Caduceus Newsletter:
Fall 2000.13, Week of November 13

 è 1. The Institute of Paper Science and Technology in Atlanta, Georgia offers a Summer Undergraduate Research Experience (SURE) program.
è 2. A day in the life of a 2^nd year veterinary student. (From Barbara Huntington, PHP Director at SDSU.)
è 3. The University of Texas-Houston Health Science Center is offering a Summer research program for 2001.
è 4. The National Rural Health Association announces its 12^th Annual Rural Health Policy Institute, February 5-7, 2001. (Forwarded by Barbara Huntington, PHP Director at SDSU.)
è 5. The Department of Media and Theatre Arts at Montana State University offers a Master of Fine Arts in Science and Natural History Filmmaking. (The poster looks SOOOOOOO COOL!!)
è 6. So you think you're having a bad day, huh? Just remember, it can always get worse!! (Forwarded to me by KenYard.) 

 Each summer, the Institute of Paper Science and Technology sponsors a research-oriented internship program for Science and Engineering undergraduates. SURE (Summer Undergraduate Research Experience) 2001 will provide students with the opportunity to become involved in research projects in engineering, chemistry, forest biology, paper science and other related areas.

IPST is located in metropolitan Georgia on the Georgia Tech campus. Students participating in SURE 2001 may reside in the dorms at Georgia Tech. The summer research program will run for ten weeks beginning on May 14, 2001 and ending on July 20, 2001. Participants will receive compensation in the amount of $3,150 plus a housing allowance.

You can apply on-line at http://www.ipst.edu/academic . Applications must be postmarked no later than February 15, 2001.

For more information, contact:
Dana R. Carter, SURE Program Coordinator
Institute of Paper Science and Technology
500 10^th Street, N.W.
Atlanta, GA 30318-5794
(800) 558-6611
FAX: (404) 894-4778
e-mail: SUREinfo@ipst.edu

 è 2. A day in the life of a 2^nd year veterinary student. (From Barbara Huntington, PHP Director at SDSU.)

 Hi everyone,

Sorry I haven't written in a while, but I have been busy. I had an equine ICU shift the night we set the clocks back, and I still haven't recovered from the lack of sleep. It was a good shift, though. We had a 4 year old pregnant mare come in completely down. It was an acute onset. Her prognosis was poor. However, in a couple of days she was up and around and her fetus had a heartbeat. They concluded it was the result of Herpes, potentially caused by the vaccine she had received a few days prior to her going down. (I am not clear on all the details, but that was my understanding).

On Monday I had a small animal ICU shift. It was very slow, which was nice. There were no really exciting cases. Classes are going okay. Everyone did poorly on our first Pharmacology quiz, so the teacher rewrote it and let us retake it. I did much better the second time around, and I also did well on our actual second quiz. I am struggling a little right now, though. We are starting to try to interpret what will happen when you give certain drugs in combination (whether you will be increasing/decreasing parasympathetic/sympathetic responses or have no effect). Hopefully it will start making more sense. My other classes are all going well.

In our Preventative medicine class I have gone on two field trips. We went to the Bayer plant in Shawnee, Kansas. We got free duffle bags that are nice and will be good for travel. Today, the group I was in went to the Tyson chicken plant in Sedalia. It wasn't too awful since we only saw the chickens post killing. However, I don't think I will be buying chicken hot dogs or bologna in the near future.Not much else going on. I got my first Rabies vaccine for the rabies study I am in. I get the next shot on Monday.

Christy 

 è 3. The University of Texas-Houston Health Science Center is offering a Summer research program for 2001.

 The program will involve 10 weeks during the summer, during which students will gain intensive hands-on laboratory experience under the direction of seasoned faculty researchers and teachers.

Other important components of the Summer Research Program are science training workshops, a seminar series, and an annual publication entitled Student Abstracts that lists each student's name and describes his or her work carried out during the ten-week-period.

A listing of faculty and their specific projects can be found by visiting http://eae.uth.tmc.edu/research/ . Please indicate your choices of faculty mentors and research areas on the application.

Undergraduate students enrolled in any accredited U.S. college or university during 2000 may participate. A student must be at least a sophomore at the time of application; have a minimum overall GPA of 3.0; and have completed at least 12 hours in a science discipline. Seniors may apply if they are eligible to return to their home university the semester following the program.

Participants in the program are paid a $2,500 stipend. Students are responsible for travel and living expenses. Housing, at a reasonable cost, is located near the UT-Houston Medical School.

February 9, 2001: Application materials must be received by this date.
Mid- to Late-April: Applicants receive notification
May 29: Program commences
August 3: Closing ceremony

The following must be received by February 9, 2001:

• Completed application
• Statement (250 words) describing your interest in the program, research experience, and future education and career plans
• College transcript(s)
• Two letters of reference

Please direct all questions regarding the application process to Ms. Carol Looney, Program Coordinator, Carol.M.Looney@uth.tmc.edu or (713) 500-3193.

 è 4. The National Rural Health Association announces its 12^th Annual Rural Health Policy Institute, February 5-7, 2001. (Forwarded by Barbara Huntington, PHP Director at SDSU.)

