AN online campaign supporting Charles Sturt Universitys push for a medical school is closing in on its target of 25,000 supporters on its Facebook page.

Almost 17,000 people have now liked CSUs Doctors For The Bush page, supporting a campaign to bring more general practitioners to country areas and establishing a new medical school.

Thousands have also signed an online petition that states: I call on the Federal and NSW Governments to back CSUs plan to establish a Health and Medical Education Precinct in rural NSW and commit to providing $98 million in funding and 80 medical student places to make this a reality.

The online campaign is the latest plank in CSUs bid to pressure state and federal MPs to back CSUs ongoing push for an integrated medical school across the Bathurst and Orange campuses.

It would be a huge boost to both the reputation of the university and to regional health services, with figures showing that doctors who train in the bush are more likely to remain working in the bush after they graduate.

CSU has already submitted a detailed funding proposal to the Federal Government but though Coalition MPs at a state and federal level have been happy to pledge their support, the university has so far been unable to convince Regional Australia Minister Simon Crean of the plans benefits.

CSU last week confirmed NSW Health Minister Jillian Skinner had formally invited the university to start negotiations with the government on the student numbers, medical training requirements and infrastructure for a new medical school at CSU.

This is fantastic news, a post on the Facebook page said.

However, this is just a first step as final approval for a new school must be granted by the Federal Health Minister Tanya Plibersek.

Help us to show the government what rural people want. Today we start a campaign to get 25,000 signatures on our petition and 25,000 supporters on Facebook.

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SINGAPORE: The Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, a joint medical school by Imperial College London and Singapore's Nanyang Technological University, has appointed Professor Dermot Kelleher as its new dean.

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Dr. Bradley T. Hyman, director of the Massachusetts Alzheimers Disease Research Center at Massachusetts General Hospital and a professor of neurology at Harvard Medical School, received the Henry Wisniewski Lifetime Achievement Award Sunday from Kristine Yaffe, a University of California, San Francisco professor at the Alzheimers Association International Conference in Vancouver, Canada.

By Gal Tziperman Lotan, Globe Correspondent

A Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School neurologist received a lifetime achievement award at an Alzheimers Association conference in Vancouver, Canada Sunday.

Dr. Bradley T. Hyman, director of the Massachusetts Alzheimers Disease Research Center at Massachusetts General Hospital and a professor of neurology at Harvard Medical School, received the Henry Wisniewski Lifetime Achievement Award, The Alzheimer's Association said in a statement.

Its an extremely nice recognition, especially because the award is named after one of the giants of neuropathology, Hyman said in a phone interview from Vancouver Sunday.

Hyman has studied changes in patients brains and nervous systems, as well as genetic changes that underlie dementia, the statement said.

His research helps describe brain lesions in Alzheimer's patients, the statement said.

Hyman recently worked on imaging amyloid protein fragments that are broken down in healthy brains but accumulate and form amyloid plaques in Alzheimer's patients; and tau tangles, created when tau proteins that keep the brains cell transport system in working order die and collapse the system.

At its international conference, the Alzheimers Association also gave a lifetime achievement award to Lennart Mucke of the Gladstone Institute of Neurological Disease and the University of California, San Francisco, Monique M.B. Breteler of the German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases and the University of Bonn in Germany, and Ronald Petersen of the Mayo Alzheimers Disease Research Center in Rochester, Minn.

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UC Riverside's long-held dream to have a full medical school was badly battered last year when the state refused to pay for it and then national accreditors wouldn't allow it to open. Those denials were a blow to the UC system's proud tradition of adding campuses and programs to serve a growing state.

Now, UC Riverside is making what national experts say is a rare second attempt to gain approval for a medical school. Campus officials say they have obtained alternative financial backing, worth about $10 million a year for a decade, from private donors, local government and the UC system in hopes that the medical school can enroll its first 50 students in fall 2013.

"We have so much riding on the school being successful, we just can't accept that it can't be done," said G. Richard Olds, a tropical-disease expert who is the founding dean of the UC Riverside medical school. The goal, he said, is to ease the shortage of doctors in the Inland Empire.

The medical school would be UC's sixth and its first to open since the late 1960s. The school would be the only one in UC without its own hospital, vastly cutting down on costs. UC's medical centers and its health education programs constitute about half of the system's $22-billion annual budget.

