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USF recognized for work on allergies, immune diseases
The University of South Florida's medical school has been named a World Allergy Organization Center of Excellence, the first such center in the United States. Only 10 institutions around the world share the recognition for the 2016-19 term. "It is a testament to the hard work of an amazing group of highly talented USF faculty members dedicated to the prevention and treatment of pediatric and adult allergy, immunology and immune diseases," said Dr. Charles Lockwood, senior vice president for USF Health and dean of the Morsani College of Medicine. The World Allergy Organization, an umbrella group combining nearly 100 allergy and clinical immunology societies around the world, uses its Centers of Excellence to accelerate innovation and education. For the last 30 years, Dr. Richard Lockey has led USF's department of internal medicine's division of allergy and immunology. The World Allergy Organization noted the division's accomplishments, including four National Institutes of Health grants, a $15 million endowment for research, accredited residency programs in allergy and immunology, clinical research and publications on airway diseases, and more.
Young USF researcher wins top honor
The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation has named a USF biologist as one of its 2017 fellows, an honor worth $60,000 in research funding. Brad Gemmell, an assistant professor who studies tiny ocean organisms and the impact of the world's changing seas upon them, is the fourth USF scientist to win the recognition. This year, 126 American and Canadian researchers were named Sloan fellows. Gemmell joined USF in 2015.
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Federal research grant funding at the University of Virginias School of Medicine rose almost 25 percent last year, bringing UVa to 35th nationwide.
UVa won a total of $126 million in grants from the National Institutes of Health in 2016, which doles out research funding to selected projects around the country. Thats a significant increase above the $101 million won in 2015.
Dr. David Wilkes, dean of the School of Medicine, reported the findings to the Board of Visitors on Thursday morning.
Wilkes said UVas efforts to invest in new technology and an aggressive faculty hiring push, pillars of a long-term plan passed in 2013, are beginning to pay off. UVa is attracting many applicants who want to bring their research to Charlottesville, Wilkes said.
The word is out that something is happening at UVa, Wilkes said. Its not just different, but something really extraordinary.
About 60 percent of the new funding was generated by existing faculty and staff, Wilkes said, while new recruits who brought their grant-funded projects with them accounted for about 40 percent.
Rector William H. Goodwin said he wants UVa to push harder and break into the top 20.
The first step, he said, is to gain the status of comprehensive cancer center from the National Cancer Institute. The institutions in this category must meet strict standards, but investigators from these comprehensive cancer centers win roughly three-quarters of the investigator-initiated grants from NCI.
I think youve done a great job but I think we ought to have some goals, Goodwin said. To get into the medical rankings, we have to face the fact that we need to be a comprehensive cancer center.
The UVa Cancer Center is trying to meet the goal of gaining NCIs top-tier designation by 2020.
The new partnership with Inova finalized in November will give UVa access to a wider pool of patients in Northern Virginia, which will improve UVas ability to run medical trials, Wilkes said.
But in the next few years, UVa could face a crunch in research space. That could be a pressing issue, Wilkes said, and the board will need to act soon.
Within the next 10 months, if we secure the next round of hires, space will become limited very quickly, he said.
Also on Thursday, the board voted to appoint third-year student Bryanna Miller, of Lewes, Delaware, as its student member for the next academic year.
Miller who currently serves as president of the Black Student Alliance and sits on Student Council was selected after interviews and discussion held in closed session.
The student member does not have a vote but acts as an ambassador between the board and UVas student body. The student member serves in an advisory role and is supposed to represent the interests of students during board discussions.
Current student member Phoebe Willis, a second-year student at the School of Law, has worked on bringing student voices into discussions on spending the annual payout from the $2.3 billion Strategic Investment Fund.
Connecting the board with the students they govern was one of Willis chief goals, and she said she hopes Miller continues her work.
I think that relationship has improved, but its not a perfect relationship, Willis said. Its an opportunity for Bryanna to come in and really make her own mark on it.
Millers term will begin June 1.
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Idaho will soon get its first medical school, and although the school wont be located in East Idaho, it is expected to have a direct effect on local residents.