 The NRHA has the 12th Annual Rural Health Policy Institute coming up Feb. 5-7, 2001 at Washington Court Hotel Washington, D.C. The information will be posted at http://www.nrharural.org/pagefile/eo.html#anchor1137199
This is an exciting conference with many of the big names of the government and a time to influence policy.

The other issue I would like to float is to have your opinion on a rural lecture series that would be on the internet and available for everyone to use. The lectures would be on powerpoint with the speaker notes and references. The advantage of this would be a collaborative work process allowing more topics to be more comprehensively covered than one rural faculty member could do. As the faculty must cover all of family medicine plus rural, rural topics have the potential to be slighted.
The lectures could go through a peer review process. Each person that is responsible for the lecture would be responsible to keep it up for a designated time. The lectures would be posted on a website. The advantage of the web is the fluidity and the ability to keep it updated compared to the textbooks--of which there are few. This would require a coordinator and buy in of the group and efforts of many to benefit all.. There are many possible topics--I just listed a few. Hopefully, this post will elicit some comments.

Potential topics could be:
Rural practice economics
Rural hospitals
Rural Emergency Medical System
Rural Migrant Workers
Non-physician Rural Providers
Rural Telemedicine
Rural Prisons
Rural Nursing Homes
Rural Public Health
Agricultural Skin Disease--contact, heat, sun, infectious
Rural cancers--five most important, potential differential etiologies
Farm injuries--machinery, animal injuries, cold, heat, chemicals, electrocution, vibration and physician role in treatment and prevention
Agricultural respiratory hazards--assessment and prevention
Hearing loss and prevention and intervention
Zoonoses
Mental health issues
Toxicology--insecticides, herbicides, rodenticides, biocides, nitrates, cholinesterase testing
Role of antibiotics in feed
Agromedicine Literature & Reference Books
Children & Agriculture
Agribility
Chronic Accumulated Disease
Water Contamination and environmental impact
AIDS in Rural America

Thanks for your time
Debra M. Phillips
Professor, Family and Community Medicine
SIU School of Medicine
Quincy Family Practice Residency Program
612 N. 11th Str.
Quincy, IL 62301
217-224-9484
217-224 7950 (fax)
dphilli@adams.net

 

è 5. The Department of Media and Theatre Arts at Montana State University offers a Master of Fine Arts in Science and Natural History Filmmaking. (The poster looks SOOOOOOO COOL!!)

The Department of Media and Theatre Arts, with major support from the Discovery Channel, offers a Master of Fine Arts designed primarily for students with education and/or experience in science or natural history who want to become professional filmmakers.

This MFA program is primarily designed for people who have at least an undergraduate degree in science, although admission is also open to others who have significant training and/or experience in filmmaking, particularly those who may have experience working in the area of science of natural history.

The sixty semester credit program normally takes three years to complete. The first two years of intensive instruction will be in film and video production and in a highly individualized curriculum of science. The third year will culminate in a thesis film and can be completed off campus.

The program has a strong international component including relationships with other universities and agencies that will allow degree candidates to film their thesis in such places as East or South Africa or India should they desire.

For more information, contact:
Contact Program Coordinator, (404) 994-5884, or write
Program Director
Program in Science and Natural History Filmmaking
Department of Media and Theatre Arts
Box 174120
Montana State University
Bozeman, Montana 59717-4120
http://www.naturefilm.montana.edu

è 6. So you think you're having a bad day, huh? Just remember, it can always get worse!! (Forwarded to me by KenYard.) 

 STILL THINK YOU ARE HAVING A BAD DAY?

A man was working on his motorcycle on his patio and his wife was in the kitchen. The man was racing the engine on the motorcycle when it accidentally slipped into gear. The man, still holding on to the handlebars, was dragged through the glass patio doors and along with the motorcycle dumped onto the floor inside the house. The wife, hearing the crash, ran into the dining room and found her husband lying on the floor, cut and bleeding, the motorcycle lying next to him and the shattered patio door.

The wife ran to the phone and summoned an ambulance. Because they lived on a fairly large hill, the wife went down the several flights of stairs to the street to escort the paramedics to her husband. After the ambulance arrived and transported the man to the hospital, the wife uprighted the motorcycle and pushed it outside.

Seeing that gas was spilled on the floor, the wife got some paper towels blotted up the gasoline, and threw the towels in the toilet. The husband was treated and released to come home. Upon arriving at home, he looked at the shattered patio door and the damage done to his motorcycle. He became despondent, went to the bathroom, sat down on the toilet and smoked a cigarette. After finishing the cigarette, he flipped it between his legs into the toilet bowl while still seated. The wife, who was in the kitchen, heard the loud explosion and her husband screaming. She ran into the bathroom and found her husband lying on the floor. His trousers had been blown away and he was suffering burns on the buttocks, the back of his legs and his groin. The wife again ran to the phone to call the ambulance. The very same paramedic crew was dispatched and the wife met them at the street. The paramedics loaded the husband on the stretcher and began carrying him to the street.

While they were going down the stairs to the street accompanied by the wife, one of the paramedics asked the wife how the husband had burned himself. She told them and the paramedics started laughing so hard, one of them slipped and tipped the stretcher, dumping the husband out. He fell down the remaining stairs and broke his arm.

(Taken from a Florida Newspaper)