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Medical School Pathology, 2013 Season, Session #59: Environmental Nutritional I – Video

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Master plan beginning to form for Austin's medical school

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For the past 18 years, UMC Brackenridge, a public hospital run by Central Health, has partnered with Seton Healthcare, a private company.

Now a master plan would deepen that partnership and bring on board the tax payer and the University of Texas. Wednesday was the second of three public meetings on the proposal.

The plan calls for the construction of a $250 million teaching hospital funded by Seton. Last week, UTs Board of Regents agreed to put up $334 million for a medical school.

"We are looking for sustainability, we know we can't continue to provide services like we are providing them in the way that we are providing them," Central Health President and CEO Patricia Young Brown said.

Isabel Rios with the League of United Latin American Citizens fears the change is coming too quickly.

"We do not need a massive overhaul. Our hospital needs to be kept in public hands in the hands of the community because we are taxpaying citizens," she said.

If the medical school is built, it would be the first UT medical school in Austin, expected to open in 2016.

The teaching hospital is slated to open in 2017.

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Medical school misses out again

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IT was a less than optimistic Vice Chancellor from Charles Sturt University when he made the trip to Canberra for Tuesday night's federal Budget.

Professor Andrew Vann was in the nation's capital hoping there would be some sort of funding for the university's push to establish a medical school out of the Bathurst campus.

However, his concerns the initiative wouldn't be on treasurer Wayne Swan's agenda was vindicated.

"Given the state of the Budget, I wasn't very optimistic given that any funding announcements would be coming our way on this occasion," Professor Vann said.

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"We have been working with the government and are starting to think the health minister is starting to speak our language.

"But the way the polls are at the moment, we are also working closely with the Coalition to get bipartisan support and I really think they believe this (a shortage of rural doctors) is a problem that needs to be fixed."

Professor Vann said given a federal election is due in September and with such a short timeline, the university will be pressing hard to get a firm election announcement before the nation goes to the polls.

"Things are tight, but the university needs to know where it's headed," he said.

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Medical School Pathology, 2013 Season, Session #60: Environmental Nutritional II – Video

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10 Private Medical Schools With the Lowest Price Tags

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The U.S. News Short List, separate from our overall rankings, is a regular series that magnifies individual data points in hopes of providing students and parents a way to find which undergraduate or graduate programs excel or have room to grow in specific areas. Be sure to explore The Short List: College and The Short List: Grad School to find data that matters to you in your college or grad school search.

Ben Bernanke, chairman of the Federal Reserve, admitted his shock at the price tag of medical education in a congressional hearing last year. "My son in medical school recently informed me that he expects to have $400,000 in debt when he graduates from school," he said in front of the House Committee on Financial Services.

That Bernanke, who had an estimated net worth between $850,000 and $1.9 million in 2008, according to the Associated Press, was jolted by the cost of his son's medical education should come as no surprise. These days, even wealthy families can't escape the staggering cost of medical school.

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For the 2012-2013 year, the average total cost for tuition and fees for nonresident, first-year medical students at private schools is $49,897, about $3,600 less than the total for nonresidents of public institutions, according to the Association of American Medical Colleges.

Of the top 10 least expensive private medical schools, Baylor College of Medicine continues to be the cheapest, with out-of-state tuition and fees totaling $30,068 for the 2012-2013 school year. Baylor was one of 47 ranked private schools that reported data to U.S. News in the fall of 2012.

The Medical College of Wisconsin had the highest price tag on the list, $45,179, landing in the No. 10 spot. The School of Medicine at Wake Forest University held this spot last year. Although the total for Wake Forest tuition and fees increased by more than $3,000 since the 2011-2012 school year, it now places ninth on the list.

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The average price for out-of-state tuition plus fees for the 10 least expensive schools is $38,619, almost $10,000 less than the average for all private medical schools. Out of all 47 schools, the School of Medicine at Tufts University was the most expensive, with tuition and fees totaling more than $55,000. Unranked schools, which did not meet certain criteria required by U.S. News to be numerically ranked, were not considered for this report.

Below is a list of the 10 least expensive private medical schools based on tuition and required fees.

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LSU Medical School in Shreveport could close in January

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As the state budget stands right now, the LSU Medical School in Shreveport will have to close next January.

Chancellor Dr. Robert Barish and Vice Chancellor of Clinical Affairs Dr. Hugh Mighty spoke in front of the Senate Finance Committee Monday in Baton Rouge to explain their financial situation.

If I depend on just on what you've budgeted, we would only have funding for about seven months, said Mighty.

According to Mighty, the med school will be short $42 million in the 2013-14 fiscal year starting in July.

Since its inception, the Med School has been partially funded by the hospital. The money it would give the Med School would come from reimbursements the state gave to it for the care of people on Medicaid and the uninsured.

Some of that money comes the Federal government, but last year the Feds cut back on the money it gives the state, so the hospital doesn't have the cash to fund the med school.

During the committee meeting, Sen. Eric LaFleur, (D) Ville Platte, asked, So if you can't sustain the school, do you have prediction on what would happen later in the year [2014]?

If we can't sustain the school it will go out of business obviously which will deal a great blow to the state, responded Mighty.

If the school closes that would mean nearly 900 students in Shreveport would be affected, but both Mighty and Chancelor Barish said they will not allow the school to close.

It's a stretch and a challenge to find a solution but we must find a solution, said Mighty.

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How A Florida Medical School Cares For Communities In Need

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With community-based health care a central part of its curriculum, Florida International University's medical school turned an RV into a mobile health clinic so that students could treat families in neighborhoods where medical care is scare.

With community-based health care a central part of its curriculum, Florida International University's medical school turned an RV into a mobile health clinic so that students could treat families in neighborhoods where medical care is scare.

If it's a Monday, you can usually find Dr. David Brown parked next to a lake in Miami, spending the day inside a 36-foot-long RV. He's not on vacation.

Brown is chief of family medicine at Florida International University's medical school. The RV is the school's mobile health clinic.

Every Monday it's parked at the Royal Country Mobile Home Park in northwest Miami-Dade County. "It's a beautiful place right here," he says. "But this is not a wealthy community."

Brown helps direct FIU's Neighborhood HELP program. It's part of the school's curriculum that connects medical students with families in neighborhoods where medical care is scarce.

Students visit families in their homes where they conduct examinations and provide basic care. But some things are better done in a clinic. So the medical school bought its own RV. "We're able to bring free basic primary care to our households relatively close to their community," Brown says.

In one of the RV's exam rooms, third-year medical student Veronica Alvarez met recently with patient Maritza Flores. Flores has diabetes and high blood pressure. With help from the school's faculty, Alvarez has been treating her since January.

Flores says with Alvarez's encouragement, she's begun exercising more and has improved her diet. And, thanks to FIU's doctors, she's begun taking medication for her diabetes and high blood pressure. In just a few months, Alvarez says, she's seen a big improvement. "The high blood pressure and the diabetes together is what you worry about," Alvarez says. "And now, her diabetes is well-controlled and her hypertension is well-controlled as well."

Over the last decade, a pressing need for new doctors has led many universities to open medical schools. Seventeen new schools have been accredited since 2005, and several are looking at new ways to train doctors.

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Medical School Pathology, 2013 Season, Session #46: Blood Vessels-II and Lab – Video

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