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From Syria and the Sudan to the Democratic Republic of the Congo and beyond, political instability, crumbling or vacuous medical infrastructure, and the refugee crises that follow result in a foreseeable amount of unmet medical need. Many aspiring physicians express that they want to "help people" and "work overseas," but when pressed, they often can't articulate where, whom, and how they intend to help.

Physicians, medical students, and even premedical students are able to make a significant impact on people's lives. In an increasingly interconnected world, which is only getting "flatter," having an understanding of the scope of medical needs worldwide, the human impact of these political crises, and how you can help will empower you to be a more empathetic physician and have a greater impact.

[Learn how medical schools are seeking empathetic students.]

Physicians from throughout the world are working with literally thousands of nongovernmental (NGO) and government-supported international aid organizations to deliver care to those who need it most. One particularly well-known organization is Mdecins Sans Frontires (MSF)also known as Doctors without Borderswhich was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1999 for its international aid work. The MSF website provides a wealth of information on humanitarian crises from the field, as well as its internship program.

Contrary to what some may think, the people who work for MSF and similar organizations aren't only internists or infectious disease specialists. Surgeons, ophthalmologists, OB-GYNs, and other specialists are desperately needed. The American Medical Association (AMA) has a physician volunteer section that helps to organize and delineate the options as well.

At many medical schools throughout the United States, Canada, and the Caribbean, medical students have an abundance of international service opportunities available to them, particularly in the latter part of their third and final years of medical school. These opportunities are especially valuable at this stage of medical training, because they help reinforce the importance of taking a comprehensive patient history, help hone physical examination skills, and illustrate how medicine is practiced in a resource-poor environment.

While conducting your medical school search, inquiring about international clinical opportunities is recommended, and discussing these opportunities during medical school interviews can help highlight your interest in the school and your commitment to patient care.

[Learn how to prepare for a medical school interview.]

Premedical students also have myriad opportunities available to them. Naturally, premedical students will not have the independent or supervised clinical autonomy of a physician or medical student, respectively. However, they can still make an impact, learn a tremendous amount, and do meaningful work that can improve their medical school application.

To identify opportunities, reach out to the premedical society at your school to get started. The International Medical Volunteers Association provides a comprehensive and no-frills background on how to identify organizations. It also has a student's corner with tips for students, as well as a link to the global health Supercourse, a repository of lectures on global health and prevention. Additional opportunities can be found through idealist.org, and potentially through the religious organization of your choosing.

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Joshua Elder is going to become a doctor.

Tomorrow, Elder, a fourth-year medical student, will find out where hell be attending residency, a stage of graduate medical training when medical students train at a hospital or clinic in another city, sometimes across the country. But as for tonight, hell be doing something hes been doing since he was in high school: singing.

Between taking board examinations, attending class and auditioning for residency, any time Elder has just 10 minutes to spare, he will pick up his guitar and strum a couple of Tyrone Wells tunes. Tonight, hell be performing at the David Geffen School of Medicines 15th annual talent show.

This year represents a very different place. Im essentially done with medical school now. This (event) will be happening the day before I find out where Ill be going for the next three to four years of my life, Elder said. Itll be nice to take my mind off of whats happening the next day.

This years theme is A Night At The OSCEs, in reference to the Oscars. OSCEs are a type of hands-on examination used in the health sciences, in which the medical school hires professional actors to play the role of patients, and students have to diagnose the patients.

The talent show will feature medical students of all years, and performances range from acoustic sets and piano pieces to dances such as the traditional Chinese Wushu.

First-year medical student Christine Thang, the organizer of the event, said the show counters the assumption that all medical students do is study.

Its cool to see how diverse (in talent) our class is, Thang said. When they talk about well-rounded medical students, its what we have here, giving students opportunities to share their talents with peers. Its nice to get away from the books and studying, and its nice to show another side of our medical students.

Elder, who has performed twice in the talent show and also organized and emceed the event his first year, said that, although medical school and singing contrast with each other, he believes medicine is very much an art.

I think people are attracted to medicine when you are interested in the arts because medicine is a mix of art and science. For me the art is research; my creative abilities for music have fit in with medicine at different times. I didnt expect that as much, Elder said.

