As part of its ongoing efforts to provide top quality care to its community, MSU Health Care announces that Micah Lissy has joined the firm’s Sports Medicine and Orthopedics Center.

Lissy is a board-certified and fellowship-trained orthopedic surgeon specializing in arthroscopic ankle, knee, hip, elbow and shoulder surgeries. Given her specialty in orthopedic surgery and her continuing education, Lissy received board certification in the sub-specialty of sports medicine. During her fellowship at Detroit Medical Center, Lissy provided care for some of the world’s top athletes, treating members of the Tigers, Pistons and Red Wings. After earning her medical degree from the Sackler School of Medicine, New York program, Lissy completed her orthopedic residency at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine-Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx.

Lissy also holds a master’s degree in physical therapy from Ithaca College and is certified as an athletic trainer and strength trainer. He has spent time working in all three professions with Olympians and recreational athletes.

In addition to her role at MSU Health Care, Lissy is also a team physician for student-athletes at Michigan State University. He draws on all his past experiences to better care for patients and educate the community.

MSU Health Care also recently welcomed Toufic Jildeh.

For over 30 years, MSU Health Care’s Sports Medicine and Orthopedics Center has dedicated its knowledge and ability to treat everything from ACL injuries, concussions, strains and sprains, and to offer physical exams . As a leader in providing non-operative and operative care to athletes and sport participants, the Center for Sports Medicine and Orthopedics is committed to the health and well-being of the community.

To learn more, visit healthcare.msu.edu.

Supporters of Labor Party presidential candidate Mr Peter Obi yesterday staged a peaceful and successful solidarity march for him in Umuahia, the capital of Abia State and Yenagoa, the capital of Bayelsa State .

In Umuahia, the “Million March” took off from Abia Tower on the Port Harcourt-Enugu expressway via Ossah, Bank and Aba roads, ending at the General Post Office in the city centre.

Some of the supporters who carried placards with different inscriptions in support of Obi chanted songs in his praise amid traffic jams along major roads.

The march took place in accordance with a directive contained in a letter from the State Command of the Nigerian Police signed by CPA Alabi Adebowale for the Deputy Commissioner of Police in charge of the Operations Department.

A police letter to Comrade Emmanuel Okafor, the Coalition for Peter Obi state organizer, said in part, “You must ensure that your colleagues are properly informed in the process to conduct you peacefully.”

Police warned it was pertinent to note that there had been frequent threats from certain groups that could hijack the process if those involved were not properly enlightened and guided.

In a related development, early morning business activities were brought to a standstill in Yenagoa by the “Million Man March” organized by a coalition of Peter Obi supporters in the state.

The supporters who marched from Tombia Junction on the Mbiama Yenagoa road and ended at Ox-bow Lake, wore various pro-Obi outfits and carried banners with inscriptions such as “Our Mumu don do”, “We need of someone who will fix Nigeria”, “Peter Obi has the best chance of restoring Nigeria”, “Our education, our power, our health and our crumbling economy can only be revived by Peter Obi”, “we are the structure” and “We want to vote for a man who has the future of the country at heart”.

As of 8 a.m., vehicular traffic from the state entrance was already at a standstill as youths, women and men gathered to take instructions before heading into the rally.

Speaking to reporters, Concerned Medical Practitioners coordinator Dr Frank Ogunuawe said they were all in favor of Peter Obi whom they described as the most credible and prepared man for the job , adding that the medical profession in the country was gradually collapsing.

He added that with the number of professionals in the sector leaving to work outside the country, it was a quiet threat, while the few in the country planned to go on strike due to unresolved issues between them. and the government.

The Vice President of the Coalition of Pro-Democracy Groups, Mr. Dr. Charles Oyibo, noted that what was happening in the streets of Yenagoa was aimed at organizing and sensitizing the people on the need to take back Nigeria.

In the mid-1990s, while researching a book on the quality of medical care, I discovered that the profession had for years ignored the evidence of the appalling number of deaths from preventable medical error. Although I never experienced a mistake myself, I became an activist.

Recently, however, a parent fell victim, and the frustrating persistence of the error became personally painful.

Thanks to my relative being acutely aware of the need to be alert (and a bit of luck), no harm was caused by what could have been a serious medication error. That was the good news. The bad news is that even hospitals with famous names, like the one where my relative was treated, rarely go out of their way to prevent the impact of inevitable human fallibility.

September 17 is World Patient Safety Day and this year’s theme is ‘Medication Safe’. So now is an opportune time to take a closer look at what the profession euphemistically calls a “medication mishap.”

My parent’s care began as one would expect from a renowned academic medical center. From the moment she was admitted, there was top-notch treatment for a complex set of conditions. Then one day a nurse came into the room to infuse a solution of magnesium, an essential electrolyte. And this is where patient vigilance paid off.

Two hours into a scheduled three-hour infusion, with an IV in one arm, my relative used her other arm and an iPad to access the hospital’s patient portal, which, thanks to a congressional mandate, discloses patient test results. In the portal, my relative saw that his magnesium levels were in fact normal. By chance, a doctor came regularly, and my relative showed him the results. The doctor checked the electronic health record (EHR), spoke to the nurse, then quickly stopped the infusion. The doctor and nurse assured my relative that no harm had been done.

Clinicians did not mention the averted threat of magnesium toxicity, which the National Library of Medicine says can cause “life-threatening complications such as hypotension, respiratory paralysis, and cardiac arrest.”

More than 200,000 Americans lose their lives each year due to preventable medical error, according to an estimate by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). According to the HHS Office of Inspector General (OIG), medication errors are the most common “adverse events,” occurring as often as 1 in 13 hospital admissions. My parent was lucky that his infusion is not a more toxic drug.

Overall, patient harm is surprisingly common. An OIG report released in May found that just over a quarter of hospitalized Medicare patients experience some kind of harm, either permanent or temporary. Unfortunately, there is no national reporting system, although there is a growing effort to get Congress to establish a National Patient Safety Council. Today’s mishmash of reporting too often leaves all but the worst errors unseen. In the beginning, that’s what happened here.

