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Our large team of talented academics and titleholders, both clinical and non-clinical, will provide you with practical case-based learning, simulated and real world clinical experience, and valuable inter-professional learning opportunities. You will study in the new state-of-the-art Adelaide Health and Medical Sciences building and Adelaide Health Simulation, and have the opportunity to undertake extensive hands-on practice at the Royal Adelaide Hospital, the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Modbury Hospital, Lyell McEwin Hospital and in rural locations.

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Adelaide Medical School showcases a vibrant research and research training environment, with significant success in attracting external competitive research grant support. Research is undertaken across the entire translational medicine spectrum and is focused on our understanding and treatment of important common diseases, with an important emphasis on multidisciplinary research.

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Adelaide Medical School has a proud research record of vigorous and diverse research programs in basic science, with applications to health and clinical research across numerous core disciplines. Each of these discipline areas plays a valuable role in the teaching and research activities of the school.

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In addition to Adelaide Medical Schools accomplished lecturers and researchers, you will also benefit from the dedication and expertise of our extended team of clinical titleholders, who are medical professionals from a wide range of specialist areas.

A vast amount of our undergraduate teaching is performed by clinical titleholders who are highly regarded specialists in their field. We are greatly appreciative of their valuable expertise and support.

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Aspiring doctors who dream of discovering vaccines and treatments for diseases like cancer should find a program that emphasizes research. Discover which universities earned a top 40 spot in the 2021 U.S. News Best Medical Schools for Research rankings.

40 (tie). Albert Einstein College of Medicine (NY)

Full-time enrollment: 779

2019-2020 tuition: $53,709

2019 acceptance rate: 4.3%

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40 (tie). University of California--Davis

Full-time enrollment: 463

2019-2020 tuition: $38,340 (in-state), $50,585 (out-of-state)

2019 acceptance rate: 3.1%

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40 (tie). University of Florida

Full-time enrollment: 561

2019-2020 tuition: $32,744 (in-state), $45,000 (out-of-state)

2019 acceptance rate: 5.1%

More about the UF College of Medicine.

40 (tie). University of Minnesota

Full-time enrollment: 1,019

2019-2020 tuition: $39,402 (in-state), $56,547 (out-of-state)

2019 acceptance rate: 4.9%

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38 (tie). Brown University (Alpert) (RI)

Full-time enrollment: 598

2019-2020 tuition: $63,082

2019 acceptance rate: 2.8%

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38 (tie). University of Utah

Full-time enrollment: 500

2019-2020 tuition: $40,538 (in-state), $76,745 (out-of-state)

2019 acceptance rate: 4.7%

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34 (tie). Ohio State University

Full-time enrollment: 813

2019-2020 tuition: $30,690 (in-state), $41,798 (out-of-state)

2019 acceptance rate: 5.7%

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34 (tie). University of Iowa (Carver)

Full-time enrollment: 609

2019-2020 tuition: $36,382 (in-state), $57,157 (out-of-state)

2019 acceptance rate: 7.1%

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34 (tie). University of Maryland

Full-time enrollment: 629

2019-2020 tuition: $37,810 (in-state), $66,905 (out-of-state)

2019 acceptance rate: 6.6%

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34 (tie). University of Rochester (NY)

Full-time enrollment: 423

2019-2020 tuition: $59,100

2019 acceptance rate: 5.7%

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31 (tie). University of Alabama--Birmingham

Full-time enrollment: 799

2019-2020 tuition: $28,978 (in-state), $62,714 (out-of-state)

2019 acceptance rate: 6.0%

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31 (tie). University of Colorado

Full-time enrollment: 744

2019-2020 tuition: $40,348 (in-state), $66,304 (out-of-state)

2019 acceptance rate: 3.7%

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31 (tie). University of Southern California (Keck)

Full-time enrollment: 747

2019-2020 tuition: $64,538

2019 acceptance rate: 4.6%

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29 (tie). Boston University

Full-time enrollment: 709

2019-2020 tuition: $62,872

2019 acceptance rate: 6.5%

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29 (tie). University of Virginia

Full-time enrollment: 615

2019-2020 tuition: $43,828 (in-state), $53,952 (out-of-state)

2019 acceptance rate: 11.7%

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28. Oregon Health and Science University

Full-time enrollment: 630

2019-2020 tuition: $43,488 (in-state), $66,844 (out-of-state)

2019 acceptance rate: 4.0%

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27. University of Wisconsin--Madison

Full-time enrollment: 731

2019-2020 tuition: $36,266 (in-state), $50,201 (out-of-state)

2019 acceptance rate: 5.5%

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26. University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center

Full-time enrollment: 911

2019-2020 tuition: $19,910 (in-state), $33,010 (out-of-state)

2019 acceptance rate: 7.0%

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24 (tie). Case Western Reserve University (OH)

Full-time enrollment: 943

2019-2020 tuition: $65,476

2019 acceptance rate: 7.0%

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24 (tie). Emory University (GA)

Full-time enrollment: 582

2019-2020 tuition: $51,000

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Bernard P. Lane had a full, rich, productive life in teaching, medical research, public service, music and raising a family on Long Island.

Lane, known as Bernie, was a founding faculty member of the medical school at Stony Brook University, his family and associates say, as well as a professor of pathology there who authored or co-authored more than 100 scientific research papers; was a former president of the faculty senate; head of a number of university, state and national medical organizations; an expert trumpet player; and a devoted family man.

Lane, of Setauket, died July 5 at home after a lengthy battle with cancer. He was 79.

A native of Brooklyn, Lane received an undergraduate degree from Brown University, a medical degree from New York University and a master of science degree in management from Stony Brook in 1992.

As a professor of pathology, Lane taught at Stony Brook from 1971 until he retired in 2014. Before coming to Stony Brook, he taught for several years at New York University Medical School.

Lane was director of the pathology residence program for 25 years, mentoring scores of pathologists who have gone on to positions in hospitals and academic medical centers both locally and nationally, his wife, Dorothy Lane, associate dean for Continuing Medical Education at Stony Brook, said in a statement. The couple were married 53 years.

He was also director of the Electron Microscopy Laboratory and the founding chairman of the board of directors of the Clinical Management Plan at Stony Brook University Hospital.

Outside of the university on Long Island, Lane was at times president of the Suffolk County Medical Society, the Suffolk County Pathology Society and the Long Island Division of the American Cancer Society.

Nationally, he was chairman of the National Group on Faculty Practice of the Association of American Medical Colleges.

In the early days of the medical school, Lane felt rewarded by the pioneering spirit of these first students . . . and by the successes of the thousands he taught in the decades that followed, his wife said.

In addition to his extensive medical and public service, Lane also had time for his family and for cultural life on Long Island.

Lane greatly enjoyed raising a family on Long Island, spending countless hours at West Meadow Beach [in Stony Brook] and making day trips to South Shore beaches in the summers, his wife wrote. He also regularly attended concerts and theatrical performances at Stony Brook, Bellport and Westbury, she said.

My Dad enjoyed many things in life, recalled his daughter, Erika Neil, of Chantilly, Virginia, in remarks prepared for his funeral service. He was a gifted trumpet player who loved music. I have fond memories of him playing Herb Alpert on the record player, and of him playing trumpet while I accompanied him on the piano.

In addition to his wife and daughter, Lane is survived by two sons: Andrew Lane of Baltimore and Matthew Lane of Los Angeles; and four grandchildren.

A graveside funeral service was held July 7 at Washington Memorial Park Cemetery in Mt. Sinai. In lieu of flowers, his family requested that donations be made either to the Stony Brook Cancer Center of the American Cancer Society.

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The right class inspires you for a lifetime. Thats how S. Jay Hirsh, MED 70, feels. Its why he donated $1 million to the Schneck Gross Anatomy Lab at the Lewis Katz School of Medicinea gift to the school that helped shape his career as a doctor.

His donation will create the S. Jay Hirsh, MD Endowed Anatomy Lab Fund, which will help ensure students in the lab always have access to the most sophisticated environment and tools for teaching and learning.

Named in honor of Carson D. Schneck, MED 59, 65, who taught at the Katz School of Medicine for five decades, the Gross Anatomy Labgross in this sense means largeis home to the first course medical students take at Temple and serves as their introduction to medical school as a whole.

Every day, for seven weeks, first-year students work their way across the human body in stages, from the limbs to body cavities to the head, dissecting specific regions one at a time.