Some skeptics say that UC is in a new era of limits and that even noble causes must be put on hold to preserve the academic quality of its 10 campuses at a time of rising tuition and cutbacks in undergraduate course offerings.

But UC Riverside medical school supporters insist that progress still must be pursued, albeit cautiously.

For three decades, UC Riverside has operated a joint medical school program with UCLA. Its entering classes of about 25 students spend their first two years in Riverside and finish in Westwood.

A full four-year program at UC Riverside would offer clinical training at community medical centers. The emphasis would be on basic fields, including family medicine, pediatrics, gynecology, general surgery and psychiatry, not on more exotic and expensive specialties.

The expectation is that young doctors educated there more likely would practice in the underserved Inland Empire, officials said. Such is the case for Regina Inchizu, who recently finished her first year of medical studies at Riverside and wants to work in the area in family medicine andwomen's healthafter she graduates from UCLA. "There is a huge need for doctors in Riverside," she said, adding that she wants to work in such a high-need area.

John Stobo, the UC system's senior vice president for health sciences and services, expressed strong support. "This is not starting from scratch. This is expanding a program that's demonstrated success," he said. "This is not taking money and taking a gamble and seeing if it is going to work."

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WORCESTER, Mass. A new genetic mutation that causes familial amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), a fatal neurological disorder also known as Lou Gehrig's Disease, has been identified by a team of scientists led by researchers at the University of Massachusetts Medical School (UMMS). Mutations to the profilin (PFN1) gene, which is essential to the growth and development of nerve cell axons, is estimated to account for one to two percent of inherited ALS cases. The finding, described today in the online edition of Nature, points to defects in a neuron's cytoskeleton structure as a potential common feature among diverse ALS genes.

"This discovery identifies what may possibly be a common biological mechanism involved across familial ALS cases regardless of genetics," said John Landers, PhD, associate professor of neurology and senior author of the study. "We know of at least three other ALS genes, in addition to PFN1, that adversely impact axon growth. If indeed, this is part of the disease's mechanism, then it might also be a potential target for therapeutics."

Robert Brown, MD, DPhil, a co-author on the study and chair of neurology at UMass Medical School, said "Dr. Landers has done great work in defining this new pathway for motor neuron death. We are delighted to have identified the defects in families from the U.S., Israel and France that we have been investigating for several years. Our finding is particularly exciting because it may provide new insights into ALS treatment targets."

ALS is a progressive, neurodegenerative disorder affecting the motor neurons in the central nervous system. As motor neurons die, the brain's ability to send signals to the body's muscles is compromised. This leads to loss of voluntary muscle movement, paralysis and eventually respiratory failure. The cause of most cases of ALS is not known. Approximately 10 percent of cases are inherited. Though investigators at UMass Medical School and elsewhere have identified several genes shown to cause inherited or familial ALS, almost 50 percent of these cases have an unknown genetic cause.

The current Nature study details the discovery of the PFN1 gene mutation among two large ALS families. Both families were negative for known ALS-causing mutations and displayed familial relationships that suggested a dominant inheritance mode for the disease. For each family, two affected members with maximum genetic distance were selected for deep DNA sequencing. To identify an ALS-causing mutation, genetic variations between the family members were identified and screened against known databases of human genetic variation, such as the 1000 Genomes Project. This narrowed down the resulting number of candidate, ALS-causing mutations to two within the first family and three within the second. Interestingly, both families contained different mutations within the same gene PFN1, the likely causative mutation. With additional screening, the team documented that in a total of 274 families sequenced, seven contained a mutation to the PFN1 gene, establishing it as a likely cause for ALS.

While it is not certain how the PFN1 mutation causes ALS, the cellular functions it controls within the motor neurons are responsible for regulation of a number of activities, including the growth and development of the axon, the slender projection through which neurons transmit electrical impulses to neighboring cells, such as muscle. When introduced into motor neuron cells, normal PFN1 protein was found diffused throughout the cytoplasm. Conversely, the mutant PFN1 observed in ALS patients was found to collect in dense aggregates, keeping it from functioning properly. Motor neurons producing mutated PFN1 showed markedly shorter axon outgrowth.