After my relative contacted me, I tried via a respectful email to get the Director of Patient Safety at Famous Name Hospital to initiate what is called a Root Cause Analysis. She replied that my relative might have misunderstood the “normal level” and that he should talk to his doctor about it. (The response was unaware that the doctor immediately stopped the infusion.) Alas, denial, even without the threat of a lawsuit, remains an all too common response. A serious investigation only began when I used my professional contacts to draw attention higher up the chain of command, and my relative filed a formal grievance.

Famous Name Hospital prides itself on its “Culture of Safety”. However, the senior nurse on my parent’s floor had not filed an incident report regarding this “near miss.” Invisibility means no opportunity to learn. When an investigation was undertaken, it revealed that the infusion order in Epic EHR, the platform used by many major hospitals across the country, had been entered when my relative was admitted two weeks prior. When she was transferred to a different floor, Epic had the doctor uncheck the box for each test ordered; someone had missed a square.

It was also a holiday weekend in July, when a new group of medical residents took over. Also, my parent’s senior nurse was distracted, dealing with questions from other nurses while trying to recheck the EHR. As a result, she did not see the normal level of magnesium.

As thorough as the investigators were in some respects, one oversight stood out. The World Health Organization (WHO), the sponsor of World Safety Day, lists six principles in its global patient safety action plan. The very first is to “engage patients and families as partners in safe care”. At Famous Name Hospital, clinicians interviewed other clinicians but not my relative, even after I pressured them to do so.

In the absence of patient input, the report states that the medication error was discovered by two physicians. And although a 100cc bag of fluid was in my relative’s arm for two hours, investigators reported that only a quarter of the fluid was infused; my relative’s estimate was half to two-thirds.

In sum, the hospital’s version of events was that it found the mistake and did it early enough that no harm could be done. However, they apologized and assured my relative that they were implementing changes to prevent this from happening again – which is why we insisted on an investigation.

Besides invisibility, supplier inertia is another enemy of improvement. It’s usually not malicious, just the heavyweight of “we’re busy” and “that’s how we do things around here”. The Famous Name Hospital said its procedure was to have patients interviewed by patient relations, a rational policy for complaints about food or noise, but a wholly inadequate response to a situation requiring clinical expertise.

Earlier this year, a group of senior government doctors wrote in a direct comment in the New England Journal of Medicine that “health care security has declined” during the Covid pandemic, illustrating the lack of “a sufficiently resilient security culture and infrastructure”. Allowing patients to report medical errors as “trusted partners in care,” in the words of the WHO, could help restore that resilience. This idea was actually considered by the Obama administration in 2012, but quickly rejected by suppliers.

We can do better. Again, to their credit, Famous Name Hospital acknowledged that the medication error was a flaw in the system, not a “bad” doctor or nurse problem. However, since the book I wrote was called Demanding Medical Excellence: Physicians and Accountability in the Information AgeI was curious to see what role information technology could play.

A 2020 article in the Journal of the Mixed Commission found that 68% of medication problem alerts issued by a machine learning system from a company called MedAware spotted problems not discovered by conventional tools. So I contacted the CEO of MedAware, Dr. Gidi Stein, about my sister’s situation. He replied that if the EHR showed that the blood level of an electrolyte was within the normal range before or during the infusion, the clinical team would have received an alert.

Which brings us to the third factor mitigating a “zero harm” environment: “revenue”. I don’t know the cost of MedAware or similar products, but I’m sure it’s less than the cost of revenue-generating medical devices that hospitals are regularly eager to purchase. Unfortunately, even in facilities inclined to boast of high-quality care, doctors and nurses who advocate for systems and staff to make care safer are constantly asked to make “the business case for patient safety”. patient”.

As I’ve written beginning in 2010 and many times since, the sad truth is that medical error can be profitable for hospitals. For example, in a Healthcare Management Journal In the article “Does Patient Safety Pay? the researchers told hospital leaders that “targeted” improvement in patient safety performance could improve financial performance.

My relative asked the patient relations department to make sure to remove the infusion charge from the bill.

In his recent book Making Healthcare Safe: The Story of the Patient Safety Movement, patient safety pioneer Dr. Lucian Leape scathingly concluded that “most healthcare organizations are woefully far from achieving a culture of safety,” including “the lowest academic medical centers.” more famous”. Despite decades of effort, wrote Leape, a pediatric surgeon and assistant professor at Harvard’s TH Chan School of Public Health, “there is no sense of commitment, no goal of zero harm.”

We can do better. And some hospitals are quietly. For a doctoral dissertation exploring how to reduce the cost of medication errors, Janice Chobanuk of Walden University conducted semi-structured interviews with 10 highly trusted US hospitals and reviewed documents related to medication management. A highly reliable approach, she found, depended on leadership support, open communication with feedback loops, maintaining a culture of error prevention and patient partnerships. This last factor affected all the others.

“Active patient engagement…in error prevention and safety in hospitals can prevent errors, improve patient satisfaction, reduce litigation, and reduce costs associated with medication errors,” Chobanuk wrote.

If the clinicians at Famous Name Hospital had asked my relative, they might have come to the same conclusion. Regardless of the skill, dedication or good intentions of the care provider, mistakes will happen. Having an alert and informed patient as a partner is crucial to help prevent harm.

Medical error is a painful experience for patients and families, even without physical harm – as my parent and I experienced – and yes, also for the providers involved. To prevent harm, everyone involved in care must constantly use all the information at their disposal to demand medical excellence.

According to a new study published in the September 14, 2022 online issue, boxers and mixed martial arts (MMA) fighters may see some recovery in their thinking and memory skills as well as brain structure after they stop training. to fight. Neurology^®the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology.

