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Cannabis Career Institute Now Enrolling in Detroit

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Detroit, MI (PRWEB) January 15, 2014

The State of Michigan has instituted one of the most humane approaches to giving people with life threatening illnesses access to medical marijuana. People with debilitating medical conditions such as cancer, glaucoma, positive HIV status, AIDS, Hepatitis C, Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, Crohn's Disease, Alzheimer's have access to medical cannabis. Michigan's Medical Marijuana Act acknowledges the use of medical cannabis for wasting syndrome, severe, chronic pain, nausea, seizures, muscle spasms and a host of conditions. CCI is in the vanguard of offering state-specific information on medical marijuana entrepreneurship business opportunities in full compliance with the prevailing laws of that particular state. CCI has successfully conducted classes and graduated several hundred medical marijuana entrepreneurs in Arizona, California, Illinois, New Jersey Nevada, Massachusetts, and Washington State. The American Medical Association has called on the federal government to consider facilitating clinical research and the development of cannabinoid based medications. Prestigious medical organizations such as the American Academy of family Physicians, the American Public Health Association, Kaiser Permanente and the New England Journal of Medicine have all advocated for prescriptive access to medical marijuana.

The medical marijuana industry is projected to generate $600 billion in the U.S. annually. In an era in which most businesses have reached saturation and stagnating profits, medical marijuana businesses represent an unprecedented opportunity in which the only limit is the entrepreneur's imagination. CCI's Detroit school is uniquely poised to help you access a business opportunity, which if handled correctly, can far exceed expectations. Not only is the medical marijuana field undergoing explosive growth, its future involves very imaginative manifestations of medical marijuana businesses. Hundreds of operators from cultivation sites and dispensaries to edibles manufacturers and ancillary firms will be created in the next year, generating millions of dollars in revenue.

Conservatively speaking, according to Robert Calkin, one of the nation's premier medical marijuana experts, and founder and CEO of CCI (and one of the school's instructors), the average dedicated and focused dispensary owner that lawfully grows and distributes medical marijuana can potentially earn upwards of $10,000 per day and an average master grower can realize $250,000 a year. Profits like this can be easily achieved, if a person possesses a thorough understanding of the legal framework as well as diligently applies the knowledge they will gain by attending the school. The Cannabis Career Institute offers educational classes and nationally recognized instructors guiding prospective medical marijuana business owners in the art and science of establishing and maintaining successful, legal delivery and dispensary businesses. Our classes focus on the latest, legal and compliance aspects, marketing, operating, budgeting, growing, cooking and more. CCI has been launching full-range medical marijuana classes throughout the nation for over five years. taught by highly knowledgable instructors, students will be armed with the knowledge they need to open and run their own legal medical marijuana businesses.

The enrollment fee is $299. This may seem like a lot for a day's worth of instruction, but consulting with an attorney for just an hour can be $300. There will be at least five medical cannabis industry experts at this class, sometimes as many as ten or more. All of these experts will empower you with the necessary knowledge you need to achieve a thriving business.

The all-day school will be held on Saturday, January 18th, 2014 at the Robert's Riverway Hotel, 1000 River Place Drive, Detroit, MI Classes are from 9:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. Entrepreneurs and students will get a very solid foundation in learning the principles required to establish a successful business. Additionally, they will personally meet and engage with leading experts in the medical marijuana field such as accountants, attorneys, grow experts and edibles and strain experts. Students also have the option of purchasing the accompanying textbook, as well as a wealth of training materials at the class and on-line.

Class size is very limited. Please enroll now at http://www.CannabisCareerInstitute.com or by calling (800) 753-2240.

About Cannabis Career Institute (CCI) Cannabis Career Institute (CCI), http://www.CannabisCareerInstitute.com was founded in March, 2008 by Robert Calkin, and is now the second oldest cannabis school in the nation. There are over 1500 successful graduates, currently hailing from at least 10 U.S. cities, including Sacramento, Phoenix, Chicago, Boston, Seattle, Las Vegas and Los Angeles. CCI is experiencing phenomenal growth this year. We are planning on launching medicine marijuana curriculum in 30 or more U.S., Canadian and Caribbean and South American cities. The content of our curriculum is based of stellar levels of expertise throughly grounded in the most current laws and regulations.

