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Table of
Contents:
1. Welcome back!
2. Some sad
news: The passing of Dr. Wisdom
Coleman .
3. The reasons
to attend St. George’s University School of Medicine (Grenada, West
Indies).
4. Received this month. (On the BBB/PHP bookshelf, unless otherwise
noted.)
5. Lake Erie
College of Osteopathic Medicine has campuses in Lake Erie, PA and in
Bradenton, FL.
6. ===AAMC
STAT===, E-newsletter from the Association of American Medical Colleges, June
28, 2010 edition.
7. ===AAMC STAT===, e-newsletter from the
American Association of Medical Colleges, August 2, 2010 issue.
8. William Carey University (Hattiesburg, MS) will be
admitting its first class later this month.
Here are some view of the gross anatomy lab and the osteopathic principles and practices lab.
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1. Welcome back!
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I hope all of you have had an enjoyable and productive summer. This is a heads-up to let you know that we
will be having our annual Health Career Opportunities Fair on Thursday,
November 11 in the Sabbatini Lounge.
The event is anchored by the University of Tennessee Health Science
Center, and will be attended by representatives of regional clinical
health-related programs and of the military scholarship programs.
There will also be a Special Edition of the Caduceus Newsletter issued sometime this semester on information
provided during the biennial National Association of Advisors for the Health
Professions, held last June in Atlanta.
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2. Some sad
news: The passing of Dr. Wisdom
Coleman
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Dr. Wisdom Coleman, who has represented the University of Tennessee Health
Science Center College of Dentistry at our annual Health Career Opportunities
Fair, died unexpectedly after a short illness. J. Stansill Covington, III, D.D.S., M.S.,
F.R.S.M., will serve as Interim Associate Dean, Admissions & Student
Affairs.
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3. The
reasons to attend St. George’s University School of Medicine (Grenada,
West Indies).
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4. Received
this month. (On the BBB/PHP
bookshelf, unless otherwise noted.)
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American University of Antigua Viewbook
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AUA
Times: An update for the AUA
Community
Winter/Spring 2010
edition
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Association of American Medical Colleges Report
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Diversity
in Medical Education: Facts &
Figures 2008
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University of Medicine and Health Sciences – St.
Kitts Viewbook
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Trinity School of Medicine (St. Vincent &
the Grenadines, Caribbean) Viewbook
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Healthcare Management Education: 2008-2010 Directory of Programs, from the
Association of University Programs in Health Administration
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Lake Erie College of Medicine (Lake Erie, PA;
Bradenton, FL) Viewbook
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5. Lake Erie
College of Osteopathic Medicine has campuses in Lake Erie, PA and
in Bradenton, FL.
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Here is a
description of the mission and medical college affiliation agreement:
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6.
===AAMC STAT===, E-newsletter from the
Association of American Medical Colleges, June 28, 2010 edition.
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News from the Association of American Medical Colleges
June 28, 2010
• Revisions proposed to resident duty
hour standards
• House passes bill with SGR patch
• AAMC urges CMS not to implement full documentation and coding cut
• White House health care leader addresses AAMC Leadership Forum
• New NIH video gives inside look at grant process
• On the move
Revisions proposed to
resident duty hour standards
The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME)
released proposed revisions to current resident duty hour standards last week. In a statement issued by the AAMC, Chief Health Care Officer Joanne Conroy, M.D.,
said "The ACGME's draft duty hour standards send a clear message that
keeping patients safe and providing high-quality care are the most important
lessons a new physician must learn.” Conroy noted that the association
was pleased the standards were consistent with the AAMC’s 2009 recommendations on the need for detection and management of fatigue, enhanced
supervision, appropriate workloads, and the effective transfer of information
during transitions of care. The AAMC will work with members during the
comment period to review the standards and assess their effect on graduate
medical education and patient care.
Two representatives from AAMC-member institutions served as
co-chairs of the ACGME task force: E. Stephen Amis, M.D., Albert Einstein
College of Medicine and Montefiore Medical Center, and Susan H. Day, M.D.,
California Pacific Medical Center.