There are no lectures. Instead, professors lead conferences in which students discuss medical cases that help put the anatomy they have studied into a clinical context.

Popoff teaches students in the lab. (Photo by Ryan S. Brandenberg)

We teach an anatomy course here that is really taught strictly from the basis of clinical correlation, said Steven N. Popoff, the John Franklin Huber Chair of Anatomy and Cell Biology at the Katz School of Medicine, who teaches in the lab.

Clinical correlation is an approach that encourages students to make diagnoses based on a combination of physical examinations, clinical findings, medical history and imaging results. Students dissect the head and neck, for example, then discuss diseases or injuries which affect the function of specific cranial nerves.

Theyre not just memorizing structure without having any context to put it in, Popoff said. Theyre learning anatomy thats then put into some form of clinical context.

Students receive a study guide and dissection manual developed by Temples faculty, and electronic copies of the Schneck Notes: More than 400 pages, written mostly by Schneck, that focus on the clinical relevance of the anatomy they study.

They are also taught how to look at anything from a simple X-ray to an MRI scan, becoming familiar with the imaging technology they will use as practicing doctors.

With imaging and computer programs an increasingly important part of teaching anatomy, Hirshs gift will support the labs investments in new technology and ensure its always ready to serve the next generation of students.

For a first course, Popoff said, [the lab] certainly gives them a real taste of medical school that sets it apart from previous educational experiences they have had.

Students consult electronic copies of their study guides and dissection manuals as they work. (Photo by Ryan S. Brandenberg)

Besides being their first class, the lab is also the first contact most students have with cadavers. I know a lot of students are timid at firstI definitely wasto pick up a scalpel and make that first incision, said Harrison Davis, a first-year medical student.

Theyre worried they might harm the body in front of them, even though the person isnt alive.

Not everybody wants to be a surgeon. Some people really love it. Every day they load the scalpel with a blade and they get right to it. And other people, thats not their thing, Davis said. A lot of students have to go past their comfort zone.

The cadaver is your first patient, said Anne Coyle, a second year. Working on one in the lab encourages you to figure out how to learn and get what you need from them and also make sure to respect who they are or were.

For Coyle, her hands-on experience in the lab was the turning point for her deciding to become a surgeon. Everything was so tangible, she said. The things in anatomy are things that Ill never forget learning.

The lab also changes the way students see the human body, a biological wonder we often take for granted.

Take the heart. Its pumping every single second of your life. But then youre actually seeing it in a persons body and holding it, Coyle said. For me it just takes it to a whole other level of connection.

No two bodies are completely alike. Every cadaver is different. Every persons anatomy is different, said Justin Ly, also a second-year student. They all have similar structures, but how they look on different body types is completely different.

For some medical students, anatomy class is a rite of passage. (Photo by Ryan S. Brandenberg)

In their fourth year, students can choose to go back into the lab for a refresher on what theyve learned and to specialize in the anatomy that interests them.

Everything else that you do in medical school, I think theres really not many instances where you dont think back to the organs in the body, or just the anatomy, said Anthony Coppola, a fourth year.

Its almost like a rite of passage, he said. When youre doing anatomy you feel like you truly are a medical student because youre doing something so different, something that not many students are privileged to get to do.

Working in the lab taught Hirsh a great deal besides anatomy. It taught me that I was now part of a group of very special men and women who were on a long journey to becoming a doctor, he said. It taught me companionship. It taught me family values, and it taught me to respect the body that we were working on.

He remembers all his teachers fondly, but Schneck, who had just begun his teaching career when Hirsh met him, stood out. He was an extremely brilliant gentleman who loved his work, Hirsh said. He knew how to teach, he knew what to teach. And he was like an encyclopedia.

Hirsh had wanted to make a significant gift to the Katz School of Medicine for a long time. It wasnt something new. It was something I always wanted to do, he said. Because Temple, this institution was the first institution that really made me believe that I was part of their family.

Thats something that got me through medical school, being, feeling like I was part of that place. It meant so much to me.

Make a gift to support the excellent medical education, research and clinical care at the Lewis Katz School of Medicine by visiting: giving.temple.edu/givetomed.

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Dr Jennifer Logue of Lancaster University Medical School has been awarded 500,000 by the National Institute for Health Research to examine the effectiveness of NHS and local government interventions to treat obesity.

The three year project entitled BEhavioural Weight Management: COMponents of Effectiveness (BE:COME) is jointly led by Dr Logue, who is a Clinical Reader in Metabolic Medicine, and Professor Olivia Wu who is Professor of Health Technology Assessment at the University of Glasgow.

Behavioural weight management intervention programmes are the main NHS funded treatment for obesity in the UK.

Most often these are community-based groups which meet weekly for 12 weeks, focusing on diet, physical activity and behavioural change.

Dr Logue said: We want to find out which parts of the programmes are linked to weight-loss, and what the best combination of parts is for different groups of people taking part.

For example, one programme may have exercise classes every week but another may simply give advice on being more active. These differences are seen across the recommended diets, the help for people to plan and stick to the programme and things related to how the programme is run, such as the training of the staff or how far people need to travel to take part.

It has been difficult to compare behavioural weight management intervention programmes and see what works best because researchers have used different

ways to describe the weight-loss results in studies, or do not fully describe what the programme involved for participants.

The project will aim to find out which ones are effective.

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Medical school is one of the most intensive, fast-paced degree programs you can pursue. While med students are often full of passion and enthusiasm, its also easy to succumb to periods of high stress and burnout. If youre applying for medical programs, you need to know how to take care of yourself in med school and beyond. Here are three tips for creating a supportive, healthy environment for yourself throughout your medical career.

No matter what you do in life, its important to have a support system. Classes, labs, and studying can monopolize your time and keep you from friends and family. Make a point of reaching out to your loved ones. Schedule time to hang out with your friends. Call family members who live far away. Maintaining these important relationships is a great way to nurture support and positivity throughout even the most stressful periods of life.

When life gets busy, a normal routine can help you manage your stress and stay on top of all your obligations. Make schedules, checklists, and other systems for yourself to help organize your day-to-day needs. This might mean blocking out time to go to the gym every day or creating a meal prep plan at the beginning of the week. While its important to include work and studying in your routine, you should also make time for relaxation, fun, and plenty of rest. Additionally, try to createand stick toa regular morning and nighttime routine. When you go to bed and wake up at the same time every day, you get more restful sleep and are more alert and productive throughout the day.

Medical school is a lot of work, and even with the best self-care practices, youll probably find yourself occasionally facing endless days or sleepless nights. Just remember that theres a reason you wanted to do this in the first place. Keep your goals and enthusiasm in mind. Your passion for this field is what will help you through the program and on your way to a fantastic career.

When you know how to take care of yourself in med school, you can build healthy habits that stick with you for the entirety of your career. Its important to follow these and other self-care tips throughout your life as a medical professional. When you take good care of yourself, you can take better care of every patient who needs your help.

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Outside-of-work wellness activities pursued by residentswith the notable exceptions of exercise and alcohol consumptionappear to have little effect on resident well-being and the prevalence of burnout and wellness problems, a recent study published in the Journal of Surgical Education found.

The study included responses from more than 5,000 ob-gyn residents across four years of training. Nearly half of all respondents indicated they had experienced burnout and 32% reported showing symptoms of depression.

The Journal of Surgical Education studyAssociations Between Residents Personal Behaviors and Wellness: A National Survey of Obstetrics and Gynecology Residentsasked residents to identify the activities they did to improve wellness. The most common activities respondents indicated they participated in at least twice a week were:

Among activities in that group, respondents who exercised regularly were less likely to report a problem with well-being. That was the only activity that fell into the positive category.

It may as much be a flag that people who are exercising are doing well, said Abigail Winkel, MD, one of the studys authors. Its probably true that there are mental health benefits of exercise, but it might be that the residents who are making time to exercise are doing so because they are not the ones feeling burnt out or depressed.

Almost half of residents reported regular alcohol use. The data found that alcohol use was an activity had the strongest association among survey respondents who reported any wellness problem.

Respondents who said they drank four or more times weekly were three times likelier to report wellness problems. The study also found that the rate of binge drinking rose from 8.8% among first-year residents to 14.4% among fourth-year residents.

As she was conducting research, these results made Dr. Winkela program director, at the timerethink the social programming in place for residents.

