More doctors are needed in WA.

Curtin University is now aiming to open its planned medical school in 2016 as new figures reveal WA has the lowest rate of doctors of all States.

The latest national medical workforce data show Queensland and Tasmania had the lowest rate of working doctors in the country in 2008 but WA ranked the worst in 2012, with 343 doctors per 100,000 people compared with the national rate of 374 per 100,000.

The Australian Institute of Health and Welfare report found the number of employed doctors in WA increased in the four years from 6857 to 7906, while the proportion of doctors aged 55 and over grew from 21.1 per cent to 23.9 per cent.

WA has two medical schools at the University of WA and Notre Dame University. Curtin University wants to open a third one in Midland but is yet to get Federal Government approval so students can access Commonwealth-supported places.

When the plan was floated in 2010, Curtin said it hoped to open the new school by this year.

Acting Vice-Chancellor Colin Stirling said yesterday the university was now aiming to get accreditation in time to take in the first students in January 2016.

"There should be another medical school in WA producing locally-trained doctors and it should be in the eastern suburbs, where, together with regional undersupply, the needs are greatest," Professor Stirling said.

He said WA was about 900 doctors short compared with the rest of Australia, even with its heavy reliance on overseas-trained doctors.

But Australian Medical Association WA president Richard Choong said there was an unprecedented number of medical graduates coming into the health system, after the number of student places increased dramatically in recent years.

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Southern Nevada could see a much needed increase in the number of doctors in the area within the next few years after higher education leaders approved a multi-institutional partnership that seeks to establish a medical school at UNLV.

Officials hope the move will help to alleviate the states low-ranking health care system.

Nevada is currently 45th in the nation for health care quality, according to the federal Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, and local and higher education leaders argue that a medical school at UNLV would be integral in improving the states position.

Last month, the Nevada System of Higher Education Board of Regents approved a partnership between UNLV, the University of Nevada, Reno (UNR) and the University of Nevada School of Medicine (UNSOM) with the hopes of bringing a four year track allopathic medical school to the states southern university.

Outgoing UNLV president Neal Smatresk said forming a medical school at UNLV is highly critical.

This [partnership] defines a path and will involve a tremendous amount of work, he said.

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Contact: Mary Leach Mary_Leach@meei.harvard.edu 617-573-4170 Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary

BOSTON (Jan. 24, 2014) Researchers from Massachusetts Eye and Ear, Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Massachusetts General Hospital have demonstrated, for the first time, that aspirin intake correlates with halted growth of vestibular schwannomas (also known as acoustic neuromas), a sometimes lethal intracranial tumor that typically causes hearing loss and tinnitus.

Motivated by experiments in the Molecular Neurotology Laboratory at Mass. Eye and Ear involving human tumor specimens, the researchers performed a retrospective analysis of over 600 people diagnosed with vestibular schwannoma at Mass. Eye and Ear. Their research suggests the potential therapeutic role of aspirin in inhibiting tumor growth and motivates a clinical prospective study to assess efficacy of this well-tolerated anti-inflammatory medication in preventing growth of these intracranial tumors.

"Currently, there are no FDA-approved drug therapies to treat these tumors, which are the most common tumors of the cerebellopontine angle and the fourth most common intracranial tumors," explains Konstantina Stankovic, M.D., Ph.D., Mass. Eye and Ear clinican-researcher and assistant professor of otology andlaryngology, Harvard Medical School, who led the study. "Current options for management of growing vestibular schwannomas include surgery (via craniotomy) or radiation therapy, both of which are associated with potentially serious complications."

The findings, which are described in the February issue of the journal Otology and Neurotology, were based on a retrospective series of 689 people, 347 of whom were followed with multiple magnetic resonance imaging MRI scans (50.3%). The main outcome measures were patient use of aspirin and rate of vestibular schwannoma growth measured by changes in the largest tumor dimension as noted on serial MRIs. A significant inverse association was found among aspirin users and vestibular schwannoma growth (odds ratio: 0.50, 95 percent confidence interval: 0.29-0.85), which was not confounded by age or gender.

"Our results suggest a potential therapeutic role of aspirin in inhibiting vestibular schwannoma growth," said Dr. Stankovic, who is an otologic surgeon and researcher at Mass. Eye and Ear, Assistant Professor of Otology and Laryngology, Harvard Medical School (HMS), and member of the faculty of Harvard's Program in Speech and Hearing Bioscience and Technology.

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This work was funded by National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders grants T32 DC00038, K08DC010419 and by the Bertarelli Foundation. A full list of authors is available in the paper.

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Students visiting a medical school should ask current M.D. candidates about the curriculum and how stressed they are.