House passes bill with SGR patch
The House has passed the Senate's six-month sustainable growth rate (SGR)
patch, which delays a 21 percent cut in Medicare reimbursements to physicians
until Nov. 30, 2010. The bill also provides a 2.2 percent increase in payments but includes an
AAMC-opposed $4.2 billion cut in hospital Medicare reimbursement achieved by
changing the Medicare policy known as the "72-Hour
Rule.” While the president has advocated for
a long-term solution to the SGR issue, he is expected to sign the bill.
AAMC urges CMS not to implement full
documentation and coding cut
The AAMC submitted a comment letter on the Medicare hospital inpatient proposed rule urging the
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to reduce a proposed
"documentation and coding" payment cut from 2.9 percent to 0.45
percent. CMS asserts that changes in the way patients are coded upon
discharge from hospitals resulted in overpayments. AAMC analyses of the
reduction revealed flaws in the methodology. The AAMC believes
historical trends, which were not included in the CMS analysis, must be
considered.
White House health care leader addresses
AAMC Leadership Forum
Robert Kocher, M.D., special assistant to President Obama for health care and
a member of the National Economic Council, addressed the AAMC’s Leadership Forum on June 23. Kocher discussed the
new health care law and how academic medical centers must lead reform efforts
by developing innovative approaches to improve access and quality.
New NIH video gives inside look at grant process
The National Institutes of Health's (NIH) Center for Scientific Review (CSR)
recently released a new video demonstrating how the NIH evaluates the more than 80,000 grant
applications it receives each year. The video, currently available on
the CSR’s Web site, provides “an inside look” at how peer reviewers determine
which grants have the most merit and includes recent enhancements to the peer
review and grants systems. CSR also released a companion video titled
“NIH Tips for Applicants.”
On the move
Valerie M. Parisi, M.D., M.P.H., M.B.A., has been named dean of the Wayne
State University School of Medicine. Parisi has served as interim dean
since July 2009. Prior to being appointed interim dean, she had served
as vice dean of hospital relations and clinical affairs since July 2007.
Paul Klotman, M.D., was named president and chief executive officer (CEO) of
Baylor College of Medicine, effective Sept. 1. He is currently the
chair of medicine at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City.
Klotman succeeds William T. Butler, M.D., who has served as interim president
and CEO since December 2008. Butler, president of the college from 1979
to 1996, is also chancellor emeritus.
What’s New on AAMC.org
The AAMC continues to develop and update resources related to the new health
care reform law. Read new analyses of the graduate medical education
sections of the health reform bill: www.aamc.org/reform
AM Express Archive includes links to all Academic Medicine abstracts
in the June issue. (To receive AM Express, contact tgallo@aamc.org): http://www.aamc.org/academicmedicine/archive.htm
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7. ===AAMC
STAT===, e-newsletter from the American Association of Medical Colleges,
August 2, 2010 issue.
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News from the Association of American
Medical Colleges
August 2, 2010
• Academic Medicine
study featured in the New York Times
• Online discussion forum launched for “New Horizons” conference
• AAMC welcomes new chief legal officer
• IPPS final rule reduces payments for documentation and coding
• New NIH policy on supplementary materials
• AHRQ develops medical home Web site
• On the move
Academic Medicine study
featured in the New York Times
A study in the August issue of the AAMC’s peer-reviewed
journal, Academic Medicine, that examines the importance of certain science premedical requirements was featured on the front page of the July 30 New York
Times. The study compared the academic
performance of students from Mount Sinai School of
Medicine’s Humanities and Medicine Program who omitted calculus, physics, and organic chemistry from their undergraduate studies and
did not take the MCAT with their classmates who
fulfilled the traditional requirements.
According to the study, “students without the traditional premedical preparation performed at a level equivalent to their
premedical classmates.” To read more about the
outcomes of the study and other vital issues facing
the academic medicine community, visit www.academicmedicine.org.
Online discussion forum
launched for “New Horizons” conference
The AAMC and the American Medical Association (AMA) recently launched a new Web
site for educators to discuss current topics in medical education in preparation for the invitational conference “New Horizons in
Medical Education: A Second Century of Achievement.”