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A week ago Friday was match day for the first class of students to complete their studies at the WWAMI medical school program inSpokane.

Six of the 20 matched with Spokane-area residencies, the most ever for the University of Washington School of Medicine, which administers the Spokane program in conjunction with Washington State University. Odds are, those doctors will remain in Eastern Washington, where they will help remedy an ongoingshortage.

If so, the potential that Spokane-trained doctors would remain in the region will have been realized, as it has been hundreds of times since WWAMI was established 40 years ago to educate and retain more doctors in the participating states: Washington, Wyoming, Alaska, Montana andIdaho.

About 4,600 doctors in five states, including 400 in Spokane, help train WWAMI students. That multistate distribution of students into every corner of the region has been one of the programs uniquecharacteristics.

Students on the UW/WSU Riverpoint Campus still transfer to Seattle for their second year of training, but a pilot program to be launched in 2013 will allow them to stay in Spokane and root themselves more firmly in the InlandNorthwest.

Spokane businesses, individuals and foundations are raising $2.3million to sustain the pilot for two years, with the expectation its success will convince legislators to provide the money in the future. The community, which pushed doggedly to get a medical school here, is putting its money where its maxillais.

WWAMI is abargain.

The average cost of medical education in the United States is $105,000 per year, per student. WWAMI does the job for $65,000, yet is consistently named best program for educating rural doctors and familypractitioners.

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Gov. Chris Christies determined and sometimes angry push to remake New Jersey higher education has collided with financial realities that include Rutgers Universitys reluctance to take over nearly a half-billion in debt incurred by the states medical school.

Bruce Fehn, Rutgers chief financial officer, said the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey owes $450 million to bond holders for loans used to build campus facilities. If, as Christie has demanded, Rutgers immediately takes over the medical school and other facilities in Central Jersey, the university could be on the hook for the money.

Worse, the university must deal with conditions, or "covenants," in the loans that could trigger an acceleration repayment clause if UMDNJ loses 15 percent of its assets assets it would lose by transferring them to Rutgers. The long-term loans could become due and payable immediately.

"There has been no analysis of this problem by the state," Fehn said in a meeting of the universitys trustee board on Thursday. Many of the members angrily criticized the Christie plan including one financial expert who compared dealing with the governors office to working with "fourth-graders.

Fehn added that UMDNJs assets were "highly leveraged" so, while it may appear Rutgers was getting more than $400 million in assets, only $50 million was free of debt.

Under the Christie plan, Rutgers would take over UMDNJ facilities in New Brunswick and Piscataway but would lose the Rutgers-Camden campus, with its law and business schools, to Rowan University, a former state teachers college in Glassboro.

Fehn said he was not receiving adequate information from the state to make any judgment about the financial consequences of trying to take over the medical school, especially within the three months demanded by Christie.

The universitys senior vice president for finance and administration also said the university itself doesnt have staff and expertise to make the judgments necessary to assure the trustees they can carry out their "fiduciary" responsibilities. It hired Cain Brothers, an investment firm, to assist the university.

Michael Drewniak, Christies spokesman, issued this statement:

"Rutgers and UMDNJ have both hired independent financial consultants and attorneys to look at the issue, and those experts, along with the Governors Office, have been working collaboratively to ensure that post-integration, debt is appropriately apportioned between UMDNJ and Rutgers and that UMDNJ is stronger financially than it was prior to the higher education restructuring."

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QUESTION: After years of struggling to fall asleep at night, my doctor diagnosed me with restless legs syndrome. What can you tell me about this condition?

ANSWER: Restless legs syndrome (RLS) is a disorder of nerves and muscles that causes an irresistible urge to move the legs. It is often accompanied by an uncomfortable creepy-crawly sensation.

As you've experienced, symptoms of restless legs syndrome typically flare up at night, just as you're settling down in bed. RLS not only causes discomfort and distress, it can wreak havoc on sleep, causing daytime sleepiness and mood changes.

Fortunately, certain lifestyle strategies can help you manage it, and several medications can provide relief for more serious symptoms.