The proposed Idaho College of Osteopathic Medicine (ICOM), which will be in the Boise area, plans to take its first class in 2018, according to its website. The first class will consist of 150 students, and ICOM officials expect to break ground in spring of this year.
They anticipate being at full capacity by the academic year 2021-2022 with 150 students per year, or a total enrollment of 600.
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It will be a private medical school supported through tuition instead of taxes. ICOM currently has 17 affiliate hospitals.
According to the website, Idaho ranks 49th in the country in terms of physicians per capita, partly due to the fact that Idaho is the most populous state without its own medical school. Idaho is one of just five states that lack their own medical schools.
A medical school in Idaho would mean a steady supply of physicians in the state and local opportunities for Idahoans to attend medical school.
According to the ICOM website, the decision to establish a school offering a Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine (DO) degree was made because of a tremendous need for primary care in the five-states region. A DO and a Doctor of Medicine (MD) degree are similar both are held by complete physicians who help lead a health care team but with some differences: For instance, a DO is more likely to go into primary care. DOs also have a relatively greater degree of representation in rural settings.
The state has given ICOM a tax reimbursement incentive to be located in Idaho, and ICOM has pledged that all of these funds will go toward scholarships for Idahoans, with a preference for ISU graduates.
When it comes to admission, Idahoans will be given priority over applicants from other states. Although the tuition hasnt been set yet, the tuition will be less than the average of private osteopathic or allopathic medical schools in the U.S.
According to IdahoCOM.org, there are currently 171 Idahoans who have left the state to pursue an osteopathic medical degree.
While many communities across the United States struggle with primary care physician shortages, today, in Madison County, we dont feel that shortage as acutely, according to a statement from Madison Memorial Hospital CFO Troy Christensen. However, the population in Madison County is growing and aging. As our demographics continue to change, so too will our demand for primary care physicians. When we get to the point that current primary care providers have reached their maximum capacity, we will have need of additional well-prepared physicians to care for our communitys health care needs. We are pleased to have a resource for these future needs so close to Madison County.
Dr. Robert Hasty, the Founding Dean and Chief Academic Officer for ICOM, said there are three key indicators of where people practice after their training is complete: where the person graduated high school, where he or she graduated medical school and where he or she completed a residency program.
Hasty estimated that roughly half of ICOM graduates will practice in primary care, with a little over half of the graduates staying in Idaho to practice. He said they are encouraging a lot of people to settle in East Idaho and have spent time developing relationships with hospitals in the region.
Were going to make a huge difference here, he said.
He said the graduates from ICOM will help Idaho keep up with the retirement of physicians and with population growth.
The establishment of the school will also be good for the local community if students come from around Rexburg because it will help improve the quality of care for the area, Hasty said. Long-term impacts are expected to include drawing more physicians from other states to practice in the local area.
Hasty said this medical school will be something Idahoans can be proud of.
This is the most important thing Ive ever done, he said.
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Friday is poised to be a pivotal moment for the fledgling UNLV School of Medicine.
With four months until the school opens, UNLV President Len Jessup will request from the Board of Regents approval of the bylaws and operating agreement for the faculty practice plan, as well as a $19 million line of credit.
It has to get passed, said Barbara Atkinson, dean of the medical school. Ive been meeting with each of the regents separately, and I think Ive had very favorable responses.
The practice plan will allow students and residents to gain experience with patients under the supervision of a UNLV faculty physician.
The plan, if approved, will enable more than 100 teaching physicians and 300 support staff of the University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine to begin working at UNLV by July 1.
Physicians will be compensated for the time they spend teaching, with 10 to 20 percent of their salary paid for by the state. The remainder will come from revenues on the clinical side.
Anybody that starts up a new medical practice has to get credit, because they have those months where they send their bills out, but dont get paid very fast, Atkinson said. And you have all of the expenses all the leases, all the supplies and all the salaries.
The business plan shows the school paying back the loan in five years, but Atkinson hopes to do it in four. The clinical side of the operation is expected to generate roughly $1 million in revenues every week, and about $80 million in its first year.
