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Newswise The University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine moved up a notch to regain its top 10 status as one of the countrys best medical schools and its primary care program scored its strongest rating since 2010, according to the latest edition of U.S. News & World Reports Best Graduate Schools.

The rankings for 2016 are an improvement over last year when Pritzker placed 11th out of 153 medical schools for research. It placed No. 8 in the 2014 rankings and No. 10 in the 2013 list. Pritzker remains the only school in Illinois to be ranked among the top 10. Meanwhile, its primary care program was tied for the 19th spot. That ranking is up from No. 26 for 2015 and 39 for 2014.

Tuesdays results placed Pritzker in a three-way tie with the University of Michigan and the University of Washington. Harvard University ranked first in the nation, followed by Stanford University, Johns Hopkins University, University of California-San Francisco and the University of Pennsylvania. Other schools in the top 10 included Washington University in St. Louis, Yale University, Columbia University and Duke University.

The methodology for the medical school rankings includes scores based on reputation, which is assessed by deans and program directors. Other factors include competitiveness of students, acceptance rates, faculty-student ratios and research funding. The full list of U.S. News medical school rankings is available at usnews.com.

Pritzker was third in the country for the amount of federal research grants it received per faculty member from the National Institutes of Health. Pritzker received an average of $255,800 for each faculty member, behind only Stanford University ($381,800) and New York University ($333,700). Meanwhile, the school was tied with Stanford University as the third-most selective medical school, earning high marks for its median MCAT score, the median undergraduate GPA of its students and its overall acceptance rate. Washington University in St. Louis and the University of Pennsylvania earned higher selectivity scores.

Other programs within the Biological Sciences Division had their 2015 results re-published Tuesday. Last years report said PhD programs in the Biological Sciences Division were ranked 14th in the country. The University of Chicago paleontology program, which draws from the interdepartmental and inter-institutional Committee on Evolutionary Biology, was rated No. 1 in the nation. And the schools Ecology/Evolutionary Biology program tied for 4th. Those rankings will be updated in three years.

### About the University of Chicago Medicine

The University of Chicago Medicine and Biological Sciences is one of the nation's leading academic medical institutions. It comprises the Pritzker School of Medicine, a top 10 medical school in the nation; the University of Chicago Biomedical Sciences Division; and the University of Chicago Medical Center, which recently opened the Center for Care and Discovery, a $700 million specialty medical facility. Twelve Nobel Prize winners in physiology or medicine have been affiliated with the University of Chicago Medicine.

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Bills that would give Washington State University the authority to start a medical school in Spokane have hit an unexpected detour.

OLYMPIA Bills that would give Washington State University the authority to start a medical school in Spokane bills that seemed on the fast track last week have hit an unexpected detour.

The House and Senate budget committees will hold hearings on the costs of a proposed medical school before legislative leaders will allow full votes in either chamber.

Supporters of the project said Tuesday its not a roadblock, but bill sponsors are surprised that legislation specifically rewritten to leave funding questions for later will need approval from the House Appropriations and Senate Ways and Means committees before facing full votes in each chamber.

We certainly hope the bill doesnt get caught up in overall budget negotiations, said Sen. Mike Baumgartner, R-Spokane.

Rep. Marcus Riccelli, D-Spokane, said the bills were written to split the discussion over a new medical school in Spokane. The first step was to rewrite state law to give WSU the authority to offer that medical education; the amount of money the state would provide for the school would be decided later.

State law currently restricts medical education to UW. The law, which has its roots in the Legislature settling a fight over education majors for the two institutions in 1917, is antiquated, Riccelli and Baumgartner both argue.

Companion bills in each chamber were amended to remove language that specifically directs the WSU regents to start a school, and instead merely give them the permission. Those passed out of each chambers Higher Education Committee last week with directions to go to the committees that schedule bills for a vote of the full chamber. A day or so later, they were rerouted to the budget committees.

The University of Washington has raised questions about past spending for its medical-school program in Spokane that was funneled through WSU when both schools were involved in the program. But thats reportedly not the reason the bills were referred to budget committees.

The nonpartisan legal counsel for the Senate Ways and Means Committee said the panel should consider the proposal because of its long-term budget implications, said Senate Majority Leader Mark Schoesler, R-Ritzville.

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The University's Medical School is changing it up.

Beginning with prospective students entering in 2017, the Medical School has altered the admissions requirements for its applicants. Requirements previously included a list of eight courses in subjects such as organic chemistry and biochemistry. They now consist of qualities and experiences the Medical School looks for in its students.