"The discovery that mutant PFN1 interferes with axon outgrowth was very exciting to us," said Claudia Fallini, PhD, a postdoctoral researcher at Emory University School of Medicine who collaborated with the UMass Medical School authors to investigate PFN1's functions in cultured motor neurons. "It suggests that alterations in actin dynamics may be an important mechanism at the basis of motor neuron degeneration."

"In healthy neurons, PFN1 acts almost like a railroad tie for fibrous filaments called actin, which make up the axon" said Landers. "PFN1 helps bind these filaments to each other, promoting outgrowth of the axon. Without properly functioning PFN1 these filaments can't come together. Here we show that mutant PFN1 may contribute to ALS pathogeneses by accumulating in these aggregates and altering the actin dynamics in a way that inhibits axon outgrowth."

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An Uzbek man who pleaded guilty to plotting to assassinate President Barack Obama was never admitted to Columbia University's medical school, the university said Saturday, contrary to defense claims before he was sentenced to more than 15 years in prison.

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The Dean of the Medical School of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Professor Yaw Edu Sarkodie, has advocated the need for educational institutions in the country to establish partnership with small scale industries to train students in vocational and technical skills.

This, according to him, would enable students who are not academically inclined to learn meaningful skills that would make them useful and productive in order to contribute their quota towards national development.

Professor Sarkodie, an alumnus of Fijai Senior High School, gave the advice when delivering a keynote address at a durbar to climax the 60th Anniversary of the school on Saturday.

He observed that countries such as Malaysia and Singapore that took the middle manpower training of their peoples seriously in areas of vocational and technical skills had catapulted their economies and called on educational institutions in the country to learn a cue from them.

The Diamond Jubilee Celebration, which was under the theme: 60 years of Co-Education - The Vision and Mission of the Founding Fathers attracted high profile personalities, old students, traditional rulers and government functionaries to the school premises.

Prof. Sarkodie, a fellow of the West African College of Physicians, appealed to the governments to refrain from playing politics with the duration of the Senior High School.

He said the four-year and three-year experimentation of the duration of the secondary education by successive governments would not help the cause of development of this country and called on authorities concerned to take concrete steps to stop such politics in the education sector.

The Dean of the Medical School of the KNUST admonished the youth to show resilience, dedication, discipline and fear of God in all their endeavours, adding that success could not be achieved on a silver platter but hard work.

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AUGUSTA, GA -- The state of Georgia is facing a critical shortage in the number of doctors. This, despite Georgia Health Sciences seeing an increase in the number of applicants wanting to attend the medical school. An aging population, more people moving to the state, and the health care law could flood the market with even more patients.

The only public medical school in Georgia saw a record number of students applying. Yet, the state ranks number 41 in the entire nation, when it comes to the number of doctors per capita. "We are under producing number of doctors to meet the health care needs of Georgians," said Dr. Peter F. Buckley, the dean of the Medical College of Georgia at GHSU.

The problem is worse for patients in rural parts of the state. That's why the school is ramping up efforts to train and keep more doctors inside Georgia's borders. "We've been engaged in an effort to create new residency position, particularly in general medicine," Dr. Buckley added.

He says doctors who train in the state are more likely to stay here. The school is also reaching out to students state-wide, through education at clinical training sites and regional clinical campuses. "We currently train 190 top students per class here in Augusta, and we have forty outstanding students in partnership with the University of Georgia in our Athens program."

Through the support of state lawmakers they're planning to partner with more hospitals to open up residency slots. "Bring new hospitals into the residency program development that haven't been involved before," Buckley said.

The school is also preparing to unveil a new Education Commons in 2014. "This will allow us to ultimately teach a class size of 300 medical students per class in what will be state of the art facilities," he added.

Responding to the national need of more doctors by increasing the number of medical students that train and practice in the state. The Medical College of Georgia is the tenth in the nation in terms of number of medical students they train. They saw a 10% increase in people applying to the school. A significant increase, considering across the county it was a 2.5% increase.

The campus in Athens which opened a couple of years ago helped increased overall class size. The students that enrolled at the Athens campus all started their clinical rotation through northeast Georgia this summer.

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APPROVAL for a medical school at Charles Sturt University could be just months away, according to the universitys advisor, Professor John Dwyer.

Advocates for the medical school, designed to boost doctor numbers in the bush, have welcomed a meeting planned with NSW health minister Jillian Skinner as the next step towards making the training facility a reality.

