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Duke University Medical School student Michael On #39;Gele gives moving remarks at Duke #39;s White Coat Die-In event on Wednesday, Dec. 10, 2014. This was part of a nationwide demonstration...
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Students stage a die-in at Harvard Medical school on Dec. 10 as part of national protests.
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By Megan Specia2014-12-10 23:34:17 UTC
Medical students staged so-called "die-ins" in universities across the U.S. on Wednesday as demonstrations on race issues in America continued.
The students aimed to highlight the lack of diversity in the medical profession in the U.S. with the dramatic action that featured activists dropping to the ground wearing their lab coats.
Medical students rallied online under the hashtag #WhiteCoatsforBlackLives in a series of protests spreading from Boston to Chicago. Protesters toted signs referencing Eric Garner and Michael Brown, whose police-involved deaths this summer have ignited numerous demonstrations across the country.
At Harvard Medical School, both students and faculty got involved in the demonstration. According to the Boston Globe, about 100 people took part.
According to theGlobe, the die-in lasted 15 and a half minutes, a mashup of significant numbers related to the deaths of Brown and Garner. Four and a half minutes were for Brown, the unarmed Ferguson teenager who lied on the ground for about four and a half hours after he was killed and 11 minutes were for Garner, the Staten Island man who told police he couldn't breathe 11 times before he died in July.
At Yale University, student protesters lay on the ground for four and a half minutes, also in reference to Brown's death. The failure of grand juries to indict police involved in the deaths of Brown and Garner ignited the most recent demonstrations in the U.S., which have included a multitude of die-ins.
New Haven protesters were quick to point out the inequality that exists within the profession.
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Harvard Medical School Die-In --- December 10, 2014
On December 10, 2014, students at Harvard Medical School, Harvard School of Dental Medicine, and Harvard School of Public Health participated in the National White Coat Die-In in the memory...
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Dr. Manisha Sharma climbed on a bench outside the Johns Hopkins medical school campus this week and shouted: "If I can't breathe, you can't breathe!"
Dozens of students around her responded with the same phrase in unison. It was Human Rights Day, and medical students across the country were participating in protests similar to those that have been taking place with greater frequency since grand juries declined to indict police officers who shot an unarmed black 18-year-old in Missouri and choked to death a black man accused of selling illegal cigarettes in New York.
The symbolic starkness of medical students sworn to save lives participating in a demonstration known as a "die in" showed just how wide-reaching protests have become.
"People of all races, all different types of people and all different kinds of organizations not just civil rights organizations are taking part," Baltimore NAACP chapter president Tessa Hill-Aston said. "Everyone is seeing that there's something wrong."
Police brutality has come into focus in a big way, here and across the country. Acts of civil disobedience across Maryland have included a wide spectrum of people and also elicited a surprising reaction universities, workplaces, Congress and even law enforcement, which in the past might have opposed such demonstrations, now offer tacit support or, in the case of police, have shown restraint and acceptance.
Baltimore police have deployed hundreds of officers to monitor protests since August, when fatal police shooting of teenager Michael Brown in ferguson, Mo., sparked nationwide demonstrations. They have spent $450,000 in officer overtime to help keep the peace in Baltimore but have arrested no one a testament to both demonstrators and police, who have avoided aggressive tactics and shows of force that many say prompted violent clashes in Ferguson.
"The strategy is simply ensuring that citizens have the ability to peaceably exercise their constitutional rights," Baltimore police spokesman Lt. Eric Kowalczyk said.
This week saw a rally outside the University of Maryland School of Medicine, a march from Penn Station to the Baltimore jail, another up Main Street in Annapolis, and a peaceful rush-hour protest Friday in Columbia.
On Saturday, Baltimore police expect a sizable rally outside M&T Bank Stadium before the Army-Navy football game, while the NAACP and the National Action Network have planned a march that ends at Freedom Plaza in Washington.
Empowerment Temple of Baltimore has asked its congregants to wear black to Sunday services in honor of "unnamed African-Americans who have been brutally murdered by police," church spokeswoman Nicole Kirby said. The Rev. Jamal H. Bryant also plans to curtail Sunday's service at 12:30 p.m. to lead the congregation to a protest at Northern Parkway and Reisterstown Road, she said.
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Getting a medical residency at the UCLA Ronald Reagan Medical Center is a challenge, but has been a dream come true for doctor-in-training Dr. Mark Duncan.
"It's obviously a lot of work, but I think the medical school prepared me well," he said.
Residents and interns are an important part of the medical team at U.S. hospitals. For decades, it wouldn't be unusual to work 30 hours in a row or more.
"The initial concerns were mainly over whether or not these long shifts were causing poorer outcomes or medical errors in the hospital," said Dr. Mitesh Patel of the University of Pennsylvania.
The medical profession has been trying to do a number of things to try to improve patient care and patient safety. The most significant was to try to regulate intern and resident hours. So in 2011, the rules changed. Instead of working 30 consecutive hours, residents can now work a maximum of 28, and interns can work 16.
