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Table of Contents:
1. ACS/BBB/PHP
(American Chemical Society, Beta Beta Beta/Preprofessional Health Programs)
Activities.
2. DEPARTMENT OF
DEFENSE AWARDS GRANT TO THE CENTER FOR MIND-BODY MEDICINE (Thanks to Barbara Huntington, PHP Director
at SDSU for forwarding this to me.)
3. The
2009 Medical College Admission Test (MCAT) Schedule and related resources
from AAMC.
4. New
U.S./Australia Medical School Program – 20 Seats Available for January 2009
5. The
American Association of Medical Colleges (AAMC) allows for health-related
accommodations during Medical College Admission Test (MCAT) administrations.
6. Dedication
and blessing ceremony for the Cooper-Wilson Science Center, October 28, 2008.
MANY thanks to Cory Dugan,
Director of Publications for sharing these photos with me.
7. The
University of Texas Southwestern (Dallas) Graduate School of Biomedical
Sciences is sponsoring summer research programs for undergraduates.
8. Ya know, Christmas isn’t that far
away. Here’s this week’s suggestion
for a Christmas gift for the person who has everything.
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1. ACS/BBB/PHP (American Chemical Society, Beta
Beta Beta/Preprofessional Health Programs) Activities.
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- Wednesday,
November 5 – BBB: Mock
Interviews for health-related professional schools. The interviews will still begin with a
dinner at 6:30 pm. All sophomore,
junior, and senior science majors are encouraged to attend. Please contact Dr. Ogilvie (mogilvie@cbu.edu ), Daniel Darnell (ddarnell@cbu.edu ), or John Legge (jlegge@cbu.edu ) to sign-up for a
30-minute interview slot.
- Thursday,
November 6 or possibly Nov. 13, starting at 6 p.m.: Bowling tournament to benefit Hope North,
Uganda
(Contact Caitlin);
- Thursday,
November 6, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. –
PHP: Annual Health Career
Opportunities Fair. This event,
anchored by the University of Tennessee Health
Science Center, will include representatives from regional health-related
professional and military scholarship programs. At this point, we will have
representatives from the following:
University of Arkansas
Medical Center
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College of Medicine
(Tom South)
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College of Nursing
University of Tennessee Health Science Center Colleges of
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Allied Health (includes Dental
Hygiene, Cytotechnology, Health Information Management, Occupational Therapy,
Physical Therapy)
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Dentistry
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Graduate Health Sciences
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Medicine (Nelson Strother)
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Nursing (Ron Patterson)
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Pharmacy (Dr. James Eoff)
Southern College
of Optometry (Ms.
Sunni Ewing)
St. Louis University School
of Public Health (Programs in Public Health and in Health Administration)
(Mr. Bernard Backer)
Military Scholarship Programs:
United States Air Force
(Technical Sergeant Nicole Greenwood)
United States Army
FNEW
ADDITION: United States Navy (Chief
Victor Gooden)
West Virginia College of Osteopathic Medicine (Lewisburg, VA)
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Thursday, November 13 –
BBB: Bowl-a-thon for Uganda. Bowl-A-Thon has been scheduled for November
13th. We will let you know when it
will start once we hear back from the bowling alley.
December 6, all day – BBB: St. Jude Marathon (Contact Antony)
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2. DEPARTMENT
OF DEFENSE AWARDS GRANT TO THE CENTER FOR MIND-BODY MEDICINE. (Thanks to Barbara Huntington, PHP Director
at SDSU for forwarding this to me.)
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From: "The Center for
Mind-Body Medicine"
<The_Center_for_Mind_Body_Medicin@mail.vresp.com>
DEPARTMENT OF
DEFENSE AWARDS GRANT TO THE CENTER FOR MIND-BODY MEDICINE
Date: October
22, 2008
The Washington, DC based Center for Mind-Body Medicine (CMBM) announced today
that it has been awarded a $411,000, two-year grant from the newly formed
Defense Center of Excellence for Psychological Health and Traumatic Brain
Injury, for a randomized controlled trial (RCT) to study the effectiveness of
the CMBM’s comprehensive, non-drug approach to treating posttraumatic stress
disorder and major depression with troops returning from Iraq and
Afghanistan, and their families. This study, whose principal investigator is
the CMBM founder and director, James S. Gordon, MD, will be undertaken at the
Southeast Louisiana Veterans Healthcare System, and is entitled “A Randomized
Controlled Study of Mind-Body Skills Groups for Treatment of War-Zone Stress
in Military and Veteran Populations.”
The study will test the effectiveness of CMBM’s model, which includes
mind-body approaches (meditation, guided imagery, biofeedback, and yoga) and
self-expression in words, drawings, and movement, in supportive, educational
small groups. The groups will be led by VA clinicians who have been trained
by Dr. Gordon and his CMBM faculty and will be offered to veterans and their
families on weekends over the course of three months.
