Med school launches accelerated program

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Dr. Joseph I. Shapiro, dean of the Marshall University Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine

Apr. 30, 2014 @ 12:00 AM

HUNTINGTON -- Marshall University and its medical school are offering up to 10 qualified West Virginia students annually a chance to complete requirements for becoming a doctor in a shorter time frame and potentially save tens of thousands of dollars in tuition.

The accelerated program announced Tuesday by Dr. Joseph Shapiro, dean of the Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine, means a student could complete a bachelor's degree and a doctor of medicine degree in seven years instead of the traditional eight.

In addition, a student who completes the undergraduate requirements of the program also would receive a waiver of tuition for all four years of medical school, officials said. At the school's current tuition rate, that would be a savings of more than $80,000 for a student.

The program, which will begin in the fall 2015 semester, is part of Marshall's efforts to develop a physician workforce for the region and increase in-state recruitment, Shapiro said in a news release.

"One of the ways we can facilitate that goal is to create programs that attract our state's best and brightest," he said. "This accelerated program allows us to place those highly performing students on a fast track to medical education."

Only 10 students annually will be accepted into the accelerated program, said Jennifer T. Plymale, associate dean for admissions at the school of medicine. She said the medical school will accept 75 students into the entire medical school class, and the accelerated program students will account for 10 of those spots.

Students who successfully complete the undergraduate requirements of the program will receive the tuition waiver for all four years of medical school, as well as a waiver from taking the MCAT, the entrance exam for medical school.

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Uni students wanting medical unfazed by higher fees

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A MEDICAL school for Orange, higher student fees and funding for for-profit higher education providers - all is on the table for education in the 2014 federal budget.

A MEDICAL school for Orange, higher student fees and funding for for-profit higher education providers - all is on the table for education in the 2014 federal budget.

Treasurer Joe Hockey is expected to release the budget on Tuesday, May 13 and Charles Sturt University vice-chancellor Professor Andrew Vann is hopeful $45 million is set aside for a medical school.

Prior to last year's federal election, the National Party formally backed the university's planned Murray Darling Medical School, to be established over the Wagga Wagga and Orange campuses and in Ballarat.

"We're still leaning on the government and lobbying the government in relation to that," Professor Vann said.

"But everything we're hearing is about the lack of money available."

Professor Vann said the federal health department had been in "lengthy" discussions with CSU and he believed the department was aware of the "extremely good value" the medical school posed. Professor Vann said he was cautious about the rhetoric coming from Education Minister Christopher Pyne about proposed changes to the education sector, such as higher student fees and funding for for-profit universities.

Mr Pyne is considering the findings in the Kemp-Norton review, which promotes demand-driven funding where any private, non-university educator could be funded.

Professor Vann said the review highlighted a move to uncap the number of Commonwealth-funded places at public universities, allowing a focus on market demand.

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CMED creates necessity for improved human research protection program

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Opening a medical school has made itespecially important that Central Michigan University returns its human research protection program to compliance with federal regulations.

Provost Michael Gealt said the potential risks that come with research done by the College of Medicine amplify CMUs need to update its human research protection program.

Im looking, especially with the medical school, to make sure we get all the problems solved now before they really start increasing their research, Gealt said. We dont want to mess with those problems where (we) potentially could be working with human (research) that could actually be life threatening.

CMU discovered its non-compliance of university and federal regulations througha June 2013 external report done by HRP Consulting Inc., a New York-based firmthat focuses on improvingresearch policies.

Changes are not necessarily being made because of the College of Medicine, but because CMU has taken a look at its overall program and will be dedicating its time and resources to the improvement of the program, the report summarized.

The firmfound CMU lacks resources needed to have an effective humanresearch protection program, including staff, documentation, procedures, training and education.

It also found the university didnt have a university-wide process for dealing with HIPAA, Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, allowing for possible violations when dealing with student medical records during research.

The use of medical records for research purposes will only increase with the addition of the medical school, according to the report. Violations of HIPAA place the institution at significant regulatory and financial risk.

HIPAA protects U.S. citizens medical records and ensures they arent excluded from insurance coverage based on health-status related factors.

At least two CMED faculty members have experienced significant delays in their research due to review board backups, said Ed McKee, chairman of foundational sciences and a biochemistry professor.