In a formal letter to CSU, Ms Skinner invited the university to start negotiations with the government on student numbers, medical training requirements and infrastructure for the medical school.

While final approval for the school rests with federal health minister Tanya Plibersek, the letter from Ms Skinner was fantastic news, according to Professor Dwyer.

Both the university and I went and spoke to the government and we got a very warm reception, he said.

Its obviously an important move for the NSW Government to be supporting it.

CSUs director of corporate affairs Mark Burdack said the Federal Government had made it clear State Government support for the school was essential.

Because medical training is undertaken in hospitals [the NSW Government] plays a critical role in making available training spaces, he said.

He said the university would now develop a curriculum model for the school and take the plans to the NSW health minister. Professor Dwyer again reiterated the importance of community support to get the medical school off the ground after a two-year campaign.

With 25,000 supporters and growing ... the Central West community is putting the pressure on the government, he said.

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Celebrating the 100th anniversary of the Titanic's fatal voyage, Ballard will speak about his discoveries at The Hanover Theatre for the Performing Arts as part of the UMASS Medical School Distinguished Speaker Series this fall. Tickets are now on sale to members of The Hanover Theatre before they go on sale to the general public on Friday, July 20 at 10am.Worcester, MA (PRWEB) July 13, 2012 ...

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Students: Expected to peak at 500 with 125 students per class. Will then be state's largest medical school by students.

Charter class: 60 students.

Faculty: 20 to 22 basic sciences faculty at peak, but hundreds more clinical faculty at partner hospitals.

Emphasis: Primary health care, collaboration with other health professionals, global public health.

Opening: August 2013 (projected).

Affiliated hospitals: St. Vincent's Hospital in Bridgeport, principal clinical partner. Others include Middlesex Hospital in Middletown and MidState Medical Center in Meriden.

Location: North Haven.

Cost: $100 million.

Size: 145,000 square feet.

Total employees (by 2016): About 70 full time.

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NORTH HAVEN, Conn. (WTNH) -- Construction is underway on the state's third medical school at Quinnipiac University in North Haven.

While the Frank H. Netter School of Medicine at Quinnipiac University doesn't look like much now, much like its namesake, a renowned medical illustrator, school officials view it as a palette for change.

"We will train medical students with nursing students, physician assistant students because healthcare more and more is a team activity," said Dr. Bruce Koeppen, Dean, Frank H. Netter School of Medicine.

And more and more in need of primary care doctors.

"If you look at the needs of CT and in fact, the country, there is a physician shortage in general," said Koeppen, "but a severe shortage for primary care physicians."

That's where the medical school, which will be the third medical school in the state, sees its role in the future of healthcare. Its focus will be on training medical students to enter the primary care field.

"Right now if you look at the national statistics about 15 percent of current medical students are planning a career in primary care," said Koeppen. "We hope that 50 percent or more of our graduates will go into primary care."

Studies in the medical field indicate lower salaries and less control over work hours in primary care practice play a role in steering med students to specialized fields.

Yet, Koeppen says there is no better time to grow the field of primary care than now, especially since the Supreme Court upheld the Affordable Care Act, which supports more preventative health care.

"Absolutely, you've got the uninsured who will have insurance," Koeppen said. "Estimates are 30 plus million. You also have the baby boomers that are entering the Medicare system and there you've got 80 million plus, so there will be a huge influx of patients into the health care system."

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In a year, Quinnipiac University expects to open the third medical school in the state to help ease a dramatic shortage of primary care doctors and to create a new brand of physician a doctor comfortable in a collaborative team of professionals.

To outsiders, Quinnipiac might seem an unlikely place for one of the 18 new medical schools planned around the country. But those familiar with Quinnipiac's expansion, from regional college to higher-profile university, as well as its health-care focused programs see the medical school as a logical next step.

Dr. Bruce Koeppen, who was dean of academic affairs at the University of Connecticut School of Medicine when he read about Quinnipiac's plan, says his first reaction was: "Who do they think they are? There's no way they could possibly do this.'"

But within months Koeppen was named dean of Quinnipiac's nascent medical school and supervisor of the $100 million effort to get it built, staffed and accredited. He is particularly excited about building "a medical school from scratch" that will train physicians with the latest in facilities, curriculum and approach.