As a program director, I stopped funding happy hours, said Dr. Winkel, vice chair of education and assistant director of the institute for innovations in medical educations at New York University School of Medicine. I said: We like the social benefits of you all getting together and youre young people, and drinking is common. But were also not going to say that with our programming that we put in place to try to support healthy residents that we should be putting our money into other kinds of social events.

We didnt want our residents to think that alcohol is a good tool to combat work-related stress, Dr. Winkel added.

Outside of the positive benefits of exercise and the negative results for those who drank heavily, most activities survey respondents did at least twice a week showed no association, or a slightly negative association, with well-being.

Still, Dr. Winkel warns against reading into the finding that some activities, such as cooking, charted as an activity linked to a higher likelihood of reporting a wellness problem.

The fact that many activities have no association [with increased wellness] speaks to the fact that burnout is caused by chronic stresses in the workplace, she said. These things we do and engage in in life are really important to improve sanity, probably in a lot of other ways. Improving burnout is going to require addressing the root causes of burnout, which these activities cant fix.

But is it still worth having a social life, a healthy body and being mindful? she asked. Yes, its very much worth all those things.

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The total compensation for Atrium Healths top executive, Gene Woods, jumped nearly 20% in fiscal 2019, the Charlotte health care system reported Friday.

Woods received $7.25 million in total compensation, led by $2.67 million in salary, $2.44 million in bonuses and a separate $1.08 million in incentives.

By comparison, Woods received $6.06 million in total compensation in fiscal 2018.

Atriums compensation and other corporate financial aspects has taken on new interest in the Triad because of a pending, limited-defined partnership with Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center that is expected to be unveiled by March 31.

The official message since the not-for-profits April 10 memorandum of understanding announcement is they are jointly creating a next-generation academic health-care system headlined by a Charlotte medical school campus debuting in 2021 or 2022.

The systems told bondholders in a November notice the regulatory review process with the Federal Trade Commission is expected to be complete by or before early 2020.

Atrium also recently ended a management services agreement with Greensboros Cone Health in which Cones top executive, Terry Akin, had become an Atrium-compensated employee. Akin received $2.18 million in total compensation in 2019. Dr. Mary Jo Cagle, chief operating officer at Cone, received $1.2 million in total compensation.

Dr. John McConnell moved from chief executive to executive director of Wake Forest Healthcare Ventures on May 1, 2017. He had been chief executive for nearly nine years. His total compensation for 2017 was $2.15 million, down 6.5% from fiscal 2016, according to the IRS Form 990 filing.

Meanwhile, the 2017 compensation of $1.2 million for chief executive Dr. Julie Ann Freischlag reflects from when she took over as chief executive on May 1, 2017. Freischlag became permanent dean of the medical school in February 2018 after serving as interim deal for seven months.

Freischlags first full year of compensation in both roles will not be reported by Wake Forest Baptist until May 15, 2020.

In November, Wake Forest Baptist and Atrium pledged to build a multi-faceted tower and an eye institute in Winston-Salem.

The tower would house the emergency department, operating rooms and intensive care unit services and will be built on the main Ardmore campus atop an existing parking deck. It will feature new operating rooms with adult intensive care units, along with radiology, pathology and other related services.

The systems have not ruled out a much larger collaboration during their period of exclusive negotiations.

The open-ended nature of negotiating a potential medical partnership between Wake Forest University and Atrium has raised concerns about the future of Wake Forest Baptist and its medical school in Winston-Salem.

The local concern about the Charlotte campus is that it could eventually draw resources from the Winston-Salem campus or even lure the medical school itself from Winston-Salem. Wake Forest Baptist is the largest employer in Forsyth County with more than 13,000 workers.

Freischlag said April 10 that she and the majority of the existing medical school faculty would remain in Winston-Salem and that the Charlotte medical school would gain new faculty and utilize providers within the Atrium hospital system.

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Ref: A2954-RPost-Doctoral Research Associate/Senior Research Associate in End of Life CareDepartment: Lancaster Medical SchoolSalary range: 28,331 to 34,804Closing Date: Monday 24 February 2020Contract: Temporary

Lancaster Medical School is offering an exciting research opportunity hosted between academic palliative medicine and The Centre for Health Informatics, Computation and Statistics (CHICAS) funded by Sir John Fisher Foundation. We are looking for a talented data analysist / epidemiologist for a two year Senior/Research Associate in End-of-Life Care.

The research project is to explore use of existing health data from South Cumbria and Lancashire to inform how the models of care provided for patients (especially those with non-cancer conditions) at the end of their lives should be shaped.

We invite applications from enthusiastic individuals with experience in curating data and possess excellent statistical computing skills and the ability to analyse large database.

You will be expected to write and submit high-quality research papers, disseminate research results by giving talks and tutorials at conferences and other institutions, assist with preparing grant proposals, and undertake other research activities as needed. Please see Job Description for more details.

CHICAS is a vibrant and diverse research group within the Lancaster Medical School, comprising researchers in epidemiology, machine learning, statistical genomics and spatial and longitudinal statistics. The group has close ties to both the School of Mathematics and Statistics, and the Lancaster Data Science Institute, all of which have a reputation for excellence statistical and computational research.

Lancaster Medical School is a young medical school in a high-ranking, forward-looking university. Lancaster University is one of the top ten UK universities (The Complete University Guide 2018) and the Times International University of the Year 2020. Significant investment in the creation of a Health Innovation Campus, adjacent to the main campus, makes this an exciting time to join Lancaster University, with the move to the new 41 million first phase of building scheduled for Easter 2020.

Lancaster University is one of the top ten UK universities (The Complete University Guide 2018) and the Times International University of the Year 2020.

The Faculty provides an environment that strongly supports the individual needs of each employee, promoting a healthy work-life balance. We are committed to family-friendly and flexible working policies on an individual basis, as well as the Athena SWAN Charter, which recognises and celebrates good employment practice undertaken to address gender equality in higher education.

Informal inquiries can be made to Dr Amy Gadoud: a.gadoud@lancaster.ac.uk

We welcome applications from people in all diversity groups.

For further information and to apply online please click the apply button. Lancaster University - ensuring equality of opportunity and celebrating diversity.

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This doctor has one of the most important jobs in Super Bowl LIV, but he's not part of the team's medical staff.

Instead, Laurent Duvernay-Tardif, who earned his doctor of medicine degree from McGill University in Canada in 2018, plays right guard on the Kansas City Chiefs offensive line. He is tasked with protecting superstar quarterback Patrick Mahomes as well as trying to deliver the Chiefs their first Super Bowl win in 50 years.

Duvernay-Tardif, the first practicing medical doctor on an NFL roster, will soon become the first medical doctor set to play in a Super Bowl.

"When I stepped on that stage at McGill University and got my MD last year, it was probably the best moment of my life -- after the one I'm going to live (Sunday)," a laughing Duvernay-Tardif, alluding to Sunday's Super Bowl LIV, said to CNN on Monday.

Duvernay-Tardif, 28, stands at 6 feet, 5 inches and is listed at 321 pounds. When he speaks English, the Montreal native's French accent is evident while also giving a warm smile.

"I think I want people to see me as one of the best student athletes in the world," said Duvernay-Tardif, in his sixth NFL season and in the midst of a five-year, $42.4 million contract. "Of course you want to be the best football player. You want to be the best doctor. But to be able to combine both at the highest level ... I think that's my biggest accomplishment."

Sometimes his teammates may occasionally call him doc or doctor, but they also call him Larry, and it's evident his intellect transfers to the gridiron.

"Without a doubt, especially with the offensive line position," Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce said Tuesday. "You have to be a very smart dude. There's a lot of stuff that goes into protections, and how we're going to identify the run game. Larry's stepped in. He figured it out early in his career, and he has just taken it for a ride ever since."

Said Chiefs offensive tackle Eric Fisher on Tuesday: "He's a doctor. He's a football player. I think he's got two passions in life, and he's a professional in both of them. How many of us can say that? Usually everyone's just a professional with one thing. He's a professional with two. Pretty crazy things that not many people can do. What he's accomplished up to this point in life is pretty amazing."

Duvernay-Tardif before an NFL preseason game between the Houston Texans and Kansas City Chiefs on August 9, 2018 at Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas City, Missouri.

Duvernay-Tardif was no lock to reach the NFL -- and he had a bit of a scare getting into medical school as well.

