October 2013 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.

NYU Langone Ranked Number One for Overall Patient Safety and Quality According to UHC 2013 Quality and Accountability Study

October 17, 2013 – “NYU Langone Medical Center scored number one for overall patient safety and quality among leading academic medical centers (AMCs) across the nation that participated in the University HealthSystem Consortium (UHC) 2013 Quality and Accountability Study.”

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10 Medical School Faculty Honored at UB ‘Celebration of Excellence

October 15, 2013 – Ten faculty members from the School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences were among those honored for exemplary achievement at the 10th annual UB Celebration of Faculty and Staff Academic Excellence.

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Building Begins for a New University at Buffalo Medical School and Culture

October 14, 2013 – As ground is broken for University at Buffalo’s new medical school, officials look ahead to its 2016 opening, when hospitals, research and doctor training will be linked in one downtown location. Dr. Michael Cain, the dean of the School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences and UB’s vice president of health sciences, describes how this new medical school will “transform a medical culture into one that achieves excellence from internal collaboration.”

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Awards Support Seven Innovative Quality Improvement Projects at Buffalo

October 10, 2013 – Seven quality improvement projects — including those aimed at improving communication in the intensive care unit, colonoscopy screenings and obesity assessment — have been funded with 2013-2014 Quality Improvement Awards. The grants of up to $3,000 each are awarded annually through UB’s Office of Graduate Medical Education.

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Multiple Casualty Incident Serves as Unique Training Experience for Med Students

October 8, 2013 – In a Multiple Casualty Incident (MCI) conducted at the FDNY Training Center at Randall’s Island, medical students who have been training as emergency medical technicians at Hofstra North Shore-LIJ School of Medicine were expected to provide emergency care during several different emergency exercises, which were all followed by full debriefing.

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Role Playing Helps MDs Learn Empathy

October 7, 2013 – Doctors, medical students, and other health care professionals often undergo training with standardized or simulated patients (SP), who pose as real patients or family members of patients with particular symptoms to provide constructive feedback. Hofstra North Shore-LIJ School of Medicine’s Center for Learning and Innovation (CLI) and many others support this learning process.

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Mount Sinai Medical Student Publishes Book on Medical School Admissions

October 5, 2013 – Alexa Mieses, a MD/MPH student at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, published her first book titled The Heartbeat of Success: A Med Student’s Guide to Med School Admissions. The book is a step-by-step admissions guide for those interested in pursuing medicine, featuring input from physicians and medical students.

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Touro College of Osteopathic Medicine-Middletown Approved to Recruit First Class

October 3, 2013 – “Kenneth J. Steier, DO, campus dean of the new Middletown campus of the Touro College of Osteopathic Medicine in Harlem, announced that approval has been received from the Commission on Osteopathic College Accreditation (COCA) of the American Osteopathic Association (AOA) to recruit the first class of medical students for the new campus.”

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Q & A: Dr. Lawrence Smith, Hofstra North Shore-LIJ School of Medicine

October 3, 2013 – Dr. Lawrence Smith, founding dean of the Hofstra North Shore-LIJ School of Medicine, is supervising a 64,000 square-foot expansion that will more than double the school’s size – permitting an unprecedented growth of courses and classes. He discusses the expansion as well as other topics related to the medical school.

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Orthopaedic Surgeons Need to Watch for Undetected Brain Injuries

October 18, 2013 – “Calling minor traumatic brain injuries a major health problem, Albany Medical Center physicians note that orthopaedists can play a significant role in diagnosing and monitoring patients for potentially serious brain trauma that often accompanies other injuries.”

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Stony Brook Medicine Becomes Among the First Clinical Sites in the U.S. for Simultaneous PET/MRI

October 16, 2013 – “Stony Brook Medicine, where MRI technology was first developed, is among the first sites in the United States to offer simultaneous PET/MRI technology for clinical use. The new technology will benefit patients by providing exceptional image quality and diagnostic capabilities, and greater efficiency by having two significant imaging procedures performed at the same time with low-dose radiation.”

EmUrgentCare Joins Albany Med to Provide Urgent Care in Green, Ulster Cos.

October 12, 2013 – Albany Medical Center announced that EmUrgentCare, an urgent care provider with facilities in Greene and Ulster Counties, will join the Albany Med Faculty Physician Group to provide urgent care and occupational medicine services in partnership with Albany Med’s team of expert physician specialists.

URMC First in Region to Offer HER2 FISH Testing for Breast Cancer

October 8, 2013 – Women will have quicker access to a test at University of Rochester Medical Center (URMC) that measures the HER2/neu status of their tumor, enabling a better match to the correct treatment. URMC is able to test 500 cases a year for HER2 gene amplification in breast cancer, found in more than 15 percent of breast cancers.

ColumbiaDoctor Point of View: Integrative Medicine in the ER

October 4, 2013 – Helen Ouyang, MD, MPH, is an assistant professor at Columbia University Medical Center, where she also works full-time as a practicing emergency physician. She provides insight on how yoga techniques can help put patients at ease in a medical setting.

Upstate Gets OK to Open Pediatric Dialysis Center

October 4, 2013 – “The New York State Department of Health approved a Certificate of Need application for an outpatient pediatric dialysis unit that will be housed on the fifth floor of Upstate University Hospital’s Downtown Campus.”

Who Will the Affordable Care Act Benefit Most?

October 1, 2013 – Nancy Nielsen, MD, senior associate dean for health policy at the the University at Buffalo School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences and past president of the American Medical Association (AMA), provides her perspective on the Affordable Care Act: “those who don’t have health insurance now and those who buy insurance on the individual market will benefit the most from the exchanges.”

The Mount Sinai Health System is Formed to Provide Expanded Access to Primary, Specialty and Ambulatory Care

September 30, 2013 – Mount Sinai Medical Center and Continuum Health Partners (CHP) established a new, integrated health system called the Mount Sinai Health System. Encompassing the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and seven member hospital campuses, it will provide increased access to primary and specialty care for local and global communities, as well as an expansive network of ambulatory care centers in the New York metropolitan region.

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