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Let’s Play: Starcraft 2: Wings of Liberty #62 – Beginn einer Invasion [HD+] [German] – Video

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Why Does 1% of History Have 99% of the Wealth? | Learn Liberty – Video

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"Sing to Love" (Brderlein und Schwesterlein) – Die Fledermaus – Liberty University Opera – Video

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Liberty County man charged with abuse of a corpse

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Posted on April 29, 2014 at 12:27 PM

Updated today at 12:28 PM

LIBERTY COUNTY, Texas - A man northeast of Houston has been arrested after investigators said they found a body in a barn on his property.

Liberty County jail records show 44-year-old Billy Ray Bennett was held without bond Tuesday on charges of evidence tampering and abuse of a corpse.

Online jail records don't list an attorney for Bennett, who was arrested Monday after authorities received information about possible remains at the home and searched the place.

His home is located in the 26000 block of Highway 146 in northern Liberty County.

Bennett gave a verbal consent for the search, and deputies went to a barn about 30 yards behind his home. In the barn, deputies said they found the human remains of an unknown person wrapped in a tarp.

Liberty County sheriff's Sgt. Brian Bortz said the remains appeared to have been in the barn for several months, and it was not immediately possible to determine the age, sex or race of the person.

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EMC's Project Liberty could free storage software from hardware

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EMC will give users a peek at its progress toward software-defined storage next week at EMC World in Las Vegas, demonstrating a virtualized VNX array developed under a program called Project Liberty.

The demonstration will show software from the company's VNX hybrid array running separately from the array itself, pointing toward the ability to deploy EMC storage smarts on less specialized hardware. EMC hasn't given many details about Project Liberty, which will be showcased in a section of the show called Area 52, but it said it's going through evaluations with customers for various use cases.

"It's not a product, it's a project," said Jonathan Seigal, senior director of product marketing at EMC.

EMC is announcing Project Liberty on Wednesday in advance of EMC World, along with an entry-level version of its VNXe platform for midsized customers and new encryption technology for the VNX line. VNX is a series of hybrid flash and hard-drive arrays for enterprises.

Storage, like networking, is becoming more software-centered as enterprises look to standardized hardware and cloud services to power their data-center operations. The Project Liberty stack could run on commodity hardware, in a cloud or at a remote site, Seigal said. "It's really about giving our customers more options," he said. An initial use of Project Liberty might be to spin up virtualized instances of the VNX software on a platform separate from an array, for purposes such as testing and development, Seigal said.

The dominant enterprise storage vendor is hitching its future to software because it doesn't get as much advantage from maintaining several different hardware lines anymore, IDC analyst Ashish Nadkarni said. Ultimately, EMC is heading toward selling different software that can all run on the same standard hardware, including systems from other vendors, he believes. Yet it will probably take five years to reach that point, partly because the company still relies on hardware sales for much of its revenue, he said.

Project Liberty could help EMC to head off startups that sell virtualized gateways between storage systems on premises and cloud services off site, Gartner analyst Gene Ruth said. They include Panzura, Avere and Ctera Networks, Ruth said. A virtualized VNX stack could give enterprises a way to replicate a physical VNX array on site with a virtual one in a public cloud, giving enterprises more flexibility.

Brandon Robinson, network services director at ACES, a power management company, is looking at software-defined storage for potential use in a few years. A platform such as VMware's VSAN, or possibly the Project Liberty technology, wouldn't replace a whole hardware array but might be good for spot deployments of applications such as virtual desktops, he said.

"We wouldn't have to go out and buy a whole other array just to support this new workload," Robinson said. "We might be able to deploy the software and some off-the-shelf servers and hard drives."

Also on Wednesday, EMC is updating its VNXe line with the VNXe3200, designed for midsize enterprises and branch sites. It gets improvements that were introduced last year for the larger VNX platform. Those include new software to get more performance out of multicore Intel processors, the addition of Fibre Channel to the existing iSCSI and NAS (network-attached storage) protocols, and unified snapshot software that spans both block and file storage. The update delivers higher performance in the same footprint, including three times as many virtual machines, virtual desktops, Microsoft SQL transactions or Exchange mailboxes, Seigal said.

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