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9:36am Monday 17th February 2014 in News By Omar Oakes, Digital Editor

Nearly 5,000 incidents of bus drivers being attacked have been revealed by Conservatives on the Greater London Assembly.

Figures uncovered by the City Hall Tory group's police and crime spokesman, Roger Evans, show 4,967 incidents were reported between 2010 and 2013.

Four in 10 (38 per cent) of these incidents involve bus drivers being either physically assaulted or threatened with a weapon.

Mr Evans said: The number of bus drivers facing physical attack or verbal abuse on Londons bus network is alarming.

"Nobody should have to put up with threats or violence while doing their job. I fully appreciate that money has been invested in patrols on our buses by the police however we need to go further."

Mr Evans has called for a full review of policing across public transport in London and "well-publicised sting operations" to deter further abuses.

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Why Jerk Bosses Make People Worse At Their Jobs

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"Most of my friends in medicine have witnessed flagrant episodes of hospital bullying and have juicy tales to tell," Harvard Medical School student Ilana Yurkiewicz writes at Aeon Magazine. "But medical disrespect is usually far less dramatic, dished out in the form of micro-aggressions: exasperated sighs, a sarcastic tone, the dismissal of alternative ideas."

This comes from an entrenched--and fundamentally flawed--conception of how learning happens, she says: "that harshness creates competence." While most docs, she says, are compassionate caregivers, there remain misunderstandings about how social interactions shape outcomes. They include:

(The idea that) that fear is good for doctors-in-training and, by extension, good for patients. That public shaming holds us to higher standards. Efforts to change the current climate are shot down as medicine going "soft."

The only problem with this treat 'em mean, keep 'em keen kinda thinking is that it runs counter to all of the research.

As we've talked about before, bossing people around backfires because it breeds resistance, reticence, and retribution. In the case of business a shame culture dams the flow of new ideas; in medicine it puts patients' lives in danger.

As Harvard health policy professor Lucian Leape says, a culture of disrespect is a barrier to patient safety, since "it inhibits collegiality and co-operation essential to teamwork, cuts off communication, undermines morale, and inhibits compliance with and implementation of new practices."

As Yurkiewicz contends, good medicine (and really any good work environment) is an ecosystem, with younger and elder docs and nurses and administrators all working in conjunction.

But shaming makes for dysfunction. When the ecosystem's working well, then junior residents ask seniors about things they're confused on, senior residents relay anything they can't resolve to the attending physicians, which allows for the questions to reach the appropriate level of expertise. Then the action goes back down: once a decision is made, the most junior docs carry out the decision and learn by doing. But jerkiness clogs these connections, Yurkiewicz says; "when anger and intimidation flow down, information stops flowing up."

Cultures replicate themselves because senior people model behavior to junior people: "I went through this, so you should to" is a suiting refrain. As the New Yorker has reported, one reason so many of us work insane hours is because our bosses do the same. Same goes for the entrenchment of jerkiness; to not be cruel to your employee is to be "soft," and soft is bad.

To put it in marketing speak, jerkiness needs a rebranding. It should be acknowledged by leadership as idea-stifling rather than as a badge of honor, as sociologist Bren Brown is always reminding us. But it's not that the jerks and bullies are evil; they just have low emotional intelligence, which can be corrected for--given the right kind of conversation.

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Why medical school training should fast-track to five years

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America will need 90,000 more doctors in seven years, as the Census Bureau projects a 36-percent growth in health care for Americans age 65 and over. Yet, The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services estimates that the physician supply will increase by only 7 percent in the next 10 years, according to The Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) Center for Workforce Studies, June 2010.

The facts are 32 million younger Americans will become newly insured under health care reform, and more people are living longer. Since medical training currently takes so long, we must expand residency education and accelerate the training process now.

One doctor, Travis Hill, agreed to a new three-year NYU School of Medicine program that will save him a year and $70,000, which is his cost of tuition and living expenses. Several other doctors agree that fast-tracking the training makes sense in order for them to begin practice sooner and reduce the heavy burden of student debt.

In October 2013, the AAMC detailed that the median 4-year cost of attendance for an in-state public medical school was $218,898 and for private medical school, an even more overwhelming $286,806. This jolting figure does not include additional debt from undergraduate studies. A walloping 79 percent of graduates from the class of 2013 had at least $100,000 or more of debt, and that did not take into consideration that loan repayments would start while earning modest stipends as residents or fellows.