There's a common mistaken belief that RLS refers to the jittery, leg-bouncing movements some people make when they're anxious or overstimulated.

People with RLS describe the discomfort as feelings of prickling, pulling, itching, tugging or stretching that typically occur below the knees and are felt deep within the legs. In severe cases, the arms are affected as well.

Movement provides immediate relief, so people with the condition often fidget, kick or massage their legs, or get up to pace the floor or perform deep knee bends.

Primary RLS, the most common form of the disorder, has no known cause. But more than 40% of people with primary RLS have a family history of the condition. This suggests an underlying genetic component. Researchers found five gene variants that predict a greater likelihood of RLS.

One theory is that primary RLS arises from an imbalance of dopamine, a neurotransmitter with many roles in the body, including the regulation of muscle movement. Some of the medications used to treat RLS work by mimicking the action of dopamine in the brain.

RLS can also develop as a byproduct of other medical problems. One of the chief culprits in this secondary form of the disorder is iron deficiency, which may explain why the condition is more common in women, who are more prone to low iron levels. This is mainly due to blood loss during menstruation. Pregnancy, childbirth and breastfeeding deplete iron stores, too.

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HUDSON, N.H., March 25, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Atrium Medical Corporation, a business unit of MAQUET Cardiovascular, today announced the results of the INFUSE-AMI study (Intracoronary Abciximab Infusion and Aspiration Thrombectomy in Patients Undergoing Percutaneous Coronary Intervention for Anterior ST Segment Elevation Myocardial Infarction (MI)), a multi-center, multi-national clinical trial conducted to determine the optimal treatment strategy for patients with an acute anterior wall myocardial infarction (acute MI or heart attack) with ST segment elevation, commonly referred to as a STEMI. The study findings demonstrated that in patients with large anterior STEMI presenting early after symptom onset and undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI), intracoronary administration of the platelet inhibitor abciximab delivered directly to the heart attack lesion site via Atrium's ClearWay RX Local Therapeutic Infusion Catheter significantly reduced the size of the MI at 30 days (primary endpoint). The data were presented today in a late-breaking session at the American College of Cardiology's (ACC) 61st Annual Scientific Session in Chicago and published online in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA).

"In patients who have suffered a heart attack, recovery of the heart muscle is often suboptimal despite restoration of blood flow. INFUSE-AMI was uniquely designed to be able to demonstrate whether therapies are able to reduce infarct size in patients with large heart attacks, those with the greatest clinical need," said Dr. Gregg W. Stone, principal investigator of INFUSE-AMI and professor of medicine and director of cardiovascular research and education at New York-Presbyterian Hospital and Columbia University Medical Center. "In these patients, the platelet inhibitor abciximab delivered to the infarct lesion site via the ClearWay RX Infusion Catheter resulted in a significant reduction in infarct size at 30 days. However, manual aspiration of the blood clot did not reduce infarct size."

INFUSE-AMI Study Design and Results

The INFUSE-AMI trial, a prospective, randomized, single-blind trial conducted at 37 clinical sites in the U.S. and five European countries enrolled 452 patients who presented within four hours of a STEMI involving the anterior wall of the heart. Study subjects were randomized to one of four study arms, which assessed four different ways to treat the thrombus (blood clot) causing the patient's heart attack:

The goal of the trial was to help identify which treatment strategy could provide better patient outcomes with the goal of reducing the infarct size (heart muscle damage) during a heart attack and restoring flow in the infarct related artery and microvasculature in the heart muscle without an increase in major and minor bleeding. Study endpoints included impact on infarct size at 30 days as measured by cardiac MRI, ST segment resolution, myocardial perfusion, impact on thrombus burden, and outcomes on bleeding.

Results showed that patients randomized to local therapeutic infusion of intracoronary abciximab with ClearWay RX compared to no abciximab had a significant reduction in 30-day infarct size (15.6 percent relative reduction). Patients randomized to local infusion of intracoronary abciximab also demonstrated a significant reduction in absolute infarct mass (22.1 percent relative reduction). In contrast, manual aspiration thrombectomy did not significantly reduce infarct size. No significant differences in any of the major safety or efficacy endpoints were present between the randomized groups at 30 days. Post hoc analysis revealed median infarct size was lowest in the intracoronary abciximab plus aspiration group compared with the other groups.