Repeated blows to the head increase the risk of long-term neurological diseases like chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), cognitive and behavioral problems, and Parkinsonism. However, we don’t know what happens to people who fought and then stopped fighting. The good news is that we saw improved thinking and memory scores in these retired fighters.”

Aaron Ritter, MD, study author, Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health in Las Vegas, Nevada

For the study, the researchers identified 45 retired male fighters who had not competed in two years, with an average age of 32, including 22 boxers, 22 MMA fighters and one martial artist. They also identified 45 active male fighters, with an average age of 30, including 17 boxers, 27 mixed martial artists and one martial artist. The groups were matched for age, education, race and number of fights at the start of the study.

All fighters had a professional bout within a year of starting the study. However, retired fighters then went two years without any fights while active fighters continued to compete in professional bouts.

For three years, all of the fighters had brain scans and tests to see how well their brains were functioning at the start and end of the study. The researchers also looked at the participants’ fight histories. Half of the participants also had blood tests for a biological marker of brain injury called neurofilament light chain, a component of nerve fibers that can be detected in the blood when the fibers are injured.

Participants also took tests to measure verbal memory, executive functioning, motor speed and processing speed.

In the areas of verbal memory, motor speed, and processing speed, retired fighters’ scores improved over time, while active fighters’ scores were stable or showed slight declines.

For verbal memory, the researchers used scores from an FDA-approved thought and behavior test, with higher scores indicating better memory. They found that over time, retired fighters averaged a three-point increase while active fighters averaged a two-point decrease.

The researchers also found different patterns of change over time between retired and active fighters in the ability to sense and respond to rapid changes in the environment and the time it takes to complete tasks.

For neurofilament light chain levels, retired fighters showed decreased levels in their blood from the start to the end of the study, while active fighters remained stable throughout the study.

The researchers also measured brain thickness in areas of the brain that control emotions, memory, and executive function—that is, a person’s ability to plan, focus, and multi-task. Of 68 brain regions measured, 54 regions had a constantly changing trajectory, with thickness measurements stabilizing for retired fighters and subtly decreasing over time for active fighters.

“The results of this study suggest a recovery of cognitive functioning in fighters who are no longer exposed to repetitive blows to the head,” Ritter said. “Future research is needed to determine if there is a point in a fighter’s career when recovery is less likely to occur or to identify factors that might indicate a greater risk of developing a neurodegenerative disease.”

A limitation of the study was the inability to determine the exact number of repetitive headbutts experienced by each participant. Many head impacts occur during training and there is no generally accepted way to measure them. This study also only looked at male fighters.

The study was funded by the National Institutes of Health, Lincy Foundation, Belator, Ultimate Fighting Championship Company (UFC), August Rapone Family Foundation, Top Rank and Haymon Boxing.

On September 20, NAADAC plans to celebrate the work of addiction professionals. Treatment centers coast to coast can do the same

By Jenny Diedrich

A national association supporting addiction professionals wants to see them recognized for their specialized training as well as the work they do every day to bring hope to people with substance use disorders and their families.

NAADAC, the Association of Addiction Professionals, promotes National Addiction Professionals Day, celebrated on September 20, to help professionals feel the love and educate the public about their work.

“It is important that the government shows its support because it gives credit to the profession. Addiction is still stigmatized, and people who serve addiction are still stigmatized,” says Cynthia Moreno Tuohy, executive director of NAADAC.

“There is still an idea that [addiction professionals] are people in recovery who are simply doing good things. Today, the addiction professional must be more educated than a general counsellor. »

—Cynthia Moreno Tuohy, NAADAC Executive Director

According to Tuohy, the public does not fully understand the level of specialty and education of addiction professionals. Many of these workers have multiple degrees and discipline areas.

“There is still an idea that [addiction professionals] are people in recovery who are simply doing good things. Today, the addiction professional must be more educated than a general counsellor. I’m a social worker and I have all that training, but then I have to do another year of study to get my specialty in substance abuse. You end up with five years of education to do this job,” she says.

Tuohy hopes addiction professionals can receive the same level of respect and admiration that healthcare workers received at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.

“Wouldn’t it be cool if we had a similar response to addiction professionals like what happened during COVID with the medical profession? People understood how these professionals risked their lives and put themselves forward. [Addiction counselors] working with people for years to help them recover, and it can be not only overwhelming but also very stressful. These people work hard to change not only a person’s life, but the entire family system,” she says.

Tuohy points out that clients, drug issues and trauma have all become more complex over the years, making the work of addiction professionals even more difficult and vital.

“We need to keep pace with education on new drugs. You have fentanyl being distributed from China and Mexico. Because the brain is increasingly overloaded, you see more anxiety, depression, and other mental health issues. And we don’t just have trauma related to general life situations, but now we have trauma associated with the pandemic,” she says.

Events to come

NAADAC is developing more intensive trauma-specific training and plans to launch this new direction at its annual conference in October.

NAADAC members are addiction-focused counsellors, educators, and other health professionals who specialize in prevention, treatment, and recovery support. The organization provides education, clinical training and certification while representing the interests of more than 100,000 addiction professionals in the United States, Canada and abroad.

NAADAC encourages treatment facilities to promote National Addiction Professionals Day through their own communications and marketing platforms, and to celebrate their staff. Go here to download NAADAC’s free toolkit for hosting a National Addiction Professionals Day event.

Photo: Sharosh Rajesekher

Experts in the medical profession have noted that more people registering for organ donation will not lead to more lives saved due to lack of proper infrastructure as Assam does not have cadaver transplant facilities, at the exception of the cornea. However, in the state, where only living donor kidney transplant facilities are now accessible, organ donation awareness campaigns have gained momentum.

“It is true that there is not yet a cadaver transplant center, but work to establish one here is at an advanced stage,” Dr. Achyut Chandra Baishya, director of Gauhati Medical College and Hospital.

“The state government has sent a statement in this regard, and we can expect an official notification soon,” he added.

