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Westman doctors denied residency at home

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Medical school graduates from the southwest corner of Manitoba where the pain of the doctor shortage is acute have been denied residency in their own province, partially because they travelled outside the country to get their education.

There are as many as four people in the area in the same situation, and for the last four years, there has been a trained doctor working in a secretarial position at the Virden medical clinic.

Theyre sitting here, wanting to be able to practise ... and yet (they) cant get her a residency spot, said Virden physician Dr. Jennifer Hammell.

Potential resident physicians across the country apply for spots through the Canadian Resident Matching Service (CaRMS), which splits applicants into two streams: Canadian-trained and internationally trained. More residency spots are open to Canadian-trained doctors.

With as many as 40 specialized and family doctors needed in the Prairie Mountain Health region, Hammell said its an easy fix: the province needs to increase the number of residency spots and CaRMS needs to create a separate stream for Canadian doctors who have been internationally trained.

If the number of residency spots increased in the province, within two years, they are a practising doctor and the more residents you have, the more hands you have to see patients, Hammell said.

In 2013, the province did add rural residency training positions, including five in the northern and remote residency stream, four first-year medical residency training positions in Brandon, two in Morden-Winkler, two in Steinbach and two in Portage la Prairie.

However, its important to note that decisions on filling residencies are made by medical schools with a view to matching competencies and medical needs across the country, a Manitoba health spokesperson said in an email.

In addition, physicians choose where they practise, and may decide to work elsewhere upon graduation.

One doctor born and raised in the southwest corner of the province, who wants to eventually practise to help fill the dire need for doctors in the area was not accepted into any Manitoba residency.

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Madalyn A. Cimino

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Cooperstown, N.Y. Madalyn A. Cimino, a native of Cooperstown and in 1972 the first woman to be named an Administrative Officer at Dartmouth Medical School, died Thursday morning, March 5, 2015, at Bassett Medical Center in Cooperstown. She was 82.

A native of Cooperstown, Madalyn was born June 14, 1932, at Mary Imogene Bassett Hospital, a daughter of Jack and Maria ne Falzarano Cimino.

She first attended Cooperstown schools and later the Knox School for Girls, graduating from there in 1953. She then moved to Albany where she was employed as an administrative assistant to the Neurologist-in-chief at Albany Medical College.

In 1972 she was named Registrar of Dartmouth Medical School. She served in this position for 25 years until retiring in 1997.

At her retirement in July of 1997, the Dartmouth College Board of Trustees and Dartmouth Medical School honored Madalyn for her distinctive personal and professional services to the Dartmouth Medical School community by appointing her Registrar of Dartmouth Medical School Emerita. The letter which informed her of this honor stated that you were a central figure in the life of the school and its students and that your interest in the students, both as individuals and professionals in training, made you a very important person in their lives. Further, your participation in the ever changing administrative and academic programs has been invaluable.

Upon returning to her native Cooperstown, Madalyn became actively involved in the life of the village. A communicant of St. Marys Our Lady of the Lake Roman Catholic Church, she also served a 3-year term on the Village of Cooperstown Board of Trustees and was a member of the Glimmerglass Opera Guild. She was also a member of the garden group in Cooperstown, and was justifiably proud of the flower gardens at her home at 16 Maple Street that she devotedly and carefully tended, and which garnered several Clark Foundation awards and letters of commendation for her efforts.

Since 1966, Madalyn also found time to travel extensively throughout Europe.

Madalyn is survived by four nieces, Elizabeth Lochte of Spokane Valley, Wash., Susan Lochte of Charlottesville, Va., Jane Barry and her husband Paul of North Bend, Wash. and Cynthia Zacharchuk and her husband Michael of Cherry Valley; four great nieces and four great nephews; and cousins.

She was predeceased by two sisters, Mrs. Stella Vagliardo and Mrs. Lucy Lochte, and her Goddaughter, Charlene Vagliardo.

The Liturgy of Christian Burial will be offered at 10 a.m. on Saturday, March 21, 2015, at St. Marys Our Lady of the Lake Roman Catholic Church in Cooperstown, with Fr. John P. Rosson, pastor, presiding.

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Las Cruces medical school touts plans during reception

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LAS CRUCES New Mexico State University held an open house reception Thursday at the Fulton Center to discuss plans for the Burrell College of Osteopathic Medicine. Construction began last month on the $105 million private medical school, located at Arrowhead Research Park on the campus of New Mexico State University. The 80,000-square-foot medical college will be the first in Las Cruces, and only the second medical school in the state. It will also be the states only school devoted to osteopathy.

Burrell College will be a freestanding, privately funded, separately licensed and independently operated entity. No taxpayer dollars will go toward its construction or operation.