The INFUSE-AMI trial was led by the Cardiovascular Research Foundation (CRF) in New York. Dr. Stone was the principal investigator and Dr. C. Michael Gibson, chief of clinical research at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center/Harvard Medical School in Boston, served as co-principal investigator. It was sponsored and funded by Atrium Medical Corporation, Medtronic and The Medicines Company.

About the Atrium ClearWay RX Local Therapeutic Infusion Catheter

The ClearWay RX Local Therapeutic Infusion Catheter is an extraordinarily thin, microporous PTFE balloon mounted on a .014" rapid exchange catheter. The ClearWay RX catheter provides super selective, local intracoronary infusion of medication, allowing more medication to act locally at a higher concentration and for a longer period of time to enhance its therapeutic effect on the occluding blood clot and diseased artery. The balloon controllably engages the vessel wall to gently and atraumatically occlude blood flow during infusion thus providing drug concentrations hundreds of times greater at the site of local delivery than traditional systemic drug administration. ClearWay RX maximizes drug availability, concentration, and residence time to greatly enhance the desired therapeutic effect. ClearWay RX is available in 1.0 to 4.0 mm balloon diameters and in balloon lengths ranging from 10 to 50 mm.

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For the last 22 months, the University of Minnesota Medical School has been gearing up for its accreditation review.

The last time the Medical School was accredited was in 2004. A medical school that has already been accredited usually goes through the process every eight years.

The school conducted a self-study review to see if the program met the Liaison Committee on Medical Educations standards for function, structure and performance.

The LCME oversees medical schools in the U.S. and Canada to make sure they are meeting the generalized standards.

Its an outstanding process that helps us understand ourselves a little better, said Associate Dean for Undergraduate Medical Education Kathleen Watson.

During an on-site visit by the LCME last week, the school was reviewed based on institutional setting, the educational program for the M.D. degree, medical students opinions, faculty and educational resources.

There were six groups involved in the self-study process, including a group of students.

More than 60 medical students from the Duluth and Twin Cities campuses were a part of the LCME Independent Student Analysis committee.

A survey conducted by the student committee asked students about their experiences in the Medical School to evaluate courses, teaching, exams and grading, said Heather Grothe, a fourth-year medical student on the committee.

The results were given to the Medical School, and Grothe said changes were made to fix unspecified problems.

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Harvard Medical School yesterday denied an allegation launched by an animal rights group that it failed to report another monkey death at its New England Primate Research Center.

In a March 20 letter to the U. S. Department of Agriculture, Michael Budkie, executive director of the Ohio-based animal rights organization Stop Animal Exploitation Now, says that a whistleblower connected to the center revealed details of a non-reported death at the facility.

Budkie said the whistleblower told him that a monkey died about seven months ago after a center employee performed a fairly routine medical procedure.

This can only mean that this procedure was clearly botched, and that the negligence which caused this cost the animal his/her life, Budkie wrote.

Budkie called for a thorough investigation of the death and for Harvard to be fined the maximum amount allowed by law. Individual violations of the Animal Welfare Act are punishable by fines of up to $10,000.

USDA spokesman Dave Sacks said yesterday that the complaint will be investigated in accordance with standard procedure.

We will do so by sending an inspector to this facility in the near future to conduct an inspection, he wrote in an email, adding that inspections are always unannounced so the exact date cannot be disclosed.

Suffice it to say, that because of the recent incidents at Harvards primate research center, it will be soon, he wrote. We will continue to closely monitor this facility by visiting more frequently as a way to monitor Harvards progress and ensure the welfare of the animals there.

Harvard self-reported a death at the facility that occurred on Feb. 26 the same day details of a separate monkey death came out in a USDA inspection report.

Four monkeys have died at the facility in the past two years, and three of those deaths have occurred since September. Fred Wang, who became interim director of the center in September, stepped down from the post shortly after the fourth death was announced, citing personal and professional reasons.