More then just emphasizing the delivery of medical marijuana, CCI classes are focused on providing a comprehensive and complete medical marijuana business education - incorporating legal aspects, dispensary business planning and the marketing principles necessary to be successful in this burgeoning industry. CCI makes you self-reliant as well as completely compliant with the prevailing medical marijuana laws of Michigan.

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Does Medical School Need a Fast Track?

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For Travis Hill, it was an offer too good to refuse.

Last year when the 30-year-old neuroscientist was admitted to a new program at New York University that would allow him to complete medical school in only three years and guarantee him a spot in its neurosurgery residency, he seized it. Not only would Hill save about $70,000 the cost of tuition and living expenses for the fourth year of medical school he would also shave a year off the training that will consume the next decade of his life.

Im not interested in being in school forever, said Hill, who earned a Ph.D from the University of California at Davis in June 2013 and started med school in Manhattan a few weeks later. Just knowing where youre going to be for residency is huge. So is Hills student loan debt: about $200,000, dating back to his undergraduate days at the University of Massachusetts. And he wont begin practicing until he is 40.

The chance to finish medical school early is attracting increased attention from students burdened with six-figure education loans: The median debt for medical school graduates in 2013 was $175,000, according to the Association of American Medical Colleges. This year, the combined cost of tuition and fees for a first-year medical student ranges from just over $12,000 to more than $82,000.

Some medical school administrators and policymakers see three-year programs as a way to produce physicians, particularly primary-care doctors, faster as the new health-care law funnels millions of previously uninsured patients into the medical system. Enormous student loans are cited as one reason some newly minted doctors choose lucrative specialties such as radiology or dermatology, which pay twice as much as pediatrics or family medicine.

But debt and the shortage of primary-care doctors are not the only factors fueling interest in accelerated programs.

Some influential experts are raising questions about the length of medical school in part because much of the fourth year is devoted to electives and applying for a residency, a process that typically takes months. (Similar questions are being raised about the third year of law school.)

In a piece published in the Journal of the American Medical Association in 2012, University of Pennsylvania Vice Provost Ezekiel Emanuel and Stanford economist Victor Fuchs proposed that a year of medical school could be eliminated without adversely affecting academic performance. The overall time it takes to train physicians, they wrote, is an example of waste in medical education and could be shortened without affecting patient care or eroding clinical skills; students could be assessed on core competencies rather than on time served.

A 2010 report by the Carnegie Foundation recommended that fast-tracking be considered.

So far, fewer than a dozen of the nations 124 medical schools are offering or actively considering three-year programs, which typically involve the elimination of electives, attendance at summer classes and the provisional guarantee of a residency offered because three-year graduates might be at a disadvantage compared with other applicants.

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NRMP/ECFMG Publish Charting Outcomes in the Match for International Medical Graduates, Characteristics of Applicants …

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Washington, D.C. (PRWEB) January 15, 2014

The National Resident Matching Program (NRMP) and the Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates (ECFMG) are pleased to announce the publication of "Charting Outcomes in the Match for International Medical Graduates, Characteristics of Applicants Who Matched to Their Preferred Specialty in the 2013 Main Residency Match," a report that highlights the characteristics of international medical school students and graduates (IMGs) who matched to their preferred specialties in the Main Residency Match. An IMG is a physician who receives a basic medical degree or qualification from a medical school located outside the United States and Canada.

