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Stritch Student Receives Leadership Award from AAMC

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Newswise MAYWOOD, Ill. Ray Mendez, third-year medical student at Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine, was named a 2013 Herbert W. Nickens Medical Student Scholarship recipient.

The Nickens awards, administered by the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC), consist of five scholarships given to outstanding students entering their third year of medical school who have shown leadership in efforts to eliminate inequities in medical education and health care and have demonstrated leadership efforts in addressing educational, societal, and health care needs of racial and ethnic minorities in the United States. Each recipient receives a $5,000 scholarship.

As president of Loyolas chapter of the Latino Medical Student Association (LMSA), Mendez helped reinstate the chapter that has now become a vibrant part of the medical school culture. Under his leadership, Loyola served as host for the 2013 LMSA regional conference.

In his second year of medical school, Mendez was selected as a Chicago Area Schweitzer Fellow and began working on a community-based project that combined his passion for community empowerment with preventative medicine. His goal was to provide minority students from low-income backgrounds with tools, skills, and confidence to pursue a career in medicine.

With the support of the Schweitzer Fellowship, he launched the Loyola chapter of the Health Professionals Recruitment and Exposure Program (HPREP), a bi-annual, six-week program aimed at decreasing health and health care disparities through the recruitment of underrepresented minorities into health care careers. Each six-week cohort includes workshops on health/health care disparities, preventative medicine, nutrition, study skills, career guidance, mentoring from medical students, and panels with minority health professionals. Mendez worked with school administrators to institutionalize the HPREP program within the Stritch Office of Diversity and Inclusion.

Mendez grew up in Chicago, and attended Millikin University in Decatur, Ill., where he received a B.S. in biology with a minor in chemistry. Hes preparing for a career as a community physician to provide high quality and accessible care to minority groups. The AAMC presented the Nickens award to Mendez and fellow recipients in a ceremony last November in Washington, DC.

For media inquiries, contact Evie Polsley at epolsley@lumc.edu or call (708) 216-5313 or (708) 417-5100.

The Loyola University Chicago Health Sciences Division (HSD) advances interprofessional, multidisciplinary, and transformative education and research while promoting service to others through stewardship of scientific knowledge and preparation of tomorrow's leaders. The HSD is located on the Health Sciences Campus in Maywood, Illinois. It includes the Marcella Niehoff School of Nursing, the Stritch School of Medicine, the biomedical research programs of the Graduate School, and several other institutes and centers encouraging new research and interprofessional education opportunities across all of Loyola University Chicago. The faculty and staff of the HSD bring a wealth of knowledge, experience, and a strong commitment to seeing that Loyola's health sciences continue to excel and exceed the standard for academic and research excellence. For more on the HSD, visit LUC.edu/hsd.

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Study: Campus, area 'ideal' for medical school

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Chancellor Tim Hudson, Paul Umbach and Jason Penry deliver the results of the Tripp Umbach firms study as to the feasibility of having an osteopathic medical school on campus. The proposed school would be the only licensed osteopathic medical school within Arkansas and could be welcoming students as early as 2016.

Development consulting firm Tripp Umbach has identified A-State as an ideal host institution for a proposed school of osteopathic medicine.

In a press conference Tuesday, Paul Umbach, president and founder of the Tripp Umbach firm, said A-State is in a very strong position to develop a medical program to serve the Delta and Northeast region of Arkansas.

The university already has a long history of doing medical, health science and nursing education, Umbach said. Its a school that has great relationships with its hospitals and physicians and it is in a community that is dynamic and growing and has a lot of support.

The osteopathic school would create a Bachelor of Science and graduate degree program for primary care physicians. Osteopathy places an emphasis on manipulative medicine techniques for reducing pain, restoring joint mobility and enhancing the bodys natural functions.

The Tripp Umbach feasibility study predicted a 25 percent decline in the number of osteopathic physicians practicing in Arkansas over the next five years, creating a wide open field for new osteopathic graduates.