According to an official source, the Regional Organ and Tissue Transplantation Organization (ROTTO), Guwahati was forced to halt its operations a few years ago when “some irregularities” were discovered regarding its contract staff.

These issues have since been overcome and the source said GMCH is awaiting government approval before proceeding with new hires. ROTTO is a regional office of the National Organization for Organ and Tissue Transplantation (NOTTO), which is the main organization responsible for coordinating all national activities related to organ donation.

(source: PTI)

Mysore/Mysore: The 25th Annual Three Day Convention of Association of Pharmaceutical Teachers of India (APTI), Mysuru, (APTICON-2022) hosted by JSS College of Pharmacywas inaugurated on Friday at the Sri Rajendra Auditorium at the JSS Medical College campus.

Sudarshan Jain, Secretary General of the Indian Pharmaceutical Alliance (IPA) opened the convention and presented awards to the professors of pharmacy.

Speaking on the occasion, Jain said the convention is themed “Empowering Academia to Advance Pharmacy Education.” Emphasizing that conventions like this will motivate and help pharmacy educators and students update their knowledge and skills with current trends, he said it will also help bring knowledge from the pharmaceutical industry to the students, researchers and teachers.

Dr. Milind Janrao Umekar, President, APTI (Central), India, in his presidential address, noted that the healthcare profession comprising of industry and practice sectors is undergoing rapid change. In recent years, the Indian pharmaceutical industry has made tremendous progress. Ever-expanding areas of practice need clinically and technologically trained pharmacy professionals who can meet global challenges and compete with multinational corporations (MNEs), he added.

Earlier, the Director of JSS College of Pharmacy, Dr. TM Pramod Kumar, who gave the welcome speech, hoped that the convention would take the industry-institution interaction to a new level leading to joint scientific study projects, recruitment, joint R&D projects and other industry benefits. academic staff and institutions.

JSS Mahavidyapeetha Executive Secretary Dr CG Betsurmath, Secretary SP Manjunath, JSS AHER Vice Chancellor Dr Surinder Singh, Pro-Chancellor Dr B. Suresh, Pharmacy Council of India Chairman Dr Montu Patel, APTICON-2022 Organizing Secretary Dr V Balamuralidhara, APTI (Centre ), Indian Secretary Dr. Raman Dang and others were present.

About two thousand pharmacy professionals, students, industrialists and others took part in this three-day event.

Your plane is about to take off. Like most people, you’re just a little anxious about flying. It’s very rare, but you know that a lot of bad things can happen to the machine that takes you 30,000 feet up. Consider this: would you rather the mechanic inspecting your plane be absolutely conscientious in every detail, or extremely perfectionist in their examination of the plane, even if they have to work overtime and miss the family dinner? Or would you rather he was a happier, more family-friendly mechanic who would consistently come out at 5 p.m. stoppage time no matter what?

Personally, I would prefer the guy who misses the family dinner. I would prefer the perfectionist mechanic who won’t go home until he is sure the plane is in perfect condition to the best of his abilities.

I think a lot of our patients would prefer their doctor to be the same.

Many articles on Kevin MD addressed the “perils of perfectionism” and its negative impact on physician well-being. I’m not going to get into what is obviously pathological perfectionism here: the person who flushes the toilet five times before they can get out of the bathroom or spends 15 minutes repeatedly checking the grammar of an e- routine email. I’m talking about everyday perfectionism, the one we all need to have to enter the medical profession.

I also don’t overlook the importance of work-life balance. I am a retired doctor. I have spent over 40 years working in frontline neurology clinics. I was also a leader in our organization’s physician health and wellness mission. I have trained and advised dozens of doctors on these issues. Trying to achieve work-life balance in the medical field is a huge challenge. Its absence can be devastating.

Let’s put these issues into perspective.

Let’s say it’s 6 p.m., but you have two patient callbacks, nine patient e-mails, seven x-ray reports and 15 lab tests to review, and 11 prescriptions to refill, all awaiting your attention. your inbox.

What are you going to do? Go home? You haven’t had dinner with the family all week. And you promised Junior to help him with his algebra. Can you put off this inbox overload until tomorrow? Or should you stay late at the clinic, miss another family dinner, break your promise to Junior, but mind your own business?

After all, you are a doctor. Patients depend on you. What will it be like for them to anxiously wait all evening for that phone call from the doctor that never comes? And if you decide to put off work until tomorrow, if you choose to go home for the family dinner, will you feel happier? More content? More in balance with yourself? Or will you feel guilty for leaving your patients on hold? Will you wake up at 2 a.m. in a cold sweat, imagining that the chest X-ray you didn’t review might show incipient pneumonia?

Here are my answers to the two main arguments against perfectionism.

The first is that perfectionism is rooted in fear. I agree. But then what? Fear is a great motivator. If we have a healthy fear of making a mistake in our medical care, then that fear can cause us, like the airplane mechanic, to be very careful, very studious, and very conscientious. The fear of making a mistake, of harming a patient, can motivate us to be more competent physicians and thus lead our patients to healthier outcomes (or at the very least minimize reckless medical errors). Frankly, I’m grateful that a healthy fear is part of my doctor’s psyche. I would wonder about doctors who don’t have one.

The second “anti-perfectionism” argument is that perfectionism will make someone unhappy and dissatisfied. But what is our primary mission as doctors? Be happy? Must be completed? Leaving work at 5 p.m. and doing a Pilates class on the way home? To be better life partners and parents? Yes, these are of course laudable goals. But will we really feel happy, really feel fulfilled if we finish quitting at the usual time and fail to finish our work? Will we feel happy and fulfilled knowing that our patients may be spending a sleepless night waiting for a promised biopsy result that was never delivered?

I don’t have the answer to perfectionism. I don’t have the answer for work-life balance. It may be different for everyone. But the life challenges of doctors are real. With every fiber of my being, I want to see my fellow physicians productive, happy, and fulfilled. And while I may not have a solution, I do know this: the answer will not come from erasing perfectionism from our doctor’s DNA.