Dr. George Mychaskiw, an Orlando-based pediatric cardiac anesthesiologist who will be BCOMs dean, said he believes the school will begin student applications in May, pending provisional accreditation. The accrediting board will be in town in a couple of weeks for a site inspection, and hes hopeful that the college will receive provisional accreditation sometime in April.

Mychaskiw told the crowd, comprised mostly members of the local medical community, that he expects the college to have a profound impact on the local medical scene.

Were looking at greatly increasing the number of physicians in the area, Mychaskiw said. Were going to graduate 150 doctors a year, every year, many of whom will stay in the Borderplex region. Over time, we hope for an increase in the number of physicians, and a gradual change in demographics of the physician workforce. We hope to see more physicians that look like the local community more Hispanic, Native American and female physicians.

Between 500 and 600 students are expected to visit Las Cruces to interview for the colleges first 150 positions. Mychaskiw said thats only the beginning of the impact that the college will have on the local economy.

Weve had outside consultants do economic impact studies. Were looking at adding 300 new jobs to the community, and $80 million in positive economic impact per year, said Mychaskiw.

Robert Ketchum, the colleges associate dean of academic affairs and preclinical education, said that the long-term economic impact will be profound.

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Clay County school nurses contend with complex medical issues, low annual salaries

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GREEN COVE SPRINGS | The morning rush was busy but otherwise uneventful for Beverly Burstell and Angela Fish.

A steady stream of children complaining of coughs, sore throats, headaches or tummy troubles last month filed into the clinic at Shadowlawn Elementary School to be examined by the two registered nurses. Burstell and Fish deftly assessed each students symptoms, checked their temperature, then treated them a salt water gargle for the sore throat, a baggie of ice for the headache and a peppermint candy to soothe the throat, calm the tummy and spark a smile before contacting the youngsters parents to let them know their child was sick.

Burstell, recently reassigned to Clay High School, and Fish have 42 years of combined nursing experience. Both are well-versed at handling medical emergencies and complicated health issues involving students. On a typical day, about 40 to 70 students are seen at the clinic at Shadowlawn, which has an enrollment of about 700, Fish estimated.

Its not just putting bandages on skinned knees, Fish said.

Fish, Burstell and their fellow Clay County school nurses routinely handle myriad student health issues ranging from routine bumps and bruises to complex medical needs related to physical or mental disabilities as well as chronic illnesses such as seizure disorders, cardiac issues, asthma and severe diabetes. They administer daily medication to students needing it. Clays school nurses also help coordinate services for students with complicated health issues.

The Shadowlawn nurses cared for two medically complex students at the beginning of the school year. Both youngsters had feeding tubes so they could eat, as well as tracheostomy tubes to help them breathe. They needed nursing care several times a day. The students have since left the school.

We do put bandages on. We do take care of skinned knees and sore throats but you have to be ready for whatever walks in the door, said Fish, who added that they see a lot of students with severe asthma, allergies and diabetes, all of which can be life-threatening.

Clay school nurses keep tabs on, and if necessary, coordinate state-mandated student health screenings. Theyll also train teachers and other school staff how to recognize symptoms of the onset of a seizure or other medical incident and how to respond appropriately to medical emergencies. The nurses have reams of paperwork, albeit much is on computer, such as documenting student health conditions and medical services provided. They also help parents better understand their childs illness or injury.

School nursing is a specialized practice utilizing all realms of our nursing education, said Shelley Bumm, a registered nurse and president of the Florida Association of School Nurses Board of Directors. The association, which has about 350 members statewide, is an affiliate of the National Association of School Nurses.

Yet, in Clay as well as nationwide, school nurses typically are among the lowest paid in their profession compared to their counterparts working in hospitals, home health care and doctors offices, according to national studies and anecdotal reports.

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Will The Military Pay For Medical School – Its Called the HPSP – Video

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ME stiffed mortuary school on supply of fresh bodies: petition

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The New York Citys only mortuary school claims its been stiffed by the Medical Examiners Office on a steady supply of fresh corpses.

American Academy McAllister Institute of Funeral Service, or AAMI, filed a Manhattan Supreme Court petition this week saying the MEs Office is violating city law, which requires it to release unclaimed bodies to the school 14 days after death.

The Hells Kitchen school is asking that a judge order the MEs Office to start providing corpses again as its done for the last 50 years.

The dearth of the dearly departed began in June 2014 without any warning or formal notice, AAMIs president Mary Margaret Dunn wrote in court papers.

Dunn said the schools national accreditation is in jeopardy and that students degrees are being put on ice because they must perform at least 10 clinical embalmings in order to graduate.

More than 450 students are currently enrolled at AAMI to become funeral directors or professional embalmers.

