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Florida Hospital program gives students early taste of medical life
TARPON SPRINGS Her physician grandfather had no exposure to patients until his third year of medical school. But Alyssa Benjamin has already scrubbed in for surgeries, worked on her suture skills and even helped remove a suspicious mole off her boss' neck.
And she hasn't even applied to medical school.
Benjamin, a Dunedin resident and sophomore at Bucknell University in Pennsylvania, was one of about a half dozen undergraduates in a premedical internship program this summer at Florida Hospital North Pinellas.
Started by surgical oncologist Douglas Reintgen, the program helps students shore up their credentials before they apply to medical school and possibly give them a leg up once they make it through medical school and start angling for a limited number of residency slots.
"You've got to do something that makes your application stand out," said Reintgen, also a professor at the University of South Florida's Morsani College of Medicine.
The early shadowing program reflects the hyper-competitive nature of becoming a physician. In 2013, the nation's medical schools received a record 48,000 applications; about 20,000 were accepted and enrolled, according to the Association of American Medical Colleges. At USF Health, several thousand people applied last year to the medical school, which had slots for about 120, said Dr. Bryan Bognar, vice dean for educational affairs for the USF medical school.
Students in Reintgen's program said they're thinking ahead even to residencies after they complete medical school. Those training slots are in short supply that's expected to tighten even more as medical and osteopathic schools continue to churn out higher numbers of graduates.
Last year, several hundred medical school graduates didn't get a residency, which is key to becoming a licensed physician, according to the Association of American Medical Colleges.
Bognar said nearly every successful applicant has some sort of shadowing experience. The increasing number of medical school applicants almost "compels students who want to be competitive to flesh out their portfolios," he said.
Those experiences may be limited for those students who are working their way through school and can't afford to do a low- or nonpaying internship. Reintgen's program at Florida Hospital pays students a small stipend.
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Guest opinion: With cooperation, medical school ready to thrive – Sat, 06 Sep 2014 PST
David R. Greeley M.D.
Spokane has a great medical school at the Riverpoint campus thanks to years of successful collaboration between the University of Washington and Washington State University. Accredited to the UW School of Medicine, Spokanes medical school contributes to and shares in the top ranking from U.S. News & World Report for over 20 years No. 1 in the country in primary care, family medicine and ruralmedicine.
Spokanes medical school started in 2008 as an expansion of the WWAMI program a regional medical education program provided by the UW School of Medicine in partnership with universities from the WWAMI
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Spokane has a great medical school at the Riverpoint campus thanks to years of successful collaboration between the University of Washington and Washington State University. Accredited to the UW School of Medicine, Spokanes medical school contributes to and shares in the top ranking from U.S. News & World Report for over 20 years No. 1 in the country in primary care, family medicine and ruralmedicine.
Spokanes medical school started in 2008 as an expansion of the WWAMI program a regional medical education program provided by the UW School of Medicine in partnership with universities from the WWAMI states (Washington, Wyoming, Alaska, Montana and Idaho) with WSU-Pullman an acting partner for 42 years. The program was designed to train physicians in their home states states that did not have their own medical school and particularly to provide training in underserved rural areas in those states with the hope that physicians would return to work there after they completed theireducation.
For years, medical students in the WWAMI program would have only the opportunity of spending their first year of medical school training in their home state or region. Then, in 2008, the UW, in collaboration with WSU, began to offer the WWAMI model of medical school in Spokane with all but the second year of instruction occurring here. This past year, the UW and WSU began to offer the second year in Spokane as well, enabling students to earn their medical degrees while studying and training for all four years in Spokane. Spokanes medical school is up and running and training new doctors rightnow.
Producing doctors comes in two phases: four years of medical school followed typically by three or more years of residency training. After four years of medical school, students seek placement in a residency program in their chosen specialty, and that residency program can take them anywhere in the United States. Where one ends up practicing medicine is very closely correlated to where one does residency training, not medicalschool.
As part of its WWAMI program, the UW School of Medicine has built an expansive network of residency training programs throughout the state of Washington and the Northwest. The UW has been training residents in Spokanes hospitals and clinics for virtually all of its 42 years, as well as in rural hospitals and clinics throughout Eastern Washington. Born and raised in Seattle, I went to college and medical school at the UW in Seattle. But it was my training in the WWAMI program over my third and fourth years of medical school that brought me out to Spokane, Missoula, Great Falls and Boise, and the eventual return to establish my private neurology practice in Spokane, where I have been working over the past 20 years. We are at the start of a great expansion here in Spokane and without the WWAMI program this was unlikely tooccur.