If we try to do so, if we fail to live up to our internal standards and abandon our deeply held value of doing our best, we risk exposing ourselves to moral harm. And it is this moral injury that can lead us down the path of burnout.

But if there is an answer, I believe it will come from accepting, not denying, the genuine perfectionism within us. I believe this will come from accepting our perfectionism with all its perils, its positive and negative aspects. Yet in the face of this, somehow, we must learn to make this genuine perfectionism work for the benefit of ourselves and our patients.

The next time you’re flying 30,000 feet in the air or the next time you’re a patient yourself, think about it.

Scott Abramson, MD, is a neurologist.

This post appeared on KevinMD.

Dear students of the Schools of Health Sciences at the University at Buffalo,

It is with great enthusiasm that we welcome everyone to campus for what we hope will be a successful academic year. The University at Buffalo Schools of Health Sciences continues to take proactive measures to protect the health and safety of our students, faculty, and staff.

Part of this commitment will be to continue full vaccination against COVID-19 as one of our mandatory vaccines. Everyone who is eligible for a booster shot is strongly encouraged to keep up to date with all boosters as well. Remember that in addition, you are subject to the vaccination requirements specific to your clinical training sites.

Currently, on buses and in clinical settings on campus, masks are still required. Please check the Behavioral Requirements website for up-to-date guidance throughout the year.

Self-testing kits will be made available free of charge on campus for any student with symptoms or concerned about potential exposure. Please also note that Student Health Services, located at 4350 Maple Road (at Sweet Home Road), is available to administer PCR tests to symptomatic students. Further instructions regarding testing of exempt students will be forthcoming, but they must continue testing at home.

Thank you for doing your part to help schools of health sciences – the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, School of Nursing, School of Dental Medicine, School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, School of Public Health and Health Professions, and the School of Social Work – maintain an in-person university and community student experience.

We look forward to seeing you soon.

Best regards,

Allison Brashear, MD, MBA
Vice President for Health Sciences
Dean, Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences

Annette B. Wysocki, PhD, RN, FAAN
Dean, School of Nursing

Stefan Ruhl, DDS, PhD
Acting Dean, School of Dentistry

Gary M. Pollack PhD
Dean, School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences

Jean Wactawski-Wende, PhD
Dean, School of Public Health and Health Professions

Keith A.Alford
Dean, School of Social Work

POWELL, Ohio, August 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — michel guertinMD, MBA, CPE, FASA, is recognized by Continental Who’s Who as a Trusted Healthcare Professional for Distinguished Career in Anesthesiology and in recognition of outstanding work at the Ohio State University.

dr. michel guertin is Professor of Anesthesiology and Chief Perioperative Medical Director at Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, where he has devoted more than thirty years to training future generations of physicians.

Dr. Guertin was inspired by his mother to enter the medical field after recovering from a hockey injury in high school, as she was a nurse anesthetist. Dr. Guertin earned a Bachelor of Arts in Chemistry in 1987, graduating Magna Cum Laude, and a medical degree in 1988, both from Wayne State University in Detroit, MI. He then completed an internship and residency program in anesthesiology at Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, becoming chief resident in 1991. In 2015, Dr. Guertin earned a Masters in Business Administration at Ohio State University Fisher College work. He is currently pursuing certification training as an executive coach.

He began his career as an assistant professor of anesthesiology at Ohio State University Medical Center in 1992, three years later, winning the teacher of the year award in his department. Dr. Guertin was a founding member and partner of Premier Anesthesiologists and the Ohio Surgery Center from 1998 to 2013 and served as Medical Director and Board Member from 2006 to 2013. Dr. Guertin returned to ohio state in 2013 as Medical Director of Day Surgery Services. He was director of the Faculty Leadership Institute at The Ohio State University College of Medicine for the past three years and has been selected to be the Health System’s Chief Perioperative Medical Director in 2021.

Dr. Guertin gives talks to discuss primarily ambulatory anesthesiology and physician leadership development, among other medical topics. He recently created the non-profit organization “A Day Away”, dedicated to organizing fun events (like sports games) for seriously ill patients and their families to create wonderful memories.

On a personal note, Dr. Guertin’s hobbies include golf, cycling and working out.

For more information, visit https://wexnermedical.osu.edu/

Contact: Katherine Green516-825-5634, [email protected]

SOURCE Continental Who’s Who

People from all disciplines are encouraged to register and attend various medical events. These events tend to educate and expand our knowledge of various medical breakthroughs and network professionals together. Phacilitate is a renowned network that regularly organizes and sponsors medical events.

In 2023, there will be a big event known as Advanced Therapies Week, which will see the participation of professionals from all walks of life. If you’re not sure why this event is for you, here are a few reasons to register and attend.

Networking

Whatever your job, you will always need to network to move to the next level. Networking helps boost your career by exchanging ideas with intellectuals like you. When you come to Advanced Therapies Week, you will find researchers, doctors, academics and other professionals with whom you can identify.

In addition, the atmosphere you will feel during this event will be excellent. Phacilitate encourages questions and answers and easy networking between experts in all fields.

Build your reputation

By coming to this event, you are gradually building your reputation as an expert in your field. Looking around you will see professionals who attend events like this to share their knowledge.

Also, for those with experience under their belt, you should be the first to register for this event. You will gradually climb up your career ladder and be exposed to exciting job prospects. Advanced Therapies Week 2023 is your chance to take that step.

Be up to date with the latest therapies and breakthroughs

An event like this will have many presentations from experts in the medical fields. These presentations will show new technologies and breakthroughs that you will be aware of. When you attend this event, you won’t miss any of the major breakthroughs in the medical field. Phacilitate organizes this week in such a way that your work arrives in the right quarters.