We want students who are from this area to have access to medical education. Places in medical education are hard to find in Arkansas, Chancellor Tim Hudson said.

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Audio-Digest Foundation Announces the Release of General Surgery Volume 61, Issue 01: Gunshot Wounds/Cervical Spine.

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Audio-Digest Foundation Announces the Release of General Surgery Volume 61, Issue 01: Gunshot Wounds/Cervical Spine.

The goal of this program is to improve the management of gunshot wounds and injury to the cervical spine. After hearing and assimilating this program, the clinician will be better able to:

1. Weigh the evidence supporting selective nonoperative management of abdominal gunshot injuries. 2. Select patients that would benefit from nonoperative management of gunshot wounds. 3. Perform a stepwise clinical evaluation of the cervical spine in a patient who is alert and cooperative after blunt trauma. 4. Order appropriate imaging in patients with possible cervical spine injury. 5. Evaluate computed tomography scans to rule out injury to cervical spine after blunt trauma.

The original programs were presented by George Velmahos, MD, PhD, Professor of Surgery, Harvard Medical School, and Division Chief of Trauma, Emergency Surgery and Surgical Critical Care, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, presented on Nonoperative Management of Abdominal Gunshot Wounds, and Clearing the Cervical Spine.

Audio-Digest Foundation, the largest independent publisher of Continuing Medical Education in the world, records over 10,000 hours of lectures every year in anesthesiology, emergency medicine, family practice, gastroenterology, general surgery, internal medicine, neurology, obstetrics/gynecology, oncology, ophthalmology, orthopaedics, otolaryngology, pediatrics, psychology, and urology, by the leading medical researchers at the top laboratories, universities, and institutions.

Recent researchers have hailed from Harvard, Cedars-Sinai, Mayo Clinic, UCSF, The University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine, The University of Kansas Medical Center, The University of California, San Diego, The University of Wisconsin School of Medicine, The University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, and many others.

Out of these cutting-edge programs, Audio-Digest then chooses the most clinically relevant, edits them for clarity, and publishes them either every week or every two weeks.

In addition, Audio-Digest publishes subscription series in conjunction with leading medical societies: DiabetesInsight with The American Diabetes Association, ACCEL with The American College of Cardiology, Continuum Audio with The American Academy of Neurology, and Journal Watch Audio General Medicine with Massachusetts Medical Society.

For 60 years, the global medical community of doctors, nurses, physician assistants, and other medical professionals around the world has subscribed to Audio-Digest specialty series in order to remain current in their specialties as well as to maintain their Continuing Education requirements with the most cutting-edge, independent, and unbiased continuing medical education (CME).

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UQ medical school looks to even gender balance

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UQ's school of medicine is getting fewer women through the doors. Photo: Lawrence Dutrieux

The University of Queensland medical school may change its medical exam weighting for graduates after research showed it may be unnecessarily favouring men over women as future doctors.

Fairfax Media reported on Wednesday new research showing that since UQ removed interviews with potential students in 2009, the proportion of girls winning medicine places had slumped to 26 per cent by 2012.

Jennifer Schafer, director of the University of Queenslands School of Medicine, said the research by Professor David Wilkinson was commissioned by UQ to learn what impact the decision to scrap interviews had created.

I guess the numbers were a surprise to us, Dr Schafer said.

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We dropped the interview and the gender diversity changed a little bit.

But there are other variables that we think may have contributed to that.

Dr Schafer said UQs School of Medicine was now studying the research.

The 2012 results were very unexpected, she said.

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UTHealth Introduces Nation's First Mobile Stroke Unit

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Newswise HOUSTON (Feb. 5, 2014) The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth) Medical School, in partnership with Memorial Hermann-Texas Medical Center, has unveiled the countrys first Mobile Stroke Unit.

