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Chicago, IL (PRWEB) May 06, 2014
Saint James School of Medicine, a top Caribbean medical school based on the island of Anguilla in the Lesser Antilles, has introduced a new brand and website to match the needs of the students seeking a quality medical education in the Caribbean. A contemporary update to the institutions logo is complemented by a central branding message that spotlights the positive experiences of Saint James School of Medicine-Anguillas students and faculty. The new campaign has helped boost enrollment, and this week Anguillas campus welcomes its largest summer intake with 51 bright young students from the U.S. and Canada entering their first session bringing the grand total of students in the Anguilla campus to well over 300 students.
We wanted to present a fresh, authentic brand that exemplified our vision of optimism, quality and professionalism for our school in Anguilla, which we consider our premium campus, says Dr. Kallol Guha, President of Saint James School of Medicine.
The logo, brand elements and website created by TimeZoneOnes international advertising and design team, brings the personal story of students and faculty center stage, using first-hand experiences that illustrate why the Anguilla campus is a top choice for U.S. and Canadian students seeking a quality, affordable medical education in the Caribbean, and the opportunity to participate in clinical rotations in U.S. hospitals.
The new Anguilla logo respects the heritage and history of the schools brand, utilizing elements familiar to past and present students. It is a modern design highlighted by blue and golden yellow colors that evoke the premium nature of the school, complemented by gold signifying success, achievement and triumph. The included caduceus symbol (intertwining snakes) visually ties the school with medical education.
The new website refreshes and modernizes the online experience delivered to new and current students. The site is more engaging, using large images and inspirational quotes from current and past students, complemented by easy-to-use navigation and snapshot visuals of what the school offers for academic and student life. The resulting interactivity has positively impacted recruitment efforts which are personally supported by the schools expert enrollment team.
This rebranding strategically coincides with the opening of a brand new third campus of Saint James School of Medicine, adding to the current one in Anguilla and the flagship school in Bonaire. The newest campus is located on St. Vincent, the largest of the group of islands that make up the St. Vincent and the Grenadines. This campus opens its doors this month, and offers the same format of medical education with the Basic Sciences in the Caribbean campus and the clinical sciences in affiliated U.S. hospitals.
At Saint James School of Medicine, we believe that a medical career should be achievable for everybody with the commitment and ability to succeed, adds Dr. Guha.
Since 2000, the accredited international group of medical schools has offered a strong medical degree program led by highly experienced medical educators and physicians from universities and colleges in the United States and Europe.
For information on enrollment and tuition, visit http://www.sjsm.org or call 800-542-1553.
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Greeted by a huge show of support, the president of Indiana University makes his first trip to Evansville since the university's Board of Trustees selected the downtown Evansville site for it's new medical school.
Dr. Michael McRobbie was the keynote speaker at the Rotary Club meeting Tuesday afternoon. He received several standing ovations from the largest crowd to ever attend a Rotary Club meeting, officials said. In his speech, Dr. McRobbie applauded the work of numerous organizations who helped make the downtown medical school site possible.
McRobbie said the entire Indiana University community is excited to be a part of the continued growth of downtown Evansville.
After taking a few pictures and shaking dozens of hands, McRobbie toured the medical school site for the first time. McRobbie, Mayor Lloyd Winnecke and about a dozen others hopped on a METS trolley bus and made their way to the medical school site.
Mayor Winnecke and McRobbie spent much of their time looking around the site and talking about the future.
"We looked at five general sites downtown," Winnecke said. "As the process went on, it became more and more apparent that this was the best site."
The $69.5 million medical school project will feature 18-hundred students on the day it opens which would likely be in 2017, officials said.
"There are a lot of wheels in motion but it's all going very, very well," Winnecke said.
Overall, McRobbie was very impressed with the synergy that the downtown site will bring.
"I was really struck with how the site here is so beautifully located to the hotel, apartments, the Ford Center," McRobbie said. "It's going to be an exciting and vibrant place to live and work. All of the organizations that are here at the moment or will be located here... will all compliment each other and build off each other. It will get that effect of the whole being greater than the sum of it's parts.
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Once home to medical students and nurses, the former Straits Settlements Mandalay Road Hostel has been given a new lease of life.
Nestled between Tan Tock Seng Hospital and the Communicable Disease Centre, the three-storey building off Moulmein Road, which was gazetted for conservation last year, has been restored after 15 months.
Now known as the Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine Headquarters, it is one of the two campuses that the new medical school uses.