Most of the new prerequisites are framed more broadly: rigorous experience in the humanities, academic strength and rigor in the fields of biology, chemistry and statistical methods and analysis; demonstrable knowledge of basic physical principles; and a clear and distinct experience in intellectual inquiry and active participation in the independent discovery of new knowledge.

Though these prerequisites may seem less specific than a list of classes, Rajesh Mangrulkar, associate dean for medical student education, expressed the opposite sentiment. He said the new requirements allow the admissions office to be more specific, telling the students the exact information the Medical School needs them to know prior to matriculation. He said listing a class title does not convey that information as effectively.

When you look at a course name, do you know what youre able to do because of having taken that course? Mangrulkar asked.

Steven Gay, assistant dean for admissions, also discussed the logic behind requiring proficiency in topics rather than class credit. He said the old requirements did not take into account that students may learn necessary material outside of the conventional classroom.

We see a number of students right now with advanced degrees, or who have spent extensive time in labs, Gay said. I think we should give students the opportunity if they are learning in those innovative and different ways not to have to repeat things unnecessarily.

Mangrulkar said the new application process is meant to create a dialogue in which students can reflect on how they have earned the knowledge they need, whether it be from a class or from another experience.

The student will be able to say, alright, these are the expectations, let me reflect on what Ive done and show how these all meet those different criteria, Mangrulkar said. Thats a better way to have a conversation than what weve had in the past, which is basically a student saying I took this class, is this okay?

Gay said that, though students have the freedom to gain knowledge in unique ways under the new requirements, taking classes is still the easiest way to fulfill the prerequisites.

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CARSON CITY, Nev. Nevada higher education officials on Tuesday asked legislators for three times more money than the governor has proposed to ramp up construction of a medical school in Las Vegas.

Nevada System of Higher Education officials presented their budget requests to a joint Assembly and Senate committee and asked for about $26 million for a medical school at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

In his proposed budget, Gov. Brian Sandoval allocated around $8.3 million over two years for the medical school. UNLV School of Medicine Dean Barbara Atkinson told lawmakers that increasing funding to $26.7 million over two years would help the school attract more donors and help with the accreditation process so it could begin accepting students in 2017.

"We're looking for a base of hard money support," Atkinson said. "Donors are going to feel very unsettled."

System of Higher Education Chancellor Dan Klaich also asked lawmakers for "bridge funding" for a number of rural community colleges and research institutions.

Great Basin College President Mark Curtis told lawmakers that changes to the state's funding formula meant the Elko-based school would see a reduction of $2 million from state allocations, after already cutting around $4 million in the past five years. Curtis said a one-time funding increase would help the college transition to a lower budget allocation.

"We're kind of at a pinch point relative to the funding formula," he said. "We believe it will take us an additional year and a half or so without doing any serious damage to the college."

In total, Klaich said the higher education system is requesting around $8.65 million in transitional money for Great Basin College, Western Nevada college, the Desert Research Institute and Boyd School of Law at UNLV.

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Hoping to offset physician shortages in certain specialties, a group of doctors here has created a scholarship to encourage medical school students to stay in Western New York after they graduate.

The Western New York Medical Scholarship Fund recently awarded its first three recipients a minimum of $30,000 each annually for four years of education at the University at Buffalo School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences.

The award winners must demonstrate financial need, graduate from a high school in one of the eight counties of Western New York, attend UB medical school and agree to practice in the region for an unspecified number of years.

The first three recipients are James Miller, a graduate of Frontier High School; Gina Sparacino, a Kenmore East High School graduate; and Alyssa Volmrich, a graduate of Holy Angels Academy.

Our goal is to keep more locally trained doctors in Western New York, Dr. John J. Bodkin II, co-chairman and founder of the fund, said in a statement.

Bodkin, a family physician at Highgate Medical Group, said similar programs in other cities have been successful.

We felt that if we could offer scholarships to Western New York students who went to high school here and have established family ties here, and then offer incentives, such as mentoring by local doctors, we could influence them to stay and practice here after graduation and residency, he said.

The funds goal is to raise enough money to sustain six to 10 scholarships a year over the next decade.

Organizations that have contributed a full scholarship include the Catholic Health System, Erie County Medical Center, HealthNow New York, Independent Health, Kaleida Health, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, and West-Herr Automotive Group, as well as the UB medical school and the UB Medical Alumni Association.

