July 2014 News from the Medical Schools: Medical Education & Physician Workforce

The Associated Medical Schools of New York (AMSNY) brings you the following compilation of the most recent updates and news on medical education and the physician workforce from the medical schools.

Albany Medical Center Named 2014 Most Wired

July 9, 2014 – Albany Medical Center has been named one of the Most Wired Hospitals in the nation, according to the 16th annual Health Care’s Most Wired Survey, conducted by Hospitals & Health Networks. Albany Med is one of only 22 hospitals in New York State to receive this designation, which is awarded based on a survey of hospitals’ uses of technology in infrastructure, business and administrative management, clinical quality and patient safety, and clinical integration. It is also one of only 375 hospitals in the nation to receive the designation.

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© 2014 Albany Medical Center. All rights reserved.

New York Medical College and Brookdale University Hospital and Medical Center Announce an Academic Affiliation

July 9, 2014 – New York Medical College (NYMC), Valhalla, N.Y., and Brookdale University Hospital and Medical Center, Brooklyn, N.Y., are pleased to announce an academic affiliation agreement.

The partnership establishes an undergraduate medical student training program at Brookdale to train and educate NYMC’s undergraduate medical students during required and elective rotations in medicine, pediatrics, surgery, obstetrics/gynecology, psychiatry, family medicine, neurology, as well as other disciplines. Training opportunities will also be established at Brookdale for NYMC graduate students in speech-language pathology and physical therapy.

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© 2014 New York Medical College. All rights reserved.

Mount Sinai and Genetic Disease Foundation Celebrate “Food For Life” Program to Help Kids Manage Inherited Metabolic Diseases

July 3, 2014 – Pediatric patients and their families recently joined physicians from The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and representatives from the Genetic Disease Foundation (GDF) to introduce revamped quarters for the Food for Life program, which serves patients in Mount Sinai’s Program for Inherited Metabolic Diseases – one of the largest centers of its kind. Food for Life was created to improve access to the specialized and often costly foods patients need to manage their health. Established with a grant from the GDF, the program features an on-site pantry stocked with food products made available at no cost to qualifying patients, along with advice and recipes from staff nutritionists.

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© 2014 Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. All rights reserved.

Four Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons Physician-Scientists Named 2014 Irving Scholars

July 9, 2014 – The Irving Institute for Clinical and Translational Research announced four young clinical investigators as 2014 Irving Scholars, who will conduct research to improve treatments for blood cancer, depression, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and antibiotic-resistant infections. Each researcher will receive a three-year career development award and named professorship.

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SUNY Honors 3 University at Buffalo Medical School Faculty for Superior Achievement

July 1, 2014 – Steven J. Fliesler, PhD, Meyer H. Riwchun Endowed Chair Professor of ophthalmology; Elad I. Levy, MD, professor and chair of neurosurgery; and Alan J. Lesse, MD, associate professor of medicine, have received 2014 SUNY Chancellor’s Awards for Excellence.

The annual awards, presented in seven categories, recognize exemplary faculty and staff throughout the State University of New York’s 64 institutions. Fliesler and Levy were recognized for outstanding scholarship; Lesse was honored for teaching excellence.

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© 2014 School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences at the University at Buffalo. All rights reserved.

University at Buffalo Medical Students Honors Anatomical Gift Donors at Memorial Service

June 30, 2014 – At a memorial service honoring donors to the University at Buffalo’s Anatomical Gift Program, UB medical students shared how anatomical gifts have informed and enhanced their medical education.

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© 2014 School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences at the University at Buffalo. All rights reserved.

Touro College Receives Final State Approval to Open Medical School Campus in Middletown

June 24, 2014 – The Hudson Valley is one step closer to building a stronger healthcare system as Harlem-based Touro College of Osteopathic Medicine (TouroCOM) today received final approval from the New York State Board of Regents to open a new campus at the site of the former Horton Hospital complex in Middletown, N.Y.

Plugged In to Patients and Families

July 14, 2014 – The electronic medical record is rapidly becoming a standard part of health care in the United States. Our nation’s health care providers, however, have limited information on how to best use this technology in ways that preserve — and even enhance — relationships with patients and families. With support from the Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation, Sarah E. Peyre, Ed.D., who was recently appointed assistant dean for Interprofessional Education at the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, is working to change that.

Medicaid Expansion: The Issue of Access

July 9, 2014 – In a recent ranking by the Commonwealth Fund, the American health care system was fifth in terms of quality but 11th for access, efficiency, equity, healthy living, and cost. In an opinion piece published by Al Jazeera America, Columbia’s Maria Hamm de Miguel, MD, explains why the expansion of Medicaid is important to improving access.

Columbia Memorial Hospital and Albany Medical Center Take First Steps Toward Strategic Affiliation

July 8, 2014 – Representing the interests of patients of Columbia Memorial, the leading local health care provider, and Albany Medical Center, the regional tertiary care center, the respective boards of each entity have agreed to move toward a strategic alliance that would allow the institutions to better coordinate clinical services, develop care integration practices and find operational efficiencies. The governing boards, medical staffs, employees and fundraising arms from both institutions would remain separate under the envisioned structure.

Rochester Hospitals Collaborate to Reduce Medicaid Costs

July 8, 2014 – Rochester’s health systems are leading a consortium that includes more than 200 community-based organizations throughout the region that will work together to redesign the way that health care is delivered to the region’s 320,000 Medicaid recipients. The goal is to reduce avoidable hospital admissions by 25 percent over five years by keeping patients healthier.

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