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The education ministry has given the go-ahead for Tohoku Pharmaceutical University in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, to open a medical school. Under the governments policy of controlling the number of practicing physicians, it will be the first medical school to open at a university in the country since 1979.
While the move is billed as a response to the severe shortage of doctors in Tohoku in the wake of the March 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake, care needs to be taken so that opening the new school does not drain the already stretched staffing at hospitals in many parts of the region.
Past efforts to control of the number of doctors have resulted in a severe shortage, with the number of doctors per 1,000 people at 2.4 or about two-thirds of the average in industrialized countries. A bigger problem is the regional disparity in the availability of doctors, with the number in all prefectures of the Tohoku region below the national average. The education ministry has so far responded by increasing the enrollment quota at existing university medical schools, but since the early 1980s it has maintained a policy of not authorizing the creation of new schools.
The decision to open a new school in Tohoku which the ministry says is an exception to the policy came in response to a plea by Miyagi Gov. Yoshihiro Murai to cope with the severe shortage of doctors in the region made worse by the 2011 earthquake and tsunami, which resulted in the rise in the number of patients and an exodus of medical staff.
While it may help ease the absolute shortage in the number of doctors in Tohoku, doubts have been raised if it will address the problem of immediate shortages in the region.
It would take at least more than a decade for the graduates of the new school, which Tohoku Pharmaceutical University plans to open in April 2016, to take on full-fledged rolls as doctors in the regions medical services.
The university also needs to address the problem of students leaving their regions to take jobs in urban areas, instead of working in rural areas. A system needs to be created to encourage graduates from the new school to remain in the region and help to fill its medical needs.
Creation of a new university medical school is believed to require roughly 300 experienced doctors to serve as teaching staff. This has caused concern that the new school could exacerbate the current shortage of doctors if it recruits physicians from local institutions to serve as teachers. Sendai, by far the largest city in Tohoku, already has a concentration of doctors. There are worries that the depletion of medical staff from more rural parts of the region could accelerate.
To facilitate reconstruction of the areas devastated by the 2011 disasters, the government and local authorities should consider other steps to address the current staffing problems at many of the regions institutions.
The governments policy on the education of doctors has zigzagged over the past several decades. The number of medical schools increased rapidly in the 1970s in response to the medical needs of the postwar economic growth, but the government reversed the policy in 1982, citing alleged concern over a future glut of doctors.
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Debbie Sacra, wife of Dr. Rick Sacra, speaks on Ebola diagnosis
Statement given at a press conference at UMass Medical School on Thursday, Sept. 4, 2014, at 5 p.m., by Debbie Sacra, wife of Dr. Rick Sacra, the third American doctor to be infected with the...
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A look at the Nebraska medical isolation unit where American Ebola patient being treated
Published September 05, 2014
Dr. Mark Rupp, chief of the division of infectious diseases in the department of internal medicine at the Nebraska Medical Center, left, speaks as SIM USA President Bruce Johnson, center, and SIM Liberia country director Will Elphick, right, listen, at a news conference in Omaha, Neb., Friday Sept. 5, 2014, on the condition of ebola patient Dr. Rick Sacra, 51, who is treated at the center. Sacra, who served with North Carolina-based charity SIM, is the third American aid worker infected by the Ebola virus. He will begin treatment in the hospital's 10-bed special isolation unit, the largest of four such units in the U.S. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik)The Associated Press
OMAHA, Neb. A third American aid worker, Dr. Rick Sacra, to be treated in the U.S. for the deadly Ebola virus arrived Friday at the Nebraska Medical Center's biomedical isolation unit the largest in the country.
Here are some questions and answers about the Omaha unit:
WHY IS THE COUNTRY'S LARGEST BIOCONTAINMENT UNIT IN OMAHA?
The Nebraska Biocontainment Patient Care Unit got its start in the years after Sept. 11 as Nebraska prepared to combat bioterrorism. By 2004, Nebraska ranked among the top six states for bioterrorism preparedness, according to a report by the nonprofit Trust for America's Health.
A year later, Nebraska's health agency pooled its allotment of federal bioterrorism dollars with contributions from the hospital and the University of Nebraska's medical school and opened the $1 million isolation unit.