Atkinson said several banks have responded to the schools request for a proposal.
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TCUs planned medical school should be accepting applications in the Fall of 2018 and students are already making plans to apply.
Morgan Williams, a junior biologymajor in the Class of 2018, said she hopes to claim one of the 20 seats set aside for TCU students.
Its an honor to get into any medical school, let alone to be one of the first students in a newly established school, she said.
Dr. Stuart Flynn, the dean of UNTHSC M.D. school, said he has already made plans for next years opening.
We are admitting 60 students per year,he said. We hope for it to grow over the years based on sustainability and excellence.
Flynn plans on hiring a significant part of the leadership team himself. In five years, the school will have about 700 faculty members, amajority of them being physicians from Tarrant County.
Our medical students will be taught at the highest level to communicate, which is a big deal, Flynn said. We will also have simulation center in which our students will be able to train their procedures before they actually do it on real people.
The UNTHSC/TCU M.D. school will have classes on both university campuses. However, alarge part of the courses will be held in clinical practices.
The reality of it is Fort Worth will be a medical school, Flynn said. We will be a part of the town now, which is going to be great.
The cost of tuition for the school will be the median of a private school tuition $50,000 per year, according to Flynn. He said the community and other people will donate and help contribute money to the school in order to give scholarship money to the students.
I am excited to see the steps and process that the new school will partake in over the next few years, Williams said. And, I hope to be a part of it.
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College of Southern Nevada President Michael Richards on Tuesday called the 15-credit requirement for the states first need-based grant a straitjacket for students.
Richards asked members of the Assembly Committee on Ways and Means, and the Senate Committee on Finance, to consider offering Silver State Opportunity Grant funds, on a sliding scale, to students who take at least nine credits.
We were touched by the emotional adversity theyre facing as they try to fulfill educational goals, Richards said. What were advocating is to make it a little more flexible, make it a little more humane, and meet students where they are.
Richards believes providing larger awards to students who enroll full-time might incentivize students to take more credits. Additionally, CSN has had students lose the scholarship in their final semester because they needed fewer than 15 credits to graduate, he said.
State Sen. Ben Kieckhefer, R-Reno, however, said he was concerned that lowering the credit requirement would decrease graduation rates.
If we dont use it in a way that gives students the greatest chance of success, I think were selling them short, Kieckhefer said.
Education officials advocated for this, and other key parts of the Nevada System of Higher Education budget, to members of both committees. The request is to increase funding for the program to $10 million over two years.
Also Tuesday, UNLV medical school Dean Barbara Atkinson said the university received 910 applications for the first class of 60 students, with 400 applicants being from Nevada or having close ties to the state.
Atkinson, however, said that the key to keeping students in Nevada might rely on available residency programs. Atkinson said she would like the Legislature is to add specialty and sub-specialty residencies that, including urology and radiology.
The meeting ended after the two committees heard from several people in support of merit-based pay increases for faculty as opposed to the yearly 2 percent cost of living adjustment in Gov. Brian Sandovals budget proposal.
Merit is a critical component of retaining the best faculty, said Glenn Miller, University of Nevada, Reno chapter president for the Nevada Faculty Alliance. The cost of living adjustments are appreciated, but its not a substitute for merit raises.
NSHE submitted a request for $31 million in merit raises in the next biennium.
If theyre not merit, the best and brightest will go, Miller said, adding that attracting high-level faculty is necessary to boosting the UNLV and UNRs reputations as research institutions.
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The University at Buffalo Jacobs School of Medicine has hired 12 new faculty members.
The new faculty members are part of a surge in hiring planned as the university moves itsmedical school downtown where it will be the gateway of the medical campus from its south campus on the Amherst border. The new hires are joining five departments within the medical school.
Many of the new faculty are within the general medicine department, while other hires are in family medicine, biomedical informatics, pathology and anatomical sciences and surgery.
The School of Medicine will opena $375 million state-of-the-art building on the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus later this year, with the first group of students taking classes there next January. As it moves into an expanded educational space, the medical school has increased the size of itsstudent body. The incoming medical school class is up by 25 percent, puttingenrollment at 180 students.
