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South Africa ready for private medical school

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To speed up the country's delivery of qualified doctors, Western Cape Health MEC Theuns Botha says private medical schools are necessary.

South Africa is ready for its own private medical school where doctors can be trained without the help of the state, said Western Cape Health MEC Theuns Botha. (AFP)

South Africa is ready for its own private medical school where doctors can be trained without the help of the state, said Western Cape Health MEC Theuns Botha at the 18th Rural Health Conference in Worcester on Tuesday. I intend addressing the issue on national level. Why can the country have privately run courses for almost all other professional fields, but not for medicine? Botha asked.

Private medical schools are currently prohibited by the National Health Act only public universities are allowed to train doctors. Medical students can therefore only do their practicals at public hospitals under the supervision of doctors employed at state hospitals and clinics.

According to the national health department South Africas eight medical schools have been producing an average of 1200 doctors per year for the past decade. Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi has told the Mail & Guardian previously that he plans to at least triple this number to 3600 doctors per year for the implementation of governments National health Insurance Scheme.

According to the governments White Paper on human resources, South African medical schools will have to double their output of general practitioners over the next 15 years just to maintain the current ratios to population.

The ministry has funded a new medical school at the University of Limpopo and is planning to build more training hospitals. Motsoaledi plans to expand several health institutions, including Sowetos Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital and Tygerberg Hospital in Bellville.

But Botha says a private medical school is also needed to speed up the countrys delivery of doctors.

Understaffed SA hospitals It therefore requires a healthy debate to determine way forward. We do not have enough medical doctors in SouthAfrica and the national government reverts to the Cuban programme to address it. Our solution is permission for a private academic platform, incentives to retain professional skill inSouthAfricaand support and expansion of the existing medical schools, Botha said.

Cuba, with a population of 11-million, compared with South Africas 52-million, produces more than eight times the number of doctors that South Africa does: about 11000 annually from its 25 medical schools.

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Medical students who attended community college likelier to serve poor communities

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The community college system represents a potential source of student diversity for medical schools and physicians who will serve poor communities; however, there are significant challenges to enhancing the pipeline from community colleges to four-year universities to medical schools. The authors recommend that medical school and four-year university recruitment, outreach and admissions practices be more inclusive of community college students.

Researchers from UCLA, UC San Francisco and San Jose City College found that, among students who apply to and attend medical school, those from underrepresented minority backgrounds are more likely than white and Asian students to have attended a community college at some point. Community college students who were accepted to medical school were also more likely than those students who never attended a community college to commit to working with underserved populations.

The study also found that students who began their college education at a community college were less likely to get admitted to medical school than those students who never attended a community college or only attended a four-year university.

Using data from the 2012 Association of American Medical Colleges matriculant and applicant files and the AAMC's Matriculating Student Questionnaire, researchers examined the association between students' participation in a community college pathway, medical school admission and intention to practice medicine in underserved communities or work with minority populations.

Of 40,491 medical school applicants evaluated, 17,518 enrolled in medical school. Of those, 4,920 (28 percent) had attended a community college concurrently with high school, after high school or following graduation from a four-year college or university in order to take courses in preparation for medical school.

The researchers found that a higher proportion of underrepresented minority matriculants used the community college pathways compared with white students or other racial and ethnic groups. Thirty-four percent of Latinos had attended community colleges, (538 of 1,566 matriculants), compared with 28 percent of black students (311 of 1,109), 27 percent of white students (2,715 of 9,905), 27 percent of Asian students (963 of 3,628) and 30 percent of students identifying themselves as mixed-race or other race (393 of 1,310).

Applicants who attended community college after high school before transferring to a four-year college or university were 30 percent less likely to be admitted, compared to those students who never attended a community college or only attended a four-year university to medical school, after adjusting for age, gender, race and ethnicity, parental education, grade point average and MCAT score. The same group also was 26 percent more likely to intend to practice medicine in an underserved area than their non-community college educated peers.

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Upper Dublin girl named semi-finalist for medical school scholarship

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Jennifer Deasy has suffered from migraines since she was 11 years old more than half the 18-year-old Upper Dublin girls life. And she has an idea that just may ease the pain a bit for her and other migraine sufferers.

It also could net her a medical school scholarship.

Basically, her idea is to cure migraines with stem cell treatment.

Deasy has been named one of 12 semi-finalists for a National Academy Medical School Scholarship Challenge sponsored by the National Academy of Future Physicians and Medical Scientists.