On board the ambulance is a computed tomography (CT) scanner that allows a mobile stroke unit team member to quickly assess whether a patient is having a stroke caused by a blood clot and if so, the clot-buster tPA (tissue plasminogen activator) can be administered. The stroke unit will be run in conjunction with the Emergency Medical Services of the Houston Fire Department, Bellaire Fire Department and West University Fire Department.

Stroke occurs when blood flow to the brain is interrupted by a blockage or a rupture in an artery, depriving brain tissue of oxygen. It is the fourth leading cause of death in the United States and a leading cause of disability. According to the American Stroke Association and the Centers for Disease Control, nearly 800,000 Americans suffer a stroke each year one every 40 seconds and stroke costs the United States $38 billion a year. The only FDA-approved treatment for ischemic stroke, the most prevalent kind, is the clot-buster tPA, but it must be given within three hours of the first signs of stroke to be most effective, and the earlier the better within that three-hour time frame.

It typically takes roughly an hour once a stroke patient arrives in the emergency room to receive treatment. So if we can actually put the emergency room in the ambulance and take the CT scanner to the patient, we could treat the patient at the scene with the medication and save that hour, said James C. Grotta, M.D., director of stroke research in the Center for Innovation & Research at Memorial Hermann-TMC and director of the mobile stroke unit consortium that will also include the stroke teams from Houston Methodist Hospital and St. Lukes Medical Center, local businesses and philanthropists. That hour could mean saving 120 million brain cells.

After observing a similar unit in Germany, Grotta, a longtime faculty member who served as chairman of UTHealths Department of Neurology for seven years, had the opportunity to present his idea to UTHealth Development Board members. He was pleasantly surprised when a couple approached him and offered to help with the project after the meeting in March 2013.

That couple, John and Janice Griffin, are owners of Frazer Ltd., a third-generation, family-run Houston company that builds emergency vehicles. After looking at the needs of a mobile stroke unit, Frazer felt it would need to engineer a new unit from the ground up.

We really liked the possibilities of moving medicine forward, said Laura Griffin Richardson, CEO and president of Frazer. Our company likes to push the limits and this had never been done before. Were excited to be located in Houston, the forefront of the medical community. Once everyone sees the possibility of putting a CT scanner in an emergency vehicle, the question is what else can we do?

Other local businesses such as H-E-B and Gallery Furniture, along with philanthropists, also generously supported the mobile stroke unit, giving $1.1 million to the UTHealth Medical School for the scanner and personnel.

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ASU Says Study Confirms Need for Osteopathic School

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The Arkansas State University System said Tuesday that a study it commissioned found that an osteopathic medical school at its Jonesboro campus would help meet a demand for primary-care physicians in the Delta and inject $70 million into the region.

In a news release, ASU Jonesboro Chancellor Tim Hudson said the university is moving ahead with plans to found an osteopathic school. He expects a proposal about how to do so will go before ASUs Board of Trustees on Feb. 28.

The Delta Regional Authority, which supports ASU's plans for an osteopathic school, helped fund the study conducted by Tripp Umbach, a consulting firm based in Pittsburgh.

"The addition of a new medical school would be a much needed investment into the health, welfare, and economy of northeast Arkansas and the greater Delta region," Chris Masingill, federal co-chairman of the Delta Regional Authority, said in a news release. "We have a dire need for more physicians in the Delta region, as currently 230 of counties and parishes in the Delta are considered to be health professional shortage areas."

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Dan Rahn, the chancellor of the state's only medical school, theUniversityofArkansasfor Medical Sciences, on Tuesday agreed that there's a physician shortage inArkansas"with large areas of the state being underserved." But he said he's not sure how establishing a new medical school would address the problem.

Rahn told Arkansas Business that the focus should be on adding more residency slots, not opening another medical school.

"Because otherwise we run the risk of educating new graduates within the state ofArkansaswho aren't actually going to contribute to solving the problems inArkansas," of the physician shortage, he said.