The number of full-time medical school faculty is expected to grow to 860 by 2020, up from 778 faculty members in December 2015. The university has sought to attract top faculty from across the nation.
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Cincinnati Business Courier | Greater Cincinnati lands another medical school Cincinnati Business Courier NKU is proud to have the opportunity to partner with the University of Kentucky and St. Elizabeth Healthcare to leverage our individual strengths and the power of our brands to bring professional medical education to Northern Kentucky, NKU president ... St. E, UK to open regional medical school at NKU UK Plans Regional Medical School in Northern Kentucky UK Expanding Medical School In Northern Kentucky |
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HIGHLAND HEIGHTS - In a development that could shift the medical and education landscape in Greater Cincinnati, St. Elizabeth Healthcare and the University of Kentucky announced Monday they will open a regional medical school in 2019 at Northern Kentucky University.
The affiliation is the latest UK effort to set up a network of regional medical schools that would focus on training in primary care to turn out graduates who could ease the commonwealths chronic shortage of physicians.
The four-year medical education programwill work in collaboration with the Health Innovation Center at NKU, but outgoing NKU President Geoff Mearns said the new campus won't be housed in the center.
NKU is identifying an existing location on campus that will be renovated and hopefully ready to open by summer or fall 2019, Mearns said. He anticipates the cost of the renovations will be absorbed by UK.
"There is a well-documented need to expand existing programs and create new programs to educate the next generation of healthcare professionals," Mearns said.Research shows healthcare professionals tend to stay in the regions where they train, so this partnership will help build the workforce in our region.
In size and scope, the new medical program would be dwarfed in the region by the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, with about 400 tenure-track faculty members and nearly 700 students. But the UK program will educate MDs who could go to work at St. Elizabeth hospitals in Northern Kentucky.
The new medical schoolwill provide opportunities for qualified NKU faculty to teach some first and second-year classes. There will also be a number of preferred admissions slots held for NKU undergraduate students who want to attend medical school and meet the academic requirements.
Were at capacity when it comes to educating medical students (in Lexington), UK President Eli Capilouto said. We need regional partners if we are going to tackle this stubborn problem.
The UK College of Medicine currently enrolls 547 students andplans to add about 30 students each year at NKU, according to the school's dean, Dr. Robert DiPaola.
DiPaola said about a third to halfof the students in the college are from Kentucky and up to 60 percent who do additional training come back to Kentucky.
Usingfacilities at NKU is an efficient and cost-effective way to expand the program while maintaining the quality of the curriculum, UK officials said. The campus will use the exact same curriculum and assessments as UK's Lexington campus, which will includeprimary care and subspecialties. On-site faculty will have UK College of Medicine appointments, teaching in small groups and providing simulation and standardized patient experiences with digital lectures from Lexington.
The expansionwill be part of a network UK hopes in 2018 to open at Bowling Green and expand at Morehead.Already partnering withUKfor the regional programs are Morehead State University, Western Kentucky University, St. Claire Regional Medical Center, King's Daughters Medical Center and the Medical Center at Bowling Green.
Students will pay the same annual tuition at the Highland Heights campusthat they would in Lexington, which is $37,716 for Kentucky residents and $65,861 for out of state students.
Garren Colvin, president and CEO of St. Elizabeth Healthcare, said the new program will ensurelocal students with medical school aspirations can do so in Northern Kentucky. The affiliation will allow students to have clinical experiences at St. Elizabeths healthcare help address health care concerns and changes in the industry.
We hope to educate and retain our local talent to help shape them into the medical leaders of our future, Colvin said. Together we will be able to bring students from across the commonwealth and the nation to our region to continue to strengthen the healthcare landscape in education, training, teaching and practicing.
Colvin said he hopes a majority, if not all, the graduates from this program to join its workforce to provide healthcare to patients in the area. He said the graduates coming out of the Health Innovation Center at NKU and UKs medical school would mean more jobs and better health for Northern Kentucky.