Finding the right medical school is a two-way street. While students have to persuade admissions officers of their worth, an institution has to sell itself, too. One way to gauge whether a school is the right fit: campus visits.

Medical school campus visits are often part of the admissions process. A number of schools interview applicants for much of the school year, sometimes hosting two candidates every week from September through March. Hopeful M.D.s usually spend the day getting a tour of the campus, sitting in on a class, interviewing with a faculty member and eating lunch with current students.

[Find a postbaccalaureate premed program that fits you.]

At some schools, interested candidates that have yet to apply such as those in a premed society also tour campus and meet with admissions officers, but aspiring students vying for an acceptance letter are much more common.

Experts agree that one of the most important things prospective medical school students can do during a visit is speak with current students. They, more than other people at a school, can give the most candid perspective on student life.

"They obviously really have some inside information that could be very valuable," says Sherri Baker, a pediatric cardiologist and the associate dean for admissions at the University of Oklahoma College of Medicine.

Schools often have current students give tours and eat lunch with prospective students. Admissions experts say it's during those times that a prospective candidate should ask questions about how and what medical students are taught.

They can ask about what the relationship is like between students and faculty and what kind of teaching methods are used, suggests Stephen Wheeler, an associate professor of family and geriatric medicine and associate dean of medical school admissions at the School of Medicine at University of Louisville. He says students can use these conversations to find out if a school practices team-based learning or other methods.

[Smarten up about medical school success.]

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AUSTIN (AP) The University of Texas has named a dean for its medical school, the first to be established by a tier-one university in decades, according to a published report.

Clay Johnston will assume his new role as head of UTs Dell Medical School on March 1. The 49-year-old Johnston currently is associate vice chancellor of research for the University of California, San Francisco considered one of the nations leading health science centers.

Johnston will oversee construction, hiring, curriculum development, admissions and other matters that must be concluded before the Dell school enrolls its first students in fall 2016, the Austin American-Statesman reported (http://bit.ly/1aJitXP ). Fifty students will be admitted annually for at least the first four years.

Johnston said it will take 20 years for the school to achieve broad excellence and prominence. He told the American-Statesman that he was drawn to Austin by the prospect of leading a medical school unconstrained by tradition and habit.

It just opens all kinds of opportunities to do it right. Im very excited to move to a new platform and create a medical school that looks like one for the new century rather than the last century, he said. And I hope we train more primary care docs than specialists.

Johnston will be paid $675,000 in his new role. The man who introduced him at a news conference Tuesday, UT President Bill Powers, is paid $624,350 a year.

Johnston said he envisions the Dell school adopting an approach in which pharmacists, nurses and other health care workers, not just doctors, are integral parts of the mix. Also being planned are a new teaching hospital, research and education buildings, and an approach to caring for indigent patients that officials say promises to improve their health while cutting costs.

UT administrators will be pushing for students to learn many of their lessons independently or in small groups, with less class time devoted to lectures and more time available for discussions and problem-solving.

Seton Healthcare Family has agreed to build, own and operate a $295 million teaching hospital on university-owned land adjacent to where UT will construct a research building, a medical office building and an education and administration building. UTs governing board has committed $25 million a year and an additional $5 million for the first eight years. The Travis County health care district has pledged to channel $35 million a year from a voter-approved property tax increase to the medical school.

We now have a world-class dean to lead a world-class medical school, said state Sen. Kirk Watson, D-Austin, who has been a leader in efforts to establish the school.

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Boston (January 22, 2014) The Harvard Medical School (HMS) Department of Ophthalmology has been granted a $30,000 Research to Prevent Blindness (RPB) Medical Student Eye Research Fellowship for Christina Marsica Grassi.

This grant will enable Ms. Grassi to take year-long sabbatical from medical school to pursue a research project within the Massachusetts Eye and Ear and HMS Department of Ophthalmology. Ms. Grassi will work with Dr. James Chodosh in the Howe Laboratory's Viral Pathogenesis Unit at Mass. Eye and Ear.

"The goal of Ms. Grassi's project is to elucidate the mechanisms that trigger the development of sterile vitritis in patients who have received an artificial Boston Keratoprosthesis (KPro) implant. These studies also may enrich our understanding of immune responses to other indwelling prosthetic devices," said Joan W. Miller, M.D., F.A.R.V.O., Chief of Ophthalmology at Mass. Eye and Ear and Massachusetts General Hospital and Chair of the HMS Department of Ophthalmology.

For patients who have failed corneal allograft surgery or are poor candidates for corneal transplantation, the damaged cornea can be replaced with a keratoprosthesis, or an artificial cornea, but post-operative inflammation remains a problem for many patients. A poorly characterized, idiopathic inflammation of the vitreous humor, called sterile vitritis, is one manifestation of inflammation after KPro implantation, Dr. Miller explained. The RPB Fellowship Grant will enable Ms. Grassi to conduct research that may lead to a better understanding of the underlying mechanisms that control this process and, ultimately, help refine the technology and improve outcomes for patients with this condition.