The 10-bed, five-room unit is the largest quarantine and treatment facility in the country and designed to handle highly contagious and deadly infections including severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), smallpox and plague. Other biocontainment units are in Montana, Maryland and at Emory University Hospital in Atlanta, where two infected Americans were treated earlier this summer.
HOW MANY PEOPLE HAS THE UNIT TREATED?
The unit has so far briefly housed only one person, a traveler five years ago from Africa whose symptoms concerned emergency-room workers in a Nebraska town, according to unit officials. The patient was diagnosed with malaria, which doesn't require quarantine.
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CEO says community effort needed for Fort Smith medical school
FORT SMITH Community involvement was an overriding theme in a presentation Friday morning on the proposed Arkansas College of Osteopathic Medicine to be built at Chaffee Crossing in Fort Smith.
Kyle Parker, president and CEO of Arkansas Colleges of Health Education, told about 250 Fort Smith Regional Chamber of Commerce members during the monthly First Friday Breakfast at the University of Arkansas at Fort Smith that initial dirt work for the medical college is expected to begin this month in preparation for an early 2015 construction start.
Official announcements also came Friday with the naming of Fort Smith construction contractors Beshears Construction and Nabholz Construction as the winning bidders for first building on the campus, a 100,000-square-foot, three-story, $30 million-plus project.
Keeping it local was a big deal with the board, Parker said. Theres no reason not to if you can find the expertise here.
Nabholz and Beshears will focus on different areas of construction. The two local companies could not have done it on their own, Parker said, and approached the college board together with an alternative plan. The two have not worked on a major project before.
Parker also said the college plans to include a physicians assistant school set for 75 students by 2018.
The doctors who graduate from the college are also expected to keep it local, with a national average of 70 percent staying in the area to do their residency service, Parker said.
The Fort Smith region is one of the most underserved in the state, and the college is seen as being a well of future doctors for not just the Fort Smith region but other under-served areas like Benton and Washington counties, said John Taylor, chairman of the Arkansas Colleges of Health Education board of trustees.
Doctors of osteopathy can be in any field, from internal medicine to pediatrics and family medicine, but are known to focus on a more holistic approach, Taylor said.
Part of the behind-the-scenes work for Parker has been setting up clinical residency and rotation slots for future graduates, which he says are coveted because of a shortage. In addition to local hospitals like Mercy Fort Smith and Sparks Regional Medical Center, the Choctaw Nation and Cherokee Nation are two other parties involved with securing slots at their clinics for future doctors.
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DMSF marks 38th anniversary
DAVAO Medical School Foundation Inc. (DMSF) marked 38th Founding Anniversary and Intramurals from August 6 to 8, 2014.
The three-day celebration, dubbed as 'One Goal, One Mind - Together in Making the Community Better," was well attended by students and faculty members who gamely participated in the line-up of fun activities.
"We are very glad, very happy as we celebrate the 38th founding anniversary of our school. Very thankful sa parents, awardees, relatives and friends for the full suport, faculty, admin and staff, president of the council, of course the board of trustees," shared Jonathan A. Alegre, Md, president of DMSFI in an interview.
A mass was held last August 5 at the Amphitheater, located at the newly-constructed building of the school.
Then, on August 6, an interfaith service was held, followed by the opening of different booths and bazaar, while hundreds joined in the blood-letting activity.
Students from different levels also participated in the academic competitions like essay writing contest, impromptu, oration, storytelling, poster-making and quiz bowl.
Other events included board games, dart and table tennis.
Highlight of the founding anniversary was the Recognition Ceremony held last August 7 where students who excelled academically were cited.
Alegre added that they are proud to say that they remain competitive because for the past years they already produced a number of graduates who are now serving in government offices, graduates who topped the exams and extended much effort in helping out the community.
"Usa ang DMSF sa top ten dental schools in the country. Aside ana, makita nimo ang atong mga graduates nga naghupot sa mga dagkong posisyon karon sa gobyerno," Alegre added.
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Inslee withholds judgment on who should run Spokane medical school – Fri, 05 Sep 2014 PST
OLYMPIA Gov. Jay Inslee said hes keeping an open mind about which state university should operate a medical school in Spokane, but he has no problem with the two schools using state resources to make their case to thepublic.
Asked Thursday whether the University of Washington or Washington State University should run a new school to train physicians in Spokane, Inslee said other questions are more important to answer first. Among them are the true need for additional doctors, the most cost-effective solution and the effects any new system would have on the current five-state consortium to train
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OLYMPIA Gov. Jay Inslee said hes keeping an open mind about which state university should operate a medical school in Spokane, but he has no problem with the two schools using state resources to make their case to thepublic.
