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A report in this newspaper that the medical school entrance examination, the HPat, is being investigated amid claims that students had prior knowledge of some of the questions that appeared in the exam is disturbing.
While there is no suggestion of any impropriety on the part of students or the course provider, it is claimed as many as 700 students who attended two-day courses run by a company called MedEntry were coached through a large number of questions, up to 10 of which appeared in the Hpat exam held earlier this month.
The Australian Council for Educational Research (Acer), which administers the HPat test used in Ireland, said it is concerned at the claim and is now conducting a full investigation.
Introduced here in 2009, HPat is seen as a mechanism to widen the number of students eligible to apply for an undergraduate medical degree here. It effectively lowers the Leaving Certificate points threshold; points from the Leaving are now combined with those from the HPat to produce an overall score from which the Central Applications Office then makes offers of places to students.
While kept under regular review by educationalists here, a formal review of the examination is due to be carried out later this year by academics at University College Cork to decide whether to retain the test or not. In this context it is interesting to note there has been a decline in the numbers sitting the aptitude test, dropping from around 3,000 students in 2012 to just over 2,500 candidates this year. It would be wise for those tasked with deciding on the HPats future to undertake research among applicants to establish why this decline has occurred.
The 2012 report of the National Research Group Evaluating Revised Entry Mechanisms to Medicine found that candidates who repeated the HPat were likely to improve their score with the largest improvement seen in a section devoted to non verbal-reasoning. The review subsequently recommended that the scores be redistributed for all three sections with the aim of reducing t he impact of repeating the test.
There can be no question mark over the integrity of any test which helps to determine entry to a university in the State. The Minister for Education must ask the Higher Education Authority to investigate the process of entry to medical schools in Irish universities as a matter of urgency.
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Washington, D.C. (PRWEB) March 18, 2014
The National Resident Matching Program (NRMP) will announce the 2014 Main Residency Match results for more than 17, 000 United States allopathic medical school seniors and 16,000 other applicants on Friday, March 21, 2014 at 1:00 p.m. EDT. Match Day is an annual rite of passage for U.S. medical school students and other applicants, a day when they learn at which U.S. residency programs they will train for the next three to seven years.
Its an exciting and life-changing day for young physicians, said Mona M. Signer, executive director of the NRMP. She added, We are pleased to be able to share in this defining moment in their careers.
Early in their final year of medical school, U. S. senior students apply to the residency programs at which they would like to train. Directors of those programs review applications and invite candidates for interviews, typically in the fall and early winter. Once the interview period is over, applicants and program directors submit rank order lists to the NRMP. Program directors rank applicants in order of preference, and applicants compile their lists based on their preferred medical specialty and the location of the training programs.
In 2013, 40,335 applicants vied for positions, and the NRMP reported that about 94% of U. S. seniors matched to first-year positions. Students and graduates of international medical schools, osteopathic (D.O. degree) schools, and Canadian candidates also participate in the Main Residency Match.
For more information and data on this years Match results, please visit the NRMP website after 1:00 p.m. EDT on Friday, March 21, or contact your local medical school for details on their Match Day ceremonies.
The NRMP Match The Match uses a computerized mathematical algorithm to align the preferences of applicants with the preferences of residency program directors in order to fill training positions available at U.S. teaching hospitals. Research on the NRMP algorithm was a basis for awarding The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel in 2012.
About NRMP The National Resident Matching Program (NRMP) is a private, non-profit organization established in 1952 at the request of medical students to provide an orderly and fair mechanism for matching the preferences of applicants for U.S. residency positions with the preferences of residency program directors. In addition to the Main Residency Match, the NRMP conducts Fellowship Matches for more than 50 subspecialties through its Specialties Matching Service (SMS). For more information, contact NRMP at 1-866-653-NRMP (6767) or visit nrmp.org. For interviews, please email cherbert(at)nrmp(dot)org.
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Topeka The Kansas University Medical School won re-accreditation despite concerns voiced by KU officials to legislators that lack of funding for a $75 million health education building could have jeopardized accreditation. Even so, the need for a new building remains a concern going forward, officials said.
KU announced Monday that it received full accreditation for the next eight years, which is the longest period possible.
