A Connellsville Area High School senior recently spent a weekend in Washington, D.C., attending the Congress of Future Medical Leaders.

Jordan Hosfelt, 18, of Bullskin attended the honors-only program for high school students who want to become physicians or go into medical research fields.

According to the National Academy of Future Physicians, the purpose of this event is to honor, inspire, motivate and direct the top students in the country who aspire to be physicians or medical scientists, to stay true to their dream and, after the event, to provide a path, plan and resources to help them reach their goal.

This is a crucial time in America when we need more doctors and medical scientists who are even better prepared for a future that is changing exponentially, said Richard Rossi, executive director, National Academy of Future Physicians and Medical Scientists. Focused, bright and determined students like Jordan Hosfelt are our future and he deserves all the mentoring and guidance we can give him.

Hosfelt was nominated by Dr. Connie Mariano, the medical director of the National Academy of Future

Physicians and Medical Scientists to represent Pennsylvania based on his academic achievement, leadership potential and determination to serve humanity in the field of medicine.

It felt great to receive some recognition for all of the hours that I've put into my studies, Hosfelt said.

During the three-day congress, Hosfelt joined students from across the country to hear Nobel

Laureates and National Medal of Science Winners talk about leading medical research. Participants were also given advice from Ivy League and top medical school deans on what is to be expected in medical school. They witnessed stories told by patients who are living medical miracles and received inspiration from fellow teen medical science prodigies. They also learned about cutting-edge advances and the future in medicine and medical technology.

While at the congress, I listened to many prestigious speakers, watched a live surgery from a Chicago hospital via Skype as well as a documentary, and mingled with some brilliant young minds from all across the country, Hosfelt said. The most enjoyable part of the conference was meeting so many other high school students that shade my drive and are just as passionate about medicine as I am. It's something I could never experience at my high school.

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Where to begin?

With the book a Brown University medical school professor wrote that, for the first time, chronicles the rise of modern emergency medicine?

Or with his uber-achieving, Appalachian-Trail-hiking, Ivy-League-degree-collecting medical student who was so inspired by the book that he made a documentary about the evolution of emergency medicine and even got Anthony Edwards, star of the hit TV show ER, to narrate it.

Just think what it once would have been like to have a heart attack before the advent of 911, before virtually every city and town had trained paramedics ready to jump into action, before hospitals devoted staff and departments to the practice of emergency medicine.

Thats exactly what Brown Prof. Brian Zink sought to convey in his book, Anyone, Anything, Anytime: A History of Emergency Medicine, which then inspired his former student Mark Brady to make the documentary 24|7|365: The Evolution of Emergency Medicine.

Both are odes to those who pioneered emergency medicine, despite meeting resistance that today seems incomprehensible.

It was only a generation or so ago, says Brady, that the vehicle that would respond to an emergency call might be a hearse with a mortician, that hospitals to which people were rushed had minimal emergency departments, that the only doctor on the premises might have been a dermatologist, and that someone having a heart attack might have been given little more than an aspirin to swallow.

There was no EMS system, says Brady, 34. There was no one to call.

Even his own brothers police officers and firefighters in North Providence and East Providence didnt appreciate how far emergency medicine has come in such a relatively short time.

All of this dawned on Brady, a graduate of LaSalle Academy and Providence College, while he was taking a course with Zink, chair of the Department of Emergency Medicine at Brown and chief of emergency medicine at Rhode Island Hospital and Miriam Hospital. Brady was inspired by Zinks 2005 book.

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Where to begin?

With the book a Brown University medical school professor wrote that, for the first time, chronicles the rise of modern emergency medicine?

Or with his uber-achieving, Appalachian-Trail-hiking, Ivy-League-degree-collecting medical student who was so inspired by the book that he made a documentary about the evolution of emergency medicine and even got Anthony Edwards, star of the hit TV show ER, to narrate it.

Just think what it once would have been like to have a heart attack before the advent of 911, before virtually every city and town had trained paramedics ready to jump into action, before hospitals devoted staff and departments to the practice of emergency medicine.

Thats exactly what Brown Prof. Brian Zink sought to convey in his book, Anyone, Anything, Anytime: A History of Emergency Medicine, which then inspired his former student Mark Brady to make the documentary 24|7|365: The Evolution of Emergency Medicine.

Both are odes to those who pioneered emergency medicine, despite meeting resistance that today seems incomprehensible.

It was only a generation or so ago, says Brady, that the vehicle that would respond to an emergency call might be a hearse with a mortician, that hospitals to which people were rushed had minimal emergency departments, that the only doctor on the premises might have been a dermatologist, and that someone having a heart attack might have been given little more than an aspirin to swallow.

There was no EMS system, says Brady, 34. There was no one to call.

Even his own brothers police officers and firefighters in North Providence and East Providence didnt appreciate how far emergency medicine has come in such a relatively short time.

All of this dawned on Brady, a graduate of LaSalle Academy and Providence College, while he was taking a course with Zink, chair of the Department of Emergency Medicine at Brown and chief of emergency medicine at Rhode Island Hospital and Miriam Hospital. Brady was inspired by Zinks 2005 book.