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Mass. Eye and Ear clinicians and scientists are driven by a mission to find cures for blindness, deafness and diseases of the head and neck. After uniting with Schepens Eye Research Institute in 2011, Mass. Eye and Ear in Boston became the world's largest vision and hearing research center, offering hope and healing to patients everywhere through discovery and innovation. Mass. Eye and Ear is a Harvard Medical School teaching hospital and trains future medical leaders in ophthalmology and otolaryngology, through residency as well as clinical and research fellowships. Internationally acclaimed since its founding in 1824, Mass. Eye and Ear employs full-time, board-certified physicians who offer high-quality and affordable specialty care that ranges from the routine to the very complex. U.S. News & World Report's "Best Hospitals Survey" has consistently ranked the Mass. Eye and Ear Departments of Otolaryngology and Ophthalmology as among the top hospitals in the nation. For more information about life-changing care and research, or to learn how you can help, please visit MassEyeAndEar.org.

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Boston (Jan. 22, 2014) The Harvard Medical School (HMS) Department of Ophthalmology has been granted a $250,000 Research to Prevent Blindness (RPB) Career Development Award to support eye research conducted by Jason I. Comander, M.D., Ph.D. The support will be provided over a four-year period.

The RPB Career Development Award Fund was established in 1990 to attract young physicians and basic scientists to eye research. To date, the program has given awards to 174 vision research scientists in departments of ophthalmology at universities across the country.

Dr. Comander's current research efforts are focused on studying patients with inherited retinal degenerations, including retinitis pigmentosa (RP), which is caused by genetic mutations inherited from one or both parents. Most people who suffer from RP typically experience a steady visual decline during their lifetime, with many patients becoming blind. The disease affects approximately 100,000 people in the U.S. and 2 million people worldwide.

A clinician scientist, Dr. Comander is a member of the Retina Service and the Berman-Gund Laboratory for the Study of Retinal Degenerations at Mass. Eye and Ear. He also conducts research as a member of the Ocular Genomics Institute at Mass. Eye and Ear/Harvard Medical School. With support from the RPB grant, Dr. Comander intends to develop and apply techniques for high-throughput functional characterization of human genetic variation and mutation in retinitis pigmentosa.

"This research addresses a major challenge in understanding the mechanisms that underlie the pathology of inherited retinal disease, and will help us determine which gene misspellings in patients are disease-causing and which are benign," says Dr. Comander. "This is an important time in the field of inherited retinal degenerations, when early successes with gene therapy and molecular diagnostics need to be expanded and translated into broad clinical use."

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AUSTIN-- The new Dell Medical School at the University of Texas has announced who will be its inaugural dean.

The school said Tuesday that Dr. S. Claiborne "Clay" Johnston has earned the position. He will be in charge of developing new teaching approaches, research and patient care for the medical school.

Johnston, 49, is currently the associate vice chancellor of research at the University of California-SanFrancisco.

"This is just a tremendous opportunity, to know that you're creating a world class medical school from the bottom up,"Johnston said.

The new dean went to Amherst College and got his medical degree at Harvard. He earned his Ph.D. at the University of California-Berkeley.

There is no greater opportunity for improving health care than by building a medical school from the ground up at a top institution like UT and in an entrepreneurial city like Austin. With a deeply committed community, its remarkable Austin hasn't had a medical school until now. The opening of Dell Medical School gives the city the chance to approach medical education differently and more effectively than ever before, Johnston said.

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BOISE Idaho ranks 49th in the nation for its number of doctors per capita, and many of the states current doctors are expected to retire in the next fewyears.

Whats more, the state, which has no medical school, is lagging on training newones.

Knowing that it can take up to 11 years after high school to produce a physician, Idaho really has some challenges ahead as these physicians start retiring, Dr. Mary Barinaga warned state lawmakers on Tuesday. That includes four years of college, four years of medical school and three to seven years of residency

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BOISE Idaho ranks 49th in the nation for its number of doctors per capita, and many of the states current doctors are expected to retire in the next fewyears.

Whats more, the state, which has no medical school, is lagging on training newones.

Knowing that it can take up to 11 years after high school to produce a physician, Idaho really has some challenges ahead as these physicians start retiring, Dr. Mary Barinaga warned state lawmakers on Tuesday. That includes four years of college, four years of medical school and three to seven years of residency andfellowship.

A new family medical residency training program in Coeur dAlene is one step to try to help, joining other residency programs around the state. It would train six students nextyear.