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KING OF PRUSSIA, Pa.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--

Theorem Clinical Research, a full-service contract research organization (CRO) that provides core clinical research and development services, is pleased to announce the appointment of Evan Rosenfeld, M.D., J.D., F.C.L.M., as vice president of medical and scientific affairs, Medical Device and Diagnostics.

Rosenfeld has more than ten years experience within the medical device and diagnostic industries as both an attorney and medical director.

Evan has a very dynamic background, stated Theorem Clinical Research Chief Executive Officer John Potthoff. He initially worked as a lawyer for medical device clients and then moved into chief medical officer roles within these companies after graduating from medical school. Evan understands this industry from both the legal and strategic leadership perspective, and he will be a great asset to our company.

A cum laude graduate of Harvard University, Rosenfeld also graduated cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania Law School. He later obtained his medical degree from the Medical College of Virginia/Virginia Commonwealth University.

Rosenfeld previously served as the medical director and senior consultant for regulatory and clinical affairs at Emergo Group Inc. At the same time, he founded MDJD Consulting and worked as an independent consultant providing medical, clinical and regulatory analysis, insights and strategic recommendations.

Rosenfeld has also worked as the chief medical officer/senior vice president of regulatory affairs at Microtransponder Inc. and as chief medical officer/vice president of medical and regulatory affairs at Bioness Inc.

Currently, he holds active physician licenses with the Texas Medical Board and the Medical Board of California. A fellow of the American College of Legal Medicine, Rosenfeld also holds membership with the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Bar, the United States Patent and Trademark Office Bar, the District of Columbia Bar and the State of Illinois Bar.

About Theorem Clinical Research Theorem Clinical Research is one of the industrys leading full-service, contract research organizations (CRO). Before launching in 2011, Theorem Clinical Research operated for nearly two decades as Omnicare Clinical Research under the Omnicare Inc. parent company. A global organization with 1,000+ employees located throughout 27 countries, Theorem Clinical Research provides core CRO services for Phases I-IV, but with niche business units in the areas of technical services, medical devices and pharmaceutics with speed, flexibility and attention to detail to drive a high-quality performance. For more information, visit http://www.theoremclinical.com.

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SASKATOON - Saskatchewan's medical school is being warned to shape up or be put on probation.

The committee that accredits Canada's medical schools has sent a warning letter to the University of Saskatchewan College of Medicine.

"This action indicates that there are areas of non-compliance that will, if not corrected promptly, seriously compromise the ability of the faculty to deliver a quality medical education program," wrote the Committee on Accreditation of Canadian Medical Schools.

The letter was dated July 2011, but was only now made public on the CBC Saskatchewan news website.

It notes that the warning of probation is confidential and said the school is not required to notify students.

Dr. William Albritton, dean of the college, said in an interview Thursday that faculty and students were told about the letter.

There are 130 standards applied to medical schools. Albritton said a fact-finding visit last year found the college is "weak or deficient" on 10 standards.

"The weaknesses were that our faculty didn't provide timely feedback to the students. You're expected to do this within a couple of weeks of the ending of the rotation," said Albritton.

"And busy people in a busy practice tend to delay those kinds of things. They don't see them as being quite as important as they actually are."

Albritton said instructors getting written standardized teaching and grading objectives is a problem. There's also concern around adequate student space for study, lounge and lockers at the Regina campus.

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University of Connecticut School of Medicine fourth-year students celebrated a successful Match Day on March 16, as 98.8 percent of students secured residencies around the country through the National Residency Match Program.

Only one student out of 88 failed to attain a residency, putting UConn well above the national match average of 95.1 percent. Dr. David Henderson, associate dean of medical student affairs, was said to have told the students in a UConn Today press release, This is, from an institutional perspective, a most excellent March Day. With nearly a 99 percent match rate, its about as close to perfect as you can get.

There was a 15 percent increase in students matched in primary care residency programs including internal medicine, family medicine and pediatrics. Compared to last years total of 35 percent, this year 50 percent of students attained matches.

The remaining 50 percent of students receiving residencies through Match Day entered such programs as emergency medicine, obstetrics/gynecology, orthopedic surgery and general surgery.