"We've hired people Many had wanted to make changes in the medical schools where they were and were frustrated that nothing happened. Here we have a clean slate and no barriers in the way," said Koeppen, whose office is not from the construction site.

The university is renovating a former Blue Cross Anthem buildling on its North Haven campus for the school, aimed at producing primary care physicians who are in short supply. Even in its design, the new school hopes to foster a team approach by ensuring that medical students and the students in other health programs cross paths and share common space.

In many schools, doctors are trained to be "the captain of the ship or the pilot of the airplane and everyone is supposed to obey them. There is a lot of evidence out there that you get better outcomes, better patient safety, if the individuals that are taking care of the patient are really working as a team," said Koeppen, 60.

"The analogy is a pit crew for NASCAR," Koeppen said. "Where you have a group of people with very specific talents and knowledge and expertise on the pit crew coming together to take care of the car."

The Frank H. Netter M.D. School of Medicine, as Quinnipiac's new school is called, is part of a wave of medical school development that began in the past decade, after a period from the early 1980s to 2000 when there were essentially no new medical schools.

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More than six years ago, when Florida International University secured the green light to create a new medical school at its West Miami-Dade main campus, the affirmative vote by the states Board of Governors was hailed as perhaps the most important in the universitys history.

Leading up to that yes vote, FIU leaders presented a finely tuned sales pitch that highlighted the expected benefits of a new med school: significant economic impact, increased numbers of minority physicians and increased access to healthcare among the regions underserved populations.

We have the largest concentration in the state of underserved citizens, then-FIU President Modesto Mitch Maidique told the Board of Governors in a formal presentation prior to the key vote.

But now that FIUs medical school is up and running with a clinic that began seeing public patients in April the school has been placed on the defensive because of the limited access it provides to a key segment of the medically underserved: Medicaid patients.

The universitys on-campus Faculty Group Practice, comprising a handful of full-time FIU faculty physicians, does not accept Medicaid patients, and does not expect to do so for about six months. The clinic includes two family-practice physicians, an internist, four gynecologists and several other doctors, with plans to add specialists in areas such as neurology and cardiology.

The clinic is under an umbrella group known as FIU Health, which encompasses 119 full-time medical faculty members and more than 800 part-time volunteer faculty. A patient who calls the FIU Health main hotline seeking a doctor could be referred to any physician within the umbrella group, regardless of whether they are full- or part-time faculty.

Over time, FIU pledges that all its full-time faculty will honor all forms of insurance. Currently, the doctors at FIUs modest 6,000-square-foot Faculty Group Practice accept Medicare, AvMed and Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Florida, among others.

The university did confirm that its Faculty Group Practice does not currently accept Medicaid, but said it does not track what insurances are accepted by the 800-plus volunteer doctors under the network.

FIU provided the names of all volunteer faculty to The Miami Herald. That list was compared with the states database of local Medicaid providers, and revealed that almost one-third of those doctors do not accept Medicaid.

I was very disappointed, said Dr. Francisco Pita, a general practice doctor with an office a few blocks from the FIU campus.

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The 84-year-old baseball has been sitting in Elizabeth Gott's drawer for years, but now she's hoping it will pay off her son's medical school debt.

New York Yankees slugger Lou Gehrig smashed the ball into the bleachers for a home run during the 1928 World Series against the St. Louis Cardinals. Gehrig hit the homer off Hall of Fame pitcher Grover Cleveland Alexander while teammate Babe Ruth was on base and called it his most significant homerun at the time, according to a newspaper account.

Hunt Auctions plans to sell the ball Tuesday at the All-Star FanFest in Kansas City, Mo., and predicts it could fetch $100,000 to $200,000. Online bidding has already begun, with the top bid at about $37,000 as of Thursday.

Gott, a 57-year-old Stamford resident, said she's selling the ball on behalf of her 30-year-old son, Michael.

"I'm just sort of floored by the whole thing," she said. "It has a lot of history. It's a lot about America. To think that it's possible the team that we rooted for could actually help my son pay off some of his medical school debt, any amount would be fine."

Michael Gott, who is in his last year of residency, said he was surprised at the potential value of the ball. He said his medical school debt was nearly $200,000.

