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OLYMPIA As questions over dueling medical school proposals continue to mount, lawmakers said they wanted a better accounting of how the money is beingspent.
A Senate committee Thursday decided University of Washingtons multistate medical school program should be audited as the Legislature decides how to expand it inSpokane.
At the end of a sometimes contentious hearing over UW plans to expand the number of medical students it has in Spokane, the Senate Health Care Committee added a requirement for a full audit by legislative financial experts of the a multistate medical training program that involves Washington, Wyoming
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OLYMPIA As questions over dueling medical school proposals continue to mount, lawmakers said they wanted a better accounting of how the money is beingspent.
A Senate committee Thursday decided University of Washingtons multistate medical school program should be audited as the Legislature decides how to expand it inSpokane.
At the end of a sometimes contentious hearing over UW plans to expand the number of medical students it has in Spokane, the Senate Health Care Committee added a requirement for a full audit by legislative financial experts of the a multistate medical training program that involves Washington, Wyoming, Alaska, Montana and Idaho and goes by the acronymWWAMI.
Theres a lot we dont know about how WWAMI funding works, saidSen. Mike Baumgartner, R-Spokane, adding theres a possibility that Washington is subsidizing other states in theprogram.
Ian Goodhew, director of government relations for UW Medicine, said the other states pay for their students slots in the program and the Legislature can pay formore slots for Washington residents. The Spokane branch of WWAMI will start a class of 40 students in the fall, and eventually will grow that number to 120 per year if the Legislature approves.The bill calls for the program to grow to that level as quickly aspractical.
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Practice: Both are fully qualified physicians licensed to prescribe medication and perform surgery, and can gain membership into the American Medical Association.
Education: Both must complete four years of basic medical education from accredited medical schools. They perform similar internships and residency programs.
License: They must pass comparable examinations to obtain state licenses.
M.D.s: They practice the classical form of medicine, focused on the diagnosis and treatment.
D.O.s: They practice osteopathic medicine, which is centered around a more holistic view of medicine in which the focus is on seeing the patient as a "whole person" to reach a diagnosis, rather than treating the symptoms alone. The belief is that all parts of the body work together and influence each other. Osteopathic medicine also places emphasis on the prevention of disease.
Sources: American Medical Association, American Osteopathic Association.
ORANGE Chapman University is studying whether to create Orange County's only medical school awarding degrees in osteopathic medicine, university President Jim Doti said Friday.
The school would fill a growing need in the region for osteopathic medicine while continuing its aggressive expansion into a comprehensive university that offers a variety of educational options, Doti said during his annual State of the University address.
"This has been an idea that weve been looking at for a while," Doti said.
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WEDNESDAY, Feb. 18, 2015 (HealthDay News) -- Fear of discrimination is a major reason why about one-third of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) medical students stay "in the closet," new research finds.
The study included almost 1,000 LGBT respondents who answered an online survey. The survey was sent to every medical student in the United States and Canada during the 2009-2010 academic year. Thirty percent of those who said they were LGBT said they didn't reveal their sexual identity in medical school.
Fear of discrimination was the main reason why 40 percent of them said they kept their sexual identity secret. Other reasons cited included a lack of support from family or peers, social pressure and the belief that it was nobody's business, the Stanford University School of Medicine researchers found.
"Fear of discrimination was the most common theme, discrimination from peers, from your evaluators and faculty members, also from patients," study author Matthew Mansh, a fourth-year medical student, said in a university news release.
The researchers also found two-thirds of students who identified themselves as something other than male or female concealed their gender identity at medical school.
Mansh, who's been openly gay since he was 17, noted, "There were definitely times, more so during my clinical years, when I didn't go out of my way to let people know I was gay for reasons similar to some of the reasons the medical students in the survey gave."
"A lot of grading in medical school is very subjective. I have met physicians who make sexist or homophobic remarks, and it makes you not want to come out. You don't want your personal identity to affect your grade," he added.
The study was published online Feb. 18 in the journal Academic Medicine.
"There is still this huge percentage of medical students who are afraid of discrimination in medical school and how it could affect the rest of their careers," study co-author Dr. Mitchell Lunn, co-founder of the Stanford Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Medical Education Research Group, said in the news release.
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The National Resident Matching Program (NRMP) is pleased to announce its inaugural national conference, "Transition to Residency: Conversations Across the Medical Education Continuum", taking place October 1-3, 2015 at the Hotel Monteleone in New Orleans, La. This meeting will offer a unique opportunity for medical educators participating in the Main Residency Match to collectively discuss ways to strengthen the transition from medical school to residency and foster the education of vibrant and capable new physicians.
The transition from medical student to resident physician is an important milestone for young physicians, but it can be fraught with anxiety and pose a challenge for students and medical educators. Until now there has been no forum for medical school staff and residency program directors to collectively discuss common issues, says Mona M. Signer, NRMPs President and CEO. Because the NRMP occupies a distinctive place in the transition from undergraduate to graduate medical education (GME), we are in a unique position to create a bridge between medical schools and training institutions.