For current students, prospective medical students and faculty, this Match Day was very impressive. Thats a huge statistic; thats something huge for UConn, not just for the faculty and administration but for the students. Its good for current students but its also something good for future students to see, because it eases concerns about the work. Students can know theres an incentive at the end and their hard work will pay off. said Orest Paslavski, a 4th-semester biomedical engineering major and prospective medical student.

Fifty-six of the 88 students received placements in the Northeast, and 27 students will remain in Connecticut. Henderson said in UConn Today, The students worked really hard and accomplished a lot these past several years and were very pleased with the results.

Match Day is a yearly practice at medical schools across the nation that matches students with residency programs and fills available training positions at teaching hospitals around the country. This Match Day marks the 60th anniversary of the National Resident Matching Program, which was started in 1952. The next step for matched students? Working for their matched hospital after graduation.

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(Rowan University interim president Dr. Ali Houshmand, left, with Lawrence and Rita Salva and Cooper Medical School founding dean Dr. Paul Katz, right. Photo provided)

By Michelle Durham

CAMDEN, N.J. (CBS) Officials at the Cooper Medical School of Rowan University received a tremendous gift last week: more than $1 million, earmarked for scholarships to students of the new medical school.

The donation was made to the Rowan Foundation by Comcast Corporation Senior Vice President Lawrence Salva and his wife, Rita.

Salva is a Rowan University alumnus.

A million dollars will flow into an endowment that will permanently fund, annually, four-year scholarships to one or more students, he explains. (An) additional $55,000, combined with earnings from the endowment, will fund the initial grant of $100,000 in scholarships to the initial charter class.

That first class begins August 2012.

Dr. Paul Katz, dean of the medical school, says the average medical student has $160,000 of school debt by the time he or she graduates.

Anything we can do to allow students to have less of an impact on the career decisions they make based on finances is great, he tells KYW Newsradio.

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Dennis S. Charney, MD, Dean of Mount Sinai School of Medicine, announced today that the school has received reaccreditation from the Liaison Committee on Medical Education (LCME), the premier authority responsible for accrediting all Medical Doctor (MD) programs in the United States and Canada. Mount Sinai was reaccredited for the maximum term of eight years.

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Medical schools must demonstrate compliance with LCME standards in five areas: institutional and educational programs, medical students, faculty, and educational resources. Only LCME-accredited institutions may receive federal grants for medical education and participate in federal loan programs. Through accreditation, the LCME assures medical students and graduates, members of the medical profession, health care institutions, and the public that MD programs meet the highest educational standards and that graduates of these medical schools have complete educational experience sufficient to prepare them for the next stage of their training.

We are very pleased to have met the high standards of the LCME in securing reaccreditation for our MD program, said Dr. Charney. Considering how much of a challenge this designation has been for medical schools across the country, we are proud of the hard work and dedication of David Muller, MD, Dean of Medical Education, and our faculty, staff, and students, in achieving it.

The accreditation process consists of a rigorous self-assessment, a four-day site visit from a panel of LCME reviewers, and completion of a student survey, which is then reviewed by the LCME panel. The self-assessment is completed over a two- to three-month period during which the medical school must compile a comprehensive database from the findings to be evaluated by the LCME reviewers.

Mount Sinai School of Medicine created a steering committee and several task forces, which were responsible for each of the five areas of review. Led by Dr. Muller, preparations for the site visit began nearly two years ago and involved the participation of hundreds of faculty, staff, and students.

The entire Mount Sinai student body was surveyed, which helped inform the reaccreditation process. Seven committees of nearly 175 faculty staff and students met weekly for four months to prepare for the site visit. The steering committee issued a bi-weekly communiqu and held monthly town hall meetings throughout the process to keep the greater medical school community informed. Seventy-five representatives from all areas in the medical school met with the site visitors during a four-day visit, resulting in a successful program reaccreditation.

Seeing so many of our faculty and students collaborating to make this process a success has been a privilege, said Dr. Muller. I am delighted that the LCME has recognized Mount Sinai School of Medicine for our commitment to excellence in education.