The school, which welcomed its pioneer batch of 54 students last year, is a partnership between Nanyang Technological University (NTU) and Imperial College London. Students shuttle between NTU's campus in Boon Lay and the Mandalay Road site for lessons.
Mr Chan Wei Chuen, senior director of corporate services for the school, says of the 90-year-old building: "Its history has always been medical-related. The building looks old from the outside, but there are amenities put in so new batches of students can enjoy the premises."
Built in 1924, the pre-war building was home to senior medical students. When the Japanese invaded Singapore in 1942, the medical school was closed for the duration of the war and the hostel was used for nursing staff from Tan Tock Seng Hospital.
Two years after the war ended in 1945, the building was used again by local medical students as a hostel, after the school reopened. But as the hospital grew in capacity, the hostel was converted into nurses' quarters in 1955.
The building, which was surrounded by green, open spaces and a multi- functional single-storey annexe, was used for staff recreational activities for the next 30 years. As Tan Tock Seng Hospital underwent restructuring in 1992, the nurses' hostel was closed and converted into an interim nursing administration and human resource office from 1995.
From 1999, it stood unoccupied until conservation work started 12 years later to restore it for the new medical school.
Mr Chan says: "It was in a dilapidated state when we got it. Some parts of the ceiling were gone and the roof was leaking. It wasn't a building that you would want to step into and have lessons."
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CLEVELAND A new biomarker for esophageal cancer shows promise in improving screening for this deadly disease and its precursor, Barrett's esophagus.
Amitabh Chak, MD, of University Hospitals Case Medical Center's Seidman Cancer Center and Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, presented findings today at Digestive Disease Week in Chicago in a research forum titled "Aberrant Vimentin Methylation in Esophageal Brushings: A Biomarker for Detecting Barrett's Esophagus and Esophageal Adenocarcinoma" (embargoed May 5, 9:15 am CT).
Dr. Chak and a research team found that a change in the DNA, methylation of the vimentin gene, can be an effective new less-invasive test for detecting Barrett's esophagus (BE). In 117 patients, they examined if a new, non-endoscopic "brushing" of the esophagus is as effective as the more invasive, traditional biopsy.
Affecting up to 6.8 percent of the population, BE is a leading predictor of esophageal cancer. Compared with the general population, patients with BE have an 11-fold higher risk of developing adenocarcinoma of the esophagus.
"Despite the fact that the rates of common cancers have declined in recent years, esophageal cancer has a poor five-year survival rate of less than 15 percent," said Dr. Chak. "Early detection through screening can prevent the development of esophageal cancer. This promising new test has important clinical implications through its potential to improve screening and decrease mortality from this deadly disease."
The research builds upon previous work by the team that aberrant vimentin methylation is a highly common epigenetic alteration in neoplasia of the upper gastrointestinal tract. In this study, they analyzed esophageal specimens in patients with BE, esophageal cancer as well as control subjects. The data determined that methylated vimentin is a highly sensitive biomarker for Barrett's esophagus and that the less invasive brushing technique can effectively detect these changes in the DNA.
The study is funded through the Barrett's Esophagus Translational Research Network (BETRNet), a $5.4 million grant to Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine. The five-year award supports a research team, led by Dr. Chak, collaborating to develop an understanding of the basis of Barrett's esophagus and its conversion to esophageal carcinoma through genetic, molecular and physiologic studies.
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Rutgers Day 2014 -- Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
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Once home to medical students and nurses, the former Straits Settlements Mandalay Road Hostel has been given a new lease of life.
Nestled between Tan Tock Seng Hospital and the Communicable Disease Centre, the three-storey building off Moulmein Road, which was gazetted for conservation last year, has been restored after 15 months.
Now known as the Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine Headquarters, it is one of the two campuses that the new medical school uses.
The school, which welcomed its pioneer batch of 54 students last year, is a partnership between Nanyang Technological University (NTU) and Imperial College London. Students shuttle between NTU's campus in Boon Lay and the Mandalay Road site for lessons.
Mr Chan Wei Chuen, senior director of corporate services for the school, says of the 90-year-old building: "Its history has always been medical-related. The building looks old from the outside, but there are amenities put in so new batches of students can enjoy the premises."
Built in 1924, the pre-war building was home to senior medical students. When the Japanese invaded Singapore in 1942, the medical school was closed for the duration of the war and the hostel was used for nursing staff from Tan Tock Seng Hospital.