Asked Thursday whether the University of Washington or Washington State University should run a new school to train physicians in Spokane, Inslee said other questions are more important to answer first. Among them are the true need for additional doctors, the most cost-effective solution and the effects any new system would have on the current five-state consortium to train doctors that UWoperates.
I do not go into it with any preconceived notions, Inslee said during a news conference during which he also discussed public school funding and the stateseconomy.
Both universities are lobbying legislators for control of a new medical school that would be based at Spokanes Riverpoint campus. UW wants the state to expand the current WWAMI program that trains doctors for Washington, Wyoming, Alaska, Montana and Idaho, adding as many as 320 graduate medical students by the end of this decade. WSU wants the state to approve a new medical school under its control, with an emphasis on recruiting and training physicians in Spokane and underserved ruralareas.
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Voters to decide whether hospital tax district is approved
A new medical school, an expansion of The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, is bringing a lot of change to Hidalgo County.
Now the county is pushing to create a hospital district that taxpayers must first approve.
"Travis County just passed a measure in a similar way because they are getting a new medical school and if you look at where all the medical schools are located right now across the country there is a hospital tax district that is in place," Edinburg City Manager Ramiro Garza said.
Garza said it just makes sense to pass the tax and the Edinburg City Council agrees.
They passed a resolution in support of the new taxing district this week.
"We are really trying to push for the passage of it because we really feel like it's going to change the dynamics of our region, our economy with a new medical school," Garza said.
The taxing district would help create the UT-RGV Medical School.
Garza said the funds will also help absorb costs for indigent care which the county currently pays for with money from the county's general fund.
Home owners will be footing the tax.
It'll be eight cents per $100 of value on a home.
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5 Healthy Back-to-School Habits
It's back-to-school time, and in the frenzy of shopping, planning, changing sleep schedules, packing snacks, and filling out all of those gosh-darn forms, it's easy to get into, well, survival mode.
After all, with all the stress that going back to school brings, why would we make things any harder by changing family habits?
Because now is the perfect time, that's why--and because little changes can make a big difference.
It's the perfect time, because so many things are changing anyway, that a few more changes are less likely to be noticed (and fought) by your family. And these changes are not only healthy changes, but ones that can be done incrementally. It's all about moving the needle, no matter where you are in the healthy habit spectrum.
Here are my suggestions:
1. Add one serving of fruits or vegetables to your child's daily diet. Of course you can do more if you like, and if you are already at five, kudos to you--I guess you can skip this one. But most children I meet a) aren't at five and b) would seriously balk at adding two or three. So add one--such as a sliced banana in morning cereal, a bag of grapes or mini-box of raisins for school snack or lunch, a sliced apple or celery with peanut butter for an after school snack, or a vegetable with dinner. (A vegetable at dinner is mandatory at our house, and one of the few servings I can count on with my kids sometimes). Getting your child into the habit of eating more fruits and vegetables does a lot for their lifelong health.
2. Build exercise into the schedule. Children should be active for an hour-a-day, and I meet far too many who aren't. So sign up for soccer. Encourage your middle-schooler to do an intramural sport. Walk to school. Take the stairs instead of the elevator. Do some sort of active family activity on weekends--even if it's just going for a walk or walking around the zoo. (Walking around the Franklin Park Zoo can take a while and be good exercise!) For exercise ideas around Boston, check out the Healthy Family Fun website.
3. Help your child get more--and better-sleep. Kids need 8-10 hours a night, and lots (especially teens) aren't getting that much. To help your child get enough sleep: - Move bedtime a half hour earlier - Limit TV before bedtime--not only can what they watch make kids less sleepy, but the light emitted by television screens literally activates the brain. - Have calming bedtime routines, such as bathing and reading. - Have teens charge cell phones and laptops anywhere else but the bedroom. - If you have a busy teen, spend some time thinking together about how to be sure he or she gets at least eight hours of sleep. It will make all the difference--not just for their health, but also for how they act and how well they do in school.
Speaking of how well they do in school...