Because he had entered the incorrect date on his calendar, Duvernay-Tardif, whose first language is French, missed the deadline to get into French-speaking medical schools in Quebec. At McGill, one of three English-language universities in Quebec, he didn't initially join the football team until later during his freshman season, as he worked on his English to keep up in class.

Meanwhile, Duvernay-Tardif wasn't playing for a typical powerhouse program that produces NFL players. Previously, just one other player had been selected in the NFL draft from McGill -- defensive tackle Randy Chevrier, who was drafted in the seventh round by the Jacksonville Jaguars in 2001.

As Chiefs general manager Brett Veach once alluded on February 7, 2019, "When Tardif came out, he had some tape from McGill that wasn't Alabama or Auburn. It was Canadian tape and looked like Division II or III football."

Chiefs head coach Andy Reid explained it further on Tuesday at the team hotel in Aventura, Florida.

"You have to understand where he came from," Reid said. "McGill University is a great university. However, the football maybe might not be the same level that you see at the college level in the States here.

"There was quite a gap that he had to climb there to be an NFL player, and he attacked that, probably just like he did becoming a doctor with the tough classes that he had to take.

"But that's the way he's gone about it. He's worked his tail off. He's strong. He's smart. He loves to play the game."

Duvernay-Tardif was in his third year of medical school when the Chiefs drafted him in the sixth round in 2014. There was also a Chiefs tie to Duvernay-Tardif's alma mater: Reid's mother graduated with a medical degree from McGill.

With his head coach's blessing, Duvernay-Tardif continued his studies, returning to Montreal during offseasons to fulfill his clinical rotations in pediatrics, obstetrics, geriatrics and his preferred specialization, emergency medicine.

"I was confident in my ability to play in the NFL for sure," Duvernay-Tardif said. "You look at the stats, and how long is an average career and all that stuff, with studying medicine I didn't know what was going to happen, but everything turned out great. I think Coach Reid is a big part of that, too. He understood what I was trying to do with my study. He gave me the chance to balance both. If it was not for him I would have (just) got my MD and I would not be here this week for sure."

To prepare for his final exams, Duvernay-Tardif isolated himself in an apartment outside of Montreal and studied up to 14 hours a day. And on May 29, 2018, he earned his medical doctorate after an eight-year journey, wearing a white lab coat after the ceremony with his uniform number 76 stitched on the back.

"It was a grind," Duvernay-Tardif said to CNN. "It was a lot of sacrifice, but at the end of the day it was worth it."

After that, he was right back with the Chiefs for training camp. Now, more work lies ahead this week in Miami.

"I don't get any feeling that he's ready to become a doctor right now and go that direction," Reid said. "I look for more years with him and continued growth."

Residency indeed does remain on hold for Duvernay-Tardif, and it's hard to say when it will begin.

"Because I want to do emergency medicine, and they only take anywhere between five and six students at McGill per year, it would put too much stress on the rest of the cohort," Duvernay-Tardif told CNN, adding that he is in contact with the faculty of medicine at McGill.

"We'll find a way," he continued, "but I think this year I wanted to focus more on football."

But, he says, "The good news is that I didn't do an undergrad before getting into medical school. So I'm still really young. I'm 28. A lot of people are not done with their residency, or haven't even started their residency, when they were 28. I still have plenty of time. The most important thing is to stay up to speed with the knowledge, for sure."

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For decades, sex education in the classroom could be pretty cringey. For some adolescents, it meant a pitch for abstinence; others watched their teachers put condoms on bananas and attempt sketches of fallopian tubes that looked more like modern art.

On TikTok, sex ed is being flipped on its head. Teenagers who load the app might find guidance set to the pulsing beat of Sex Talk by Megan Thee Stallion.

A doctor, sporting scrubs and grinning into her camera, instructs them on how to respond if a condom breaks during sex: The pill Plan B can be 95 percent effective, the video explains.

The video is the work of Dr. Danielle Jones, a gynecologist in College Station, Tex., and so far has racked up over 11 million views. Comments range from effusive (this slaps) to eye-rolling (thanks for the advice mom and maam, Im 14 years old).

My TikTok presence is like if you had a friend who just happens to be an OB/GYN, Dr. Jones said. Its a good way to give information to people who need it and meet them where they are.

Dr. Jones is one of many medical professionals working their way through the rapidly expanding territory of TikTok, the Chinese-owned short-form video app, to counter medical misinformation to a surging audience. The app has been downloaded 1.5 billion times as of November, according to SensorTower, with an audience that skews young; 40 percent of its users are ages 16 to 24.

Although medical professionals have long taken to social media to share healthy messages or promote their work, TikTok poses a new set of challenges, even for the internet adept. Popular posts on the app tend to be short, musical and humorous, complicating the task of physicians hoping to share nuanced lessons on health issues like vaping, coronavirus, nutrition and things you shouldnt dip in soy sauce. And some physicians who are using the platform to spread credible information have found themselves the targets of harassment.

Dr. Rose Marie Leslie, a family medicine resident physician at the University of Minnesota Medical School, said TikTok provided an enormous platform for medical public service announcements.

It has this incredible viewership potential that goes beyond just your own following, she said.

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Dr. Leslies TikToks on vaping-associated lung diseases drew over 3 million views, and posts on the flu and HPV vaccines also reached broad audiences beyond her hospital.

Striking a chord on TikTok, Dr. Leslie said, means tailoring medical messaging to the apps often goofy form. In one post, she advised viewers to burn calories by practicing a viral TikTok dance. She takes her cues from teen users, who often use the app to offer irreverent, even slapstick commentary on public health conversations. She noted one trend in which young TikTokers brainstormed creative ways to destroy your e-cigarette, like running it over with a car.

TikToks executives have welcomed the platforms uses for medical professionals. Its been inspiring to see doctors and nurses take to TikTok in their scrubs to demystify the medical profession, said Gregory Justice, TikToks head of content programming.

Dr. Jones, the gynecologist, said she was hopeful the platform could help young people develop trust in medical practitioners and view them as more accessible. Back in the old days, there was a town doctor and everyone knew where he lived, and you traded milk and eggs for health care, Dr. Jones said. You had trust in your doctor because you trusted them as a person first. TikTok, she said, can help to humanize doctors shes seen that some of her own patients feel more comfortable with her because they have seen her playful social media posts.

But some doctors are also encountering responses to their videos that they did not expect.

Earlier this month, Dr. Nicole Baldwin, a pediatrician in Cincinnati, posted a TikTok listing the diseases that are preventable with vaccines and countering the notion that vaccines cause autism.

Her accounts on TikTok, Twitter, Facebook and Yelp were flooded with threatening comments, including one that labeled her Public Enemy #1 and another that read, Dead doctors dont lie.

A team of volunteers that is helping Dr. Baldwin monitor her social media has banned more than 5,200 users from her Facebook in recent weeks.

Dr. Baldwin said she started out feeling enthusiastic about the opportunity TikTok provides to educate adolescents, but her experience with harassment gave her some pause.

Theres a fine line physicians are walking between trying to get a message out that will appeal to this younger generation without being inappropriate or unprofessional, Dr. Baldwin said. Because of the short content and musical aspect of TikTok, what adolescents are latching onto is not the professional persona we typically put out there.

A spate of recent TikToks have further stirred questions about the potential for the apps abuse. One recent TikTok post featured a medical professional speculating as she lip synced to the Rex Orange County lyric How Could I Ignore You? that her patients chest pain could have been caused by cocaine. Another showed an emergency room doctor mocking patients who sought treatment in the E.R. rather than from a primary care physician.

Sarah Mojarad, a lecturer who teaches a course on social media for scientists at the University of Southern California, said she has seen physicians either bashing their patients on the app or whitecoat marketing, a term that refers to the use of medical prestige to market inappropriate products like unauthorized supplements.

The youth of TikToks audience also raises the stakes when medical professionals misuse the platform.

With a young audience, its really important to make sure that the content getting out is professional and accurate, Ms. Mojarad said. People may think some of it is medical humor, but it impacts care.

TikToks community guidelines state that the platform does not permit misinformation that may cause harm to an individuals health, such as misleading information about medical treatments. The company expanded its rules of conduct earlier this month, as its user base has grown.

Some physicians worry that TikToks brief, playful clips can blur the line between general education and patient-specific medical advice.