A cadre of nationally-recognized leaders in the field of medical education and healthcare will speak about topics ranging from physician decision-making and student readiness for residency to humanism in medicine. The conference also will address the Institute of Medicine report "Graduate Medical Education That Meets the Nations Health Needs" and its implications a year after publication, followed by a point-counterpoint discussion about the availability and funding of GME training slots.
Breakout sessions and a Town Hall forum will provide valuable opportunities for medical school officials, GME program directors, and hospital executives to collaborate on key topics, identify best practices, and share innovative projects occurring at their schools and institutions.
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To learn more, visit the NRMP conference website.
The NRMP Match The Match uses a computerized mathematical algorithm to align the preferences of applicants with the preferences of residency program directors in order to fill training positions available at U.S. teaching hospitals. Research on the NRMP algorithm was a basis for awarding The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel in 2012.
About NRMP The National Resident Matching Program (NRMP) is a private, non-profit organization established in 1952 at the request of medical students to provide an orderly and fair mechanism for matching the preferences of applicants for U.S. residency positions with the preferences of residency program directors. In addition to the annual Main Residency Match for more than 40,000 applicants, the NRMP conducts Fellowship Matches for more than 50 subspecialties through its Specialties Matching Service (SMS).
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East Carolina Universitys Brody School of Medicine isnt likely to close in the next five years as ECUs chancellor remarked in early February butfinancial hardships remain a problem for the school as budget cuts pile up.
The school is one of two public medical schools in North Carolina, along with UNC School of Medicine. Like public universities, a significant portion of both schools funding comes from the state, and state support has continuously dropped since the recession impacting ECUs school more due to its smaller size.
Brody School of Medicines revenues were $267 million in 2014, compared to UNC School of Medicines $1.1 billion.
But ECU Chancellor Steve Ballard clarified in a Feb. 10 statement that the medical school wouldnt be closing.
Ballard said the state paid for 53 percent of the schools budget in 1990 compared to just 21 percent today. Last year, the school saw $14 million in cuts to its state support.
Chapel Hill hasnt escaped cutbacks either.
When we move state support, we either have to cut programs or find new sources of support, said Karen McCall, spokeswoman for UNC School of Medicine. During the years when the cuts are made those transitions are very difficult.
Despite the cuts, Paul Cunningham, dean of the Brody School of Medicine, said ECU has not allowed them to become a setback.
We have not had to reduce admissions, and we have been very careful to shelter the Brody School academic experience for our students, Cunningham said.
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Doctors at the Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University expected to lose $6.5 million in collective revenues after recent legislative cutbacks. But the school should break even financially if efforts to tighten up operating plans are effective, administrators said Thursday.
ECU Physicians, the clinical faculty practice of the Brody School, has been operating for six months under efficiency measures to control costs following continued funding cuts by the state Legislature.
Were starting to see some progress, Brian Jowers, the practices executive director, told the ECU Board of Trustees Health Sciences Committee during its meeting.
The clinic switched to a compensation plan for its clinicians this fiscal year based on productivity, Jowers said.
Were looking at types of incentives to pay them for exceeding the targeted work goals they have, he said.
Seventy five percent of the 260 eligible faculty members achieved their efficiency goals, he said.
That tells us that our faculty members are exceeding their targeted productivity levels, which is great news because it means more patients seen, more procedures done and more revenues coming in, Jowers said.
The finance committee still must review new faculty positions before they are sent to the board for approval, Jowers said.
Administrators continue to examine issues that affect patient access to care, working toward having all patients seen by a physician within a week of calling for an appointment.
Most patients can be seen at most of our clinics within a couple of days, and we want to be able to schedule follow-up appointments up to six months out, Jowers said.
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The Yale Center for Medical Simulation, which opened on Jan. 26, will provide Yale School of Medicine students and Yale-New Haven Hospital residents with the opportunity to practice surgery and emergency medicine scenarios.
Administrators and students interviewed said the center would help students translate their theoretical training into practical skills. Once a week, over a 12-week period, every third-year student at the medical school visits the center to participate in 15 to 20-minute training exercises followed by discussion and evaluation by medical faculty.
Simulation fellow Tiffany Moadel, an instructor in emergency medicine at the School of Medicine, said the center is a marked improvement from the one cramped room where students previously had to undergo simulation training. The training is an important part of a students education, she said, because it pushes students to make decisions according to clinical management, which does not always happen in their clerkships.
All three students interviewed echoed Moadels statements.
The best way to learn is doing it hands on, said David Zhu MED 16.
Charles Li MED 16 said the center was useful because students have not been put in any decision-making roles before.
During the exercises, groups of four students take turns diagnosing and operating on high-tech mannequins.
It started an hour ago when I was watching the news, 68-year-old Mr. Parker complained to four medical students gathered around his hospital bed. Its this terrible shooting pain down my back. I was hoping to watch Ellen DeGeneres.