Contributors to the funds endowment include Amherst Ear Nose and Throat, Great Lakes Medical Imaging, Highgate Medical Group, Nephrology Associates of WNY, Northtowns Cardiology, Dr. Gerald Sufrin, WNY Urology Associates, Windsong Radiology Group and David M. Zebro, a principal of Strategic Investments & Holdings.

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Ancylostoma ceylanicum genome provides researchers potential new drug and vaccine targets

WORCESTER, MA - In an advance that may potentially lead to new treatments for parasitic hookworms, scientists at the University of Massachusetts Medical School and Cornell University have sequenced the genome of the hookworm, Ancylostoma ceylanicum. The genome of the nematode that, according to some estimates, infects as many as 400 million people worldwide will help researchers find genes active during infection and devise new drugs or vaccines that target these genes. The study, which also includes researchers from the University of California San Diego and the California Institute of Technology, was published in Nature Genetics.

A debilitating tropical disease second only to malaria, hookworms are a leading cause of maternal and childhood morbidity in developing countries. They can live in the small intestine for as long as 10 years, drinking blood, robbing their hosts of iron and protein, interfering with absorption of critical nutrients and suppressing the immune system. Infection can lead to chronic anemia, as well as permanently stunt physical and intellectual development in infected children.

"The health burdens associated with soil-transmitted hookworms, especially in developing countries in Africa and the tropics are enormous," said Raffi V. Aroian, PhD, professor of molecular medicine at UMass Medical School and co-author of the study. "The only drugs we have to combat these parasites were developed to treat farm animals and are only partially effective. There is a tremendous need for a treatment for hookworms in humans that is safe, effective and affordable in the world's poorest countries."

Three species of hookworms can infect humans. People most commonly infected typically reside in poverty stricken areas with poor sanitation and are exposed to the worm through contaminated soil or food. Common in the American south 100 years ago, hookworms were virtually eradicated in the United States through improvements in sanitation and public health efforts during the early part of the 20th century.

Contemporary efforts to study the parasitic nematode have been hampered because the most common species, Necator americanus and Ancylostoma duodenale, cannot survive outside of a human host. This makes it difficult for researchers to study them in the lab and almost impossible to test new drugs and vaccines. It is why current treatments rely on drugs developed to treat similar worms in farm animals.

Though less common, because A. ceylanicum can infect and thrive in animals other than humans, such as rodents, it is an excellent experimental model for hookworm disease that allows scientists to study it in the laboratory. It also opens up the possibility that new drugs or vaccines for human hookworms can be designed and tested using A. ceylanicum.

"For this to happen, we first have to know as much as possible about A. ceylanicum's genes and the proteins they make," said Erich M. Schwarz, PhD, senior research associate at Cornell University and co-author of the study. "Until recently this would have been a very expensive and difficult undertaking, but next-generation technologies for analyzing DNA have made it possible for a small number of scientists to sequence and characterize the entire genome of an animal."

Isolating and sequencing DNA and RNA from hookworms during different stages of infection led to several significant findings. The A. ceylanicum genome constrains 313 million nucleotides, with 30,738 genes that encode for proteins and show gene activity. Researchers were also able to identify specific genes involved in infection. Among the genes identified were three large families of previously unknown proteins that are strongly synthesized during three different steps of infection. They also found more than 70 genes that likely encode for proteins which the worms need to survive but which are absent from mammals, making them possible drug targets. Finally, they found five genes that are extremely active in adult worms and are promising targets for vaccination because they are likely needed for feeding.

"The sequencing of A. ceylanicum adds to a growing number of genomes for parasitic nematodes that collectively infect over a billion people worldwide," said Dr. Aroian. "These genomes are crucial for inventing new drugs and vaccines against parasitic nematodes that rapidly evolve drug resistance and plague large populations in developing countries. With these new genomes we can begin rationally designing and testing treatments in the laboratory that can potentially benefit millions of people."

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TAMPA (FOX 13) -

The vacant one-acre site at the corner of Channelside Drive and Meridian Avenue in downtown Tampa is a step closer to becoming the new USF Medical School.

Thursday, the Florida Board of Governors, which governs the state university system, approved a $153 million plan, funding construction of the new Morsani College of Medicine and USF Heart Institute.

It's very important to be co-located. It's the right academic move for USF to be next to TGH, said USF President Dr. Judy Genshaft. Most of the students live downtown, and go back and forth to the campus, so there will be no additional costs to students.

The new school would put medical students much closer to Tampa General Hospital, the primary teaching hospital for the medical school. The location is also blocks away from USF CAMLS, the University's 3-story, 90,000 square foot, state-of-the-art simulation lab.