Dr. Austin Chiang, a gastroenterologist and chief medical social media officer at Jefferson Health in Philadelphia, said he has been asked about specific symptoms on TikTok and has to refer users to established medical sources, or directly to their doctors.

Dr. Christian Assad, a cardiologist in McAllen, Tex., said he sometimes scripts his TikToks, given the potential for confusion when he compresses a 60-minute talk on low-carbohydrate dieting into a 60-second musical clip.

Ignoring the platform isnt an option, especially given the prevalence of disinformation on the app, Dr. Chiang said. Two of his more popular posts have countered the use of essential oils to cure diseases and exposed the failings of the celery juice fad diet.

If were not there to be a voice for evidence-based medicine, whos going to do that for us? Dr. Chiang said. Anti-vaxxers are already using social media to their advantage. By putting doctors on social media, were able to be a source of more accurate information.

Still, for doctors turned influencers, the TikTok learning curve can be steep. Dr. Matthew Schulman, a plastic surgeon in New York, said the slightly older users of Instagram and Snapchat have been vital to his private practice, helping to drive roughly 80 percent of consultations. He often streams live from the operating room. Buttock augmentation is really popular on social media, he said.

But TikTok has presented him with cause for additional concern. The virality upside is massive: A post he made earlier this month discussing celebrity clients drew over 6.8 million views. But as he has watched his 10-year-old daughter use the app, he realized that he must exercise more caution in producing content.

The demographic of TikTok is very young, and as a plastic surgeon I dont feel comfortable marketing my services to children, Dr. Schulman said. Simultaneously, he knows the app is growing fast. I dont want to be caught playing catch-up. In two or three years the platform could change, and if I already have an established account Im ahead of the game.

In the meantime, he said, he relies on top-notch TikTok editors his kids.

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Medical school in 3 years. The pros and cons of making the USMLE pass/fail. New research into the doctor shortage and, in particular, the shortage of surgeons. These and other top AAMCNews stories of 2019 offer a glimpse into some of the most pressing issues facing students, residents, and faculty at our nations medical schools and teaching hospitals.

In case you missed them, here are our 10 most-read stories of the year:

1. Why women leave medicine

Research shows that almost 40% of women physicians go part-time or leave medicine altogether within six years of completing their residencies. Heres whats behind the early exodus and what pioneering institutions are doing to entice more women to stay.

2. New findings confirm predictions on physician shortage

In April, the AAMC released its annual report on physician supply and demand in the United States. The report shows that the U.S. could see a shortage of up to 122,000 physicians by 2032, impacting patient care across the nation.

3. What happens when a teaching hospital closes?

When Hahnemann University Hospital in Philadelphia announced in June that it was filing for bankruptcy, it set in motion a chain of events that affected everyone from students and residents to program directors, faculty, and patients. Heres how the closure affected not only the 550trainees displaced, but the academic medicine community at large.

4. Should the USMLE be pass/fail?

USMLE Step 1 scores get far more weight than they deserve in the residency selection process, experts say, and thats harming students. Now for the first time, key stakeholders have come together to reform USMLE and the entire selection process.

5. Med school in 3 years: Is this the future of medical education?

Accelerated programs cut student debt and produce grads faster to address physician shortages. But some worry they might sacrifice valuable learning and professional development.

6. DACA students risk everything to become doctors

Nearly 200 undocumented students and residents are training in U.S. medical schools and teaching hospitals. AAMCNews talked to 10 DACA medical students and residents about their journeys to medical school, the challenges they faced as the undocumented children of immigrants, and the passion that drives them to pursue a career in medicine despite tremendous obstacles.

7. So youve matched: Now what? 9 things all residents should know

Value your team. Ask for help. Remember that it gets better. Medical school deans and teaching hospital CEOs offer their best advice for new residents.

8. SWAT doctors

They rush into active shooter scenes and other unimaginably dangerous situations. What it's like to train and serve as a physician on a special operations team.

9. How well does the MCAT exam predict success in medical school?

Researchers spent years studying thousands of students to assess the new MCAT exam. Here are some of their key and surprising discoveries.

10. Desperately seeking surgeons

By 2032, the United States will lack as many as 23,000 surgeons. That will have a dramatic impact given a growing, aging population with increasingly complex health needs.

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Navy Lt. Jonny Kim went viral last week when NASA announced that he and 10 other candidates (including six other service members) became the newest members of the agency's hallowed astronaut corps. A decorated Navy SEAL and graduate of Harvard Medical School, Kim in particular seems to have a penchant for achieving people's childhood dreams.

However, Kim shared with Task & Purpose that his motivation for living life the way he has stems not so much from starry-eyed ambition, but from the pain and loss he suffered both on the battlefields of Iraq and from childhood instability while growing up in Los Angeles. Kim tells his story in the following Q&A, which was lightly edited for length and clarity:

Task & Purpose: What made you go for the Navy SEALs rather than Special Forces or Marine Force Recon or something like that?

Jonny Kim: The military for me was never in the picture. My parents wanted me to go to college and get a well-paying job from there, but there's something inside of me that knew I just wasn't ready for that and I didn't want to do that. And I wanted to be a part of something bigger than myself.

I was in martial arts class when I was 16 years old and my friend Keith, who I went to Santa Monica High School with, told me his life goal was to be a Navy SEAL. I'm trying to set the scene that this was 1999, before 9/11, before anyone knew what a Navy SEAL was.

When I listened to Keith talk about this passion, this dream, it was so inspiring to me: a group of warriors that worked in the night that had the hardest military training, and did these operations that no one else would or could do. The most important part of it was that they never sought recognition or advertised the nature of their work. And it was so profound, that level of humility, and professionalism, that I knew that that's what I wanted to do.

I had heard about the Special Forces and I didn't really know much about Marine Recon but there was something that enamored me about the training to be a SEAL, and about Hell Week and all these grueling tasks that I felt that I needed to do.

And a lot of it was for my own selfish needs, like I needed to discover myself and my identity. I didn't really know who I was, and I didn't really like the kind of person that I was growing up to become. And I thought that this was a drastic move for me to kind of reset my life, to reorient what I wanted to do or what I thought I could.

T&P: I can relate to that lack of confidence and wanting to forge your own identity. Can you tell me more about that lack of confidence, was it kind of like a shyness or an insecurity type of thing?

I mean, I don't know how appropriate it is for me to go into detail, but I didn't I didn't have the most stable childhood. And I think a lot of my insecurity and my inability to talk to people and form close relationships stemmed from just childhood instability. That's a large reason why I didn't have big dreams growing up. I didn't have that type of healthy confidence or security, and also maybe this kind of inner frustration that I know I can do something I just, I just need to believe in myself. And I didn't have that.

For me, becoming a SEAL, it was the biggest reset.

T&P: Just to make sure I'm following you are you talking about not having many resources growing up, and feeling like you didn't have many options because of that?

Certainly not financial resources. We were middle class; it would be inaccurate to say that I came from a poor household. But the familial relationships we had in the home were a little unstable. And I think that led to a lot of low confidence growing up.

I'm naturally a pretty private person. But I understand that ... I almost owe it to the next generation of children. One of the biggest reasons why I wanted to be an astronaut was I wanted to be able to inspire young kids.

I feel I owe a duty that I am a little bit more open about where I came from. Because I want young kids to understand that they're capable of achieving their hopes and dreams even if they didn't come from the best place.

T&P: When you decided to become a SEAL, was combat something that you looked forward to? I don't mean that pejoratively, I know that's part of the deal, but was combat something you looked forward to, and how did the actual experience of it measure up to what you imagined it would be?

I don't think I've ever been asked that. I think it's a very profound and astute question. Yes, I think as a naive 18-year-old kid, when I first joined the Navy, I had these grand dreams of going to combat and expecting it to be a certain way, maybe influenced by what I had seen in Hollywood movies or read in books.

But war was not anything that I thought it would be. And it was ugly. And it was painful. And there was a lot of suffering.

And I did find a lot of good out of it. There were some of the most compassionate acts that I've ever seen of love for your fellow man and woman. It gave me a perspective that I don't think I would have achieved any other way. This perspective of the ugliness, but at the same time the beauty of humanity gave me a lot of hope that we can make this world into a better place.

A lot of my inspirations, really all of my inspirations for wanting to do good things in my lifetime, to contribute something positive to the world, were born on the battlefield. I would have to say all of it was.

I mean, I miss my friends dearly that I'll never see again. But I wouldn't trade these experiences for anything.