A good way to present your research

Another reason why attending Advanced Therapies Week is great is so you can showcase your work. Academics and other research fields will use this avenue to show their findings to people in similar fields. Simply contact Phacilitate to submit your abstract and you will be allowed to present your work.

The audience at this event will give an in-depth insight from different angles. If the discoveries are exceptional, events like this will serve you as sponsors who want the work to progress.

An avenue to interact with experts in various fields

Research graduates, Ph.D. students and/or newbies in various fields can use this event to find seasoned leaders in various fields. When you hear them, their input will help you achieve great heights in your profession.

When you come to this event, the question and answer sessions are very detailed and will help you to take the right direction in life. If you wish, you can get an individual session with them. This helps you have the chance to gain the necessary knowledge and experience from the people you are looking for.

Advanced Therapies Week is a big event that will be organized by Phacilitate next year. People seeking knowledge and wanting to promote their work should register and attend this event without fail.

By Samantha Crowley
MD Candidate – Class of 2025
University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health

As a medical student at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, I was committed to furthering my education so that I could provide my future patients with the best care possible. Through years of classroom and clinical training, I will one day be able to provide life-saving treatments to my patients.

Unfortunately, after a conservative Supreme Court majority decided to overturn Roe v. Wade, one of those life-saving treatments – abortion – is no longer readily available in this state. As someone entering the medical profession, I now have to face the grim reality that I could be thrown in jail for simply doing my job. I could be imprisoned for saving someone’s life.

Let’s be clear: abortion is health care. And while countless medical professionals across the country support the idea, a Wisconsin law passed in 1849 could mean that doctors in our state can no longer provide comprehensive, comprehensive health care. Abortion is a critical and necessary procedure that can save lives in a medical emergency. It can allow victims of rape or incest to regain control of their lives after an assault. Each person deserves to be able to decide for themselves if, when and how to raise a child. Every person deserves the right to make their own medical decisions about their future – a decision that should be made by a patient and their doctor, not a politician. Protecting access to abortion in our state is one of the ways we can ensure reproductive freedom for the people of Wisconsin.

After the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, I took into account that countless people will now die because they don’t have access to safe and legal abortion. At the same time, I saw Republican politicians celebrating the decision and spouting dangerous anti-choice rhetoric. This was no surprise because, despite overwhelming public support for safe and legal access to abortion, Republican politicians have attacked reproductive health care for years.

Republicans in Wisconsin, in particular, unabashedly supported the state’s 1849 abortion ban — and leading Republican politicians wouldn’t even discuss allowing exceptions in the law for rape and incest. When given the opportunity to change course and restore this essential abortion right, every Wisconsin Republican in Congress voted against the Women’s Health Protection Act and Access Act. to abortion, which would restore Roe v. Wade as law and would protect people who have to travel. between states to receive abortions.

With these votes, Wisconsin Republicans have reduced the ability of medical professionals to practice medicine in our state. This November, lives are at stake and abortion is on the ballot. As Republican politicians launch a full-scale attack on reproductive rights, Democrats in Wisconsin have stepped up to fight for access to health care. Governor Evers has pledged to restore the right to abortion in our state and has offered leniency to doctors who are being sued for providing abortion care. Governor Evers’ partner in the judicial branch, Attorney General Kaul, said he would not divert state resources from essential services to enforce the state abortion ban. Democratic Senator Tammy Baldwin led the bill through the Senate to codify Roe into law, and Representatives Gwen Moore, Ron Kind and Mark Pocan joined her in supporting the bill in the House.

Our Democratic Representatives stand with the nearly 60% of Wisconsin residents who support safe and legal access to abortion in our state. Meanwhile, Republicans continually ignore the will of their constituents and the advice of medical professionals to advance an anti-abortion political agenda. Republican leaders in Congress have even voiced support for a nationwide abortion ban, proving that GOP leaders will continue to defend MAGA’s most extreme positions on common-sense issues.

In November, the people of Wisconsin will vote to determine the future of reproductive health care in our state and in our country. We need to elect pro-choice Mandela Barnes to the US Senate and re-elect Governor Evers and Attorney General Kaul.

The stakes have never been higher for reproductive freedom in our country. It is our responsibility to elect Democrats who will stand against Republican attacks on our ability to make our own health care decisions and my ability to provide the best possible care to my future patients.

BOWLING GREEN, Ky. (WBKO) — If you’re a healthcare worker and still have student loans, the Kentucky State Loan Repayment Program is looking to help you with your payments.

Since its inception in 2003, the program has been a helpful recruitment and retention tool to address labor shortages in rural and underserved areas of the state. This is a competitive program and if selected, you will be required to work full-time for two years at an eligible state site providing primary care services.

To be eligible to apply for the KSLRP, applicants must:

• Be a US citizen (US born or naturalized) or US national and work in Kentucky.
• Have been trained and licensed to provide direct patient care in one of the program’s eligible disciplines and specialties: physicians, physician assistants, nurse practitioners, certified nurse midwives, registered nurses, dentists, registered dental hygienists, social workers licensed clinics, licensed professional clinicians Counsellors, health service psychologists, marriage and family therapists, psychiatric nurses, alcohol and substance use disorder counselors and pharmacists.
• Have a current, full, permanent, unencumbered, and unrestricted professional license, certificate, or registration in Kentucky in the discipline in which you are applying to serve.
• Be employed at an eligible KSLRP site or have accepted an offer of employment at an eligible site where service will commence (and candidate will begin seeing patients) no later than January 2023.
• Work in a Health Professional Shortage Area (HPSA) that matches their training and/or discipline. (You can search the HPSA Find website to determine if your practice site is located in an HPSA.)
• Practice full-time, as defined by a minimum of 40 hours per week, for a minimum of 45 weeks per year, providing primary health care services at an eligible site.
• Participate or be eligible to participate as a provider in the Medicare, Medicaid, and children’s health insurance program, as applicable.
• Agree to use KSLRP funds only to repay eligible student loans.
• Have a history of meeting prior legal obligations, have no existing service obligations or incur any service obligations that would be performed concurrently with their KSLRP service obligation, and should not be currently excluded, excluded, suspended or disqualified by a federal agency.