NKU is now building the $97 million Health Innovation Center on campus, with at least $8 million from St. Elizabeth. The facility is scheduled to open in 2018. NKUand St. Elizabeth officials have said the facility will one day turn out dozens more nurses, respiratory therapists, wellness experts, public health specialists and other health-care providers.
Its another aggressive UK move into Northern Kentucky, a field on which local players are on the march as well.
In spring 2015, the Christ Hospital Health Network, which has a large doctors office in Fort Wright, affiliated with UKs health system for advanced cancer care. The Markey Cancer Center in Lexington has the distinction of a National Cancer Institute designation, which means additional research funding for faculty and access to more clinical trials for patients.
The University of Cincinnati Cancer Institute, though larger than the Markey, does not yet have NCI designation, despite nearly two decades of efforts to get that recognition and the extra money to fight cancer. But in the past two years, UC officials and local titans of business such as John F. Barrett, chief executive officer of Western & Southern Financial Group, have made public commitments to get the NCI notice but obtaining it is still years away, at best.
To add to the drama, Christ Hospital and St. Elizabeth Healthcare have flung lawyers at each other over a parcel of land in Fort Mitchell where Christ Hospital wants to build an outpatient surgery center. An administrative law judge now is considering Christs argument that St. Elizabeth needs the competition and St. Elizabeths counter that Christ Hospital is coming to cherry-pick wealthier, insured patients, without which St. Elizabeth is crippled in its mission as the caregiver for all in Northern Kentucky.
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Academic medical experts will visit and critique the school at the downtown Phoenix Biomedical Campus from Sunday through Wednesday.
Dr. Kenneth Ramos says the University of Arizona medical school in downtown Phoenix has taken steps to shore up diversity recruitment for students, faculty and staff. Ramos, the interim dean, overlooks the new Biomedical Sciences Partnership Building that opened Feb. 23, 2017, in downtown Phoenix.(Photo: Tom Tingle/The Republic)
The University of Arizonas medical school in downtown Phoenix thisweek will begin its final exam in a decade-long journey to full, independent accreditation.
University officials are not expecting a breezy test.
The challengecomes in the form of a team of academic medical experts who will visit and critique the school at the Phoenix Biomedical Campus. They arrivedSunday and will stay through Wednesday.
"We would be successful beyond ourwildest imaginations if they gave us full accreditation and absolutely no citations," said Dr. Leigh Neumayer, UA's interim senior vice president for health sciences.
"We do think there will be some areas that they will want to, at a minimum, monitor."
The Phoenix school opened a decade ago as a branch campus of Tucson's UA College of Medicine to help address thestate's physician shortage. UA's Phoenix school struck out on its own in 2012 when itreceived separate "preliminary" accreditation, the first of three steps to full accreditation.
But the school's attempt at mid-tier "provisional" accreditation stalled in 2015 after the accrediting body, the Liaison Committee on Medical Education,warned that changes were needed in four areasbefore advancing the school. Two of the four findings stemmed from governance issues following Banner Health's $1.2 billion merger with the UA Health Network and a 30-year affiliation with the medical school. The Phoenix school made changes, and the Liaison Committee advanced the school to provisionalaccreditation in February 2016.
That's one reason why university officials don't anticipate a rubber-stamp review on the way to full accreditation.
To prepare for the Liaison Committee's visit, the medical school earlier hosted a mock visit froma four-member team that included a former medical school dean,an associate deanand two consultants. The review team lauded the school for its accomplishments, Neumayer said, but the review team also asked why so many Phoenix medical school officials had "interim" attached to their titles.
"That's one that worries me," saidNeumayer, who was named interim senior vice president for health sciences in December after Dr. Joe "Skip" Garcia resigned from the position. The job oversees the UA medical schools in Tucson and Phoenix and three otherhealth-related schools.
The Phoenix school also has an interim dean, Dr. Kenneth Ramos, who was named to the position last year after Dr. Stuart Flynn, the longtime Phoenix dean, and most of his leadership team resigned to takepositions at a new medical school on Fort Worth, Texas. The departures prompted the Arizona Medical Association, a 4,000-member physicians organization, to seek an independent investigation by the Arizona Board of Regents.