Dr. Gordon’s model is widely used with anxious and depressed people and those
with chronic illness in the US,
and has already been incorporated as a stress reduction program for students
in a dozen US
medical schools. Dr. Gordon describes his groundbreaking approach in detail
in his new book, Unstuck: Your Guide to the Seven Stage Journey Out of
Depression (published by The Penguin Press; June 2008). “This model is
educational, non-stigmatizing, and powerfully effective. It can be easily
taught and can be used by people of all ages on their own,” Dr. Gordon explains.
“Veterans and their families will have the opportunity to share their
experiences and challenges in a supportive group and learn techniques which
have proved swiftly effective in reducing symptoms of stress and improving
mood. They will, often quickly, experience a sense of control and calm and
feelings of hope that many of them felt they might never again have.”
The study made possible by the Department of Defense’s grant will further
demonstrate that the Center’s model can be used to produce significant and
lasting changes in levels of anxiety, agitation, and anger, in flashbacks and
nightmares, and in symptoms of withdrawal and numbing in highly traumatized
soldiers and their families.
This model, which Dr. Gordon presents in a step-by-step self-help format in Unstuck,
is currently being used by CMBM with war traumatized populations in Kosovo, Israel
and Gaza as well as in post-Katrina southern Louisiana. In August
2008, CMBM published a landmark study on the use of its model to treat
posttraumatic stress disorder in war-traumatized children in Kosovo. The
study, which was published online in the Journal of Clinical Psychiatry,
is the first RCT ever of any intervention with war-traumatized children, and
is also the first RCT of a successful, comprehensive mind-body approach with
any traumatized population.
From October 25 - 29, 2008, Dr. Gordon and his CMBM colleagues will begin
training more than 100 active duty and VA clinicians from across the country
in the CMBM model. These men and women will then be able to incorporate the
CMBM approach in their work with US Veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan.
_______________________
For media interviews with Dr. Gordon, please contact Dan Sterenchuk (202)
683-8926 or at centeradmin@cmbm.org.
Click here to read our newsletter focused on Trauma
Relief
Click here to read our newsletter focused on Research
& Results
Click here for all information about The
Center for Mind-Body Medicine, including upcoming training dates.
The Center for Mind-Body
Medicine 5225 Connecticut Ave,
NW, #414Washington, District of Columbia 20015US
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3. The
2009 Medical College Admission Test (MCAT) Schedule
and related resources from AAMC.
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4. New
U.S./Australia Medical School
Program – 20 Seats Available for January 2009
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This
email was sent to me via the National Association of Advisors for the Health Professions
(NAAHP) at the request of International Pathways.
The
School of Medicine of the University of Queensland,
Australia, has joined with
Ochsner Health System in New Orleans, Louisiana,
to create a medical education program for qualified students leading to the
practice of medicine in the U.S.
www.mededpath.org. Please
note the accreditation review status at the end of this email.
Because of the very short lead time
for the first class, we are contacting premed advisors to assist in advising
qualified students who might be interested in attending medical school this
January 2009.
Applicants must have achieved a solid
GPA and 8/8/M/8 minimum MCAT score. Admitted U.S. students will study two
years of preclinicals at The University of Queensland School of Medicine.
They will then spend two years in New
Orleans, Louisiana
at Ochsner Health System, completing their clinical education. Upon
satisfactory completion of the four years, students will be eligible for
ECFMG certification, to take the USMLEs, the NRMP match, and, subject to
meeting other state and federal criteria, eligible for licensure and to
practice medicine in the U.S.
The
University of Queensland is one of Australia's finest medical
schools. Founded in 1936, it is renowned globally as an award-winning
research institution of excellence and rigor. The standards of the accreditor
of Australian medical schools, the Australian Medical Council (AMC), are held
by the U.S. Department of Education as comparable to the accreditation
standards for U.S.
medical schools.
The Ochsner Health System has a nationally recognized forward-looking
clinical delivery system, anticipating the medical needs of the future.
Ochsner is highly regarded for the quality of its patient care, clinical
services and as an independent Academic Medical
Center. At
Ochsner students will have the distinct advantage of a well supervised and
cohesive clinical experience.
To learn more about the program please visit our website www.mededpath.org, or call
1-877-777-0155.
If you have a student who you think
would be a good candidate, please direct them to our program website, or feel
free to contact, or have the student contact, our U.S. representatives:
Admissions
International Pathways
163
William St.
New
York, N.Y.
10038
1-877-777-0155
admissions@mededpath.org
We look forward to talking to
you further about this program.
Sincerely,
Professor David Wilkinson, University of Queensland,
Head of School of the University of Queensland
School of Medicine
Dr. William Pinsky, Ochsner Health
Systems, Chief Academic Officer
Important Message Regarding Accreditation:
This M.B.B.S. program (with 2 years of pre-clinical
education at University of Queensland in Australia and 2 years of
clinical instruction at Ochsner in Louisiana) (the
"Program") is subject to approval by the Australian Medical
Council (AMC). The University
of Queensland
has submitted to the AMC an application for
accreditation of the Program. Until the AMC completes
its review of the Program, Queensland
will accept students eligible for the Program into Queensland's four-year M.B.B.S. program in Australia.
