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Vinik open to med school in downtown Tampa

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TAMPA A push to bring the University of South Florida medical school to downtown Tampa has received a shot in the arm, with key landowner Jeff Vinik saying he will support the schools leaders as they explore the concept.

While tactfully avoiding specifics, a statement from Viniks companies nonetheless suggests that the Tampa Bay Lightning owner is listening as Mayor Bob Buckhorn, downtowns biggest cheerleader, touts the potential move as a game changer for the city.

We have great respect for the mayor and his leadership, the statement from Viniks companies said. We understand the value that an increased USF presence could have for our downtown and also understand how an urban school could benefit the University.

This is a model we have seen in many other urban centers and we look forward to supporting USFs leaders as they explore this and other ideas that help make the university and our region succeed.

Vinik owns more than 20 acres downtown. He controls the Channelside Bay Plaza entertainment complex and has plans to build a 400-room hotel near Amalie Arena, the hockey teams home ice.

Buckhorn has made no secret of his wish to have a downtown medical school.

A university or a portion of a university in your urban core pays huge dividends for both the city and, in this case, for USF, he said. I am very, very hopeful and will do whatever I can to make it happen and encourage them to move downtown.

The one player not showing its cards on a potential move, however, is USF Health.

On Friday, the school issued a statement via email: USF Health is in the process of developing plans to build two new facilities, the Morsani College of Medicine building and the USF Health Heart Institute. We are currently exploring various options to determine the optimum location for each of these facilities, the statement reads.

The USF Health Heart Institute, which is a new concept, is being planned as a 100,000-square-foot, five-story research center in the universitys medical corridor on the main campus.

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UHAS starts medical school

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General News of Sunday, 21 September 2014

Source: Sodzi-Tettey, Sodzi

The University of Health & Allied Sciences (UHAS) is starting its medical degree programme in the 2014 academic year. This was announced by Prof. Kofi Anyidoho, Chairman of Council, during the swearing in of the first fully constituted Council of the University by the Honorable Minister of Education, Prof. Naana Opoku-Agyeman in Ho this week.

In a follow up interview, UHAS Vice Chancellor, Prof. Fred Binka, revealed that admissions of medical students are currently in progress with 800+ applicants out of which over 90 have an aggregate of up to eight. From this number, about 50 students will finally be admitted to form the first medical class after taking an aptitude test and undergoing selection interviews. Some consideration will be given to a few students from disadvantaged schools in the Volta region.

Expectedly, this announcement has stimulated questions about the readiness of the three year old University, adequacy of its faculty, preparedness of the Volta Regional Hospital to serve as a Teaching Hospital etc. It was for purposes of addressing these that I happily cornered Prof. Binka.

Firstly, UHAS has started the accreditation process prescribed by the National Accreditation Board with the first review done with approval to roll out a three year pre-clinical programme. This means that it is only after three years that full blown clinical training requiring a fully equipped Teaching hospital may be necessary. This notwithstanding, the Vice Chancellor pointed out that the current state of the Volta Regional Hospital is no different from the Central Regional Hospital, which is now serving as a Teaching Hospital for the University of Cape Coast Medical School. Even so, plans for further upgrades are being drawn.

UHASs model for medical training appears to be a departure from what has become the norm in Ghana. UHASs strategy aims to deviate from the norm where the location of Teaching Hospitals has seen an over concentration of health professionals in the regional capital even as hospitals in surrounding districts suffer crippling shortages of key staff thereby raising fundamental questions about whether the full benefits of a present and functional medical school have been maximized. A typical example is the Tamale Teaching Hospital which has over 100+ doctors although the rest of the 26 districts in the region overseen by the Ghana Health Service collectively has less than 30 doctors, thus raising questions about hunger in the midst of plenty.

The UHAS model plans to strengthen both the Centre the Teaching Hospital and surrounding existing District Hospitals which would all be deployed as training sites with Specialists on site to serve as faculty for medical students on rotation. As a practical demonstration of this model, UHAS has recently recruited an Orthopedic Surgeon as a part time lecturer who continues to be based, not in the Regional capital, but in St. Anthonys Hospital, in Dzodze in the Ketu North district.

This year, UHAS has rolled out a visionary sponsorship programme to train 11 specialists at the Ghana College of Physicians and Surgeons to serve as faculty and to offer service to the region. Six of these doctors are currently being sponsored by UHAS to specialize in Obstetrics and Gynecology, Emergency Medicine, Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery and laboratory Medicine. Five of them are already specialists and are being supported to sub specialize in Urology, Gynecological Oncology, Trauma and Orthopedics and General Obstetrics and Gynecology.

In the short term, most of these doctors are training outside the Volta region in accredited facilities with the understanding that any breaks will be spent in hospitals in the Volta region. In these hospitals, programs will be outlined to provide enriching practical experiences that will augment whatever skills are being acquired during their training.