The regents hired Lewis Roca Rothgerber Christie LLP to evaluate concerns, but after spending at least $179,653 on the work, the board determined no action was needed.
The regents have refused to make public the report, citing attorney-client privilege and work-product protections.
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A search committee identified four candidates for the dean position, but two candidates have dropped out, Neumayer said. One candidate decided she was not interested in the position, and second person chose not to pursue the position after Garcia resigned from the post.
Neumayer declined to identify the two remaining candidates. She said the timing of the new dean's hiringpartly depends on finding time to schedule a meeting with the finalists.
"The two applicants left are highly qualified,"Neumayer said. "It's a matter of me being able to meet them and what kind of (compensation) package we can put together for them."
The Liaison Committee last February also told the medical school there were three areas in which itwould continue to monitor progress: theschool's affiliation agreement with Banner Health, the sufficiency of administrative staffand program diversity.
Neumayer and Ramos said some contract language changedin the Banner Health-UA agreement to address the Liaison Committee's concerns. Those changes included appointing the deans of both the Phoenix and Tuscon medical schools to a joint Banner Health-UA academic management council.
UA and Banner Health also made it clearthat the medical school deans in Phoenix and Tucson had full authority over clinical training appointments for third- andfourth-year students at their respective campuses.
Ramos said the Phoenix school has taken steps to shore up diversity efforts in the recruitment of students, faculty and staff. For example, the medical school has launched a "pathways program" that recruits 19 students from communities such as Latinos and Native Americans that are under-represented in medicine. The idea is to prepare these students and make themmore competitive in the rigorous application process formedical schools.
The Phoenix campus also has tried tobeef up administrative staff and faculty recruiting. Last June, the Phoenix school recruitedDr. Michael Fallon, who will be paid $680,000 per yearas the first chairman of the school's department of medicine. UA pledged a five-year, $40 million package for Fallon to build the department of medicine and recruit division chiefs, according to his offer letter.
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Ramos noted that the newly opened $136 million Biomedical Science Partnership Building will provide space forthe medical school to beef up research efforts.
Despite the medical school's strides,Neumayer said, she would not be surprised if the Liaison Committee issues some type of finding. The most difficult step is achieving preliminary accreditation. All schools that have completed that first step have advanced to full accreditation, though some schools may take longer to get there.
"The point is, just because they find something significant doesn't mean you are not going to get accredited or re-accredited," she said. "Clearly you have to pay attention to the standards and the changes. I view it as a way for us to make sure our medical schools are the best they can be."
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Fresno State President Joseph Castro says he wants to see any new effort to build a public medical school in the San Joaquin Valley be a collaboration between the UC and CSU systems.
Last month, Assemblymember Joaquin Arambula introduced a bill in Sacramento that would authorize a new medical school at Fresno State. But the states master plan for higher education calls for medical schools to be the domain only of the University of California.
Speaking with Valley Public Radio, Castro says he agrees with Arambula that the valley deserves a public medical school to help address the shortage of physicians here, but
Castro: Ive expressed to him that my preference as president of Fresno State is that we would do that in collaboration with the University of California."
For years, discussion about a medical school in the valley has centered around UC Merced, but Arambulas bill doesnt mention that campus. He told Valley Public Radio last month that's due to Merceds focus on increasing enrollment and campus expansion by 2010.
Still, Castro says he sees working with the UC system as the best way to bring a local school online quickly and affordably.
Castro: The University of California has strong clinical experience and background and facilities, we could do the basic science part of it, and I think together it could be much more efficient.
UCSF-Fresno currently runs a graduate medical education program in the valley. Before becoming Fresno States President in 2013, Castro was a vice chancellor at UCSF.
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Senate Democratic Whip Dick Durbin announced plans to bring an undocumented medical student as a guest to President Trump's first address to a joint session of Congress Tuesday night.