Mr. Parker is one of the mannequins at the YCMS.
In each simulation, one student serves as the team leader. He or she must process all incoming information and quickly make decisions. A resident doctor playing the role of the patients family member or a nurse is always present in the room as well.
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OLYMPIA The Legislature should not have to be forced to act like a parent to settle a fight between children in the dispute between the states two largest universities over medical education in Spokane, a key senator saidWednesday.
Sen. Andy Hill, chairman of the Ways and Means Committee, expressed frustration with last falls breakup of the partnership between the University of Washington and Washington State University for existing medical education inSpokane.
WSU President Elson Floyd had told the committee his institution was willing to continue the partnership over the multistate WWAMI program in Spokane while developing
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OLYMPIA The Legislature should not have to be forced to act like a parent to settle a fight between children in the dispute between the states two largest universities over medical education in Spokane, a key senator saidWednesday.
Sen. Andy Hill, chairman of the Ways and Means Committee, expressed frustration with last falls breakup of the partnership between the University of Washington and Washington State University for existing medical education inSpokane.
WSU President Elson Floyd had told the committee his institution was willing to continue the partnership over the multistate WWAMI program in Spokane while developing its own medical school. UW decided to seek another partner the decision rests with them, hesaid.
Ian Goodhew, director of government relations for UW Medicine, said the University of Washington wanted a partner that was committed to the partnership. But he told the committee the decision to end the partnership wasmutual.
Others may have a different interpretation, he said. I dontagree.
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WSU, UW questioned on medical school budgets - Thu, 19 Feb 2015 PST
TALLAHASSEE The second time was the charm for the University of South Florida.
The Florida Board of Governors on Thursday unanimously endorsed USF's proposed $153 million downtown medical education and research center, which is poised to rise in the heart of Jeff Vinik's $1 billion downtown Tampa redevelopment project.
"There's a lot of academic merit as well as economic merit to moving the medical school and the heart health institute downtown," said USF President Judy Genshaft. "We're so pleased that the Board of Governors obviously agreed with that decision."
What USF needed from the BOG and what the governors came through with on Thursday was to endorse a key part of the state funding needed for the project.
The BOG, which oversees the State University System, essentially recommended that the Florida Legislature give USF the first $17 million payment for the project this session. USF will need the rest of the $57 million over the next two years.
The BOG has already approved funding the heart institute, and that $50 million will be combined with the $57 million for the medical school to build one downtown office tower to hold both.
But what also made Thursday critical was that it was the first time the BOG voted to endorse USF's downtown Tampa plans. That should make the process much smoother when USF asks the governors for the rest of the $57 million down the road.
That's especially important considering the reception the project got the last time the BOG heard about it. Last month in Jacksonville, some governors seemed surprised by USF's proposal and demanded more information, like a more detailed business plan. The BOG postponed voting on the project and sent USF back to Tampa to hone its pitch.
USF responded Thursday with a polished pitch delivered by Dr. Charles Lockwood, dean of the medical school, and USF trustee Brian Lamb, the chair of the Tampa Bay Partnership, bank executive and former USF point guard.
This time the BOG asked no questions, and governor Dean Colson who raised the biggest fuss last month was the one who made the motion to recommend USF's project.
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For those who have been successful to get a job interview at medical school, youre clearly well in order to achieving the ideal. However, although youve clearly offered yourself well in writing, the truly effort is just just beginning. Medical school interview questions are infamously hard, and therefore, a little of planning is needed.
The very first factor to learn about medical school interview questions is they are positioned to obtain the best solutions in the best candidates. Although a job interview panel is going to be searching for key phrases and words you will find no wrong or right solutions.
Each school may have its very own method of doing things obviously, but certain questions, (or certainly versions on the theme), appear every year. Here are a couple of of the very most likely along with a little advice regarding how you can tailor your response.
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Students taking MCAT in April will have a broader, longer exam
BY GRACE PATERAS | FEBRUARY 17, 2015 5:00 AM
The new MCAT will have local medical-school hopefuls taking a test for nearly eight hours beginning in April.
The Medical College Admissions Test is a national exam that the Association of American Medical Colleges issues for students wanting to go into med school.
Some students, such as University of Iowa junior Collin Thatcher, said classes in undergraduate school will help on the MCAT.
[MCAT is] a comprehensive overview of my entire college career, he said. My classes all will help.
The test has undergone its first content modification since 1991, and the medical-school association is confident the changes will improve tomorrows physicians.
The new test, which will first be issued on April 17, will no longer feature the writing portion.
Instead, biochemistry, psychology, and sociology sections will be included on the test.
The test will take seven and a half hours, which includes an hour and a half of breaks between tests and an additional lunch break. The new exam is around two and a half hours longer than the old test.
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Clas Linnman, Harvard Medical School, discusses new ways of understanding chronic pain.
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