a huge boost to both the reputation of the university and to regional health services, with figures showing that doctors who train in the bush are more likely to remain working in the bush after they graduate.

CSU has already submitted a detailed funding proposal to the Federal Government but though Coalition MPs at a state and federal level have been happy to pledge their support, the university has so far been unable to convince Regional Australia Minister Simon Crean of the plans benefits.

CSU last week confirmed NSW Health Minister Jillian Skinner had formally invited the university to start negotiations with the government on the student numbers, medical training requirements and infrastructure for a new medical school at CSU.

This is fantastic news, a post on the Facebook page said.

However, this is just a first step as final approval for a new school must be granted by the Federal Health Minister Tanya Plibersek.

Help us to show the government what rural people want. Today we start a campaign to get 25,000 signatures on our petition and 25,000 supporters on Facebook.

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The Federal Bureau of Prisons has awarded the University of Massachusetts Medical School (UMMS) a contract to manage comprehensive medical services to approximately 4,900 inmates at the Federal Medical Center (FMC) located in Butner, North Carolina.

The agreement, valued at $24.7 million for the first year, represents the UMMSs largest federal correctional health contract to date. The contract also has options for four additional years that could increase the overall award to more than $136 million through 2016.

UMMSs Health and Criminal Justice Program, part of its Commonwealth Medicine division, will manage the contract. The Medical Schools work at FMC Butner will begin later this month.

We are extremely pleased to have the opportunity to share our health and management expertise at the Butner facility, said Joyce A. Murphy, Executive Vice Chancellor for UMMS/Commonwealth Medicine. This builds on our impressive correctional health experience at the state and federal levels, and will allow us to extend that work and specialized knowledge to the FMC Butner population. We cant wait to get started.

The contract calls for UMMS to coordinate both inpatient and outpatient physician and hospital services. The Medical School will manage care at the correctional facility and in community settings, through a partnership with Duke University Health System, which will provide most of the direct care services.

UMMS, a leader in correctional health, has also provided comprehensive health services for the past 12 years at the Federal Bureau of Prisons medical facility located in Devens, Mass. In addition, the Medical School has a long track record of providing care at 17 state-run prisons in Massachusetts, serving the health needs of approximately 11,500 inmates.

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The University of Massachusetts Medical School, one of the fastest-growing academic health sciences centers in the country, has built a reputation as a world-class research institution, consistently producing noteworthy advances in clinical and basic research. The Medical School attracts more than $255 million in research funding annually, 80 percent of which comes from federal funding sources. The mission of the Medical School is to advance the health and well-being of the people of Massachusetts and the world, through pioneering education, research, public service and health care delivery. Commonwealth Medicine, the Medical Schools health care consulting and operations division, provides a wide range of care management and consulting services to government agencies and health care organizations. For more information, visit commed.umassmed.edu.

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MSUs involvement in the medical sciences areas is an initiative towards complementing the nations need for qualified medical personnel.

Specialising in Bachelor of Surgery and Bachelor of Medicine (MBBS) programmes, MSU also offers bachelors and diploma programmes in the area of medical sciences. These programmes are offered at the main campus in Shah Alam and its overseas campus in Bangalore, India, the first foreign medical school to receive five year accreditation from the Malaysian Medical Council.

Other than studying under the supervision of experienced medical experts in MSUs International Medical School (IMS) in Bangalore, students will also benefit from practical experiences at its teaching hospitals, M.S. Ramaiah Memorial Hospital and the Bangalore Baptist Hospital.

Housed in a 65 acre campus, IMS is adjacent to the M.S. Ramaiah Memorial Hospital, a multi-specialty world-class hospital with 1,050 beds. The hospital offers the commitment of ace doctors, highly qualified medical experts and competent paramedics working diligently towards the pursuit of quality healthcare.

The wealth of experience and development in medical field that India has to offer is unique and meets the expectations of many medical authorities all over the world. Through the setting up of the medical school, MSU envisages that Malaysias target doctor-patient ratio of 1:600 by the year 2020 is achieveable.

The Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery at MSU is a five-year programme that is divided into three phases. Among the subject areas that students will be exposed to are human anatomy, human physiology, biochemistry, pathology, pharmacology, forensics, microbiology and ophthalmology.

The clinical session begins in phase two along with para-clinical subjects, and the housemanship session commences in phase three. During this session students are required to perform a rotational training of three months each at all the relevant medical departments.

The academic terms begin in April and October and qualified students are required to take the Medical Entrance Test (MET) to determine their aptitude for the MBBS programme.

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The Dean of the Medical School of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Professor Yaw Edu Sarkodie, has advocated the need for educational institutions in the country to establish partnership with small scale industries to train students in vocational and technical skills.

This, according to him, would enable students who are not academically inclined to learn meaningful skills that would make them useful and productive in order to contribute their quota towards national development.

Professor Sarkodie, an alumnus of Fijai Senior High School, gave the advice when delivering a keynote address at a durbar to climax the 60th Anniversary of the school on Saturday.

He observed that countries such as Malaysia and Singapore that took the middle manpower training of their peoples seriously in areas of vocational and technical skills had catapulted their economies and called on educational institutions in the country to learn a cue from them.

The Diamond Jubilee Celebration, which was under the theme: 60 years of Co-Education - The Vision and Mission of the Founding Fathers attracted high profile personalities, old students, traditional rulers and government functionaries to the school premises.

Prof. Sarkodie, a fellow of the West African College of Physicians, appealed to the governments to refrain from playing politics with the duration of the Senior High School.

He said the four-year and three-year experimentation of the duration of the secondary education by successive governments would not help the cause of development of this country and called on authorities concerned to take concrete steps to stop such politics in the education sector.

The Dean of the Medical School of the KNUST admonished the youth to show resilience, dedication, discipline and fear of God in all their endeavours, adding that success could not be achieved on a silver platter but hard work.

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Dr. Bradley T. Hyman, director of the Massachusetts Alzheimers Disease Research Center at Massachusetts General Hospital and a professor of neurology at Harvard Medical School, received the Henry Wisniewski Lifetime Achievement Award Sunday from Kristine Yaffe, a University of California, San Francisco professor at the Alzheimers Association International Conference in Vancouver, Canada.

By Gal Tziperman Lotan, Globe Correspondent

A Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School neurologist received a lifetime achievement award at an Alzheimers Association conference in Vancouver, Canada Sunday.

Dr. Bradley T. Hyman, director of the Massachusetts Alzheimers Disease Research Center at Massachusetts General Hospital and a professor of neurology at Harvard Medical School, received the Henry Wisniewski Lifetime Achievement Award, The Alzheimer's Association said in a statement.

Its an extremely nice recognition, especially because the award is named after one of the giants of neuropathology, Hyman said in a phone interview from Vancouver Sunday.

Hyman has studied changes in patients brains and nervous systems, as well as genetic changes that underlie dementia, the statement said.

His research helps describe brain lesions in Alzheimer's patients, the statement said.

Hyman recently worked on imaging amyloid protein fragments that are broken down in healthy brains but accumulate and form amyloid plaques in Alzheimer's patients; and tau tangles, created when tau proteins that keep the brains cell transport system in working order die and collapse the system.

At its international conference, the Alzheimers Association also gave a lifetime achievement award to Lennart Mucke of the Gladstone Institute of Neurological Disease and the University of California, San Francisco, Monique M.B. Breteler of the German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases and the University of Bonn in Germany, and Ronald Petersen of the Mayo Alzheimers Disease Research Center in Rochester, Minn.

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