"I'm extremely fortunate that this occurred and definitely I'm extremely thankful that something so lucky would happen to me," Gott said. "I'm very appreciative that someone in my family was able to contribute to something I worked so hard for."

Gott said the ball was a gift to him from his uncle, who received it from other relatives of Buddy Kurland, who is Elizabeth Gott's great-uncle.

Kurland, who lived in Manchester, had gone to the game with his friend Scotty Stevenson. Kurland nearly caught Gehrig's three-run homer, but a fan knocked his cap over his eyes and he dropped the ball, according to a newspaper account. Stevenson picked up the ball and gave it to Kurland.

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First year Medical Students Travis Corgan, left, and Christine Dahlhausen wait to don their white coats during the Texas Tech Paul L. Foster School of Medicine White Coat Ceremony at the Plaza Theatre.

El Pasoan Victoria Nuez smiled after putting on her white medical coat for the first time during a ceremony Saturday for the newest class of students at El Paso's medical school.

Nuez is one of the 80 students in the fourth class to enter the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center Paul L. Foster School of Medicine. Nuez is among 12 El Pasoans in the medical school's Class of 2016.

The new students were given the coats, which are symbolic of the medical profession, during a White Coat Ceremony at the Plaza Theatre. The White Coat Ceremony is a milestone that marks entering the medical field and signifies the responsibility to take care of patients.

Nuez, a graduate of Americas High School and the University of Texas at Austin, said she was happy to attend medical school in her hometown.

"It means so much," Nuez said. "I still have family here. I have that support network from my family. I can give back to my community."

Nuez said she was inspired to become a doctor by her grandfather, Dr. Germinal Nuez, who was a doctor in El Paso before he retired, and her aunt, Dr. Lourdes Nuez of Miami.

Medical school leaders said the new group of students were selected from 2,900 applicants. The school now has 260 students, including the newest class.

The school's first class will graduate next May in what will be a milestone for the medical school, which for decades was only a dream for El Paso, said Dr. J. Manuel de la Rosa, the medical school's founding

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PIERRE, S.D. (AP) - The corridors of Harvard Medical School might be leading to Native American communities on the Plains.

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Brandon Universitys medical school recommendation report has been submitted to the province.

President Deborah Poff, along with representatives from BU, the University of Manitoba and other committee members, met Tuesday to discuss the feasibility study that had been completed by two consultants.

Poff submitted the report Thursday and will be meeting with the Council on Post-Secondary Education on July 13.

Poff wouldnt discuss the recommendations, but said she was pleased to see it moving forward.

Itll feel better when we know what people are going to do with it, she said.

Last spring, the Manitoba government provided $350,000 to conduct the feasibility study to determine how enhancing medical education in Brandon can help to increase the number of doctors across the province.

The study is looking at a variety of options, including a stand-alone medical school in Brandon, a satellite program expansion from the University of Manitoba in partnership with BU and a continuation or expansion of existing models of rotational and educational experiences.

Earlier this year, Poff said she would like to see the university involved in medical education either stand-alone or partnered.

The recommendation report was originally supposed to be submitted to the Council on Post-Secondary Education on March 31, but was given two extensions.

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Israeli medical students donate books to Patan Academy for the Health Science

Israeli Ambassador to Nepal Hanan Goder-Goldberger on Thursday handed over a collection of books sent from the Medical School for International Health (Soroka University Medical Center), Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel to Prof. Dr. Rajesh Gangol, Dean of the Patan Academy for the Health Science.

The book was handed over to Dr Gangol amidst a ceremony held at the Patan Hospital.

The books have been collected from the students of the Ben Gurion Unitersity School for International Health in Beer Sheva, Israel with the initiative of Professor Michael Alkan for the students of Patan Academy of Medical Science. Prof. Alkan has been instrumental in promoting Patan Academy for Health Science in Israel since its inception in 2008.

In recent years there is ongoing cooperation and sharing of knowhow and exchange of professional staffs from Israel to Nepal and Nepal to Israel.

During the Ceremony Prof. Dr. Gangol expressed his appreciation for the ongoing cooperation between the two hospitals and the two universities. He hopes that this cooperation will further develop in the future.

Ambassador Goder-Goldberger expressed his satisfaction for the ongoing cooperation between two hospitals and said that the Embassy will be happy to see such projects in the future too. nepalnews.com

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