But the schools accreditors, the Liaison Committee on Medical Education (LCME), cited the school for noncompliance in two areas and said the school must show progress in six other areas by Aug. 1, 2015.
And one of those areas that the school must show progress in is improving its training facilities at the Kansas City, Kan., campus.
During the 2014 legislative session, KU officials have told legislators that without assistance in building a new $75 million health education building, the school faced accreditation problems.
On Monday, Douglas Girod, executive vice chancellor of the KU Medical Center, said the school was surprised it wasnt cited for an inadequate training building at the Kansas City campus after LCME visited the schools campuses in October 2013.
Based on comments from LCME visitors last fall, we anticipated a citation for lack of facilities appropriate for our curriculum, Girod said. We are fortunate they didnt issue a citation, but the accreditors made it clear this is an area that needs immediate attention.
The LCME said we are still in compliance, but that we need to fix the problem, Girod said. In August 2015, they wont be satisfied with were working on it. We need to show real progress on our building project in the next 17 months.
According to the LCME findings, students and faculty express dissatisfaction with the current state of facilities, including inadequate seating, particularly in the first-year lecture hall and the number of small-group classrooms that limit the schools ability to fully incorporate active learning on the Kansas City campus.
Girod said school officials are continuing discussions with Gov. Sam Brownback and the Legislature about the importance of the new building.
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Officialsintroduced the four men who will help create and lead the new residency programs at the Valley's new medical school.
An affiliation agreement between The School of Medicine at The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio and Doctors Hospital at Renaissance made the hiring of four residency program directors possible.
The announcement comes as DHR is in the process of building several classrooms and teaching facilities.
"When you transform from a hospital into a major teaching hospital there are requirements, classroom space, you have to have certain facilities that are enacted and a certain amount of clinics that have to be in operation," DHR CEO Israel Rocha said.
By July 2015, the first group of medical students at the Valley's new university will arrive at these buildings to begin their residency programs.
"What residency offers is the ability to under trained and experienced physicians learn how to become in my case a general surgeon," Dr. Charles Richart, new program director for the general surgery program, said.
Dr. Richart is just one of four newly appointed program directors for the new medical school.
Dr. Eron Manusov will head the Family Medicine Residency Program.
Dr. Amer Malas will head the Internal Medicine Residency Program.
Dr. John Michael Breen will head the Obstetrics and Gynecology Residency Program.
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LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WHAS11)-- The University of Louisville Medical School is making some big changes after being placed on probation by a major accreditation agency.
The Medical School is responsible for educating the next generation of doctors, now it faces making changes in specific areas so its probationary status can be lifted .
Dr. Toni Ganzel, the Dean of the Medical School, said the good news is that many of the changes are already fixed or soon will be.
"I'm confident that all these things will be able to be positioned for success," Ganzel said.
The major accrediting agency visited the campus in 2013. The two biggest areas of change involve the pace of the curriculum.
It's an area that 4th year medical student Jessica Huber said has greatly improved and benefitted her.
"I think because of that experience and the experiences we had through the excellent first year curriculum, our class was able to set a record for the average board score passing for our step one," Jessica Huber said.
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The Western Michigan University Homer Stryker M.D. School of Medicine will be housed at the W.E. Upjohn M.D. Campus downtown and welcome its first class this fall. Dr. Homer Stryker was a Kalamazoo orthopedic surgeon and medical device inventor.
"Dr. Homer Stryker's lifelong efforts to develop innovative medical products and procedures have saved thousands, if not millions, of lives throughout the world," U.S. Rep. Fred Upton, R-St. Joseph, said in a statement. "Naming WMU's medical school after such a dedicated doctor who created the products needed by his patients so they could recover faster and lead fuller lives bodes well for those entering the new program."
Stryker's first big product in 1940 was a turning frame for those with broken bones. He also developed a motorized saw to speed the removal of a cast without cutting the patient.
The entering class of 50 students is to arrive this fall.
The medical school is being named in Stryker's honor thanks to his granddaughter, Ronda E. Stryker, and her husband, William D. Johnston, a Western Michigan University trustee.
"I can't think of a more appropriate namesake," said university President John Dunn.
Stryker and Johnston are the donors who made a founding gift, anonymous at the time, in excess of $100 million to the university three years ago to launch the medical school initiative.
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