"Jehova’s Witness" – Medical School MMI Interview Practice Question #5 (2015) – Video

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I faked being black to get into medical school

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Story highlights Vijay Chokal-Ingam says he pretended to be black to get into medical school He says the experience showed him that affirmative action is a flawed system

The revelation comes as Vijay Chokal-Ingam, who is of Indian descent, is pitching a book about his experiences as a "hard-partying college frat boy who discovered the seriousness and complexity of America's racial problems while posing as a black man."

On his website, AlmostBlack.com, Chokal-Ingam says he hatched the plan in 1998 after realizing in college that his grades weren't going to be good enough to get into med school as an Indian-American.

"So, I shaved my head, trimmed my long Indian eyelashes, and applied to medical school as a black man," he wrote on the website. "My change in appearance was so startling that my own fraternity brothers didn't recognize me at first."

Actress Mindy Kaling's brother says his sister isn't happy with his plans for a book about affirmative action.

He says he joined an organization for black students and applied to schools using his middle name, JoJo.

The plan had some drawbacks, said Chokal-Ingam, who describes himself now as a "professional resume writer, interview coach, and graduate school application consultant."

"Cops harassed me. Store clerks accused me of shoplifting. Women were either scared of me or couldn't keep their hands off me," he wrote. "What started as a devious ploy to gain admission to medical school turned into a twisted social experiment."

He says it worked. Despite a relatively mediocre 3.1 college grade-point average and a good-but-not-great score of 31 on the Medical College Admission Test, Chokal-Ingam claims he was wooed by several top medical schools.

He even posts documents on his website to bolster his claims, including an enthusiastic letter from a dean at the Emory University School of Medicine congratulating him on his "excellent scores" on the MCAT.

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Rural medical schools are a breath of life for the west

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April 10, 2015, 4 a.m.

THE man charged with convincing the federal government of the need for the proposed Murray Darling Medical School argues it would breathe new life into inland northern Victoria and western NSW.

Charles Sturt University and La Trobe University are seeking to address medical staff shortages in their regions through the proposed establishment of the Murray Darling Medical School. Photo: File

THE man charged with convincing the federal government of the need for the proposed Murray Darling Medical School argues it would breathe new life into inland northern Victoria and western NSW.

Charles Sturt University (CSU) and La Trobe University have appointed Mark Burdack to lead the next stage of their bid for a medical school, noting he played a key role in securing cash for the CSU School of Dentistry and Health Sciences and community dental clinics in five communities, including Dubbo.

The universities are seeking approval for a new medical school at Orange, Bendigo and Wagga Wagga campuses in an effort to address rural medical workforce shortages in the regions.

It would allow rural students an opportunity to study medicine without having to leave the regions for a metropolitan university.

Mr Burdack has taken up the reins of the bid with enthusiastic argument as to why inland northern Victoria and western NSW "must have their own medical school".

Firstly, he thinks it's unfair that students in major cities have a broad range of choices to study medicine on their home turf, as opposed to rural students who have "no local options".

"If we want a rural health and medical workforce, we need to give rural and Indigenous students more options closer to home," he said.

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Medical Schools Reboot For 21st Century

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Dr. Raj Mangrulkar and medical student Jesse Burk-Rafel at the University of Michigan Medical School. Good communication skills, teamwork and adaptability will help doctors thrive through swift changes in medical science, Mangrulkar says. Leisa Thompson/Courtesy of University of Michigan Medical School hide caption

Dr. Raj Mangrulkar and medical student Jesse Burk-Rafel at the University of Michigan Medical School. Good communication skills, teamwork and adaptability will help doctors thrive through swift changes in medical science, Mangrulkar says.

Medicine has changed a lot in the past 100 years. But medical training hasn't until now. Spurred by the need to train a different type of doctor, some top medical schools around the U.S. are tearing up the textbooks and starting from scratch.

"We haven't taught people how to be specific about working in teams, how to communicate with peers and colleagues and how to communicate to the general public about what's going on in health care and medicine."

- Dr. Erin McKean, surgeon and teacher, University of Michigan Medical School

Most medical schools still operate under a model pioneered in the early 1900s by an educator named Abraham Flexner.

"Flexner did a lot of great things," says Dr. Raj Mangrulkar, associate dean for medical student education at the University of Michigan Medical School. "But we've learned a lot and now we're absolutely ready for a new model."

Michigan is one of many med schools in the midst of a major overhaul of their curricula.

For example, in a windowless classroom, a small group of second-year students is hard at work. The students are not studying anatomy or biochemistry or any of the traditional sciences. They're polishing their communication skills.

In the first exercise, students paired off and negotiated the price of a used BMW. Now they're trying to settle on who should get credit for an imaginary medical journal article.