Three of the 12 will be selected to present their research proposals at the November Congress of Future Medical Leaders in Washington, D.C., according to an academy press release. One will receive a medical school scholarship up to $185,000, with $10,000 scholarships going to the runners-up.

The winners will be determined by scholars attending the November Congress.

Deasy was one of 3,100 honor high school students who attended the February Congress, where students were challenged to identify an unsolved medical/scientific/world health problem and create an original investigation to solve that problem.

My guidance counselor nominated me to attend the February Congress, said Deasy, a 2014 Upper Dublin High School grad and current freshman at Franklin & Marshall. Attending medical school has been a dream for as long as I can remember.

I always found [medicine] cool and interesting, she said, noting her dad is an oral surgeon, three uncles are doctors and one is a nurse. She hopes to become a neurologist, both seeing patients and doing research on the brain and its workings with different hormones and how they can affect brain function, like seizures and migraines.

Pain medication or caffeine pills are currently used to treat migraine symptoms, she said. It is not known what causes the severe headaches often accompanied by nausea, and there is no cure. Continued...

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Medical Students Who Previously Attended Community College More Likely to Serve in Poor Communities

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IMPACT The community college system represents a potential source of student diversity for medical schools and physicians who will serve poor communities; however, there are significant challenges to enhancing the pipeline from community colleges to four-year universities to medical schools. The authors recommend that medical school and four-year university recruitment, outreach and admissions practices be more inclusive of community college students.

FINDINGS Researchers from UCLA, UC San Francisco and San Jose City College found that, among students who apply to and attend medical school, those from underrepresented minority backgrounds are more likely than white and Asian students to have attended a community college at some point. Community college students who were accepted to medical school were also more likely than those students who never attended a community college to commit to working with underserved populations.

The study also found that students who began their college education at a community college were less likely to get admitted to medical school than those students who never attended a community college or only attended a four-year university.

Using data from the 2012 Association of American Medical Colleges matriculant and applicant files and the AAMCs Matriculating Student Questionnaire, researchers examined the association between students participation in a community college pathway, medical school admission and intention to practice medicine in underserved communities or work with minority populations.

Of 40,491 medical school applicants evaluated, 17,518 enrolled in medical school. Of those, 4,920 (28 percent) had attended a community college concurrently with high school, after high school or following graduation from a four-year college or university in order to take courses in preparation for medical school.

The researchers found that a higher proportion of underrepresented minority matriculants used the community college pathways compared with white students or other racial and ethnic groups. Thirty-four percent of Latinos had attended community colleges, (538 of 1,566 matriculants), compared with 28 percent of black students (311 of 1,109), 27 percent of white students (2,715 of 9,905), 27 percent of Asian students (963 of 3,628) and 30 percent of students identifying themselves as mixed-race or other race (393 of 1,310).

Applicants who attended community college after high school before transferring to a four-year college or university were 30 percent less likely to be admitted, compared to those students who never attended a community college or only attended a four-year university to medical school, after adjusting for age, gender, race and ethnicity, parental education, grade point average and MCAT score. The same group also was 26 percent more likely to intend to practice medicine in an underserved area than their non-community college educated peers.

AUTHORS The research was conducted by Dr. Efrain Talamantes, Dr. Carol Mangione, Karla Gonzalez and Dr. Gerardo Moreno of the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA; Dr. Alejandro Jimenez of UC San Francisco; and Fabio Gonzalez of San Jose City College.

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MSc student wins medical school essay competition

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Twenty-one people entered the contest, the results of which were announced at a recent prizegiving event on campus.

Mr Harris, who won $500 for his essay, titled ''Unlocking Prostate Cancer'', is an MSc student in the university biochemistry department.

He is researching how to achieve a more accurate early diagnosis of prostate cancer, at the department's cancer genetics laboratory. His postgraduate research is supervised by laboratory director Prof Parry Guilford.

The society awarded a second prize, of $250, to Monika Sharma, a PhD student in biochemistry, who is studying aspects of the complex role of lipoprotein(a).

Dr Anita Dunbier, who is the convener of the Otago Medical School Research Society Student Prize for Writing, said the competition aimed to ''inspire young scientists to communicate their research to the public''.

Research at Otago University was undertaken to ''bring benefit to the people of Otago and beyond'' but, all too often, ''exciting findings'' remained within the walls of science laboratories.

Dr Dunbier, who is also the society's treasurer, said the Student Prize for Writing aimed to help share with a broader audience some of the ''great research'' being undertaken by Otago students.