About The Mount Sinai Medical Center

The Mount Sinai Medical Center encompasses both The Mount Sinai Hospital and Mount Sinai School of Medicine. Established in 1968, Mount Sinai School of Medicine is one of the leading medical schools in the United States. The Medical School is noted for innovation in education, biomedical research, clinical care delivery, and local and global community service. It has more than 3,400 faculty in 32 departments and 14 research institutes, and ranks among the top 20 medical schools both in National Institutes of Health (NIH) funding and by US News and World Report.

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WORCESTER Led by the University of Massachusetts Medical School, the states public university system raked in $40 million in licensing fees in 2010.

The UMass system ranked 13th among 183 institutions participating in the 20th annual survey of licensing fee revenues by the Association of University Technology Managers. This was the second consecutive year UMass placed in the top 15. UMass was one of only two New England universities in the top 15, with MIT. The 2010 data are the latest available.

Licensing fees are generated when institutions charge companies to use their patented research discoveries.

The fees are a small part of the hundreds of millions of non-taxpayer dollars that annually come into the system supporting basic and clinical research.

The research dollars are expected to increase after the medical school opens the Albert Sherman Research Center, a $400 million building set to open later this year.

Our ability to generate $40 million from faculty discovery and innovation is a testament to the great quality of the UMass faculty on all five campuses, UMass President Robert L. Caret told trustees recently. Of the $40 million, $37.6 million was generated by discoveries at the medical school.

Although research is often federally funded, patents usually become the property of universities under provisions of the Bayh-Dole Act, passed by Congress in 1980 and named for the sponsors, Sens. Birch Bayh and Bob Dole.

The $40 million in fees was actually less than the university received in 2009, which was about $70 million. It was a $30 million payment for an anti-diarrhea antibody developed at UMassBiologics that pushed UMass into eighth place nationally that year. It beat out both MIT and Harvard University.

The simple fact is we are one university, and we like to present ourselves that way, said James P. McNamara, executive director of the medical schools Office of Technology Management. The state transferred UMassBiologics operation from the Department of Public Health to the medical school in 1997.

The fees are split among those whose inventions or discoveries generated the fees, and the university, which uses it to support research, pay administrative costs and obtain and defend patents. Mr. McNamara recently successfully defended a UMass patent in Germany.

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10-02-2012 20:07 Time to practice: Medical students have many options available to them after graduation. Jeremy Levenstadt is a newly minted doctor. He sits down with Steve Paikin to discuss his career options.

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WORCESTER The group of University of Massachusetts Medical School students who gathered late yesterday was as varied as the paths before them. The students will not graduate until June, but yesterday was Match Day, the day they learn where they will do their residency.

Students at medical schools across the country opened their envelopes at the same time. At UMass, the group of 116 students included a couple who will marry today, a veteran who plans to return to combat zones as a doctor and a man who left his home in Sudan at age 11 as one of the Lost Boys.

Timothy J. Menz, who is originally from Braintree, and Tania Visnaskas, originally from Chelmsford, are making a weekend of matches. The two met in fall 2007, their first year of medical school, became friends and dated.

He proposed on Valentines Day in 2011 and yesterday she jumped into his arms as they learned they were both bound for Brown University-affiliated hospitals, he to Rhode Island Hospital in Providence for pediatrics and she to Memorial Hospital in Pawtucket for family medicine.

Today, the couple will get married in Haverhill.

It was like two months after we started dating that I said I would marry him tomorrow, Ms. Visnaskas said. Tomorrow took about three years.

Theyre planning a New Hampshire getaway after the wedding, followed by a trip to Disneyworld in a couple of months, because we didnt think it was legal for a pediatrician not to have gone to Disney World, Mr. Menz joked.

Elsewhere in the crowded lobby yesterday, Micah B. Blais of Holden was celebrating his acceptance into a residency at Harvard University-affiliated hospitals to start his career in orthopedic surgery. Mr. Blais, 32, studied information systems while at West Point, but after two tours of duty with the Army in Iraq, which he concluded as a captain, he decided to pursue medicine.