4. Make a plan for decreasing homework stress. Whether you've got a teen or a first-grader, homework can be stressful for everyone (including you--don't you hate it when they tell you the day before that they need posterboard, or that they have a yet-unstarted five-page paper due?). - Decide on a place, and make that place as comfortable and quiet as possible. - Decide on a time, based on your child's schedule and temperament--and decide on how to make it as pleasant as possible (special homework snacks, for example). - Make a plan for how your are going to communicate, or otherwise know about, upcoming assignments (many schools have the information online). In doing this, you aren't only being sure your child gets his work done, you're helping him learn how to manage his time and his stress, which are both really useful habits. Speaking of stress...
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State turns focus to Med School reputation
Gov. Mark Dayton applied to the University of Minnesota Medical School when it was a top leader in medical research decades ago, and now he has set the goal of returning it to its former glory.
After years of concern surrounding the schools reported declining status, members of the Blue Ribbon Committee which Dayton created last month have begun forming plans to improve its reputation and further its research.
The committees list of goals includes expanding the Universitys clinical services and taking advantage of Minnesotas investments in biomedical research. In December, the Blue Ribbon Committee will recommend policy and budget changes to state lawmakers for the 2015 legislative session, said Larry Pogemiller, the states commissioner of higher education and a member of the committee.
A 2012 external review of the Universitys Academic Health Center noted that some faculty, staff and administration had great concern about the Medical Schools reputation and ranking, which the review said have gradually declined.
The review also found that those people frequently brought up the schools status in interviews and surveys.
Part of the Medical Schools falling reputation is based on the decreasing number of grants it has received from the National Institutes of Health, Pogemiller said.
The Medical Schools overall funding has declined along with NIH grants to the University over the past three years, according to annual reports from the Office of the Vice President for Research.
Jesse Klingelhoets, an officer for the Medical Student Council, said he noticed the school was trying to increase its national competitiveness even before the committee formed.
[It was] trying to get rid of that Minnesota nice modesty thing and try to actually brag about the things that we do at the Medical School, he said.
In a 2015 national ranking of medical schools published by the U.S. News and World Report, the University came in 34th for research and sixth for primary care.
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UT Health Science Center SA named top medical school for Hispanics
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SAN ANTONIO - While the Medical School at University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio has oftentimes ranked in the top 10 or top 5 for Hispanics this year it finally reached the top spot according to Hispanic Business magazine.
The magazines annual Diversity Report: Best Schools for Diversity Practices: Best Medical Schools was the result of a survey that ranked the schools according to number of Hispanics enrolled, retention rate, financial aid recipients, medical degrees awarded, as well as Hispanic faculty and mentoring programs.
Students like Jordan Graham, a first-year med student from Dallas can see why the school is ranked at the top this year.
"San Antonio has such a big Hispanic community so it's really welcoming and we treat a lot of patients. I'm from that background," he said.
In fact, UTHSCSA works hard to gain a reputation for recruitment and retention of not only Hispanic students, but faculty as well.
In regard to students, in the 2012-13 school year, the 900-student population boasted 176 Hispanics and awarded degrees to 48 Hispanic doctors.
Dr. Edward Medina said its an important part of the culture at the med school.
That attempt to recruit Hispanic faculty is going to nurture that interaction between the Latino students and faculty too," he said.
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American Doctor with Ebola Headed to Omaha Hospital
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The latest American doctor to be infected with Ebola in West Africa is on his way to the United States for treatment at Nebraska Medical Center.
Dr. Rick Sacra, 51, was treating pregnant women in the ELWA Hospital in Monrovia, Liberia, when he became infected with the deadly virus, according to SIM, an international, interdenominational Christian organization based in Charlotte, North Carolina.
I just had a call from the doctor who put Rick on a plane to come to the United States, his wife, Debbie Sacra, said at a news conference, her voice breaking. He said that Rick is clearly sick, but that he was in very good spirits.
He walked onto the plane, so we are really encouraged by that news and looking forward to reuniting with him, she added.
Sacra, an assistant professor at University of Massachusetts Medical School, was not treating Ebola patients in the hospitals separate Ebola isolation facility, the group said, adding that it was unclear how he contracted the virus. All infected U.S. health workers were working at the ELWA hospital when they contracted the virus.
Sacra was expected to arrive in Omaha, Nebraska, on Friday morning. He has been isolated in the ELWA Ebola ward.
Sacra specializes in family medicine and practices in Worcester, Massachusetts, but he traveled to Liberia in August.
I knew he needed to go, Debbie Sacra said, adding that he knew there was a risk he would contract Ebola but he wanted to help people with malaria and pregnant women amid the outbreak.
He is not someone who can stand back when there is a need that he can take care of, she said.
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