Two years after the war ended in 1945, the building was used again by local medical students as a hostel, after the school reopened. But as the hospital grew in capacity, the hostel was converted into nurses' quarters in 1955.
The building, which was surrounded by green, open spaces and a multi- functional single-storey annexe, was used for staff recreational activities for the next 30 years. As Tan Tock Seng Hospital underwent restructuring in 1992, the nurses' hostel was closed and converted into an interim nursing administration and human resource office from 1995.
From 1999, it stood unoccupied until conservation work started 12 years later to restore it for the new medical school.
Mr Chan says: "It was in a dilapidated state when we got it. Some parts of the ceiling were gone and the roof was leaking. It wasn't a building that you would want to step into and have lessons."
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MONTREAL The increasing diversity of McGill Universitys medical class may have some worried, but it reflects a trend across North America, and a concerted effort on the part of medical school administrators to ensure students of all ethnic, socioeconomic and linguistic backgrounds have the opportunity to become doctors.
One of our biggest roles is determining who will enter our profession and serve our Canadian population, said Genevive Moineau, president and CEO of the Association of Faculties of Medicine of Canada (AFMC). And our faculties of medicine are very committed to social accountability. Some schools are uniquely focused on marks, but we want people who can serve some underserved populations.
In fact, the AFMCs conference last weekend was focused on admissions best practices and how to foster diversity, particularly in view of the fact Canada will be establishing its own accreditation standards for medical schools. That should be approved this summer and would mean universities would have to uphold the new standards by spring 2016.
Until now, accreditation was set by U.S. standards, but Moineau said the idea of having a uniquely Canadian set of standards has been percolating for a long time.
Canada wants to determine for itself what it deems important, she said in an interview. For example, in the U.S., diversity is often related to ethnicity, but in Canada there are other aspects that are important as well. But fostering diversity is one of the AFMCs priorities, Moineau said.
No one is advocating using quotas, she said, and surveys about applicant demographics are completely anonymous.
But we need to understand who is applying and see where were going wrong from a diversity point of view, she said.
Jesse Kancir, president of the Canadian Federation of Medical Students, said students are on board with increasing diversity, particularly socioeconomic diversity.
As long as were ensuring that by the time people get into the pool theyre competent, then I think the onus is on medical schools to be training physicians to serve the population, he said in an interview. Perhaps you cant put in filters when trying to select candidates, but you have to ensure that pool of candidates is wide enough to begin with.
He said with only about eight per cent of applicants getting into medical school, its not a question of lowering standards to increase diversity.
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Even the best and the brightest are struggling with McGill Universitys rigorous new first-year medical school curriculum this year so much so that an alarming failure rate has prompted the class president to write to faculty to ask that changes be made to address some major curricular concerns.
Nebras Warsi, president of the McGill Medicine Class of 2017, outlined curriculum and evaluation problems in his letter, which was obtained by The Gazette and which he said was intended for internal purposes to rectify minor problems with a program that is much more demanding than the old curriculum.
Although David Eidelman, the dean of medicine, said he couldnt confirm the failure rate circulating among students, they say that in the class of about 200 students, 45 failed histology (the study of tissues) and about 35 failed anatomy.
Eidelman said those who failed had remediation and all but one or two eventually passed. There is no bell-curving of exams, and students who fail are required to pass remedial exams of comparable difficulty.
Warsis letter said there was an unusually high failure rate on multiple exams within the reflection and evaluation week and that there has been real confusion about the objectives of the curriculum. He subsequently said its hard to compare the failures with previous years because of the increased amount of material on this years tests.
For example, he said, under the new curriculum students are tested on almost double the amount of material on an anatomy exam compared with previous years.
We have realized that the tight scheduling of exams in the new curriculum (we often have five exams within one week), coupled with the greater amount of knowledge we are now learning, is what likely led to this outcome, he said. As well, the academic requirement to constitute a pass has been raised from passing the overall unit to passing each individual component separately.
The amount of cumulative information required, plus the new grading scheme, has some students panicking.
While Warsi tried to downplay concerns on Friday, other students said they are alarmed about their eventual fundamentals of medicine program, which will have an exam covering 18 months of material with almost no time off to study for it. And the coming set of June cumulative reflection and evaluation exams gives them only a weekend to prepare for testing on a years worth of material.
Its insane! said one student, who didnt want to be identified, but insists its much harder for students to succeed under the new curriculum and many are discouraged.