Completed applications will be accepted until 5 p.m. on September 1, 2022.

For more information about the program, contact Lisa Garza at [email protected] or 606-439-3557.

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Commercial drivers who use CBD products do so “at their own risk,” a federal agency says in a draft manual for medical examiners responsible for issuing U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) certifications.

The proposed guidelines, published Tuesday in the Federal Register, are intended to advise medical examiners when performing physical exams for commercial drivers whose jobs require interstate travel.

Although the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) manual states that drivers are not prohibited from using federally legal CBD products containing up to 0.3% THC by dry weight, it warns reviewers that use of the non-intoxicating cannabinoid could still compromise physical exam certifications.

Drivers who must take the exam and receive the DOT certification, which lasts two years, “cannot be physically qualified” if they use marijuana, regardless of state law, according to the agency – “even if marijuana is legal in the state where the driver resides for recreational, medicinal or religious purposes.

But hemp-derived CBD was legalized under the 2018 Farm Bill, prompting the FMCSA to include the new cannabis section in the manual.

The reason the manual warns medical examiners about CBD use by drivers is that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) does not regulate products widely available in commercial markets across the country.

“There is no federal oversight to ensure that labels on CBD products that claim to contain less than 0.3% dry weight THC are accurate,” the draft document states.

Testing positive for THC due to improper labeling is not a valid excuse, so drivers could still be deemed ineligible for certification if they take the wrong product.

“Therefore, drivers who use these products do so at their own risk,” says the draft manual, which is now open for public comment until September 30.

“CBD products containing less than 0.3% dry weight THC are not considered a Schedule I substance; therefore, their use by a VMC driver is not a reason to automatically exclude the physical qualification of the driver”, he indicates. “However, each driver must be assessed on a case-by-case basis.”

“The Agency encourages [medical examiners] adopt a holistic approach to medical certification and consider any additional relevant health information or assessment that may objectively support the medical certification decision. MEs may require drivers to obtain and provide non-DOT drug test results during the medical certification process. »

The proposed guidance on CBD would be included in the agency’s manual seven years after the withdrawal of an earlier version of the document that predated hemp legalization and therefore did not address cannabidiol products.

A 2021 draft had a more limited section on the cannabinoid and the lack of FDA regulation — and a 2020 version didn’t discuss CBD, but it clearly stated that marijuana use was prohibited regardless of either state law – but those versions were not finalized.

This latest proposed version also directs reviewers to an earlier DOT advisory stating that the department “requires testing for marijuana, not CBD” and providing further information on cannabis-related policy and compliance rules.

In a July newsletter from the DOT’s Federal Transit Administration (FTA), the agency included two sections on cannabis concerns: one that again reminded employees that they were prohibited from using marijuana and another that similarly warned that CBD products remain unregulated and may contain high levels of THC. that are detectable in a drug test.

In a letter sent to Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg in May, Rep. Earl Blumenauer (D-OR) argued that the DOT’s comprehensive cannabis testing policies were unnecessarily costing people their jobs and contributing to supply chain problems. . He urged a review and administrative reform of the guidelines.

Buttigieg, who campaigned on a pro-legalization platform during his 2020 presidential bid and has repeatedly condemned the wrongdoings of prohibition – going so far as to call for the decriminalization of possession of all drugs — has yet to take any administrative action to modernize DOT marijuana policy since taking over as head of the department.

Although the DOT will continue to test workers for THC, the department also recently proposed a revised drug testing policy.

Current department policy requires urine testing, but the proposed rule change would allow saliva-based testing as an alternative option. Depending on frequency of use, THC is usually detectable in saliva between one and 24 hours after use, rather than weeks for urine.

In addition, the DOT proposal states that there would be a “4 nanograms per milliliter drug test threshold for THC”, which would “detect marijuana use while eliminating the possibility of positive tests resulting from passive exposure”.

A Wells Fargo analyst said in February that there was a primary reason for rising costs and labor shortages in the transportation industry: the federal criminalization of marijuana and drug testing mandates. resulting drugs, which persist even as more and more states embrace legalization.

Workplace drug testing issues continue to be raised, especially as more states decide to legalize cannabis in one form or another and many industries face shortages. labor.

The nation’s largest union representing federal employees recently passed a resolution supporting the legalization of marijuana and calling for an end to policies that penalize federal employees who use cannabis responsibly while off the job. states where it is legal.

Meanwhile, House Appropriations Committee leadership recently urged the White House to “continue to review policies and guidelines regarding the hiring and firing of individuals who use marijuana in states where the private use of marijuana by this individual is not prohibited by state law” as part of a Financial Services and Government Expenditure (FSGG) report.

It specifically calls for the executive branch to enforce drug testing standards with “consistency and fairness”.

In June, the Senate Intelligence Committee separately passed an amendment by Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR) that would prohibit the federal government from denying people the security clearances they need to work in intelligence agencies simply because they used marijuana.

But in general, federal agencies have been reluctant to relax cannabis-related employment rules despite state efforts to legalize cannabis for medical and recreational use.

For example, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) recently proposed changes to drug testing policies for federal workers that would specify that having a doctor’s recommendation for medical marijuana or any other Schedule I drug is not a valid excuse for a positive result. Drug test.

The Director of National Intelligence (DNI) said late last year that federal employers should not outright reject security clearance applicants for past use and should exercise discretion regarding those who have cannabis investments in their stock portfolios.

The FBI updated its hiring policies last year so that applicants are only automatically disqualified from joining the agency if they admit to using marijuana within a year of applying. Previously, future agency employees could not have used cannabis in the past three years.

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has also stressed to its workers that they are prohibited from using marijuana — or investing directly in the industry — regardless of state law or changes in “social norms” around cannabis.