In the interim, the school has been relying on the haphazard availability of bodies from private funeral homes.

Notice that a body is available can be as short as two hours, the petition said. A suddenly available body could require a clinical embalming on an evening or on a weekend, with short notice to faculty and student alike.

Brian S. Sokoloff, the attorney representing AAMI, said the lack of bodies is a dead serious matter.

The tendency might be giggle at a story like this but it creates a hardship, he said. AAMI is the only mortuary school in the five boroughs. Its got a great reputation. [But] its becoming a problem for them.

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A Conversation with Patrick Conway, M.D. – NASI’s 27th Annual Policy Conference – Video

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U.K. doctor is new UBC dean of medicine

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The new dean of the University of B.C. medical school is an Irish gastroenterologist who for nearly three years has run one of the worlds top ranked medical schools.

Dr. Dermot Kelleher will move to Vancouver from London, England this summer after he leaves his post there as vice-president, health, and dean of medicine at Imperial College. He will take up his new duties here on Sept. 1.

The medical school at Imperial College, one of the largest in the United Kingdom, is about the same size as UBCs. It is affiliated with a similar number of teaching hospitals and is strongly focused on research. Like UBC, it is highly competitive and selective in its admissions process. According to QS World Universities Rankings, Imperial is ranked 10th out of the top 50 medical schools, while UBC is ranked 39th, third in Canada after the University of Toronto (14th) and McGill (26th).

Recently, Imperial College was engulfed in a controversy. According to British newspaper coverage and reports in the reputable publication Times Higher Education, a medical school professor, Stefan Grimm, took his own life last fall. He left an email that accused unnamed superiors of bullying through demands that he garner more research grants. The college said it would set up an internal inquiry into the circumstances around the toxicology professors death, the results of which have not been released.

Kelleher could not be reached for comment Monday but UBC provost Dave Farrar said the search was global and there were several top-notch candidates. Kelleher, Farrar said, has no personal connections to B.C. but is excited about leading an academic health science network and medical school with satellite campuses throughout the province.

Kelleher will succeed Dr. Gavin Stuart who has been dean for 12 years, overseeing the medical schools successful expansion to Prince George, Kelowna and Victoria. Kelleher, who will be paid about $500,000, said in a news release posted on the medical school website that hes honoured to succeed Stuart:

He has developed a vibrant organization combining excellence in education, biomedical science and population health with the capability to lead internationally in health care delivery.

Kelleher will be at the Vancouver campus March 6 to speak to faculty and students.

UBC medical school accepted its first students in 1950. It has 677 full-time faculty, 6,059 part-time clinical instructors, 1,146 medical undergraduates, and 1,169 postgraduate residents pursuing specialty training.

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Irish doctor is new UBC dean of medicine

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The new dean of the University of B.C. medical school is an Irish gastroenterologist who for nearly three years has run one of the worlds top ranked medical schools.

Dr. Dermot Kelleher will move to Vancouver from London, England this summer after he leaves his post there as vice-president, health, and dean of medicine at Imperial College. He will take up his new duties here on Sept. 1.

The medical school at Imperial College, one of the largest in the United Kingdom, is about the same size as UBCs. It is affiliated with a similar number of teaching hospitals and is strongly focused on research. Like UBC, it is highly competitive and selective in its admissions process. According to QS World Universities Rankings, Imperial is ranked 10th out of the top 50 medical schools, while UBC is ranked 39th, third in Canada after the University of Toronto (14th) and McGill (26th).

Recently, Imperial College was engulfed in a controversy. According to British newspaper coverage and reports in the reputable publication Times Higher Education, a medical school professor, Stefan Grimm, took his own life last fall. He left an email that accused unnamed superiors of bullying through demands that he garner more research grants. The college said it would set up an internal inquiry into the circumstances around the toxicology professors death, the results of which have not been released.

Kelleher could not be reached for comment Monday but UBC provost Dave Farrar said the search was global and there were several top-notch candidates. Kelleher, Farrar said, has no personal connections to B.C. but is excited about leading an academic health science network and medical school with satellite campuses throughout the province.

Kelleher will succeed Dr. Gavin Stuart who has been dean for 12 years, overseeing the medical schools successful expansion to Prince George, Kelowna and Victoria. Kelleher, who will be paid about $500,000, said in a news release posted on the medical school website that hes honoured to succeed Stuart:

He has developed a vibrant organization combining excellence in education, biomedical science and population health with the capability to lead internationally in health care delivery.

Kelleher will be at the Vancouver campus March 6 to speak to faculty and students.

UBC medical school accepted its first students in 1950. It has 677 full-time faculty, 6,059 part-time clinical instructors, 1,146 medical undergraduates, and 1,169 postgraduate residents pursuing specialty training.

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