For the bigger Tampa Bay region, this is a game changer, says Tampa Mayor Bob Buckhorn. To now know that we are the vast majority of the way there to moving that medical school downtown for us is probably the most significant event that has occurred in the urban core in the last 20 years."

Tampa Bay Lightning owner Jeff Vinik, who donated the parcel of land to USF, released this statement:

"We are thrilled with today's news from Tallahassee and as a 'partner' with the University of South Florida on the project, we thank the Florida Board of Governors for their unanimous vote today. We look forward to making the Morsani School of Medicine and the accompanying Heart Institute one of the major anchors in our development district. We envision and embrace the vibrancy that USF and its students, faculty and staff will bring to downtown Tampa. This marks a great step forward."

The plan now must be approved by the lawmakers and Governor Rick Scott.

Under the current proposal, the University needs $57 million for the school, and an additional $50 million for the Heart Institute. Private sources would fund $41 million of the project.

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AS a practicing physician and part of the management team at a large health-care organization in Seattle, Im constantly reminded of the many benefits that our region enjoys by having such a robust and forward-looking health-care infrastructure.

From Medic One to the development of new, cutting-edge drug therapies and medical devices, and pushing the envelope on delivering the best health outcomes for the lowest cost, we are innovators. All of this contributes to better care for patients.

But when it comes to one aspect of our medical infrastructure, namely that we have only one public medical school, our state lags in performance. This isnt just an inconvenience for qualified students who must leave our state to pursue their medical educations elsewhere, its a problem that affects the quality of life, economy and health of everyone who calls our great state home.

While we enjoy a high density of doctors in Seattle, not far outside the city limits the situation is much different. Travel to one of our states rural communities and the physician shortage is acute. Physician retirement, population growth and increased access to health care for previously uninsured people are making this problem worse.

There are currently two proposals on the table to grow medical education in our state. One would expand the University of Washingtons existing program. The other would establish a new medical school on Washington State Universitys Spokane campus.

These are the questions our state legislators are grappling with today, and I applaud them for their thoughtfulness. Disappointingly, however, some are characterizing this as an either-or decision. The truth is that we need both programs. Any solution that does not include establishing a new medical school will fail to meet the test of the challenges our state confronts.

The University of Washington School of Medicine is an outstanding medical school, and I am a proud graduate of that program. But in a state of more than 7 million people, UW admits only 120 students from Washington each year. This is the lowest per capita number of medical-school seats for any state with a medical school. Each year, more than 200 highly qualified Washington students get accepted to medical schools out of state, and many never return. These students deserve greater choice, and the best long-term option is to create a second medical school.

Even if we increase the number of students taught by the UW as it is proposing our state will continue to fall behind in meeting the needs of our underserved communities.

Because of the investments that have already been made by WSU in faculty and facilities, the cost of establishing a new medical school is much lower than it would be if we were starting from scratch. And the universitys proposed approach to medical education is a community-based model that would further keep costs low by utilizing existing clinical infrastructure across the state.

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He acknowledged that having a conversation about end-of-life measures such as cardiopulmonary resuscitation, and the consequences of not receiving it, does not come easily to many people.

"I think it's difficult for families because they don't know what might happen" to a loved one in the future, he said.

But waiting to discuss those issues until they actually need to be decided can make things worse.

"I think it's extremely difficult for families, because families are often forced into this position at the worst time," Volandes said. "And I blame doctors."

Volandes doesn't exempt himself from this finger-pointing. Doctors often know the treatment and procedures they are administering to terminally ill patients are ultimately futile, costly and the source of pain and stress.

Dr. David Goodman, a Dartmouth Medical School professor, in 2013 co-authored a study published in the Journal of American Medical Association that found that while there had been an increase in the use of hospice services over the prior decade, there also had been an increase in the use of intensive care units. The study found that while more people were going to hospice, many were going there just for a few days after being in the ICU.

Goodman has cited the case of his colon cancer-stricken sister, who died while undergoing a medical procedure just a day before she was supposed to enter hospice and spend her final days there.

"Poor communication leading to unwanted care is epidemic in many health systems," Goodman said at the time the JAMA report was issued. "The patterns of care observed in this study reflect needlessly painful experiences suffered by many patients, including my sister, and other friends and family members of the research team,"

Early in Volandes' book, he writes about being a young resident and treating a 78-year-old, terminally ill lung cancer patient, a mine worker and immigrant from Ukraine whose condition left him "too confused to have a lucid conversation," and who "lacked family members to guide his decision-making."

