Spark gives Dunedin exclusive Gigatown pre-launch offer

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Spark is inviting Dunedin locals to gear up for the launch of Gigatown by offering its fastest Ultra Fibre plans at a discounted price, ahead of launching its official Gigatown plans later this year.

From today, residents of Dunedin in the Gigatown UFB footprint can sign up to Sparks Ultra Fibre 100 plans for just $79 a month for 80GB ($99 with a landline), or $99 a month for Unlimited data ($119 with a landline). The Ultra Fibre 100 plans offer speeds of around 100mbps upload and 50mbps download.

Spark Chief Executive, Chris Quin says we want our customers to have a mind blowing experience on the Spark Ultra Fibre Network and so we are right behind Gigatown. However, our Gigatown plans are taking a little longer to deliver than expected, and wont be available until around the middle of the year.

In recognition that we dont have these plans ready for customers as early as wed like to, we are offering Dunedin locals our fastest Ultra Fibre plans at a heavily discounted price.

The Ultra Fibre 100 offer comes a month after Spark announced it would shout Spark Broadband customers a 12-month subscription to Internet TV service Lightbox.

Lightbox gives our customers access to more than 6,000 ad-free hours of insanely good TV. For our customers in Dunedin, this means fibre broadband speeds are suddenly a whole lot more attractive, as theyll allow you to bingewatch your favourite TV shows on the smoothest, fastest connection available. said Quin.

Spark is also planning to launch its GigaWiFi service for Dunedin locals later in the year. Spark plans to liven up the ten busiest Dunedin WiFi hotspots with gigabit speeds for Spark Mobile customers to connect to while they are out and about.

And since a Dunedin offer wouldnt be complete with something for the Scarfies, Spark is offering all tertiary students on the $19 or $29 prepaid pack a beginning-of-the-year boost. Tertiary students who visit the Spark store and present their student ID before 9 April 2015 will have an additional 250MB of data and unlimited calling added to their $19 or $29 prepaid pack for the next 12 months.

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Reproductive Medicine Associates of CT Opens New Facility in Norwalk – Video

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Michael Vassar: The Current State of Medical Research is Unacceptable – Video

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Many LGBT Medical Students Don't Reveal Sexual Identity

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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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NRMP Announces Inaugural Main Residency Match Stakeholder Conference

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Washington, D.C. (PRWEB) February 19, 2015

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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ECUs medical school battles budget cuts

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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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Medical school on pace to break even financially

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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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Simulation Center provides hands-on training

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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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StubHub Announces Future Islands and More for SXSW Showcases

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Each year,South by Southwestcrams music's best and brightest into one city. Now, the newly announced StubHub Music Experience set to take place from March 17 through March 19, open to all badgeholders will be no different. Starting at 2 p.m. each day, the special SXSW event features a lineup that includesFuture Islands, the Dodos, Cathedrals, MS MR, Mew, the Vaccines, Elliphant, Portugal. The Man, and more. Also of note:

When fans come by The StubHub Music Experience, music curators will be on hand to showcase the perks of having the StubHub Music app at your fingertips to help guide your SXSW experience. With the help of the app, these app experts will help curate fans' personal SXSW concert itineraries based on their music preferences and favorite venues, giving fans a chance to discover even more music in this rich, live concert environment.

Check out the entire lineup below forthe showat Clive Bar (as part of the Culture Collide on Rainey Street).

StubHub SXSW Showcase Lineup: Tuesday, March 17 Irontom The Lonely Wild The Delta Riggs Cathedrals Surfer Blood The Mowgli's Charles Bradley Future Islands Portugal. The Man

Wednesday, March 18Max Jury Hamish Anderson VRIT Kopecky The Dodos Elliphant The Cribs MS MR The Vaccines

Thursday, March 19Dorothy The Family Crest Jared & The Mill Beat Connection San Fermin BRNS Mew TBD

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