In the event that the AMC does not timely accredit the Program, students
who enroll will be expected to complete their four-year medical education at University of Queensland
in Brisbane.
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5. The
American Association of Medical Colleges (AAMC) allows for health-related
accommodations during Medical
College Admission Test
(MCAT) administrations.
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6. Dedication
and blessing ceremony for the Cooper-Wilson Science Center, October 28,
2008. MANY thanks to Cory Dugan,
Director of Publications for sharing these photos with me.
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Bishop J. Terry Steib sprinkling
Holy Water in a classroom in Cooper-Wilson
Science Center.
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Bishop J. Terry Steib, assisted
by Father Robert Marshall, continuing their ceremony through the
Cooper-Wilson Science Center
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The audience outside Cooper-Wilson Science Center.
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The image below shows the ribbon being cut at the
dedication. From left to right: Mr. Willis H. Willey III, Chairman, Board of
Trustee at CBU; Mr. Martin F. Thompson, Secretary, Board of Directors at
the Assisi Foundation of Memphis, Inc.; Mrs. Barbara Jacobs, Program
Director at the Plough Foundation; Mr. H. Lance Forsdick, President of CBU;
Dr. Marguerite Cooper, Associate Professor of Chemistry at CBU; and Mr. Bob
Wilson.
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7. The University of Texas
Southwestern (Dallas) Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences is
sponsoring summer research programs for undergraduates.
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For the sixteenth consecutive year, UT Southwestern Graduate School of
Biomedical
Sciences is sponsoring the Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF)
Program.
The goal of SURF is to give students an intensive, ten-week, research
experience.
Students immerse themselves in the laboratory and work on individual
research
projects with UT Southwestern Graduate School faculty members. The
research
interests of the faculty are diverse. Most areas of modern cancer
biology, cell
biology, molecular biology, biochemistry, immunology, microbiology,
neuroscience,
and pharmacology are represented. In addition to research, SURF
provides seminars,
a GRE prep course, social events, and an end-of-program poster session.
We have
increased the number of fellowships for SURF to 65. The website and
on-line
application for SURF can be found at www.utsouthwestern.edu/SURF
<
http://www.utsouthwestern.edu/SURF>.
For the fifth year, we are also sponsoring the Quantitative and Physical Science
Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (QP-SURF) Program. This
program, initially
funded by a NIGMS training grant and now funded internally, will accept ten
students
who are earning their undergraduate degrees in the field of mathematics, computer
science, physics, or chemistry. The goal of QP-SURF is to give students
an intensive,
research experience and demonstrate to students in the physical and
quantitative
sciences how their knowledge and skill sets are applied in a biomedical
research
setting. QP-SURF students would carry out their ten-week research
project in
a biophysics, computational biology, or quantitative/analytical chemistry
laboratory.
QP-SURF students also participate in seminars, a GRE prep course,
social events,
and an end-of-program poster session. The program website and on-line
application
for QP-SURF can be found at www.utsouthwestern.edu/QP-SURF/QP-SURFAPP
< http://www.utsouthwestern.edu/QP-SURF/QP-SURFAPP>.
Both summer programs run from June 1st through August 7th, 2009.
Participants
will be selected based on their letters of reference, course work, and
experience.
The stipend for the ten-week program is either $4,000 or $5,250
depending on
whether or not housing is required. The application deadline is
February 9th,
2009. Please post the SURF and QP-SURF fliers and announce these summer
programs
to undergraduate students who have indicated interest in a research career
and
might wish to apply. I am attaching the announcements to this email in
case
you would like to share these with your students electronically, as well.
The value of this summer opportunity is great for those interested in careers
in research. Previous fellows have been enthusiastic about their
experience;
most have enrolled in excellent Ph.D. or M.D./Ph.D.
programs.
Please let me know if I can answer any questions about these programs and I
look
forward to seeing applications from your students.
Nancy E. Street, PhD
Associate Dean
Southwestern Graduate School
UT Southwestern Medical Center
at Dallas
5323 Harry Hines Blvd
Dallas, Texas
75390-9004
(214) 648-6708
nancy.street@utsouthwestern.edu
URL: www.utsouthwestern.edu/gradschool
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8. Ya know, Christmas isn’t that far away. Here’s this week’s suggestion for a
Christmas gift for the person who has everything.
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Aye, mateys, so that you’ll be ready for
the NEXT International Talk Like a Pirate Day, September 19, 2009!!
From:
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B001EB11FC?smid=A1RGT8IQ0EZ2XY&tag=yahoo-toys01e-20&linkCode=asn
PIRATE
CAPTAIN ADULT COSTUME
Other products by Rubies Costume Co
From:
http://www.futurememories.com/mor-ur28361md.html
Adult Pirate Wench Costume: This adult
pirate wench costume includes a sexy, off shoulder style lace-up bodice,
shredded bottom dress with pirate skull hip scarf. Availability: this item
takes approximately 1 business day to leave the warehouse, plus transit time.
Please allow us additional time during the holiday season.
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