"So his medical plan was the default for all patients: Do everything possible to keep him alive," Volandes wrote.

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Washington State University has offered written assurances to state lawmakers that training at its proposed medical school wont be limitedby partnerships with religiously affiliated hospitals.

Such concerns, raised by Rep. Gerry Pollet, D-Seattle, had briefly delayed a committee vote on a bill authorizing the medical school. Pollet said he worried WSUs proposed school model,which will rely heavily on trainingstudents inSpokane hospitals, could limit training on womens reproductive health and end-of-life care.

Rep. Gerry Pollet, D-Seattle (THE SEATTLE TIMES)

WSU has sought to put those fears to rest. In a brief letter to Rep. Marcus Riccelli, D-Spokane, the chief sponsor of the medical school bill, WSU lobbyist Chris Mulick wrote that WSU is firmly committed to ensuring its students receive the full range of training. The letter noted such training would be required in any case for the medical school to achieve accreditation.

While it is certainly possible that certain services will not be performed at certain training sites, WSU would make use of many training sites in order to ensure our students gain the required education and experience required for graduation, the letter said.

The public assurance satisfied Pollet on the point, as he dropped an amendment to insert the training assurance language in bill authorizing the new WSU medical school. Its what I wanted, Pollet said.

Nevertheless, Pollet still opposed the bill, casting the lone dissentTuesday as the House Higher Education Committee passed approved the proposal on a 12-1 vote.Pollet, whos an instructor at the UW, argued the state should delay the WSU proposal while conducting a comprehensivestudy of how to best meet the need for better access to health care across the state.

A companion bill also cleared the Senate Higher Ed. Committee Tuesday.

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He acknowledged that having a conversation about end-of-life measures such as cardiopulmonary resuscitation, and the consequences of not receiving it, does not come easily to many people.

"I think it's difficult for families because they don't know what might happen" to a loved one in the future, he said.

But waiting to discuss those issues until they actually need to be decided can make things worse.

"I think it's extremely difficult for families, because families are often forced into this position at the worst time," Volandes said. "And I blame doctors."

Volandes doesn't exempt himself from this finger-pointing. Doctors often know the treatment and procedures they are administering to terminally ill patients are ultimately futile, costly and the source of pain and stress.

Dr. David Goodman, a Dartmouth Medical School professor, in 2013 co-authored a study published in the Journal of American Medical Association that found that while there had been an increase in the use of hospice services over the prior decade, there also had been an increase in the use of intensive care units. The study found that while more people were going to hospice, many were going there just for a few days after being in the ICU.

Goodman has cited the case of his colon cancer-stricken sister, who died while undergoing a medical procedure just a day before she was supposed to enter hospice and spend her final days there.

"Poor communication leading to unwanted care is epidemic in many health systems," Goodman said at the time the JAMA report was issued. "The patterns of care observed in this study reflect needlessly painful experiences suffered by many patients, including my sister, and other friends and family members of the research team,"

Early in Volandes' book, he writes about being a young resident and treating a 78-year-old, terminally ill lung cancer patient, a mine worker and immigrant from Ukraine whose condition left him "too confused to have a lucid conversation," and who "lacked family members to guide his decision-making."

"So his medical plan was the default for all patients: Do everything possible to keep him alive," Volandes wrote.

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A school bus carrying 11 children swerved along a central Minnesota highway and in and out of the ditch Wednesday while its driver suffered a medical condition.

The bus, traveling northbound on Hwy. 47 at 35 to 40 miles per hour, wove in and out of the right lane of the two-lane undivided highway for more than 10 minutes around 4 p.m. as an Aitkin County sheriffs deputy followed, according to a news release from the Aitkin County Sheriffs Office. None of the students, who attend school in Isle, Minn., was injured.

The deputy, who followed the bus for about 14 minutes, drove into the oncoming traffic lane a few times with her emergency lights on to warn approaching drivers, the release said. Dashcam video from the deputys car shows one motorist, who was driving toward the oncoming bus, throwing the car into reverse and then backing up into a driveway to avoid a collision. At one point, a student on the bus dialed 911 and said the driver, Scott Gilbertson, 68, of Isle, appeared to be having a medical emergency, the release said.

Students never took control of the bus, said Sheriff Scott Turner. At one point, the bus slowed down almost to a stop and its rear door opened, the release said, but then the bus drove on.

Another time, the bus careened across the southbound lane into a ditch on the left side of the road, pitched to the left at an alarming angle, and then swerved back onto the highway.