In order to become a licensed doctor, a medical student has to go through a residency program. In 2013, there were 528 graduates nationwide who didn't find a residency program to become a medical doctor, which was double the amount from 2012, Rahn said.

The Tripp Umbach study listed a need to expand graduate medical education and residency training among its findings. It said, "Arkansas State must work with state universities, hospitals, health centers, government entities and businesses to add residency positions statewide."

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Arkansas State University finds demand for an osteopathic med school

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Least shocking news of the day is that, as I predicted back in September, a consultant hired by Arkansas State University has confirmed the university's belief that there's sufficient demand to start a medical school osteopathic medicine variety in Jonesboro.

The Delta Regional Authority has thrown its weight behind the idea. The selling point is to create more primary care doctors, particularly for the Delta. Many discussions will be held about whether doctors produced in these fields can be counted on to stay in the underserved areas the program is supposed to help.

Yet to be heard, too, are the likely cautionary words from the state's existing medical school, which enjoys a state subsidy through both direct contributions and UAMS' role as a major recipient of federally subsidized health spending dollars. The country's med schools are already producing more graduates than residencies to accommodate them. But the expansion of government health care might spur a demand for doctors that rebalances that equation. Note that UAMS has expanded its educational arm to Northwest Arkansas, though not yet with a full medical school.

UPDATE: UAMSChancellor Dan Rahn talked to Leslie Peacock about his reaction to ASU's announcement. His reaction: "I don't think this proposal addresses our problems in Arkansas."

To be eligible to practice as a licensed physician, doctors must have completed some kind of post-graduate training in an approved residency program.Rahn said that nationally, 582 med school graduates were unable to get into residency programs last year, and nine UAMS graduates did not. Some of them may have been simply outmatched, but, according to the chancellor, while medical schools have been graduating more doctors, "the number of available residencies has not kept pace with the medical school graduation rate." One reason is the fact that Medicare capped the number of residencies it would support in 1997.

What's needed to address the shortage of primary care physicians, especially in Arkansas's rural areas, Rahn says: Keep the "private option" viable to insure the working poor and help hospitals' bottom line, plan at the state level on ways to increase the number of resident slots and push forward with reforms of the healthcare delivery system, including adding to the numbers of advanced practice nurses and physicians assistants.

Those were the conclusions that Rahn and Paul Halverson, who was director of the state Health Department at the time, provided in a report to Gov. Mike Beebe.

Rahn also noted that private osteopathy schools will cost students far more in tuition and fees than the state-subsidized UAMS, where tuition and fees come to around $24,000. According to this chart by the American Association of Colleges of Osteopathic Medicine, which tuition and fees as high as around $54,000 and none lower than around $30,000.

A feasibility study is also underway about starting a D.O. medical school in Fort Smith.

A med school in Jonesboro with 100 students will create "thousands of jobs," the news release says.

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Groups work to increase number of minorities in medical field

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Posted on February 4, 2014 at 6:21 PM

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PHOENIX -- With a growing minority population, Arizona is looking to keep pace by increasing the number of minorities entering the medical field.

Tour for Diversity in Medicine is helping make that push, but they arent the only ones. Its the first time the tour comes to a community college and the first time its in Arizona.

More than 100 students went to Estrella Mountain Community College in Avondale to learn about how to get into medical school. One of the biggest pieces of advice was to start early, and thats exactly what students at Alhambra High School are doing through a medical magnet program.

Most of Damian Fairbanks students are minorities. "Our school population is more than 80 percent Hispanic," he said. It's not unusual to hear Fairbanks speak Spanish to get his students to remember medical terms.

Marco Zaragoza grew up in a Spanish-speaking household. "Growing up was tougher. My parents knew little to no English, and when it came down to homework, they only went to a certain level of school to the point they couldn't help me anymore," said Zaragoza.