T&P: I'm new to covering the military beat, and I'm surprised that could be taken away from the battlefield experience, like after seeing all that ugliness and wanting to do something profoundly helpful for people in the world.

Is it okay if i share a story with you?

T&P: Sure, I was about to ask for one, go right ahead.

I think one of the greatest acts of love that a human can show for another is to sacrifice themselves for the life of another and that happened many times. One time that was profound for me, was a young man named Michael Monsoor, who was operating on a combat mission in Ramadi, on September 29, 2006.

A grenade was thrown into his general area and he was the only person among his teammates that could have escaped the blast without harm. But instead, he jumped on a grenade, smothered it completely with his body, absorbing all the impact and died from that last act. And he didn't have much time to make that decision.

I would like to think that I would do the same thing if I was in the same position, but I don't think anyone knows, until they are thrust into that position, what they would do. I know Mike was scared. I know he didn't want to die. But I am so inspired that the love he had for his fellow teammates was greater than his fear of death. And to me, that is an inspiring act that has stayed with me.

There's not too many places I've seen that act of love for someone else.

T&P: You deployed to Iraq twice, and it sounds like they were incredibly difficult deployments to Ramadi and Sadr City How did that path lead you to become an officer and move on to medical school?

I was the combat medic of my platoon and I had the fortunate opportunity to treat my fellow platoon mates, civilians and sometimes the enemy. But there was a limit to what I could do to help people. I was trained to stabilize patients long enough for them to reach a hospital and be treated by a physician, a surgeon, as the definitive care. And I was inspired a lot by the physicians that I worked with. I know a lot of my friends owe their lives to those doctors and their medical staff.

I made promises to a lot of the people that I lost, that I would spend the rest of my life doing something good, something positive for the world, because they left a void when they died, and I know that they would have been successful, making the world a better place had they lived. Those are big shoes for me to fill. At that point in time, I felt medicine was a good platform to spread that goodness, to leave that positive contribution.

T&P: I imagine it must have been a sharp pivot to go from the SEALs, this very intense fraternity, and then go into a civilian setting like Harvard Medical School.was that a difficult transition for you?

It was. It was probably one of the more difficult things for me. It's a different set of tools you need to be successful in the SEAL teams versus in a civilian institution. As much as I like to think of myself as a grounded person with a wide perspective, I had narrow experiences up until that time.

At the age of 18 after high school, I joined the military and I was indoctrinated into that lifestyle. And I learned so much from it. But in a way, I hadn't seen the rest of the world. In a way, I had a unique set of life experiences that no one else, that the majority of people in this world would never, ever experience.

But that is a bubble in itself a little bit, right? So getting outside of that comfort zone, going to a civilian institution and interacting with people of various experiences, some people who were just 18 going to college. That was, that didn't come naturally to me. I had to learn how to do that. And it's hard to find similar experiences, especially if you've had extreme set of experiences in a wartime environment.

And you layer all that with I don't say that I had post traumatic stress disorder. You can call it whatever you want. But the truth is, I was angry after the war.

I had a lot of traumatic experiences. A lot of veterans deal with these traumatic experiences in their own way. And for me, a lot of it was anger that not necessarily directed at any one person or anything, but just having that anger inside and, and trying to try to have a healthy way to to cope with it, cope with all that trauma and all that loss I had.

All the while I'm trying to fulfill my obligations as an officer candidate and work a part time job and also my son was born at that time. It was really one of the hardest transitions in my life ... but I became a lot stronger for it, in a different way.

I don't think strength is purely defined as physical strength or your ability to endure immense amounts of pain or mental trauma. I think strength comes in various forms. And one of them is learning to adapt, and be honest with yourself and be vulnerable. That was one of the hardest things for me is learning to be vulnerable and open up to others.

Because that wasn't something that I really learned in the SEAL teams.

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Heading into his third year at the helm of Harvard Medical School, Dean George Q. Daley said in his annual State of the School address this week that although HMS has been fighting financial headwinds in recent years as it worked to balance its budget while advancing its mission, the School is now on a much firmer financial footing, giving him confidence for the future.

Now, after a lot of diligence by our administrative and financial teams, working in concert with departmental and University leadership, I believe weve rounded the mark, Daley said. We have wind in our sails. I am excitedand cautiously optimisticthat the wind will be with us from here on out.

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In a 40-minute address to a packed audience in the campus Armenise Amphitheater on Jan. 22, Daley said the Schools more stable finances are the result of efficient management practices, greater success in obtaining National Institutes of Health grants, successful real estate transactions and other financial measures.

As a result, he said, HMS has reduced its deficit from $49 million in FY 2016 to $10 million in FY 2019, and while it still has a projected deficit of $4 million in FY 2020, administrators are predicting a cash flow break-even in the next year or two. Daley added that the Schools achievement of balancing its books was accomplished without any financial assistance from the University or the $200 million 2018 Blavatnik Family Foundation commitment. That commitment, in fact, included assurances the School would address its debts before receiving the funds.

He cautioned that although the HMS financial picture has brightened considerably, the School should remain prudent stewards of our resources, especially in light of uncertainty in financial markets.

Complacency or a lack of discipline will invariably lead us back to structural deficits, Daley said.

Collaboration, innovation and investments

As a result of the Schools improved financial circumstances, Daley said we are now poised to deliver more powerfully than ever on the promise of this amazing institution. He described recent strategies being taken to maximize collaboration across and between personnel on the Quad, at the Schools affiliates and throughout the University, mentioning theDeans Innovation Awardsas a primary way HMS is catalyzing collaborative research.

To date, Daley said, the awards program has granted more than $29 million to 92 collaborative projects involving 169 investigators across the community; the vast majority of the funding is supporting fundamental, curiosity-driven research with 25 percent involving co-investigators at affiliated hospitals and research institutions.

An additional awards program for innovation in education, administrative efficiencies, and diversity and inclusion drew 79 proposals, he said, with $3 million in grants awarded to 33 projects involving 98 individuals.

Daley said another program designed to bolster research productivity involves investments in shared research platforms, such as the 30-plus research cores around the Quad. The new Foundry Program is involved in a plan to upgrade existing cores and create new ones, he said, providing more than $11 million to enhance and expand 14 existing facilities and support development of seven new technologies.

One example he cited is the Cryo-Electron Microscopy Center for Structural Biology, a joint effort between the University, HMS, Boston Childrens Hospital, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Massachusetts General Hospital.

Over the past year, HMS structural biologists have used cryo-EM to understand the molecular anatomy of proteins that play critical roles in human health and disease, Daley said. The addition of cryo-EM to the structural biology toolbox has opened our eyes to a breathtaking, new level of structural complexity.

Daley added that HMS is investing heavily in data science and computational biology in every Quad department, aided by the new Center for Computational Biomedicine, where working groups are focusing on single-cell analytics, novel imaging modalities, and data science and analytics support for the broader community. One pilot project involves developing a suicide-prevention app and another involves the creation of an app to aid in more precise prescribing of opioids.

The Schools new Therapeutics Initiative, supported by the Blavatnik commitment, is promoting efforts to develop novel and effective therapeutics, Daley said, by helping to overcome barriers between academia and industry through grants targeted to therapeutics development, core platform investments and educational programs.

To highlight an important milestone in the development of this initiative, Daley introduced Mark Namchuk, the new executive director of therapeutics translation, who comes to HMS from a 20-year career in the pharmaceutical industry and whose job will involve integrating the various components that will contribute to the initiative, such as the new Blavatnik Harvard Life Lab Longwood, to be built in Building C on the Quad.

Education and diversity

Turning to education, Daley lauded the School for the successful completion of its review by the Liaison Committee on Medical Education, which awarded HMS full accreditation for another eight-year term. The LCME praised the School for its pioneering Pathways curriculum, Daley said, expressing his gratitude to the many people at HMS who contributed to the successful review.

He mentioned that plans are underway to reform the structure of the core clinical clerkship year and to review the Schools Health Sciences and Technology curriculum. Daley called out new Graduate Education Dean Rosalind Segal, who is overseeing HMS masters and PhD programs. Daley said the HMS Office for External Education is continuing to create pioneering educational offerings, making the latest insights in science and medicine accessible to an ever-growing range of learners worldwide.