A state trooper deployed a tire deflation device just south of the town of Glen to stop the bus, according to the release. The bus slowly drove into a shallow ditch and stopped.

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The older kids comforted the younger kids and called for help, said Isle School District Superintendent Dean Kapsner. Im very proud of our students. Everything came together in a positive way that day.

Kapsner said the driver was treated and released from the hospital. The school has not yet decided if he will return to driving buses.

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Medical school graduates from the southwest corner of Manitoba where the pain of the doctor shortage is acute have been denied residency in their own province, partially because they travelled outside the country to get their education.

There are as many as four people in the area in the same situation, and for the last four years, there has been a trained doctor working in a secretarial position at the Virden medical clinic.

Theyre sitting here, wanting to be able to practise ... and yet (they) cant get her a residency spot, said Virden physician Dr. Jennifer Hammell.

Potential resident physicians across the country apply for spots through the Canadian Resident Matching Service (CaRMS), which splits applicants into two streams: Canadian-trained and internationally trained. More residency spots are open to Canadian-trained doctors.

With as many as 40 specialized and family doctors needed in the Prairie Mountain Health region, Hammell said its an easy fix: the province needs to increase the number of residency spots and CaRMS needs to create a separate stream for Canadian doctors who have been internationally trained.

If the number of residency spots increased in the province, within two years, they are a practising doctor and the more residents you have, the more hands you have to see patients, Hammell said.

In 2013, the province did add rural residency training positions, including five in the northern and remote residency stream, four first-year medical residency training positions in Brandon, two in Morden-Winkler, two in Steinbach and two in Portage la Prairie.

However, its important to note that decisions on filling residencies are made by medical schools with a view to matching competencies and medical needs across the country, a Manitoba health spokesperson said in an email.

In addition, physicians choose where they practise, and may decide to work elsewhere upon graduation.

One doctor born and raised in the southwest corner of the province, who wants to eventually practise to help fill the dire need for doctors in the area was not accepted into any Manitoba residency.

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Cooperstown, N.Y. Madalyn A. Cimino, a native of Cooperstown and in 1972 the first woman to be named an Administrative Officer at Dartmouth Medical School, died Thursday morning, March 5, 2015, at Bassett Medical Center in Cooperstown. She was 82.

A native of Cooperstown, Madalyn was born June 14, 1932, at Mary Imogene Bassett Hospital, a daughter of Jack and Maria ne Falzarano Cimino.

She first attended Cooperstown schools and later the Knox School for Girls, graduating from there in 1953. She then moved to Albany where she was employed as an administrative assistant to the Neurologist-in-chief at Albany Medical College.

In 1972 she was named Registrar of Dartmouth Medical School. She served in this position for 25 years until retiring in 1997.

At her retirement in July of 1997, the Dartmouth College Board of Trustees and Dartmouth Medical School honored Madalyn for her distinctive personal and professional services to the Dartmouth Medical School community by appointing her Registrar of Dartmouth Medical School Emerita. The letter which informed her of this honor stated that you were a central figure in the life of the school and its students and that your interest in the students, both as individuals and professionals in training, made you a very important person in their lives. Further, your participation in the ever changing administrative and academic programs has been invaluable.

Upon returning to her native Cooperstown, Madalyn became actively involved in the life of the village. A communicant of St. Marys Our Lady of the Lake Roman Catholic Church, she also served a 3-year term on the Village of Cooperstown Board of Trustees and was a member of the Glimmerglass Opera Guild. She was also a member of the garden group in Cooperstown, and was justifiably proud of the flower gardens at her home at 16 Maple Street that she devotedly and carefully tended, and which garnered several Clark Foundation awards and letters of commendation for her efforts.

Since 1966, Madalyn also found time to travel extensively throughout Europe.

Madalyn is survived by four nieces, Elizabeth Lochte of Spokane Valley, Wash., Susan Lochte of Charlottesville, Va., Jane Barry and her husband Paul of North Bend, Wash. and Cynthia Zacharchuk and her husband Michael of Cherry Valley; four great nieces and four great nephews; and cousins.

She was predeceased by two sisters, Mrs. Stella Vagliardo and Mrs. Lucy Lochte, and her Goddaughter, Charlene Vagliardo.

The Liturgy of Christian Burial will be offered at 10 a.m. on Saturday, March 21, 2015, at St. Marys Our Lady of the Lake Roman Catholic Church in Cooperstown, with Fr. John P. Rosson, pastor, presiding.

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