Zaragoza said it was a struggle getting through school. "It's a huge accomplishment for me to make it this far," he said. He said his aunt helped him with schoolwork. "Without her, I probably wouldn't be here right now, he said.

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Medical tourists seeking treatment overseas without sufficient information and advice

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A team of researchers has found that British people travelling abroad for medical treatment are often unaware of the potential health and financial consequences they could face.

The researchers say this can, in some cases, have catastrophic effects for individual patients.

At least 63,000 UK residents travel abroad for medical treatment each year. However, the study led by the University of York, and involving the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, Royal Holloway University, the University of Birmingham and Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, concludes that many people are embarking on medical tourism without understanding the risks involved.

These include a lack of redress in many countries should things go wrong, and the costs of non-emergency care at home to rectify poor outcomes of treatments received overseas. Many people, the researchers say, are unaware that under current NHS eligibility and commissioning rules, individuals may be personally liable for these costs.

The research was funded by the National Institute for Health Research Health Services and Delivery Research (NIHR HS&DR) Programme. The study looked at the effects on the NHS of British nationals going abroad for services including dentistry, bariatric (weight-loss) surgery, fertility services and cosmetic surgery.

Principal Investigator Dr Neil Lunt, from the University of York's Department of Social Policy and Social Work, said: "We found that many people are embarking on medical tourism with insufficient information and advice, with consequences ranging from troublesome to catastrophic.

"A sample of patients revealed that while some patients had minor or no problems following treatment abroad, others faced severe health problems which in some cases were exacerbated by an inability to ensure continuity of care or obtain patient records to address patients' needs."

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UNLV med school: Only time will tell

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In the debate over a proposed public medical school in Las Vegas, some have questioned whether donors would support it. I am writing as the former director of Nevada giving for the Lincy Foundation. The foundation made several major grants to health care in Nevada, including to Nevada Heath Centers, St. Rose Hospitals, Nathan Adelson Hospice and Nevada Cancer Institute. Our gifts to NCI alone totaled about $60 million.

Donors, businesses and our community need a stand-alone medical school at UNLV. This is not a new conversation, and we have a dog in this fight.

Most of this funding occurred in the past 10 years, including a $5 million gift in 2008 to University of Nevada Health Sciences Foundation for a clinical simulation center. That gift proved crucial for the UNR medical school, also known as UNSOM, the University of Nevada School of Medicine. Things were not looking good in 2009, and the accreditation review of the school by the Liaison Committee on Medical Education issued a warning of probation, finding that Educational space has long been deficient on the Las Vegas UNSOM campus and that there was a chronic invisibility of UNSOM in the Las Vegas community.

In its response, UNSOM highlighted its only new investment in years, which happened to be the Lincy Foundation gift.

Now, fast forward to a more current conversation: The Lincy Institute at UNLV (supported by a gift that the foundation made for $14 million) continues this investment by producing health policy research in Nevada. The Lincy Institute commissioned the recent study by Tripp Umbach, which found that by 2030, an independent medical school at UNLV could produce more than $1 billion in economic impact and add 8,000 jobs in the region. So regardless of our need for a medical school in the south, simply based on economics and return on investment, it could be a good idea.

Over the past month, the only retort to this data is that the south wont support an independent medical school. Medical school Dean Thomas Schwenk said Las Vegas philanthropists are confused by the north-south divisions and are thus not contributing gifts to a Southern Nevada medical school.

As a major donor to health care in Nevada, the Lincy Foundation is the opposite of confused. We know precisely what UNR is selling, and we are not buying a second UNR medical school in Las Vegas. People are not interested in a second UNR campus of what Tripp Umbach found to be the least economically beneficial allopathic medical school in America.

Philanthropy is often determined by geography. For instance, several major gifts to the UNR medical school by the Pennington and Redfield foundations have required that their funds stay in Northern Nevada. The Lincy Foundation could have required a similar constraint on its gift to the clinical simulation center. Rather, to benefit all Nevadans, our gift allowed the Reno-based medical school use of the facility.