Despite the success and growth of the Schools education programs, Daley said he continues to be concerned about student debt, adding that even with more than 70 percent of MD students receiving need-based financial aid, many continue to graduate with considerable debt. To further address student debt issues, Daley said the School is redoubling its efforts to seek philanthropic support for financial aid. To support doctoral programs, he said, fundraising for graduate student fellowships has now been made a University-wide priority.

Despite the challenges that may lie ahead, Daley said his spirits are lifted by the earnest work done across the HMS community on a daily basis. He said he was particularly inspired by last falls diversity and inclusion 50thanniversary symposium, which marked the movement in the late 1960s in which a group of HMS faculty successfully campaigned for the creation of 15 scholarships for students from minority backgrounds. As a result of that initiative, he said, the School has since graduated more than 1,350 students from backgrounds underrepresented in medicine who have gone on to distinguished careers, influencing medicine across the country and the world. He added that last years entering class of HMS medical students was the most diverse ever.

In closing his address, Daley said, Please know that it is your energy, your drive and your achievements that compel me to work harder and strive to do better.

As we set out for 2020 together, with the wind at our backs, Im excited to see what this coming year will bring, he said.

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FALL RIVER Itll be nine years Dec. 10 since Harry Proudfoot said goodbye to his wife, and in that time he hasnt forgotten the love of his life or slowed his efforts to increase awareness of her rare form of cancer.

Its a disease theyre still not talking about in medical school, Proudfoot said. If you dont know it exists, then you cant suspect it at all.

Proudfoot, a Fall River resident, never suspected that his wifeJane Dybowskiwould die at the age of 56 from neuroendocrine cancer, a debilitating disease, after having been so active and vital.

The couple met as teachers at Westport High School. She died six months before their planned retirement, leaving Proudfoot to mourn their future.

He described his wife as an intelligent and proud woman with a big heart. She was passionate about science, loved writing and literature, and was athletic and courageous.

Proudfoot said he watched Jane suffer for months as the disease took away her independence.

Her life over the last year shrunk until it was the size of a hospital bed, he said.

A neuroendocrine tumor is a cancer of the neuroendocrine cells, which have similar traits as nerve cells and cells that produce hormones.

There may no symptoms of the disease at all, or symptoms can include fatigue, a lump, pain, losing weight, diarrhea, dizziness, shakiness, skin rash and more, according toMayo Clinic.

Roughly 12,000 people in the United States are diagnosed with neuroendocrine cancer each year. The disease is often fatal because of the lack of screening tests and knowledge, and its symptoms that can be similar to other conditions.

For those reasons, Proudfoot works to educate others about neuroendocrine cancer, including the public, physicians, nurses and medical journals.

Its a very different disease, he said.

Proudfoot is just wrapping up a 30-day campaign to spread the word through #30NET cancer facts in 30 days.

Each day throughout November, Proudfoot is posting facts about neuroendocrine cancer on social media including that new diagnoses of the cancer are on the rise in the United States, increasing six-fold since 1973 to 6.98 per 100,000 people today.

In the coming weeks and months, he will send pamphlets about the disease to primary care practices and medical schools around the country.

Proudfoot said he feels he must do something, especially if it can lead to more research or a cure. He said there is no army fighting for an end to neuroendocrine cancer.

I dont ever want anyone to go through that, Proudfoot said. If I can play even a tiny role in preventing even one person from going through that, its my job.

Proudfoot works five days a week advocating for research and helping patients through Walking with Jane, a foundation dedicated to preserving Dybowski's name and funding research, understanding, diagnosis and treatment of neuroendocrine cancer.

Walking with Jane offers an annual walk and golf tournament. It has funded research papers, raised more than $170,000 for the Jimmy Fund Walk and $500,000 for the Pan Mass Challenge, has established a fund for primary physician education, distributed scholarships at Westport High School and Bridgewater State University, offered outreach at local craft fairs, dinners and other events, and more.

Proudfoot said his job isnt always easy, especially when he continues to lose people with whom he grows close to cancer.

Sometimes, I feel like Im standing at the base of a mountain throwing tiny stones up, hoping to cause an avalanche, Proudfoot said. So, we just keep throwing rocks.

To learn more, follow Walking with Jane on social media. To reach Proudfoot, email walkingwithjane@gmail.com.

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When you enter the clerkship phase of medical schooltraditionally during the third yearyou are getting exposure to your future in the form of your core clinical rotations.

Lasting between four and eight weeks, at most schools, the core clinical clerkships consist of internal medicine, surgery, obstetrics and gynecology, pediatrics, family medicine, psychiatry, neurology and radiology.

Students have autonomy in their clinical rotations in that they can schedule them as they see fit. Is there a right way to do it? A medical student and resident offered insight on that question.

Kevin Perez is a second-year medical student at A.T. Still University School of Osteopathic Medicine in Arizonaone of 37 member schools of theAMA Accelerating Change in Medical Education Consortium.

When Perez begins his clinical rotations, he plans to start with the ones that are the most broadly applicable.

Im going to pick the most holistic ones first, Perez said. So, Im probably going to pick family medicine. Its slower paced, and it gives you a better understanding of what being a doctor is. So, surgery and EM [emergency medicine] would probably be what Ill do toward the end.

According to Luke Burns, MD, a second-year ob-gyn resident at Michigan Medicine, the rotations that give you the best knowledge base to build upon are going to depend on your preferred medical specialty.

If you want to do ob-gyn, youre going to want to do surgery first, so youre really good at surgery and know how to scrub into a case, Dr. Burns said. Likewise, if you want to do pediatrics, maybe do medicine first, so you have some inpatient experience before you go to the wards.

Perez is planning on going into emergency medicine. Because of that, he plans to do that rotation later in his training.

It's graded kind of subjectively, Perez said. Because of that, your performance and how much you know coming in, are going to define how well you do. If you want to do EM, you want to do well in that rotation for when you apply to EM residencies later. Picking it as your first one wouldnt be a great idea, unless you are truly ready. You only get one shot.

The key metric on which clerkship performance is evaluatedand one which residency programs take into considerationis a medical students scores on shelf exams, which come at the conclusion of a core rotation.

One really important thing I didnt realize would happen is I got better at taking shelf exams, Dr. Burns said. My shelf scores improved as the clinical year went by. If you feel a little shaky taking exams, theres some advantage to making it so your most important exams come at the end.

You may not know what you want to do when youre entering clerkships. But youre likely to know a few specialties you dont want to do. It makes sense to load those at the front of your clerkship schedule.

The common philosophy is to schedule the things you dont want to do first, Dr. Burns said. If you dont want to be a pediatrician, do that rotation first. Because its the one youll cut your teeth on, youll mess up on it, and by the time you get to the next thing, the theory goes, youll know what to do and how to impress attendings and residents.

In Dr. Burns case, he scheduled his ob-gyn rotation as his second-to-last rotation.

That was always the plan, he said, because then it would mean that it wasnt the very last thing, so I had time to change my mind and I had time to get my [subinternships], those important rotations for my fourth year, in order.

When thinking about scheduling core rotations, Dr. Burns acknowledged that it can be a difficult for people who dont know what they want to go into. But, he added, its not the end of the world if medical students wind up doing clerkships early on in specialties they decide to pursue for residency.

For additional tips on a number of relevant medical school topics, including scheduling clinical clerkships, visit the AMA Career Planning Resource.

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The Government of Gujarat will seek approval for the establishment of five new medical schools in Panchmahal, Gir-Somnath, Devbhumi-Dwarka, Botad and Morbi districts as part of a central government program, Deputy Prime Minister Nitin Patel said on Wednesday.

He said the estimated total cost of setting up the college would be 1625 rupees, of which the central portion would be 60 percent.

Patel said that every new medical school has 100 seats for MBBS.

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The total admission of MBBS to Gujarat would exceed 6,300 after the center approved the five new medical schools, he said.

Speaking to reporters in Gandhinagar, Patel said existing state hospitals in Panchmahal, Gir-Somnath, Devbhumi-Dwarka, Botad, and Morbi districts would be added to the new colleges after they were approved by the Medical Council of India (MCI) have been upgraded.

The Union government has identified 75 districts in the country that do not have a medical school. A few months ago we sent a proposal to build medical schools in the Narmada, Porbandar and Navsari districts. Now were sending the center another proposal to approve medical schools in these five districts, said Patel.

In order to operate a medical university, the connected hospital must have at least 300 beds in accordance with the MCI standards.