While deployed, he saw the relationship the doctors were able to maintain with the soldiers and the Iraqi civilians, he said. In between the tours he started in 2004 and 2007, he took a couple of night courses to qualify for medical school. The military is paying for his medical training, and he plans to work in combat zones.

In the meantime, however, he and his wife, Kim Anderson, are looking forward to the birth of their first child and will move closer to Boston.

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Forget basketball brackets—March Madness at EVMS is all about Match Day 2012. 

Match Day, March 16, was the day senior medical students learned where they will complete their training after medical school. Students across the country tore into their envelopes at 1 p.m. Eastern Time to find out their matches, but none where as stylish as EVMS.

In true  “I love the '90s” fashion, Ninja Turtles took the stage with boy bands, Bay Watch lifegaurds and Vanilla Ice. Wrestling giants Stone Cold Steve Austin and The Rock, threw down their championship belts and were joined in celebration by the Adams Family and Men In Black. See photos of the event.

Residency encompasses the three (or more) years of training that is required before medical school graduates can become practicing physicians.

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With four years of medical school nearly behind them, more than 200 excited students at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston Medical School found out on Match Day Friday where they will begin the next phase of their medical training.

Match Day is an annual event that occurs simultaneously across the country as students are matched with residencies with the aid of computer technology and the National Resident Matching Program. At UTHealth, students, friends and loved ones gathered Friday morning in Webber Plaza.

This is the moment weve all been waiting for, said Katherine Lusk, president of UTHealth Medical Schools Class of 2012.

The tight-knit class forged friendships during Hurricane Ike, which struck the Gulf Coast right before the students first big exam. Since then, together they have learned what it takes to be physicians dedicated to excellence in patient care.

In the months leading up to Match Day, the students interviewed with residency programs across the country. Anesthesiology, family medicine, internal medicine, pediatrics and general surgery are among some of the most popular areas of medicine that members of UTHealth Medical Schools Class of 2012 have selected for residency training. Many of them would like to stay in Texas for that training.

Our students are truly second to none and always do very well in the match, said Giuseppe N. Colasurdo, M.D., president ad interim of UTHealth and dean of the UTHealth Medical School.

Surrounded by family, friends and faculty, the students open envelopes to reveal the location of their residency. Will it be Houston? Will it be someplace else?

Here are stories from a few of the students who participated in this years match:

Lisa Osterhout, 29, had promising careers as a marketing executive and graphic artist, but she discovered that the volunteer work she was doing on weekends was far more rewarding that her weekdays promoting popular rock bands and creating 3D special effects. She was already contemplating a career move when, in 2004, she suddenly became sick. Two surgeries, encouragement from family and friends and news reports about the Indian Ocean tsunami ultimately led to her decision to become a physician committed to public service. In the summer of 2005, the Pearland native returned to The University of Texas at Austin, where she had previously earned a degree in marketing, to complete her pre-med coursework. Medicine allows me to integrate the creative aspects from my previous work while focusing on service, she said. Since enrolling at the UTHealth Medical School, she has served as executive director at the H.O.M.E.S. Clinic in Houston and founded a sustainable project to improve health in childrens homes in Kenya. She plans to do her graduate medical training in pediatrics.

When Irving Basanez arrived on the UTHealth campus in 2008 at the age of 19, he was the youngest student ever admitted to the Medical School. Basanez - who moved with his family from Veracruz, Mexico when he was 8 years old to live in Pharr, Texas - finished high school in three years and pushed himself to finish college in the same length of time. During his first year of medical school, he became interested in otolaryngology and decided he wanted to do his residency training in the ear, nose and throat (ENT) specialty. He also became interested in global health issues and participated in a number of mission trips, including one to Nigeria where he donated his own blood to save a woman from bleeding to death. Like his fellow classmates who are participating in Match Day, he doesnt yet know the location of his residency, but he does know where he would ultimately like to establish his medical practice. Ive had such great mentors here. I want to pay it forward and encourage and mentor students with an interest in ENT and global health, Basanez said. And I would like to come back and practice in the (Rio Grande) Valley. Now 22, Basanez jokes, Medical school has aged me.

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