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Mayo Medical School Receives Accreditation Endorsement for Branch Campuses

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Mayo Medical School Receives Accreditation Endorsement for Branch Campuses

ROCHESTER, Minn. Mayo Medical School announced that its expansion plan to establish branch campuses in Scottsdale, Arizona, and Jacksonville, Florida, has received the endorsement of the Liaison Committee on Medical Education (LCME), the national accrediting body for medical education.

We are thrilled with the positive response from LCME, says Sherine Gabriel, M.D., M.Sc., (retiring) dean of Mayo Medical School and William J. and Charles H. Mayo Professor of Epidemiology and Medicine, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine. This signifies an important step in our transformation to a national medical school and our ability to deliver extraordinary medical education and highly diverse clinical experiences to our students across all campuses.

Originally established in Rochester, Minnesota, in 1972, Mayo Medical School is considered one of the most highly competitive medical schools in the country for admittance. Averaging over 4,700 applications per year, Mayo Medical School traditionally accepts only 50 students per enrolling class. With the opening of the Arizona campus in 2017, this will increase to 50 additional students per year. The expansion of the medical school is a natural next step in its mission to train highly skilled physicians. Notably, Mayo Medical School students routinely match to top residency programs across the country, and 80 percent more than twice the national average publish research manuscripts in peer-reviewed journals. Careful planning will maintain another important feature of the school its high faculty-to-single student ratio.

MEDIA CONTACT: Deborah Anderson, Mayo Clinic Public Affairs, 507-284-5005, newsbureau@mayo.edu.

The December 2014 plan submitted to the Liaison Committee on Medical Education carefully outlined the schools vision to create a national medical school and a new standard in medical education. Along with the current four-year campus at Mayo Clinic in Minnesota and creating a four-year campus at Mayo Clinic in Arizona, students will have the opportunity to complete their third- and fourth-years at the campus at Mayo Clinic in Florida. Mayo Medical School is also developing state-of-the-art online learning modules and has worked with Arizona State University to jointly develop and incorporate the science of health care delivery across the medical schools curriculum at each campus.

Mayo Medical School students will be some of the first in the nation to receive a certificate in the science of health care delivery, notes Michele Halyard, M.D., Suzanne Hanson Poole Vice Dean and incoming interim dean of the school. Not only are we training our students to be excellent physicians and scientists, we are also equipping them with the tools to transform Americas ailing health care system.

Mayo Medical Schools goal to transform medical education reaches far beyond its own doors. In 2013, the school was one of only 11 medical schools across the nation selected for the American Medical Associations Accelerating Change in Medical Education initiative. This consortium of educational innovators is working with the AMA to pioneer and collectively accelerate cutting-edge changes in medical education.

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6 monkey deaths at Oregon Zoo prompt federal investigation of Harvard primate center

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SOUTHBOROUGH, Mass. The U.S. Department of Agriculture is investigating the New England Primate Research Center run by Harvard Medical School in Massachusetts in response to the deaths of six monkeys at the Oregon Zoo last year, shortly after they arrived from the center.

The Boston Globe reported Friday (http://bit.ly/1I0mF3K ) that the department confirmed the investigation, but didn't release details.

A Harvard Medical School spokeswoman said the deaths of the six tamarin monkeys in Oregon last May triggered the USDA investigation. The medical school said in a statement that the monkeys arrived at the zoo in good condition.

The Primate Research Center in Southborough is scheduled to close in May.

Oregon Zoo officials could not determine how the six monkeys died, but said they all showed signs of systemic shock.

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New doctor takes pride in tricycle driver-dad

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Marven Louie Badon Ragay (in toga) with his father, Benecio. PHOTO FROM FACEBOOK

Marven Louie Badon Ragay couldnt help but wax poetic on his Facebook wall on March 23. He thanked his father Benecio, a tricycle driver, for his perseverance in sending him to medical school despite their financial difficulties.

Your earnings were able to sustain my education. Congrats! A tricycle driver with a son who is a medical doctor. You must be proud of me, father!, he wrote.

He also posted a photo of him in his toga and his father standing beside his tricycle No. 0053, a day after he graduated from Silliman University Medical School.

Marven admitted that the graduation felt surreal, especially when he thought about how his parents beat the odds through loans and promissory notes. His parents had yet to pay fully for the tablet that they loaned for (to lessen his expenses for medical books).

I am happy for them because their efforts and hard work have paid off, he said.

College dropout

Benecio was a farmer who dropped out of college and became a tricycle driver. His wife, Flor Marie Badon-Ragay, works at the provincial agriculturists office in Negros Oriental.

Money was hard to come by, but the couple was able to send to school all their four childrenVenice Marie, Marven, Danya Ritzel and Kathleen Josela.

They are all registered nurses, choosing the profession not because they want to work abroad. They could save money using the same hand-me-down books.

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