Therefore, the state government will first upgrade these five hospitals according to the standards before building medical schools, Patel said, adding that each college would cost 325 billion rupees, bringing total spending to 1625 billion rupees.

The proposed medical colleges are located in the city of Godhra in Panchmahal, in Khambhalia in Devbhumi-Dwarka, in Veraval in Gir-Somnath and in Botad and Morbi.

According to the central system, 60 percent of the cost of 1625 rupees for the five colleges will be borne by the center, while the state government would contribute 40 percent. We will make the country available free of charge. Each college will have a capacity of 100 MBBS, said Patel.

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The newest faculty member at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences has a great smile and a wagging tail.

Shetland, not quite 2 years old, is half golden retriever, half Labrador retriever. As of this fall, he is also a lieutenant commander in the Navy and a clinical instructor in the Department of Medical and Clinical Psychology at USUHS.

Among Shetlands skills are hugging on command, picking up a fallen object as small as a cellphone and carrying around a small basket filled with candy for harried medical and graduate students who study at the militarys medical school campus in Bethesda, Md.

But Shetlands job is to provide much more than smiles and a head to pat.

He is here to teach, not just to lift peoples spirits and provide a little stress relief after exams, said USUHS Dean Arthur Kellermann. He said students interacting with Shetland are learning the value of animal-assisted therapy.

The use of dogs trained to help their human partners has ballooned since studies in the 1980s and 1990s started to show how animals can benefit human health.

But helper dogs come in many varieties. Service dogs, like guide dogs for the blind, help people with disabilities live more independently. Therapy dogs can be household pets who visit people in hospitals, schools and nursing homes. And then there are highly trained working dogs, like the Belgian Malinois that recently helped run down Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.

Shetland is technically a military facility dog, trained to provide physical and mental assistance to patients as well as interact with a wide variety of people. His military commission does not entitle him to salutes from his human counterparts.

The ranks are a way of honoring the services [of the dogs] as well as strengthening the bond between the staff, patients and dogs here, said Mary Constantino, deputy public affairs officer at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center.

USUHS, which trains doctors, dentists, nurses and other health professionals for the military, is on the same campus in suburban Washington, D.C., as Walter Reed. Two of the seven Walter Reed facility dogs Hospital Corpsman 2nd Class Sully (the former service dog for President George H.W. Bush) and Marine Sgt. Dillon attended Shetlands formal commissioning ceremony in September as guests.

The Walter Reed dogs, on campus since 2007, earn commissions in the Army, Navy, Air Force or Marines. They wear special vests designating their service and rank. The dogs visit and interact with patients in several medical units, as well as in physical and occupational therapy, and help boost morale for patients family members.

But Shetlands role is very different, said retired Col. Lisa Moores, USUHS associate dean for assessment and professional development.

Our students are going to work with therapy dogs in their careers, and they need to understand what [the dogs] can do and what they cant do, she said.

As in civilian life, the military has made significant use of animal-assisted therapy. When you walk through pretty much any military treatment facility, you see therapy dogs walking around in clinics, in the hospitals, even in the ICUs, said Moores. Dogs also play a key role in helping returning service members with post-traumatic stress disorder.

Students need to learn who the right patient is for a dog, or some other therapy animal, she said. And by having Shetland here, we can incorporate that into the curriculum so its another tool the students know they have for their patients someday.

The students, not surprisingly, are thrilled by their newest teacher.

Brelahn Wyatt, a second-year medical student, said the Walter Reed dogs used to visit the schools 1,500 students and faculty fairly regularly, but having Shetland here all the time is optimal. And not just because of the hugs and candy.

Wyatt said the only thing she knew about service dogs before is that youre not supposed to pet them. But Shetland acts as both a service dog and a therapy dog, so he can be petted.

That helps medical students see theres a difference. What does that difference look like in the health care setting? said Wyatt.

Like his colleagues Sully and Dillon, Shetland was bred and trained by Americas VetDogs. The New York nonprofit provides dogs for stress control for active-duty military missions overseas, as well as service dogs for disabled veterans and civilian first responders. Many of the puppies are raised by a combination of prison inmates (during the week) and families (on the weekends), before returning to New York for formal service dog training. National Hockey League teams such as the Washington Capitals and New York Islanders also raise puppies for the organization.

Dogs can be particularly helpful in treating service members, said Valerie Cramer, manager of Americas VetDogs service dog program. The military is thinking about resiliency. Theyre thinking about well-being, about decompression in the combat zone. Often people in pain wont talk to another person but will open up in front of a dog. Its an opportunity to start a conversation as a behavioral health specialist, she said.

While service dogs for individuals are trained to perform both physical tasks like picking up dropped items and emotional ones like waking a veteran having a nightmare, facility dogs like Shetland are special, Cramer said. That dog has to work in all different environments with people who are under pressure. It can work for multiple handlers, it can go and visit people, can go visit hospital patients, can knock over bowling pins to entertain or spend time in bed with a child.

The military rank for the dogs is no joke. They can be promoted as Dillon was from Army specialist to sergeant in 2018 or demoted for bad behavior.

Said Kellermann, So far, Shetland has a perfect conduct record.

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First times are hard to forget.

They make for great stories -- nostalgicand self-deprecating reminders of who we were before we became who we are now.Medical school is the setting for many first times; stories of jittery firstblood draws, or students nodding along to heart sounds that they didn'tactually hear, are ubiquitous. However, I wish we would more directly address themistakes that can happen in these first times.

I have just stepped out of my second procedures shift in the emergency department, where I have the opportunity to practice skills like placing IVs, doing electrocardiograms and placing sutures on patients with real medical issues ranging from shortness of breath to hemorrhage. I've attended a formal training session and then conducted these procedures on several patients, but every new patient still feels like the first time for me.

I wear a false cloak of confidence each time I introduce myself as a medical student, and politely ask if a patient is willing to let me perform the procedure on them -- earlier today, it was an IV. I used small talk as a distraction from the sharp needle I was about to puncture into the patient's arm -- a distraction that worked well for both of us and further masked my inexperience.

As I drove the needle forward, I was well aware of the gamble I took -- I had no clue if there would be a flash of blood to indicate I was where I needed to be. While the anxiety burned my fingertips, I continued to coax the patient through this procedure, managing to compose a steadiness in my voice that I wished would exist everywhere else.

I found a vein --but sometimesI don't. I always make eye contact with a nearby nurse, letting the panic settlein my eyes. They confirm my successes with a slight nod or my failures with aswift take-over. I avoid eye contact with the patients, hoping they'll continueto be blind to my unease.

Perhaps that is the true skill I am learning to hone during these shifts -- "fake it 'til you make it," as they say. This makes me uncomfortable. I want the patient to trust me and believe that I know what I am doing, but do they deserve to know that I don't actually feel this way?

I am lucky that the patients I have worked with have been so encouraging of my learning process and understanding of my imperfections. I remember one patient waving off his concerned son after I could not get my IV in on the first try: "Let her learn. I feel fine!" he said, before giving me the thumbs up to try again. But I know that not every patient will be so forgiving.

The idea of "practicing" on realpatients is discomforting. When I make mistakes, the patients will have to dealwith the repercussions -- a bruise from a failed blood draw or an uneven scarfrom an imperfect suture. This lingering guilt makes the failure that much moreformidable for me. It is difficult to place my learning above a patient's needfor the best care possible; and when I ask nurses if I can perform a procedurerather than them, I feel as if I am robbing a patient of that care.

I realize that as a medical studentI will one day be responsible for patients as a full-fledged doctor, with few peopleabove me on the ladder of support to call for help. These moments of uncertaintythat I traverse through now are my investment into my ability to care forpatients in the future; I am asking the patients I see today to make thatinvestment in me as well.

Their investment is an act ofaltruism that they may not even be aware of. I wish I could repay their faithin my future self, but I can't. With each of these acts of altruism, though, Ifind the vein a little quicker, and hold the needle a little more steadily.

One day, it will stop feeling like the first time.

Stanford MedicineUnplugged is a forum for students to chronicle their experiences in medical school. The student-penned entries appear on Scope once a week during the academic year; the entire blog series can be found in the Stanford Medicine Unpluggedcategory.

Tasnim Ahmed is a second-year medical student from Bangladesh and Queens, New York. She has a background in cognitive neuroscience and education. Her interests include global health, women's health, and embroidery (for her own health).

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