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Caduceus
Newsletter: Fall 2009.05, Week of
September 21 Dr.
Stan Eisen, Director Home
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Table of Contents: 1. Events coming up this week. 10. Marginalia: The question was: How many songs have cowbells in them? |
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1. Events
coming up this week. |
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Tuesday,
September 22, 2009:
Neuroscience Seminar Series at
UTHSC, starting at 12 noon -- Kristen M.S. O'Connell,
Ph.D., Physiology, UTHSC ·
Thursday,
September 24, 2009: University
of Memphis Department of Biology, 4:00 p.m. Ellington Hall Auditorium: Dr.
Schoech, Department of Biology, U of M,
“Corticosterone, not just a stress hormone:
What we’ve learned from long-term study of Florida scrub-jays.” ·
Thursday,
September 24, 2009: Health Careers
Fair at Rhodes College – For more information, contact Dr.
Alan Jaslow, ajaslow@rhodes.edu
. (See article #2) |
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2.
Rhodes College will be sponsoring its Health
Careers Fair at the Grad. Expo, Thursday, September 24. |
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Rhodes Health Careers Fair at the Grad. Expo. Health Professions (PT, Pharm, Opt.
OT, Nursing, Pub.Hlth. Chiro., Speech, Offshore MD, more) Will
all be at the…. Rhodes Career Services Grad Expo,
Thur. Sept 24, 2009, 4-6pm, BCLC Even if you are not interested in
the specific institutions which sent people to our Health Fair, these people
will represent a career or school option beyond their specific institutions.
Go talk with them and explore options, not just institutions! Free Pens, Highlighters, Key Chains,
Candy, and some other goodies!!!!!! The set up is fun, like the SACK
Fair, with tables spread out in BCLC, main area (multi-use gym under the
track). You can walk by and stop to at a table to pick up goodies and/or talk
with representatives. Come by anytime 4-6. Come and go as you
want. No lectures. The only problem is that there may
be one person representing a variety of programs, so the one you are looking
for such as Nursing or Physical Therapy may not prominently displayed. I’ve
added tables and schools with health professions that I know of from past
years, or their communications, below. However, there may be others that
have similar programs, so do explore. Don’t fret about all the law
schools. Be sure to bring my list below in this email (print) so
that you have some folks to look for. This is a great, once a year
opportunity that Career Services puts together. In this economy we are happy
that some of our old friends are traveling back and grateful for new schools
that will be checking us out this year. The pens, markers, and other items that they have on their table are for you if you want them, even though they do not always hand these to you directly. Just ask and take politely. They have literature to give our as well. Fields, Professions and Offshore
options represented this year (Specific schools follow farther
down): Non-American Medical
School Loan Information to fund schooling
from a non-profit org. Military Service with and funding
Medical School, Dental School, and Nursing Test Prep – Kaplan (they will have an evening lecture
section this year as well)
*********** Specific Schools who we know today
will be at the fair follow. Sometimes other
fields and other schools have health career programs represented, but it is
not clear from registration materials. Print and take this list to make
sure that you find all of the following people to meet. They will be
scattered around the room! Non-US Medical School Summer
Medical Spanish Program Schools of Public Health; MS and PhD
Physical
Therapy
Belmont University, Nashville, TN Nursing Optometry Pharmacy Occupational Therapy: Speech and Audiology: Chiropractic: Bioinformatics, Health Care
Informatics: How to arrange loans for Medical and
other Health Profession Schools Military Service to Fund your Health
Professional School MCAT, DAT, OAT, PCAT, GRE prep
Courses We hope to continue to add more
health professions and schools to future Health Fairs at the Grad Expo. Don’t forget U. Tenn. (UTHSC) MD,
DDS, Pharm, Nursing, OT, PT and other allied hlth. will be at Rhodes in FJ-B
on Oct 6 starting at 5pm. And Osteopathic Medical schools will
be represented at Rhodes in FJ-B on Oct 27 starting at 5pm. Alan Jaslow, Ph.D.,
Associate Professor, Biology |
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3. The University
of Texas Southwestern (at Dallas) Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
is sponsoring its Summer
Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) Program. |
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For the seventeenth consecutive year, UT Southwestern Graduate School of
Biomedical |
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4. AANMC
(American Association of Naturopathic Medical Colleges) 2-Minute E-News –
September 2009 edition. |
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Trouble viewing the e-newsletter? Copy
and paste to view it online: http://www.aanmc.org/2-minute-enews/current.php. September 2009
AANMC 2-Minute E-News:
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5. AAMC-STAT: News
from the Association of American Medical Colleges – September 14, 2009
edition.