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APS PMIG program, Brighton Sussex Medical School. present their project initiatives funded by the Society at the 2014 APS Annual Meeting in San Francisco, CA.
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WILLIAMSBURG Students working on their medical degrees at Eastern Virginia Medical School can now opt to spend a year earning an accelerated MBA at William and Mary as part of an expanded collaboration between the two schools, officials at both schools announced Friday.
EVMS students entering the program will spend their fourth year completing an intensive 48-credit MBA program at William and Marys Mason School of Business before returning to EVMS to finish their final year of medical school. Acceptance into the program will begin in July of this year. The program will include courses taken at both the Williamsburg main campus and the Flex MBA program at the William and Mary Peninsula campus in Newport News. The course load includes 16.5 credits between August and December and 17 credits between January and May.
The new dual-degree program provides medical students at EVMS an important opportunity to broaden their understanding of the complex health care environment they are entering and to expand their skill set beyond the clinical domain, C. Donald Combs, vice president of EVMS and dean of the EVMS School of Health Professions, said in a statement. Both of these factors should make them more competitive, both in terms of their applications to residencies and their ultimate recruitment into practice settings.
Deborah Hewitt, assistant dean for MBA programs at the Mason School, said in a statement that doctors are increasingly asked to take on other roles beyond just patient care. Many, she said, end up pursuing professional options that require high levels of business acumen and management competence.
Doctors now manage all kinds of things, she said in a statement. It could range from a rehabilitation center, to a home for the aging, to medical device manufacturing. Its much broader than managing a practice.
According to the American College of Physician Executives, MD/MBA programs are a growing trend, and William and Mary and EVMS are in good company. Elsewhere in the country, Harvards medical and business schools launched a dual MD/MBA program in 2005. University of Pennsylvania and University of California-Irvine have similar programs, too.
Also, as part of the expanded collaboration, William and Mary students hoping to study at EVMS can now earn early assurance admission to the medical schools physicial assistant masters program. Previously, a separate agreement between the two schools which had been in place for about 20 years covered only early assurance admission into the EVMS medical doctor program.
In an interview with the Gazette, economics professor Jennifer Mellor, who also serves as director of William and Marys Schroeder Center for Health Policy and liaison to EVMS, said there is a growing need for physician assistants, with two factors affecting that growth. The Hampton Roads area, much like the rest of the country, is seeing an increase in the size of the elderly population, and the Affordable Care Act has expanded access to health care for many more people, thus increasing demand for health care professionals.
There is, more broadly, a change in health care delivery worldwide, Mellor said. Were seeing an expanded role for non-physician practitioners in the health care sector. More and more of our students are looking for ways to be involved in direct patient care but not as a medical doctor. This kind of program, this kind of training, would allow them options to do that.
William and Mary sudents would apply during their junior year. They must take a set of prerequisites while still an undergraduate, maintain good grades, and complete a certain number of hours of clinical contact with patients in order to fulfill that promise of admission.
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MARTINEZ -- The Antioch school district will have to halt its effort to establish Dozier-Libbey Medical High School as a district-run charter school, a Contra Costa Superior Court judge ruled Thursday.
Judge Laurel Brady affirmed a tentative ruling granting a temporary restraining order request by teachers at the school trying to stop the district's move.
The teachers, hoping to convert Dozier-Libbey into an independent charter school free of district control, were elated upon hearing the news Thursday afternoon. The injunction is aimed at "maintaining the status quo until a final determination on the competing petitions is had," Brady said.
Students leave the campus of Dozier-Libbey Medical High School in Antioch on March 11, 2014. (Susan Tripp Pollard/Bay Area News Group)
"This is exactly the news we were hoping for, an opportunity to take the legal route and show the merits of our petition," said Stacey Wickware, one of the lead petitioners.
Superintendent Donald Gill said Thursday afternoon he hadn't had a chance to look at the decision yet, and that district officials plan to talk with their attorneys about the next steps.
"This is just one step along the journey. There are a lot of steps yet to take," Gill said.
Last month, Antioch Unified filed its own charter petition for the medical-themed magnet school to thwart the teacher-led petition -- a novel move for California that has raised questions and concerns among those who follow charter school-related efforts.
Several times in her ruling, Brady noted the uniqueness of the situation and scant case law to assess the circumstances.
During a court hearing Monday, Antioch Unified argued that it had established a startup charter school and that it must move forward quickly to start school in August. But Brady noted in her ruling the school had a similar name, same location and state code number, and was assigned the same state test scores as the existing school.
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