NRMP Executive Director Mona M. Signer said, 'Charting Outcomes in the Match for International Medical Graduates' is intended to be a resource to help IMGs make educated choices as they apply to and rank residency programs in the Main Residency Match. ECFMG President & Chief Executive Officer Emmanuel G. Cassimatis, M.D., commented, This resource provides data that are both recent and detailed about IMGs who succeeded in their pursuit of U.S. residency positions. It is an important addition to the knowledge base available to IMGs who are pursuing U.S. residencies in 2014 and beyond. In 2013, 34,355 medical students and graduates participated in the Main Residency Match. IMGs accounted for more than one-third (36.8%) of the applicant pool, including 7,568 non-U.S. citizen IMGs and 5,095 U.S. citizen IMGs.

"Charting Outcomes in the Match for International Medical Graduates" is a collaborative publication of the NRMP and the ECFMG. It is modeled after "Charting Outcomes in the Match," a biennial report published by the NRMP and the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) that describes the characteristics of U.S. allopathic senior students and independent applicants who matched to their preferred specialties in the Main Residency Match.

"Charting Outcomes in the Match International Medical Graduates" utilizes a different set of measures from the original "Charting Outcomes in the Match." Some applicant characteristics, such as number of contiguous ranks, number of specialties ranked, and USMLE scores are included in both reports, but other characteristics that are relevant only to IMGs were added, including:

Summary

Overall, 48 percent of U.S. IMGs matched to their preferred specialty, ranging from 59 percent (Anesthesiology) to 28 percent (Emergency Medicine). For non-U.S. IMGs, the overall match rate was 44 percent, ranging from 53 percent (Pathology) to 32 percent (Family Medicine). In general, U.S. IMG applicants are more successful in matching to their preferred specialty than are non-U.S. IMGs.

The report showed that IMG applicants who are successful in matching to their preferred specialty are more likely to:

Other measures appear to be related to match success, but the relationships are not strong enough to draw broad conclusions across specialties. Data sources used in the report do not include other important applicant factors such as course evaluations, reference letters, and the Medical School Performance Evaluation. Despite the strong relationship between USMLE Step scores and match success, the distributions of scores show that programs consider other qualifications, and high USMLE scores are not a guarantee of success. Even in the most competitive specialties, a few individuals with higher scores are not successful. Neither is a lower score a bar to success.

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Medical School hosts town halls to talk promotion

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Even doctors need a reminder that in order to succeed, you have to ask for what you want.

Margaret Gyetko, the senior associate dean for faculty and faculty development at the University Medical School, held a seminar Tuesday to address the ways that the Medical Schools faculty members can best earn promotions and tenure.

The meeting was part of a series hosted by the schools dean, James Woolliscroft, as a way to promote interaction between the Medical School community and its leadership. The series of town halls supplement issues raised in Woolliscrofts State of the School presentation, which was held in September.

This event was Gyetkos seventh seminar on the topic. The idea for the series first emerged after she received large numbers of poorly prepared promotion packages from the schools faculty.

I had been getting a lot of applications where it was very clear to me that (the applicants) were smart and talented, but they didnt know how to plan ahead in a way best conducive to achieving promotions, Gyetko said. You know, we have an amazing and brilliant faculty, but the only way to win the game is to know the rules, and know if youre ahead or behind.

The seminar focused on what aspects are most valued and scrutinized by the schools leadership when making decisions about promotions of faculty members.

Gyetkos talk focused on different ways that faculty could prepare their promotion packages to make themselves most appealing, as well as the types of goals they try to achieve that would make them ideal candidates for a promotion in the future.

Gyetko added that the timeline to obtain a promotion is long and cannot be rushed in the five years before a faculty member requests career advancement. She also said its important for faculty to understand that moving up is natural and that they should strive for it.

During the seminar, Gyetko said she recommends cultivating relationships with people in the same field, following through on promises and ensuring preparedness for the added responsibilities that accompany a promotion. She also drew attention to a program available at the Medical School to help faculty assess their readiness before beginning to prepare promotion packages.

The entire lecture is available for viewing on the UMHS website.

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Medical school to arm students with iPads

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Medical students, following in the footsteps of doctors across the country, will use iPads as part of a new curriculum next year.