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Details Category: Top Stories Published on Friday, 19 September 2014 01:00 Written by Nicholas Shanmac

Officials at Washington State University believe the time has come to pursue an independently accredited medical school at WSU Spokane, and they say Southwest Washington and WSU Vancouver are well-positioned to benefit.

Last week, the WSU Board of Regents unanimously approved a resolution directing university leadership to pursue approval for a school of medicine. That resolution came after a presentation by representatives from MGT of America a national consulting firm hired by WSU to study the feasibility of the university pursuing its own medical school.

According to MGTs report, a WSU school of medicine could help to alleviate a severe physician shortage in areas outside of the Seattle area. The University of Washington in Seattle is currently the states only public medical school, and the study contends that the number of available slots for medical students at that school hasnt kept pace with the states population. Additionally, the study revealed that 18 of 39 counties in Washington have 10 or fewer physicians per 10,000 residents, while King County has more than four times as many.

The data has been pretty compelling in talking about the need for increased physicians and how that need will continue to grow [in] Southwest Washington, said WSU Vancouver Chancellor Mel Netzhammer.

Preliminary accreditation of the school could be earned in early 2016, with a charter class of 40 students beginning in fall 2017. By the 2021-22 school year the institution could graduate 120 students per year.

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The university aims to follow a community-based medical education model where students would spend their first two years on the Spokane campus and then go into communities throughout the state for clinical training with existing care providers like PeaceHealth and Legacy Health.

Mike Worthy, chair of the Board of Regents, and Ken Roberts, acting dean of WSU, agreed that this approach is ideal for students, communities like Clark County and care providers.

The traditional medical school that would have a teaching hospital generating revenue and taking in patients competes with other medical care providers, Worthy said. With this community-based model were not competing with any medical service providers. We can partner with all of them.

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Seaview Orthopedics Biography – Dr. Aron Green – Foot & Ankle Surgery – Video

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Waiting for medical school interviews? What to do when you’ve been wait listed – Video

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Kennedy: Fix UIC med school before adding one in Urbana

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CHAMPAIGN A separate medical school at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign could be a "game changer" for the campus, but the UI should fix problems with its existing medical center in Chicago first, Chris Kennedy said Thursday.

Kennedy, chair of the UI Board of Trustees, said the idea of a small, engineering-based medical school proposed by the campus "has a lot of potential" and could help Urbana attract top researchers in many fields.

"in the marketplace for talent, great university campuses have an academic medical center. When you try to explain that we don't, it's a little bit of a hollow sound," he said.

But the UI Chicago's academic medical center is just breaking even, and that's with the state paying a quarter of its costs by covering retirement and many benefits, he said.

"We're losing a lot of money," he said. "Before we create a second academic medical center, we ought to fix the one we have."

The UI also needs a long-term plan for its medical enterprise that takes into account the needs of all its regional campuses, in Chicago, Rockford, Peoria and Urbana, he said.

Those two components will be crucial for the UI to make its case with the state, Kennedy said.

"The ready, fire, aim playbook isn't one I like," he said.

He sees Urbana and Chicago as unique campuses that need to be "complementary in their evolution, not competitive."

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WMU medical school holding official grand opening

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KALAMAZOO, Mich. (NEWSCHANNEL 3) Thursday marks the official grand opening of Western Michigan Universitys new medical school. More than 1,500 people will be on the campus of Stryker Medical School for a ceremony Thursday evening. The community will have a chance to see the school and welcome its inaugural class of 54 students. The class of 2018 started class a month ago. The students are already getting some great hands-on experience. On Tuesday, the future doctors tested their skills on a number of mock disasters, seeing what it's like on the front lines of medicine, treating mock patients from car crashes to bombings. We're told WMU is one of the few medical schools to put its students through an intense program like this. Community leaders hope the graduates will eventually stay and practice here in Southwest Michigan.

"I think this is going to be a part of moving our community to the next level," says Kalamazoo Mayor Bobby Hopewell. "We are a masterpiece in progress I always say. We have so many great things but now we're going to be a leader in healthcare from the standpoint of medical education."

More than 3,500 people applied to Stryker Medical School for its inaugural year. The school accepted 24 women and 30 men. The students come from 14 states and 35 colleges, including three from WMU and two from Kalamazoo College. Registration for Thursdays grand opening ceremony is now closed but it will be streamed live online, starting at 4:15pm: http://vteamproductions.com/wmu/. If you would like to check out the new campus, the school will be hosting tours this Saturday.

For more information, click here: http://med.wmich.edu/.

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Guest: Why a WSU medical school would not address doctor shortage in rural areas

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Originally published September 16, 2014 at 5:12 PM | Page modified September 17, 2014 at 11:16 AM

THE University of Washington School of Medicine created the WAMI program with the federal Washington-Alaska Regional Medical Program in 1971. One of its purposes was to address the physician shortage and distribution of doctors in four states.

Now called WWAMI for the five states it works in, the UW medical program trains physicians in Washington, Wyoming, Alaska, Montana and Idaho in conjunction with other educational institutions and rural medical groups.