The competition had attracted a high standard of entries and many students used ''very creative analogies to explain complex concepts''.

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The Liberty University Spirit of the Mountain Marching Band performs Cupid Shuffle in the stands during the Liberty University Flames football game against Bryant on September 20, 2014.

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Liberty Ross Talks Rupert Sanders' Kristen Stewart Affair: Trust Your Gut

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Not holding back! Liberty Ross opened up this week, speaking candidly about her ex-husband Rupert Sanders' infamous affair with Kristen Stewart.

The British model and actress, 36, talked to Grazia for the magazine's latest issue, and touched on her former spouse's marriage-ending transgressions.

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"The most valuable thing I can share is the importance of living in truth," she said. "Sometimes, facing those truths can actually be your worst fear."

Ross filed for divorce from Sanders, 43, in January 2013, six months after Us Weekly published exclusive photos of the Snow White and the Huntsman director making out in a public park with Stewart, the star of the film.

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"Trusting your gut is always the best thing - no matter what people around you insist you should be doing or saying or thinking," Ross continued to Grazia. "Only you know and once you live in truth your heart is completely free."

Earlier this month, the stunning Brit said she does not harbor any ill will for her ex-husband or for his mistress, 24. (She and Sanders share kids Skyla, 9, and Tennyson, 7.)

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"People need to learn to forgive," she told Harper's Bazaar. "I have no problem with anyone involved. I'm completely compassionate, I really am. No life is perfect, we all have our problems and issues and I believe that it's good to be true to who you are." Read Kristen's apology.

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Liberty Ross thinks it is important to "live in truth".

The 36-year-old model - who divorced director husband Rupert Sanders in 2013 following a revelation he had been unfaithful with his 'Snow White and the Huntsman' star Kristen Stewart - doesn't regret any decisions she has made in the past as she always gone with her instincts.

She said: "I've always been very sure of my choices and wouldn't change anything.

"The most valuable thing I can share is the importance of living in truth.

"Sometimes, facing those truths can be your worst fear. Trusting your gut is always the best thing - no matter what people around you insist you should be doing or saying or thinking.

"Only you know, and once you live in truth your heart is completely free."

One of the mother-of-two's favourite things about living alone now is the amount of closet space she has.

She laughed to Britain's Grazia magazine: "I've just moved and have this crazy-big closet. It used to be a his'n'hers - now it's just hers.

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Discovery, Liberty Global Complete Acquisition of U.K. Producer All3Media

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Discovery Communications and Liberty Global said Tuesday that they have closed the $930 million joint acquisition of U.K. TV production firm All3Media following regulatory clearance.

In May, Discovery and Liberty Global formed a joint venture "to preserve All3Medias creative autonomy while providing strategic guidance and investment to support its global growth." John Malone controls Liberty Global and is a big shareholder in Discovery.

As widely expected, All3Media CEO Farah Ramzan Golant is stepping down. A global search for a new CEO will begin immediately, the new owners said. Jane Turton, currently COO, has been promoted to managing director of All3Media and will oversee the transition period. Neil Bright will continue in his role as CFO.

All3Media is considered Britain's largest independent TV producer and distributor. The company's shows include Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares, Undercover Boss, Skins, The White Queen, U.K. scripted reality hit The Only Way Is Essex and Cash Cab New York. Private equity firm Permira sold privately-held All3Media.

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The company was formed in 2003 by a group of former ITV executives and has acquired a portfolio of production outfits, including Company (The Village), Objective (Peep Show), Lime Pictures (The Only Way Is Essex), Optomen (Kitchen Nightmares) and One Potato, Two Potato (set up by Gordon Ramsay and Optomen).

All3Media is a production powerhouse, with a unique ability to attract, foster and retain some of the best creative minds in the business. For nearly 30 years, Discovery has invested in high-quality content and todays deal furthers that commitment, said Discovery CEO David Zaslav. Discovery has a proven track record of nurturing creativity and building scale across the world. Working with our valued partner Liberty Global, we will focus on empowering All3Media to continue innovating and delivering even greater stand-out content to its clients and partners across the globe.

Said Mike Fries, CEO of Liberty Global, which has recently outlined its acquisitions strategy for content companies: The business, which produces content for some of our biggest markets in Europe, including the U.K., Germany and the Netherlands, is a natural fit for us and our strategy for content. Discovery is the perfect partner too, as they not only commission All3Media content already, but also share our ambition to create compelling, localized content for domestic markets. Together, we will seek to preserve All3Medias creative independence and support its management to further grow this strong creative business.

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