Next years new GW medical students will have made it through one of the most selective admissions processes in the country. But theyll each get a bonus: a new iPad.

The School of Medicine and Health Sciences will distribute iPads to its about 180-student first-year class for the first time next fall, joining a host of medical schools that are investing in a tool that is becoming more prevalent for doctors around the country.

Theyll get their white coats and their iPads and theyll be new GW medical students, said Jeffrey Akman, dean of the medical school, at a recent Faculty Senate meeting.

The iPads will complement a new curriculum that cuts down on basic science classes taken in the first two years to get students into the clinics and hospitals more rapidly, Akman said. The school will also reduce lecture time and stress team-based learning.

Its about continuing to emphasize areas as we look toward what a physician of next generation should look like in terms of training, he added.

Purchasing iPads for each member of the first-year class could rack up to nearly $70,000, but Bernhard Wiedermann, a professor of pediatrics who is leading the curriculum revision, said the school will likely receive an educational discount. She added that the school plans to cover the cost with money from school's academic fundraising White Coat Initiative.

Howard Lee, a fourth-year student, said the iPads are a good investment for budding doctors. He bought one in his second year because it seemed more practical for note taking, textbooks and filing information on patients.

You can do two things at once, so sometimes if youre listening to an audio recording of your lecture you can look at your notes at the same time, Lee said, adding that he sometimes watches videos of procedures before heading to class.

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Should medical school be shortened to three years? Some programs try fast tracking.

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For Travis Hill, it was an offer too good to refuse. Last year when the 30-year-old neuroscientist was admitted to a new program at New York University that would allow him to complete medical school in only three years and guarantee him a spot in its neurosurgery residency, he seized it. Not only would Hill save about $70,000 the cost of tuition and living expenses for the fourth year of medical school he would also shave a year off the training that will consume the next decade of his life.

Im not interested in being in school forever, said Hill, who earned a PhD from the University of California at Davis in June 2013 and started med school in Manhattan a few weeks later. Just knowing where youre going to be for residency is huge. So is Hills student loan debt: about $200,000, dating back to his undergraduate days at the University of Massachusetts. And he wont begin practicing until he is 40.

The chance to finish medical school early is attracting increased attention from students burdened with six-figure education loans: The median debt for medical school graduates in 2013 was $175,000, according to the Association of American Medical Colleges. This year, the combined cost of tuition and fees for a first-year medical student ranges from just over $12,000 to more than $82,000.

Some medical school administrators and policymakers see three-year programs as a way to produce physicians, particularly primary-care doctors, faster as the new health-care law funnels millions of previously uninsured patients into the medical system. Enormous student loans are cited as one reason some newly minted doctors choose lucrative specialties such as radiology or dermatology, which pay twice as much as pediatrics or family medicine.

But debt and the shortage of primary-care doctors are not the only factors fueling interest in accelerated programs.

Some influential experts are raising questions about the length of medical school in part because much of the fourth year is devoted to electives and applying for a residency, a process that typically takes months. (Similar questions are being raised about the third year of law school.)

In a piece published in the Journal of the American Medical Association in 2012, University of Pennsylvania Vice Provost Ezekiel Emanuel and Stanford economist Victor Fuchs proposed that a year of medical school could be eliminated without adversely affecting academic performance. The overall time it takes to train physicians, they wrote, is an example of waste in medical education and could be shortened without affecting patient care or eroding clinical skills; students could be assessed on core competencies rather than on time served.

A 2010 report by the Carnegie Foundation recommended that fast-tracking be considered.

So far, fewer than a dozen of the nations 124 medical schools are offering or actively considering three-year programs, which typically involve the elimination of electives, attendance at summer classes and the provisional guarantee of a residency offered because three-year graduates might be at a disadvantage compared with other applicants.

NYU launched its program in September with Hill and 15 other students chosen from a pool of 50 applicants nearly a third of the medical schools 160-member class.

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