Lawmakers also are debating adding more medical school seats through a cooperative program that sends Idaho medical students to the University of Washingtons medical school, though Gov. Butch Otters proposed budget for next year doesnt fund moreseats.

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University Medical Center Brackenridge is a giant step closer to have a medical school to go with it. Today the school -- the Dell Medical School at the University of Texas--announced its first dean.

A lot of people worked behind the scenes to bring neurologist Dr. Clay Johnston from San Francisco to be the first dean of UT's new medical school. But Dr. Johnston knows he wouldn't be here without the blessing of local voters.

He says, "To imagine that in the middle of a recession that the citizens of a city would agree to increase their property tax. I can tell you it wouldn't happen in San Francisco."

In 2012, Travis County voters approved hiking the tax rate for Central Health-- the county hospital district-- in order to commit $35 million a year to support the medical school.

The school and its teaching hospital are all part of a grander plan to convert health care delivery in Austin to a team effort to address new economic realities including the Affordable Care Act.

Clarke Heidrick, a board member for Central Health says, "The way medicine is going to be played in the 21st century: nurses, pharmacists, social workers, the whole team that's going to have to take care of the population, certainly the population that Central Health serves."

And with all these changes also come opportunities. UT nursing students see jobs in their future. Olivia Tristan says, "I think we're going to be graduating right when it's opening. So hopefully we can slide in there and have a life-long career there, too."

The next milestone for the new medical school will be the groundbreaking ceremony for its new facilities. That's expected to come sometime in March.

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After a nine-month search by a committee including educators, health professionals and students, the University introduced Clay Johnston as the inaugural dean of the Dell Medical School on Tuesday morning.

Johnston, who studied at Amherst University, Harvard University and the University of CaliforniaBerkeley, is currently the associate vice chancellor of research and director of the Clinical and Translational Science Institute at the University of CaliforniaSan Francisco School of Medicine. He will begin serving as dean March 1.

The Dell Medical School, which went into planning in 2012 and was named last year, is in the final states of design and is expected to receive its first class of students in 2016. President William Powers, Jr. said Johnston was selected in part because of his forward-thinking vision for the school.

We had a dozen fantastic people from around the country, Powers said. This really garnered a great deal of interest from some very high level people. [Johnston] is innovative and open and wants to help design a medical school in a new way. He is very interested in new forms of health care delivery, and he has worked and proven himself in the institute that he heads up in his ability to work with many stakeholders in a complex situation.

Johnston said he will try to use his role as dean to advance the way medical schools approach health care, which he believes should be more patient-centric.

I think medical health care is really at an important juncture right now, Johnston said. My vision is to create a medical school that really represents where health care should be going, not where its been. Thats the beauty of starting from the ground up and then being able to take a look at how health care is working, how medical centers are working and design them for the next century.

Unlike the six existing medical institutions within the UT System, which each have their own president, Powers said Dell Medical School will be a unit of the University.

Johnston, who plans to continue treating patients as dean, said all individuals involved in the Dell Medical School project have different expectations for his performance. He said he will be expected to deliver excellent care to patients, create multidisciplinary programs intended to advocate research and turn the school and research hospital into modes for economic development in the community. Johnston said one of the first challenges he faces will be prioritizing these objectives.

The school is going to do all of those things, but when? Johnston said. You cant do all of those things from day one or year one or even year five. So the biggest challenge is prioritizing amongst these critical goals and making excellent progress in all of these areas but managing the expectations so that people understand that it is impossible to grow this thing, even in five years, to the vision that all of us have for it.

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BOISE - Not only does Idaho rank 49th in the nation for its number of doctors per capita, many of the states current doctors are expected to retire in the next few years, and the state, which has no medical school, is lagging on training new ones.

Knowing that it can take up to 11 years after high school to produce a physician, Idaho really has some challenges ahead as these physicians start retiring, Dr. Mary Barinaga warned state lawmakers on Tuesday. That includes four years of college, four years of medical school, and three to seven years of residency and fellowship.

A new family medical residency training program in Coeur dAlene is one step to try to help, joining other residency programs around the state; it would train six students next year. Lawmakers also are debating adding more medical school seats through a cooperative program that sends Idaho med students to the University of Washington, though Gov. Butch Otters proposed budget for next year doesnt fund more seats.

Dr. Dick McLandress, program director for the new Kootenai Family Medicine Residency in Coeur dAlene, said the need is particularly acute for primary-care doctors, with 50 percent expected to retire within the next five to seven years. In North Idaho, definitely were in the 50 percent zone, he said. That really matters to all of our communities.

Sen. Dan Schmidt, D-Moscow, a family physician himself, agreed. I know a lot of em, and theyre my age and older, said Schmidt, 59.

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