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2014 Medical School Faulty Promotion and Tenure Town Hall - January 14, 2014
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2014 - 10th. Annual IvaDean Scholarship Benefit Concert
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Health News of Monday, 20 January 2014
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A Senior Lecturer at the University of Ghana Medical School, Dr Angela Ofori- Atta, has urged medical students to consider specialising in psychiatry to have a better appreciation of caring for mentally challenged persons.
She said most students did not have interest in the field of psychiatry and psychology because of the myth surrounding mentally challenged persons.
Dr Ofori- Atta, who is also a clinical psychologist, was speaking at a conference organised by the Department of Psychiatry of the University of Ghana Medical School for final year students.
The conference, which formed part of the students research work, discussed four research works on topics related to mental health.
Dr Ofori- Atta added that the alarming rate of mental illness called for more specialists and health professionals to be trained in the field of psychiatry and psychology to address the issues.
Studies, she said, had shown that as of 2011, there were 19 psychiatrists and 17 psychologists in Ghana, which was not enough to cater for the mental health needs of Ghanaians.
KBTH to establish psychiatric facility
In his remarks, the Head of Psychiatry of the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital, Dr Samuel Ohene, said the management of the hospital had decided to establish a psychiatric facility to cater for the health needs of mentally challenged persons
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In a conversation over barbecued pork and green curry this week, Adam Gray said that a medical school for UC Merced remains one of his top priorities.
Its a dream shared by many in the region and one Gray believes he can help us realize even in the term-limited lifespan of a California assemblyman.
In 10 years, we should be able to make that happen, he said.
We think he might have to push a little harder than he expects.
Earlier last week, UC President Janet Napolitano met with the combined editorial boards of the Sacramento and Modesto Bees (OK, we joined by phone) and she was asked how the new med school in Merced was progressing.
Napolitano is an impressive, straightforward, no-nonsense woman. In listening to her, you understand why Arizonans elected her governor and why President Obama tapped her to head the Department of Homeland Security. After only three months on the job, she has acquired a thorough grasp of the issues confronting not only the UC system, but also the companion CSU and community college systems. She sees big pictures and her place in them. Shes moving forward.
But shes also a politician. That was evident as she deflected that UC Merced med school question.
Weve got to get Riverside right first, she said, noting that UC Riversides med school only this year went from a two-year program to four years. In the past, med students spent their first two years on the Riverside campus then their last two years at UCLA. Now, it will be all four at Riverside. Its a tremendously complicated undertaking. We know one of the missions is to help California meet its public needs, she said.
But about that med school in Merced?
Im focused on Merced, said Napolitano. The build-out of the primarily undergraduate aspect of it. The campus currently houses 6,500 students, and we want to be at 10,000 by 2020 and that means weve got to build some labs and classrooms. Theyre having biology classes at 9 oclock at night.
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Enjoy this guest post from Karan Chhabra, a medical student at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School and co-founder of the blog Project Millennial. Connect with him on Twitter at @krchhabra. Placebos work. This isn't news. The term "placebo" was coined 60 years ago to describe how one-third of people respond to pills without any active drug in them. Twenty-five years later, we learned how they work: through endorphins produced by the body that work just like morphine. Today placebos are everywhere: from mothers kissing boo-boos to international drug trials. A recent paper, though, shows that all placebos aren't created equal. As expected, the authors found placebo pills effective for reducing migraines in about one-fifth of patients. But it gets better. Take sham acupuncture, which doesn't target traditional pressure points and doesn't penetrate the skin. Despite being "fake," sham acupuncture reduced migraines in 38% of patients, making it as effective as real migraine drugs. The authors also studied sham surgery, in which doctors give anesthesia and cut the skin, but stitch it back together without doing anything to the tissues underneath. These fake operations helped 58% of migraine patients, potentially even more than active drugs. What does this tell us? It depends on whom you ask. Some might say we need to figure out how to predict a good response to placebo (and are trying to do just that). Others might say we need to test more procedures against shams, to make sure they're effective. Yet others might say sham surgery is unethical outright. These are questions without quick answers. For the rest of us, what can the placebo effect teach us about medicine as a whole? No treatments - drugs, placebos, shams - exist in a vacuum. They're part of a complex ritual of storytelling and listening, examining and touching, teaching and prescribing. Patients expect this ritual and I, like any medical student, am working to master it. Yesterday's medicine might've been a prayer or a poultice; todays it's delivered on blue slips and under blue drapes. But one thing that hasn't changed is that ailing humans want intervention. And the benefits of medicine transcend pills and procedures. Words, touch, and hope can be therapeutic. Wielded inappropriately, they can do harm too. Medicine embraces lots of treatments without proven benefit. Many doctors still stent narrowed blood vessels in the heart when patients have stable chest pain, even though the right pills extend life just as much. (Stents do appear better at preventing pain - but is that another placebo effect?) Some patients with early prostate cancer are also receiving expensive proton beam therapy instead of conventional radiation, again without evidence of benefit. Some doctors may be recommending these treatments for the wrong reasons. But I imagine many are working to satisfy a basic human impulse: to act aggressively in the face of disease. Our bodies respond better to high-touch, high-tech interventions: we get more pain relief from a $2.50 placebo than one that costs a dime. But bigger is not always better. Bigger is often more likely to do harm, through costs or complications.