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Sept. 23, 1929 Dec. 18, 2014

Dr. Michael A. Sullivan, former medical director at Kenmore Mercy Hospital, died Thursday in his Williamsville home after a long illness. He was 85.

He was born in Lackawanna and lived in Buffalo and its suburbs his entire life. He graduated from Lackawanna High School, and earned a bachelors degree from the University at Buffalo, where he was on the deans list, and a medical degree from UB Medical School.

Dr. Sullivan did his internship at the former E.J. Meyer Memorial Hospital, with residencies at Ohio State University Hospital and E.J. Meyer. He also completed a fellowship in hematology at E.J. Meyer.

Dr. Sullivan was board certified in internal medicine and hematology, and operated a private practice in Kenmore from 1972 to 2010, when he retired.

He was an attending physician at Erie County Medical Center from 1963 to 1972 and at Kenmore Mercy from 1965 to 2006. He served as director of medical education at Kenmore Mercy from 1965 to 1966, chief of the medical department at Deaconess Hospital from 1966 to 1972, chief of staff at Kenmore Mercy from 1986 to 2006, and medical director at Kenmore Mercy from 1989 to 2006.

Dr. Sullivan also served in the Navy Reserve as a medical officer from 1955 to 1957.

His memberships and positions included the Erie County Medical Society, for which he served as chairman of the medical education committee; president of the Buffalo Academy of Medicine; board member and president of the UB Medical Alumni Association; medical staff treasurer and president at Kenmore Mercy; American Medical Association; and the Medical Society of New York State.

His interests included cooking, wine, gardening, astronomy, poetry of T.S. Eliot, cats, painting and art appreciation.

He was instrumental in the initial funding to establish St. Gregory the Great Catholic Church in the late 1960s, and played a role in the efforts to expand and renovate Kenmore Mercy in the 1990s.

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Dr. Michael A. Sullivan, former medical director at Kenmore Mercy Hospital, died Thursday in his Williamsville home after a long illness. He was 85.

He was born in Lackawanna and lived in Buffalo and its suburbs his entire life. He graduated from Lackawanna High School, and earned a bachelors degree from the University at Buffalo, where he was on the deans list, and a medical degree from UB Medical School.

Dr. Sullivan did his internship at the former E.J. Meyer Memorial Hospital, with residencies at Ohio State University Hospital and E.J. Meyer. He also completed a fellowship in hematology at E.J. Meyer.

Dr. Sullivan was board certified in internal medicine and hematology, and operated a private practice in Kenmore from 1972 to 2010, when he retired.

He was an attending physician at Erie County Medical Center from 1963 to 1972 and at Kenmore Mercy from 1965 to 2006. He served as director of medical education at Kenmore Mercy from 1965 to 1966, chief of the medical department at Deaconess Hospital from 1966 to 1972, chief of staff at Kenmore Mercy from 1986 to 2006, and medical director at Kenmore Mercy from 1989 to 2006.

Dr. Sullivan also served in the Navy Reserve as a medical officer from 1955 to 1957.

His memberships and positions included the Erie County Medical Society, for which he served as chairman of the medical education committee; president of the Buffalo Academy of Medicine; board member and president of the UB Medical Alumni Association; medical staff treasurer and president at Kenmore Mercy; American Medical Association; and the Medical Society of New York State.

His interests included cooking, wine, gardening, astronomy, poetry of T.S. Eliot, cats, painting and art appreciation.

He was instrumental in the initial funding to establish St. Gregory the Great Catholic Church in the late 1960s, and played a role in the efforts to expand and renovate Kenmore Mercy in the 1990s.

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BETHESDA, Md. (AP) - Running away from the sound of gunfire and IED blasts toward a shelter door, 2nd Lt. Rowan Sheldon of the U.S. Army suddenly stopped dead and gasped out an expletive: It wasnt an escape, it was a solid wall.

Behind him, all the medics and others in his platoon were carrying badly wounded soldiers, looking to him to lead them to a safe spot where they could triage, put on tourniquets, get patients on litters and move them away from the battlefield for treatment.

There are tough final exams. There are grueling final exams. And then there is the test at the nations medical school for the military, in which students must navigate a simulated overseas deployment culminating in a staged mass-casualty incident with deafening explosions, screaming, smoke, gunfire and fake blood everywhere.

In the intense stress of that moment, sweating fourth-years have to pull up the lessons learned in class to bring order to chaos. Enough order, at least, to get people somewhere safe enough to start healing.

Its the most important week of medical school, said Arthur Kellermann, dean of the F. Edward Hbert School of Medicine at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences. Its the week when students camped at a National Guard base take on every challenge instructors can think to throw at them. Suicide bombers. Unraveling diplomatic relations. An influx of refugees. A sexual assault. And hundreds of wounded soldiers.

We had a great plan going in, Sheldon said. But they say no plan passes first contact with the enemy, right? We quickly realized there was no way this plan was going to work.

The countrys only medical school for the military began in an unlikely spot: on the third floor of a corner lot in Bethesda, above a drugstore and a bank.