To afford the general niceties of life, and start a family, for many at this stage means taking on additional debt, especially if interested in specialization.

A report in 2010 from the Carnegie Foundation recommended in favor of fast-track medical education, and the prestigious Journal of the American Medical Association in 2012 reported two highly respected authorities, Ezekiel Emanuel, University of Pennsylvania vice provost, and Victor Fuchs, a Stanford economist, wrote that eliminating a year of medical school could be achieved without affecting patient care or academic performance.

Northwest Suburban College (www.northwestsuburbancollege.com) in Rolling Meadows offers a unique program. The first 24 to 28 months of the curriculum features coursework to achieve a Bachelor of Science degree in Biology or Chemistry, whereby students can develop a solid foundation in math and science and include classes in humanities before transferring to Avalon University in beautiful Curacao, an island and country in the Caribbean.

This fast-track program makes it possible to achieve the medical degree within 5 years without having to take the Medical College Admission Test (MCAT), or choose to take the MCAT and apply for admission to another medical school. A second option is to receive the Associate of Science degree in Biology or Chemistry, and then transfer to Avalon and save an additional six months for the program. All programs are offered on an accelerated basis and can save time and money compared to many other institutions because Northwest Suburban College is a nonprofit institution.

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Touro University eager to partner with UNLV on a medical school

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Former U. S. Congresswoman Shelley Berkley (D-NV) speaks about the need for Nevada residency programs during an editorial board meeting at the Las Vegas Sun offices Thursday, Feb. 20, 2014. Berkley is the new CEO and senior provost of the Touro College and University system in Nevada andCalifornia.

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Six weeks after taking the helm of Touro University Nevada, Shelley Berkley said her private medical school is willing to partner with UNLV in its quest to create the first public medical school in Southern Nevada.

The former Democratic congresswoman said Thursday she plans to have a conversation with UNLV acting President Don Snyder about a potential partnership between the two universities in due time. Berkley recently became the CEO and senior provost of New York-based Touro Universitys Western Division, which includes its osteopathic medical school in Henderson.

The idea came to Berkley when Touro University President and CEO Alan Kadish visited her campus earlier this week, she said. Upon hearing that UNLV was planning to create its own medical school, Kadish suggested that Touro could partner with UNLV to help solve Nevadas physician shortage.

Berkley, a former Nevada regent for eight years, said she doesnt know what a potential partnership between the two schools could look like. However, she was encouraged by Kadishs interest, she said.

I didnt realize we could be that creative, Berkley said of Kadishs proposal. Touro could provide just about any program that this state needs. We should be discussing in this state anything that could increase the number of physicians and health care providers.

This news comes as UNLV is working with the University of Nevada School of Medicine to kickstart an allopathic medical school in Las Vegas. Nevadas higher education leaders have approved an agreement that would allow UNLV to create its own medical school using the UNR medical schools accreditation, and eventually becoming an independently accredited institution.

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Western colleges find common ground on Malaysia campus

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NUSAJAYA, February 21, 2014 (AFP) - At Newcastle University's medical school, students tread red-brick paths through a green campus bearing Victorian touches in a scene that befits a top college in northern England.

But this setting is sweltering tropical Malaysia, where select departments of several European universities have joined in a shared-campus concept to tap growing Asian demand for sought-after Western degrees.

Distance and cost concerns combine to keep many Asian students and Western universities apart.

But the shared nature of facilities in the 123-hectare (305-acre) "EduCity" in southern Malaysia, and resulting lower start-up costs, allows institutions to gain an Asian foothold while passing savings on to students.

Malaysian student Kanesh Rajoo pays just 60 percent of the 120,000-pound tuition ($200,000) charged at Newcastle University Medical School's UK campus and saves a small fortune in British living costs.

"Because of the reputation of obtaining a recognised UK degree, I will probably have an upper hand (in Malaysia's job market) as compared to those from a local university," Kanesh said while studying in NUMed's spacious library.

Multi-university concepts have been tried elsewhere with mixed success but the Malaysian government project hopes to set itself apart by cherry-picking respected individual university departments.

Colleges, meanwhile, get a slice of a growing education market in developing Asia.

Non-EU enrollment in universities in Britain grew by 20 percent to 300,000 students from 2008 to 2012, according to the British government. It forecasts four million students per year will seek study abroad globally by 2024, one-third of them from China and India.

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