"In the first year after the reforms there was no positive or negative association with the duty hour reforms and changes in patient death or readmissions to the hospital," said Patel.
Patel and fellow University of Pennsylvania Dr. Kevin Yolpp evaluated whether this cut in hours affected death or readmission rates for almost 3 million hospitalized Medicare patients.
The hope was that it would improve quality of care, but the new data shows it hasn't made much of a difference.
"While they may be important in terms of having better rested interns and residents may not directly lead to significant improvements in patients outcomes," said Volpp.
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FLINT (WJRT) - (12/11/14) - A Flint elementary school has visitors every month from Michigan State University.
While it's a program for the kids, everyone involved is learning a lot about the school environment - and themselves.
As part of a certification program at Michigan State's medical school, three third year students are visiting the Durant-Turri-Mott Elementary School.
"We work directly with the community. We do these weekly volunteer activities just to get to know the community and also try to do some good and help out in ways that we can," said Joe Meleca, third year Michigan State Medical student.
The med students work through the program "leadership and medicine for the underserved", and with Flint being a community where there can be challenges for families to access medical and health services, the school couldn't be happier to partner up.
"They live in kind of an artificial environment. Usually they're in a very academic world, so when they get right in schools and experience students first hand, they get to hear all the things that they're dealing with, and it becomes much more real," said Pam Flores, Durant-Tuuri-Mott School social worker.
They visit three times a month throughout the school year, focusing on attendance and health, and doing activities with the kids.
"We've been trained in the Michigan model and our hope is to do some education on health, good touch/bad touch, how to keep yourself clean at home, how to eat nutritious foods. Not only can they learn those things, but hopefully they can bring those things back their household," Meleca said.
Everyone's learning from each other.
"Some of them are blind, some of them are deaf, and just understanding the difficulties they have to go through every day just to have the same kind of learning that maybe I had in school, it really impacts me quite a bit," Meleca said.
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THE Warrnambool campus of the Deakin Medical School has again produced the dux of the school.
THE Warrnambool campus of the Deakin Medical School has again produced the dux of the school.
In a remarkable record, a Warrnambool-based student has won the dux of the school title for the third time in four years.
The winner, Steven Nicolaides, had not even heard of Warrnambool a few years ago but now recommends his fellow students complete their medical training here.
Dr Nicolaides topped this years cohort of 117 graduates from all of the schools campuses including Geelong, Box Hill, Ballarat and Camperdown. Dr Nicolaides, from Melbourne, said he felt a little embarrassed about his previous lack of knowledge about Warrnambool.
Id never heard of Warrnambool to be honest, which is pretty surprising because it is such a great town and has been a wonderful place to live, he said.
Because its a small group of students (at Warrnambool) you get to know the consultants and senior doctors by their first names.
In terms of the support you get from the medical school, the feedback we heard from previous students made it seem like the best place to complete our training.
This was his first country living experience and he is looking to return after completing his specialty training at St Vincents hospital in Melbourne.
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Updated: Thursday, December 11 2014 3:46 PM EST2014-12-11 20:46:39 GMT
Santa is expected to be sober on Metro-North Railroad. The commuter rail line said Wednesday that alcohol will not be permitted on trains and stations this weekend as holiday revelers dressed as Santa Claus travel to SantaCon events.
Santa is expected to be sober on Metro-North Railroad. The commuter rail line said Wednesday that alcohol will not be permitted on trains and stations this weekend as holiday revelers dressed as Santa Claus travel to SantaCon events.
Updated: Thursday, December 11 2014 3:23 PM EST2014-12-11 20:23:29 GMT
A Yale School of Medicine study says one-fourth of high school students in Connecticut have tried an electronic cigarette. The study also found that 3.5 percent of middle school students have used e-cigarettes, more than had used tobacco in the past month.
Updated: Thursday, December 11 2014 7:31 AM EST2014-12-11 12:31:53 GMT
A man has been arrested by tribal police at the Foxwoods Resort Casino on charges that he left his 3-year-old son alone for several hours at a hotel.Police say Troy Forster, 33, of Windsor Locks left his son alone for more than three hours while he was at the casino with his girlfriend.
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A former Milford man who says he's using medical marijuana has been arrested on accusations he operated a drug factory.
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Edendale Christian Activity Centre is getting its lights replaced after a number of people complained of sore eyes and sunburn-like sensation on their faces.
Several people sought medical help for burning eyes after attending a prizegiving ceremony in the Southland town of Edendale.
One man complained of sore eyes and a swollen face after attending the Edendale Primary School's prizegiving on Tuesday evening at the Christian Activity Centre.
He went to Southland Hospital about 5am on Wednesday when the pain became unbearable.
"It was like having sand in my eyes," he said.
He was given eye drops and ointment for his face and said part of his face and both eyes were still swollen yesterday.
Gore Hospital chief executive Karl Metzler said four people presented with symptoms at the hospital, and another 17 complained of similar symptoms atSouthland Hospital's emergency department.
"We were relieved it was only four here," he said.
Edendale Primary School principal David McKenzie said people had approached him about having sore eyes and a sunburn-like sensation on their faces.
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