That was in 1972, not long after President Richard M. Nixon called for an end to the draft. Now the school sits on the grounds of Naval Support Activity Bethesda, next to the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, across from the National Institutes of Health.

The school serves 1,200 students, including 700 medical students among nursing candidates and those studying public health and other disciplines. Medical students pay no tuition in exchange for a commitment to serve across the armed forces; some are already active-duty members of the military while others have no military experience. They receive a commission when they enroll.

They learn the same medicine all doctors do, said John Prescott, the chief academic officer at the Association of American Medical Colleges. But the school is also preparing them to work in hostile environments, to work and think with an international perspective, to think with a public-health understanding, he said.

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PROSPECTIVE medical students are set to benefit from a new partnership between the Rotary Club of Albury-Hume and the University of NSW Rural Medical School.

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PROSPECTIVE medical students are set to benefit from a new partnership between the Rotary Club of Albury-Hume and the University of NSW Rural Medical School.

The partners have created an annual medical scholarship which is now open to applications.

The club will facilitate seminars in partnership with the medical school for school students in years 9 to 12 who are interested in exploring a medical career, including insights into academic pathways to gain entry to university through to taking up medical practice.

Representatives from university will speak about a career in medicine, providing details of study requirements and training.

Scholarship co-ordinator Peter Lee said students would receive a much wider grounding in which university subjects would be required for their study.

We are also looking to have speakers from allied health areas speak about careers in areas such as nursing, paramedics and physiotherapy.

Prospective medical students will be invited to the UNSW medical open day in April.

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SINGAPORE: Cadavers are a crucial learning tool for medical students, but for medical students in Singapore, there are not enough of them to go around.

Prof Bay Boon Huat, head of the anatomy department at the NUS Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, said: "In 2000, we received 28 cadavers from the Health Sciences Authority. This dropped to eight cadavers in 2010." This year,the school only received six.

Cadavers can be obtained in several ways - some are unclaimed bodies, some are donations made by next-of-kin, and some people also pledge to donate their bodies for scientific research.

"We started the human body donation programme in 2012, facilitated by the National Organ Transplant Unit," said Prof Bay.Donated bodies received so far include that of Dr Tan Chee Beng, the former chief executive officer of SingHealth Polyclinics.

Mr Benjamin Tan, the son of Dr Tan and a second-year medical student at NUS, shared more about his father's decision to donate his body: "He was already dying of prostate cancer. It was already in the terminal stages, so I was just sharing with him causally about what's going on in our medical school. And he jokingly questioned why the medical school would want his body, because it is so damaged."

Before taking practical classes that use cadavers, students have to take the Anatomy Student's Oath to emphasise the importance of approaching these cadavers or 'silent mentors' as they are fondly referred to, with the dignity and respect they deserve. "Although the silent mentors have lost the ability to speak, they use their bodies to teach the intricacies of human anatomy," said Prof Bay.

Mr Tan also spoke of the importance of cadavers to medical students: "Being able to go down and actually examine a real, what you call 'silent mentor', it's actually a very special and important thing... It's really hard to put something that is three-dimensional into a textbook that is just 2D. It really helps us in developing our anatomical knowledge, understanding things like variations because every person is different."

The shortage of cadavers means medical schools have to find ways to maximise the precious resource. Since 2003, NUS has done away with the dissection of cadavers by first-year students. Instead, the cadavers are dissected by prosectors - staff who work on cadavers. This is to ensure the bodies are preserved in the best shape and structure so students can scrutinise various organs and tissues during practical sessions. After about three years, the body will be cremated and returned to the family.

Nanyang Technological University's Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine has pioneered the use of plastinated bodies for the education of their medical students. Plastinated bodies are real human bodies where the water and fat have been replaced by plastics - to produce specimens that can be touched and do not smell nor decay.

Assistant Professor Dinesh Srinivasan, the lead for anatomy and head of examinations at NTU's Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, said: "Plastination allows students to have hands-on experience many times without exposure to chemicals such as formalin... There's room for them to grow eventually when they are attached to hospitals in later years."

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HUNTINGTON Going to medical school can be very expensive, with some students graduating hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt.

"They say the average medical student graduates with somewhere up to $200,000 worth of debt," said Steven Nakano, a fourth-year student in the Marshall University School of Medicine. "There are kids who have $500,000 worth of debt and it's just outrageous."

That's why Nakano and others in the Class of 2015 following the lead of classes before them are working to raise money for a scholarship that will help ease the burden for future students.

On Friday, the medical school hosted its inaugural Casino Night in the Don Morris Room at the Memorial Student Center in hopes of banking $15,000 for an endowed scholarship.

"For a school to be able to help offset some of that debt I mean, one Casino Night isn't going to erase everyone's but the fact that the school is committed to at least help students start thinking about how to pay it off, it's very important," said Nakano, who acted as a blackjack dealer for the night, which saw the Don Morris Room transformed into a Vegas-style casino where guests could take part in table gaming with "MUSOM Money" for a chance to win several prizes donated to the event.

Shayne Gue, chair of the Class of 2015's fundraising committee, said it's important for graduating students to give back to incoming students considering all the help they themselves have received along the way.

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