I believe Schwenk would find a pool of donors in Las Vegas if he were asking for gifts for a UNLV medical school and not simply a branch of the UNR medical school.

Either way, I think Southern Nevadans should consider waiting for someone who understands us before we open our checkbooks. Only time will tell.

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Tour for Diversity in Medicines 5th Bus Tour Crosses the Southwest to Mentor the Next Generation of Minority Medical …

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Albuquerque, N.M. (PRWEB) February 03, 2014

The Tour for Diversity in Medicine, a volunteer initiative developed by two young physicians, will travel across the Southwest from February 3 7, 2014 during its fifth bus Tour to help minority students pursue careers in medicine and dentistry. Reaching five universities and colleges in just five days, 15 doctors, dentists and medical school students from across the country will provide free, full-day workshops to local college students. For the first time the Tour also will offer a new combined curriculum highlighting college readiness for high school and college students in Albuquerque, N.M. In addition, the Tour will provide courses customized for the needs of community college students when it meets with them for the first time in Phoenix.

Sponsored in part by the U.S. Army, the Tour for Diversity in Medicine aims to help diversify the health care profession by giving minority students the advice and tools they will need to pursue medical careers. Although African Americans, Hispanics and Native Americans comprise more than 26 percent of the U.S. population, they represent only six percent of practicing physicians and five percent of dentists, according to the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC). However, research shows that patients who receive care from doctors of the same background are more satisfied and engaged in their care.

Were working community-by-community to inspire the next generation of healthcare professionals and make a positive impact on the current state of diversity in the medical profession, said Alden Landry, M.D., co-founder of the Tour for Diversity in Medicine and an emergency department physician at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston. Our new curriculum for high school and community college students will help even more students better understand how they can overcome perceived barriers of pursuing a medical career. Through in-person meetings and ongoing mentorship after our Tours, were making a tangible difference in the lives of future doctors across the country.

The Tour for Diversity in Medicine will travel more than 1,700 miles to visit the following schools:

The Tour for Diversity in Medicine is working toward a significant goal: ensuring the growing rate of diversity in the U.S. population is reflected among our health care providers, so that patients can receive the best care possible, said Mr. Randy Lescault, Chief of Advertising and Public Affairs for the U.S. Army Medical Recruiting Brigade. As a continuing sponsor, were proud to support this impactful grassroots initiative that is taking real steps to help underrepresented minority students navigate their path to medical school. It gives us an opportunity to meet young, motivated students across the country who have a desire to serve their fellow man, and allows for a forum to share information regarding careers in Army Medicine and our Health Professions Scholarship Program."

At each stop, the Tour offers day-long interactive sessions with mentors who review the medical school application process, admissions tests, financial aid, interviewing skills and provide an overview of health disparities. Students also have a chance to meet with mentors one-on-one to gain personal insights and understanding of how to build successful careers.

Additional support for the Tour comes from AAMC, American Dental Education Association and the American Association of Colleges of Podiatric Medicine. The events are free for students, with registration available at tour4diversity.org.

Weve reached more than 1,800 students in 17 states and Washington, D.C. over the past two years, seeing first-hand the positive impact mentorship from doctors who come from similar backgrounds can have on a students life, said Kameron Matthews, M.D., J.D., co-founder of the Tour for Diversity in Medicine and Chief Medical Officer of the Mile Square Health Center at the University of Illinois Hospital & Health Sciences System in Chicago. Were ready to get back on the road and continue to spark interest in health care careers among more students by providing them with the access to resources and information that they need to build fulfilling careers in medicine.

In addition to in-person mentoring and live events, The Tour for Diversity in Medicine keeps students engaged at tour4diversity.org with the Voices of Diversity blog, interactive webinars and educational videos. Follow the Tour for Diversity in Medicine at Facebook.com/tourfordiversity and Twitter @Tour4Diversity.

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