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AAMC
launches new “Hope Happens” advertising campaign Information:
Go to www.aamc.org/hope Finance
chair releases reform “framework” Physicians
report makes reform recommendations The Physicians'
Foundation recently issued a report on various issues concerning health care
reform. In response to the predicted physician shortage, the report
called upon Congress to assist with medical school expansion and recommended
they lift caps on graduate medical education residency training slots. The
report also recommended that primary care physicians be better utilized to
help serve patient needs and offset disparities, and that the Medicare
reimbursement formula should reflect the complexity of physician service. Information: Go to www.physiciansfoundations.org
JAMA
study: academic medical research “active and diverse” Information:
Go to http://jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/short/302/9/969?home A program
administered by Harvard Medical School and the Commonwealth Fund Fellowship
is currently seeking applicants for a fellowship program designed to prepare
physicians, particularly minority physicians, for leadership roles in the
public health policy arena. The Commonwealth Fund/Harvard
University Fellowship in Minority Health Policy will provide five one-year
fellowships, in which fellows will complete academic work leading to a master
of public health degree at the Harvard School of Public Health and gain
exposure to major health issues facing minority, disadvantaged, and
underserved populations. The program is open to physicians who have completed
residency. Each fellowship provides: $50,000 stipend, full tuition, health
insurance, books, travel, and related program expenses, including financial
assistance for a practicum project. The application deadline is Jan. 4. For
information: Go to www.commonwealthfund.org/Fellowships/Minority-Health-Policy-Fellowship.aspx Call
for applications for Robert Wood Johnson health and society scholars The Robert Wood
Johnson Foundation Health and Society Scholars program is calling for
applications from postdoctoral scholars at all stages of their careers.
The leadership program offers two years of support and the opportunity to
collaborate with other researchers to, among other things, develop ways to
improve health and health disparities. Scholars will receive a $89,000
stipend in the first year and $92,000 in the second year. The application
deadline is Oct. 2. Information: Go to www.rwjf.org/applications/solicited/cfp.jsp?ID=20741 On
the move James N. Thompson,
M.D., has been named interim president of the Medical College of Georgia
(MCG). Most recently, Thompson served as chief executive officer of the
Federation of State Medical Boards. Previous MCG President Daniel W.
Rahn, M.D., left MCG to become the new chancellor of the University of
Arkansas for Medical Sciences. Hershel “Pat” Wall,
M.D., will step down as chancellor of the University of Tennessee Health
Science Center on Sept. 30. Steve J. Schwab, M.D., has been named as the
center’s interim chancellor. Empathy declines
during medical training. Previous articles in Academic Medicine have
called attention to this phenomenon. In this month’s issue, one study
pinpoints that decline in the third year of medical school, a time when many
students are first exposed to prolonged experiences in the clinical setting.
Several articles and two commentaries examine the vital issues of measuring
and teaching empathy. This and other important topics are covered in the
September issue of the journal. www.academicmedicine.org |
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6. Is
Happiness Catching? -- From the
September 16, 2009 issue of Science in the News, a daily science digest from
Sigma Xi. |
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Is
Happiness Catching?
from the New York Times (Registration Required) ... By analyzing the Framingham data, social scientists Nicholas Christakis and James Fowler say, they have for the first time found some solid basis for a potentially powerful theory in epidemiology: that good behaviors--like quitting smoking or staying slender or being happy--pass from friend to friend almost as if they were contagious viruses. The Framingham participants, the data suggested, influenced one another's health just by socializing. And the same was true of bad behaviors--clusters of friends appeared to "infect" each other with obesity, unhappiness and smoking. Staying healthy isn't just a matter of your genes and your diet, it seems. Good health is also a product, in part, of your sheer proximity to other healthy people. By keeping in close, regular contact with other healthy friends for decades, Eileen and Joseph had quite possibly kept themselves alive and thriving. And by doing precisely the opposite, the lone obese man hadn't. http://snipr.com/rv5xv |
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7. Logan College of
Chiropractic (Chesterfield, MO) is offering a Fall Open House Event,
“Slice of Logan”, Saturday, October 3.
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8.
The University of Maryland School of Nursing (Baltimore)
is offering an Open House on October 3, 2009. |
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The
University of BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN NURSING (BSN)
MASTER OF SCIENCE – CLINICAL NURSE LEADER (CNL)
OPEN HOUSE ATTENDEES WILL:
Become part of the legacy R.S.V.P. to openhouse@son.umaryland.edu --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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9.
LeBonheur Children’s Medical Center will host
its 2nd Annual Pediatric Research Day on Wednesday, September 23. |
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We're hosting our "2nd Annual Pediatric Research Day" on Wednesday, September 23, 2009. Please see details below and circulate in your departments and/or anywhere it can be seen by the general public. 2nd Annual PEDIATRIC Research Day Research Highlights at Le Bonheur Children's Medical Center Wednesday, September 23, 2009 8:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. Le Bonheur Children's Medical Center Auditorium 50 North Dunlap Memphis, Tennessee Research Day Goals: * Meet the investigators and collaborators * Learn about research programs conducted here, all aimed at the common goal of helping * Keynote Address - Ann Arvin, MD, James Hunt Visiting Professorship, Pediatrics * Poster Display and Presentation * For more information, call the Children's Foundation Research Center at 287-5355 or visit us online at www.lebonheur.org The presentations are free and no registration is required. Breakfast and lunch are provided. Sponsored by the Department of Pediatrics, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, the Children's Foundation Research Center, Le Bonheur Children's Medical Center, Memphis, Tennessee, and the Clinical and Translational Science Institute at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center Patrice M. Cushman, Administrative Asst. to Ae-Kyung Yi, Ph.D. Department of Pediatrics Children's Foundation Research Center UT Health Science Center 901-287-5366 (ofc) 901-287-5036 (fax) |
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10.
Marginalia:
The question was: How many
songs have cowbells in them? |
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This may be THE definitive answer, appearing in yahoo.com. (You’ll be amazed!):
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Dr. Stan Eisen,
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E-mail: seisen@cbu.edu
http://www.cbu.edu/~seisen/
Caduceus Newsletter Archives: http://www.cbu.edu/~seisen/Caduceus.html