Co-sponsored by the AAMC and AMA, the conference will
bring together current and future leaders in the medical
and health professions to chart new directions for medical education after the Flexner Report. Contributions to the site will be
incorporated into conference discussions and in
materials distributed after the conference.
AAMC welcomes new chief legal officer
Frank R. Trinity, J.D., will become the AAMC’s new chief legal officer,
effective Sept. 15. Trinity currently serves as
general counsel for the Corporation for National and
Community Service. He will succeed Joseph A. Keyes,
J.D., who is retiring after 40 years of service.
IPPS final rule reduces payments for
documentation and coding
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released on July 30 the Medicare inpatient prospective payment system final rule for
2011. Under the final rule, CMS will update
Medicare inpatient hospital payments by an inflation
rate of 2.6 percent, minus a reduction of 0.25 percentage points required by the health reform law, and minus 2.9 percentage points
to remove one-half of what CMS believes to be the
overpayments made to hospitals due to changes in
hospital coding practices. The health reform
and coding adjustments will result in an overall
reduction of 0.55 percent to the standardized payment
amount. CMS estimates that as a result of other factors, average teaching hospital operating payments per
discharge in 2011 will be 0.5 percent less than 2010
payments. CMS will also add eight hospital acquired
condition measures and will not require the submission of patient volume data for the 2012-14 Reporting Hospital Quality Data for
Annual Payment Update program.
New NIH policy on supplementary materials
The National Institutes of Health announced a new policy on
the submission of supplementary materials after
application deadlines for peer-reviewed grants. The
policy will become effective for applications received on or after Sept. 25, 2010. Post-submission grant materials are
those submitted after the deadline but before the
initial peer-review and are for the most part due to
unforeseen administrative issues.
AHRQ develops medical home Web site
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)
recently launched a new Web site that provides policymakers and
researchers information on the patient-centered
medical home. The site includes a searchable database of publications and other resources on the medical home, including
the paper “Engaging Patients and Families in the
Medical Home.” Commissioned by the AHRQ, the paper
presents a framework for engaging patients and families in the medical home, examples of existing efforts, and opportunities
for future collaborations.
On the move
John Sullivan has been named the new president of
MedStar's Washington Hospital Center. He was most
recently CEO of the Sisters of Mercy Health System in
Chesterfield, Mo. Sullivan succeeds M. Joy Drass, M.D., who has served as acting president since June 19, 2010.
Ray L. Watts, M.D., has been named senior vice president for medicine of the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) and dean of the school
of medicine at UAB, effective Oct. 1, 2010. Watts
currently holds the John N. Whitaker Endowed Chair in
Neurology and chairs the department of neurology at UAB. He also is chief of the Neurology Service for UAB Hospital and
president of the UA Health Services Foundation.
Watts succeeds Robert R. Rich, M.D., who held the
position since 2004.
Robert M. Kaplan, Ph.D., was recently appointed the new director of the Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research (OBSSR) and
National Institutes of Health associate director for
behavioral and social sciences research. Kaplan currently serves as a
distinguished professor in the department of health services at the school of
public health and the department of medicine at the David Geffen School of
Medicine at UCLA. Kaplan will join the NIH in early 2011.
What’s new on aamc.org
AAMC-materials are posted regularly
on the new health care reform law: www.aamc.org/reform
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8. William Carey University (Hattiesburg, MS) will be admitting its
first class later this month. Here are
some view of the gross anatomy lab and the osteopathic principles and practices lab.
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The entering class will consist of 108 students. Students will be divided into groups of 4
to examine cadavers in the gross anatomy lab.
For more information about the William Carey University College of
Medicine, please go to http://www.wmcarey.edu/COM/Home/1722/CollegeofOsteopathic.shtm
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One of the things that make the
practice of osteopathic medicine unique is its approach to therapeutic
touch. Students learn osteopathic
principles and practices during their first year. The gurneys on the right are fully
automatic, and are rated to be able to lift a 500-pound person.
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