What I take away from placebo research is that how we do our job is just as important as what we do. The notion that drugs and surgery are the only treatment we can offer has become a self-fulfilling prophecy. Medical training and research are decidedly focused on what drugs to give when - knowledge necessary, but not sufficient, to serve our patients. This may distract us from the psychological and social mechanisms beneath the human response to treatment. Rather than inventing a new procedure that might not be more effective than sham, we should be inventing ways to get the benefits of a sham without cutting the skin.
Many of our most common yet most frustrating afflictions have a psychological component: for example back pain, irritable bowel syndrome, and of course headaches. So it makes sense that these conditions have been shown again and again to respond to the placebo effect. It's now our duty to figure out how we can put that power to good use. What combination of advice, empathy, and touch unlocks our body's natural painkillers? Can we be high-touch without being high-tech? Can that be taught? Experienced clinicians may have the answer without even knowing it. But students like myself could use a bit more training on how to be our patients' placebos.
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Providing pre-medical students up-to-date information on requirements for medical school, and expanding the diversity within the medical profession, will be the focus of the second annual Pre-Medical and Pre-Health Conference set for Saturday, Jan. 18, at Cal State San Bernardino (CSUSB). The conference will take place 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Broadening Horizons, Empowering Students, Improving Communities is the theme for this years conference. Last year, the conference drew more than 300 participants.
Highlighting a wide professional array of keynote speakers and panelists, the event also will feature a Health Professions and Recruitment Fair, as well as workshops addressing topics such as medical school admissions, writing personal statements and choosing a specialty after completing a residency.
Keynote speakers at the conference will be Stefano Bertozzi, dean of the School of Public Health at the University of California, Berkeley; Petros Minasi, director of Pre-Medical Programs Content Development at Kaplan; and Sarah Lopez, currently working under a fellowship in emergency medicine hospital administration at USC.
The conference will open in the universitys Santos Manuel Student Union with the keynote presentations, panel discussions, recruitment fair and lunch. The panel discussions will feature deans of admission from various medical schools.
In the afternoon, conferees will move to CSUSBs College of Education building and Jack Brown Hall for the dozen-plus workshops.
Cost for the all-day conference is $45 at the door. Admission includes all-conference access to keynote speakers, workshops, the health professions fair, a Pre-medical Pre-health Conference T-shirt, breakfast, lunch and automatic entrance into various opportunity drawings.
The conference is organized entirely by CSUSB pre-med students.
To register or find more information, go to the conference website at http://www.csusbpremed.org/.
For more information on Cal State San Bernardino contact the universitys Office of Public Affairs at (909) 537-5007 and visit http://news.csusb.edu.
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Dr. Emanuel Suter, a founding leader of the University of Florida College of Medicine, has died at age 95.
A pioneer in medical education at the University of Florida, Dr. Emanuel Suter, died at the age of 95 on Jan. 8 in Charlottesville, Va., where he had lived in retirement.
Suter was the first chair of the microbiology department at UF and became the UF College of Medicine's second dean in 1965.
He was best known for developing a medical curriculum that introduced clinical practice with basic science education and became a model for medical schools across the nation, said Dr. Parker Small, professor emeritus at the College of Medicine.
Since then virtually all medical schools have recognized the need to integrate basic science with clinical medicine, Small said.
Small, who is also a microbiologist, worked with Suter and succeeded him as chair of the microbiology department in 1966.
He was the best boss I ever had -- an unbelievable human being, Small said, describing Suter as rigorously honest, selfless.
He never would take credit for anything. He would work hard on getting something done, getting it to work, and then make sure that someone else got the credit. Small said.
'He created a Camelot where people worked together, Small continued. It was an environment where all chairman had as goal the betterment of medicine.
Suter was born in Basel, Switzerland, and came to the U.S. in 1949 to pursue research on tuberculosis at the Rockefeller Institute, according to a UF media release. He then established an experimental education program at Harvard University that caught the attention of the UF faculty that recruited Suter.
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Dr. Augustus White, Ellen and Melvin Gordon Distinguished Professor of Medical Education, Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery, at Harvard Medical School, will address Wellesleys 14th annual Martin Luther King Day breakfast on Jan. 20 at Sun Life Executive Park (intersection of routes 9 and 128). Breakfast food will be available beginning at 8 a.m. and the program will take place from 8:30 to 10 a.m. The breakfast is jointly sponsored by the World of Wellesley (WOW) and Sun Life Financial.
For the past decade, White has focused on the national fight for equality in health care. He is the author (with David Chanoff) of the book Seeing Patients: Unconscious Bias in Health Care. White was the founding president of the J. Robert Gladden Orthopaedic Society, a multicultural organization with a mission to eliminate orthopaedic health care disparities and enhance diversity in the orthopaedic profession. He serves as the director of the Culturally Competent Care Education program at Harvard Medical School.
The Kuumba Singers of Harvard College will return to the King breakfast after an absence of several years. The mission of this racially and ethnically diverse choir is to express the creativity and spirituality of black people in a way that leaves a space better than it was found. The breakfast program will also feature a dance presentation by the Wellesley High School Thunder Step Squad.
Following the breakfast, the World of Wellesley is sponsoring the showing of a family movie, Our Friend, Martin, at Wellesley High School. A pizza lunch will be available, and all ages are welcome.
The World of Wellesley was founded in 1990 to support and promote racial and cultural diversity in Wellesley. Throughout the year the organization sponsors a variety of events with a diversity theme, including a series of programs cosponsored by the Wellesley Free Library. WOW also recognizes local businesses and other organizations for actions in support of diversity.
For more information on the King Celebration, contact Melissa Padley, 781-235-2739, mclemence@aol.com.
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