Durbin is one of the most vocal defenders of Barack Obama's executive action giving legal status to millions of children of illegal immigrants who have lived in the United States for years. He said he is honored to bring Aaima Sayed, a third-year medical student at Loyola University Chicago, to Trump's speech to Congress.
The Illinois Democrat has been pressing Trump to exclude these children, known as Dreamers, from any efforts to crack down on illegal immigrants.
Durbin he hopes Aaima's presence reminds Trump "what's at stake" in the debate over whether to overturn Obama's "dreamer" executive order "the lives of more than 750,000 innocent young people and the well-being of entire communities."
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Earlier this year, Durbin reintroduced a bipartisan bill to ensure that dreamers remain protected from deportation during the Trump administration. The measure would cement Obama's executive order to provide temporary relief from deportation, as well as work authorization for young immigrants who were brought to the United States as children.
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With five months remaining until the new UNLV School of Medicine officially welcomes its first class, the university has offered admission to 40 prospective students half of them women.
That shouldnt come as a surprise, given that women make up nearly half of Nevadas population. But its an anomaly in a state that ranks near the bottom nationally in terms of physician gender diversity.
Women make up only about 27 percent of the physician workforce statewide, well below the national average of 34 percent and a far cry from the national leader in doctor parity, Washington, D.C., where 46 percent of active licensed physicians are female, according to Kaiser Health News.
I think its shocking, UNLV School of Medicine Dean Barbara Atkinson said of the states current physician gender imbalance.
And there is more at stake than equal opportunity.
Atkinson said that female patients often prefer to be seen by doctors of the same gender, especially when it comes to obstetrics and gynecological services.
A study published in December in the Journal of the American Medical Association Internal Medicine also found that female doctors may be more successful on average than their male counterparts at treating patients in the hospital and keeping them healthy long-term.
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The even split of early admission offers by the UNLV medical school represents the quality of female would-be students, even though just 40 percent of applicants for the coming school year were women, about 7 percent below the national average, Atkinson said.
Men also outnumbered women applicants last year at both established medical schools in the state Touro University Nevada in Henderson and the University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine by 14 percent and 15 percent, respectively.
Dr. Jennifer Baynosa, a University Medical Center general surgeon specializing in treating breast cancer, said medical schools can help boost those figures by improving outreach, especially among girls in high school and early college, and by creating cultures that encourage women to aim high.
She applauded UNLV and UNR for trying to ensure diversity, as she recalled being discouraged from pursuing a surgery specialty during medical school at the University of Southern California in the early 2000s. She said some staff told her the challenge of a career as a surgeon could be too great.
Things that kept coming up were the fact that Im female, that if I wanted children it might not be the best career path, said Baynosa, 40, who is married to a fellow doctor and has two young daughters.
Baynosa, who also is program director of the UNR medical schools general surgery residency in Las Vegas, said having more women in teaching roles is important to help young women wrestling with similar questions.
You have to have female mentors. I think its really important that we have female faculty, female physicians doing the outreach and showing you can have a family, she said.
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Atkinson, the UNLV School of Medicine dean, said the fact that women are flourishing in other health care jobs, including as physician assistants, in Nevada suggests that some women still see becoming a doctor as too arduous or too demanding, especially if they want to have families.
She said the new medical school could help address that misperception with programs to encourage female physicians.
Its a great career for women, and there are ways to get help with all kinds of things like child care, she said.
Despite the challenges, Atkinson and others highlight how much progress has been made by women over the last few decades.
Dr. Eliza Chin, executive director of the American Medical Womens Association, said its important to realize that nearly half of medical students in the United States are now women.
She acknowledged that increased enrollment hasnt erased the female doctor deficit as quickly as it could have. The reason for it isnt exactly clear, she said, adding, somewhere theres a leaky pipeline.
Dr. Kate Martin, a family medicine physician and director of UNRs family residency program at the Las Vegas campus, said she thinks todays gender imbalance is a reflection of previous decades when women made up a smaller proportion of medical students.
Martin, who graduated from medical school in 2006, recalled that she also was discouraged, including by some women, when she talked about becoming a doctor in high school. But by the time she entered college, she said, she encountered mentors to help her.