Washington State University, a participating school, is now considering building a new medical school in Spokane to address the shortage of doctors in rural areas.

The question that has not been addressed is why the WWAMI program has not been successful and how an expensive new medical school in Spokane would solve the physician-distribution issue.

There are frustrations in rural practice associated with the lack of modern technologies readily available to practitioners and their patients, compared with doctors in more populated environments. Coverage for attendance at medical conferences, vacations and the 24/7 demands of medical practice are major issues.

The business management confrontations with insurance companies, litigators and bureaucratic government regulators are an increasingly time-consuming, major frustration that will worsen with the Affordable Care Act.

Not addressed is the spousal factor. Even though WWAMI students are exposed to small rural communities and might enjoy benefits practicing there, spouses find employment opportunities difficult and cultural living options limited.

In Whatcom and Skagit counties, some of the frustrations of rural practice are being addressed by the Family Care Network. The networks chief executive, Marcy Hipskind, is a WSU graduate. She, one of her sisters and I are graduates of the private Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, at great savings to Washington state taxpayers.

The networks members total more than 75 family physicians. Billings, contractual agreements with insurance carriers and regulators are conducted for the members by the network. All are on electronic medical records. For members who are retiring, Family Care Network recruits replacements and provides coverage for conferences, vacations and on-call care.

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UW calls WSU medical school study flawed – Mon, 15 Sep 2014 PST

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The University of Washington on Monday criticized as seriously flawed a feasibility study supporting a second public medical school that would be established in Spokane by Washington State University. WSU commissioned the study, released last week, that concluded WSU could educate medical students at a lower cost than UW. That conclusion is based on the UW School of Medicine receiving about $94.6 million in state funding in 2011. The WSU consultants preparing the study simply divided that $94.6 million figure by 440 medical students to arrive at a per-student cost to the state of $215,000. UW regent

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The University of Washington on Monday criticized as seriously flawed a feasibility study supporting a second public medical school that would be established in Spokane by Washington State University.

WSU commissioned the study, released last week, that concluded WSU could educate medical students at a lower cost than UW.

That conclusion is based on the UW School of Medicine receiving about $94.6 million in state funding in 2011. The WSU consultants preparing the study simply divided that $94.6 million figure by 440 medical students to arrive at a per-student cost to the state of $215,000.

UW regent Orin Smith called those findings an unfortunate and extremely misleading error in the report intended to guide state lawmakers who will be asked to weigh the merits of a second state-funded medical school

In a sharply worded letter to WSU Regent Mike Worthy regarding the report, Smith noted that the $94.6 million includes federal research funds and student tuition, not just state funds. Furthermore, the blend of state, federal and private money funds the work of some 4,500 people throughout the UW medical school system not just the 440 medical students.

Smith said a more realistic figure is $70,000 per student in state support plus tuition.

Using that formula, the WSU study estimated it would cost the state about $60,000 per student at a WSU-run medical school in Spokane after a 10-year phase-in to enrollment of 120 students per class, said WSU Spokane Chancellor Lisa Brown. She noted medical schools use different funding models to arrive at state cost per student estimates.

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UW rips WSU-commissioned study on new medical school

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The University of Washington on Monday criticized as seriously flawed a feasibility study supporting for a second public medical school that would be established in Spokane by Washington State University.

WSU commissioned the study, released last week, that concluded WSU could educate medical students more cheaply than UW.

That conclusion is based on the UW School of Medicine receiving about $94.6 million in state funding in 2011. The WSU consultants preparing the study simply divided that $94.6 million figure by 440 medical students to arrive at a per-student cost to the state of $215,000.

UW regent Orin Smith called those findings an unfortunate and extremely misleading error in the report intended to guide state lawmakers who will be asked to weigh the merits of a second state-funded medical school.

In a sharply worded letter to WSU regent Mike Worthy regarding the report, Smith noted that the $94.6 million includes federal research funds and student tuition, not just state funds. Furthermore, the blend of state, federal and private money pays for the work of some 4,500 people throughout the UW medical school system not just the 440 medical students.

Smith said a more realistic figure is $70,000 per student in state support plus tuition.

Using that formula, the WSU study estimated it would cost the state about $60,000 per student at a WSU-run medical school in Spokane after a 10-year phase-in to enrollment of 120 students per class, said WSU Spokane Chancellor Lisa Brown. She noted medical schools use different funding models to arrive at state cost per student estimates.

The differences are the latest barbs between the rival universities regarding the effectiveness of WWAMI, the 40-year-old program that trains doctors for Washington, Wyoming, Alaska, Montana and Idaho through state schools and UW Medical School.

The lingering shortage of doctors in rural communities across Eastern Washington, however, spurred WSU administrators to announce last spring intentions to create an independent medical school on the fledgling WSU-Spokane campus.

The move prompted further tensions between Washingtons two biggest public universities.

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