This is a generational thing, she said. It takes time to make change. I see this process as working.
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Ten incoming college freshmen will be chosen to participate in a seven-year program that guarantees acceptance into the University of Minnesota medical school.
School leaders started the new program to ensure that students work as physicians in the state after graduation, the Minnesota Daily reported.
A panel from the universitys liberal arts college and medical school conducted interviews with 20 applicants last week and are in the selection process.
Minnesota high school students who have been accepted in the liberal arts college and express an interest in medical careers are invited to apply after being reviewed for experience in leadership and medicine. Grades are also a factor.
Students in the program must declare undergraduate majors in biology, physiology or society and environment.
Our review team is looking for medically related experience, said Taisha Mikell, the medical schools director of pipeline programs, a program to help accelerate degree progress. We want to make sure that they are mature, because this is going to be an early and long-term commitment to the field of medicine.
The programs goals are to invest in future physicians earlier in their education and to create a diverse workforce, said Dimple Patel, the medical schools associate dean for admissions.
We want our students to be culturally aware, professional, she said. We want them to have a rigorous education that allows for creativity.
Patel said she hopes the program will encourage students to stay in the states workforce. The students will receive mentorship, exposure and encouragement to continue in the program.
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Back after a century, for-profit medical schools could make impact Science Daily "It's not so much that we're in favor of it," said Dr. Phil Gruppuso, professor of pediatrics in the Warren Alpert Medical School and former associate dean for medical education. "We are merely documenting that it's happening. We hope that it can make ... |
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Dec 24, 2016; Chicago, IL, USA; Washington Redskins center Spencer Long (61) in action during the game against the Chicago Bears at Soldier Field. The Redskins defeat the Bears 41-21. Mandatory Credit: Jerome Miron-USA TODAY Sports
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Spencer Long followed in his dads footsteps when he walked on at Nebraska. It was fully expected that when he graduated from Nebraska he would follow in his dads footsteps once again and become a doctor.
Dr. Doug Long is a successful neurosurgeon in Omaha, Nebraska who played one year of football for Tom Osborn at the University of Nebraska as a walk on. Long and his twin brother, Jake, both turned down scholarships to the University of Nebraska Omaha in order to walk on at the University of Nebraska. For Spencer, a funny thing happened on the way to medical school.
According to Randy Yorks N-Sider, Long, while playing at Nebraska, when asked about his future plans said:
I have an awful lot of work yet to do before I see how it all plays out. I just want to make a positive influence on society. I want to be the best man I can and help out my neighbors. I want to have fun at the same time Im having a positive impact on peoples lives.
How it has all played out since then is that Spencer Long is the starting center for the Redskins.
When Kory Lichensteiger went down the Redskins called on Long to take over for him. Longs 3.79 GPA in Biological Sciences (Pre-Med) comes in handy when reading defenses and making line calls. His work ethic makes him a valuable member of the Redsins locker room.
According to Randy Yorks N-Sider, one of their Nebraska teammates said of the Long twins:
Theyre competitive. They care, and they have great work ethic. Football means a lot to them, and thats probably the biggest reason why they play.
With Long at center it can surely be said that each play begins with the ball in good hands. His strong work ethic and steady demeanor will make him a potential building block on the teams strong offensive line as they move forward.
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St. Luke's University Health Network has opened enrollment for its Mini-Medical School, which enables adults and high school students to explore hands-on health topics in four sessions.
The program, being held in partnership with the Da Vinci Science Center, will focus on the body's nervous system while exploring Da Vinci's newest exhibit: Goose Bumps! The Science of Fear.
The registration deadline is 3 p.m. March 13. Sessions will be on Saturdays from March 18 through April 8, with the adult group meeting from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. and the teen group meeting from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. The location will alternate between Temple/St. Luke's School of Medicine at St. Luke's University Hospital-Bethlehem, and the Da Vinci Science Center in Allentown.
Registration is required and spots are limited. Participants , chosen at random, will be notified on March 14.
More information is at "866-STLUKES (785-8537); sluhn.org/minimedicalschool.
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