And while the Biden administration has instituted a policy of granting waivers to some workers who admit to previously using cannabis, it has come under fire from lawyers following reports that it has fired or otherwise punished dozens. of employees who were honest about their history with marijuana.

Then-White House press secretary Jen Psaki tried to play down the fallout, with little success, and her office issued a statement last year saying no one had been fired for “consuming of marijuana years ago”, and that no one had been fired “due to infrequent use in the previous 12 months.

At the state level, Colorado Governor Jared Polis (D) recently signed an executive order to provide broad professional licensing protections to workers who use marijuana under state law. The ruling also bars state agencies from assisting with any out-of-state investigations related to legal cannabis conduct that could result in employment penalties.

Additionally, a union representing firefighters claimed a New York City legal directive directing government agencies, including the New York City Fire Department (NYFD) and New York Police Department (NYPD ), to stop testing workers for marijuana since the state enacted legalization.

Last year, the state Department of Labor separately announced in guidelines that employers in New York are no longer allowed to test most workers for marijuana, with some exceptions. Even before the legalization was enacted, New York City officials had established a local ban on pre-employment cannabis testing.

Last month, Washington, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser (D) signed a bill that would ban most workplaces from firing or punishing employees for off-hours marijuana use.

In Missouri, the St. Louis County Board in March approved a bill to ban pre-employment and random cannabis testing for most workers in the county.

Florida activists plan 2024 home grow marijuana initiative to ‘run alongside’ industry-backed legalization bid

FILE – Idaho State Police form a line between attendees of an anti-abortion celebration and protesters who came to support abortion rights at the Idaho Statehouse in Boise, Idaho June 28, 2022. A legal battle over abortion rights pitting Idaho against the U.S. government has dozens of states and major medical associations seeking to weigh in. (Sarah A. Miller/Idaho Statesman via AP, File)

FILE – Idaho State Police form a line between attendees of an anti-abortion celebration and protesters who came to support abortion rights at the Idaho Statehouse in Boise, Idaho June 28, 2022. A legal battle over abortion rights pitting Idaho against the U.S. government has dozens of states and major medical associations seeking to weigh in. (Sarah A. Miller/Idaho Statesman via AP, File)

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — A legal battle over abortion rights pitting one of the nation’s reddest states against the U.S. government has dozens of states and major medical associations seeking to weigh in.

Twenty states, Washington, D.C., the American College of Emergency Physicians, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, the American Academy of Pediatrics and others are among those who have filed “friend of the court” briefs on Wednesday, siding with the federal government’s claims that Idaho’s near-total abortion ban violates federal health care law.

“It will really put doctors in a lose-lose situation,” said Jeff Dubner, deputy legal director of Democracy Forward, the legal team representing the coalition of medical associations.

Doctors who abide by federal law will face criminal prosecution and loss of their medical license, Dubner said, and those who abide by state law could harm patient health and expose themselves, as well. than their hospitals, federal fines or loss of funding. .

Idaho’s abortion ban makes performing almost all abortions a crime, but allows doctors to defend themselves in court by showing that the procedure was necessary to save a patient’s life. The federal Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act requires Medicaid-funded hospitals to provide “stabilizing” treatment to patients in medical emergencies, and the US Department of Justice says this includes certain abortions.

The Justice Department sued Idaho earlier this month in federal court and asked a judge to block the abortion ban from taking effect.

Idaho’s neighbors in Oregon and Washington were among states that joined in filing another friend of court filing, saying they feared the ‘ripple effect’ that a ban on abortion could create as Idaho patients with ectopic pregnancies or other emergencies are sent to hospitals in Seattle or Portland for treatment.

States further afield, such as North Carolina, point out that their own pregnant residents could be at risk of death or injury if they become ill while visiting Idaho.

“Women’s lives are in danger because politicians are trying to take away their right to get the medical care they need,” said North Carolina Attorney General Josh Stein. “States try to ban abortion in all cases, including rape, incest and when the health of the mother is in danger. Denying health care to women when their life or health is in danger violates federal law. I am taking these steps to help North Carolinians who may need urgent care in other states as well as other women across our country.

Even if the federal government wins the lawsuit, it’s likely most abortions will remain banned in Idaho, where three major abortion bans have been enacted in the past two years.

In court papers, medical organizations have argued that the “mother’s life” provision of the ban is too narrow to apply to real medical situations and fails to take into account how quickly a pregnancy complication can become fatal.

In the case of a pregnant patient with severe bleeding, “how many units of blood should she lose?” A? Of them? Five?” the organizations wrote in court documents. “How fast must she bleed? Soak two tampons per hour? Three? How low must her blood pressure be?”

Other professional organizations that signed the amicus curiae brief include the American Medical Association, Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine, National Medical Association, National Hispanic Medical Association, American Academy of Family Physicians, and American Public Health Association. The American Hospital Association and the Association of American Medical Colleges wrote a separate brief also supporting the Justice Department.

The states, meanwhile, have pointed out in court documents that abortion bans in other states have already led to delays or denials of emergency medical care.

A patient traveled to Michigan after being denied care for an ectopic pregnancy in her home state because the fetus still had detectable heart activity – making an abortion potentially illegal under the laws. saying heartbeat laws, according to the memoir.

In Missouri, a hospital required special approval from a pharmacist to dispense the drugs needed to stop severe postpartum bleeding for patients, leading to delays in care. And a Wisconsin patient who had a miscarriage was bleeding in the hospital for 10 days before the hospital removed the fetal tissue due to confusion over the legality of the procedure, the states said.

California, New York, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, North Carolina, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Washington and Washington State , DC, all signed the amicus curiae brief.

Lawyers representing the State of Idaho and the Idaho Legislature argued that the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision reversing Roe v. Wade gave states the right to determine if or how abortions would be handled, and that the state law, dubbed Law 622, poses no risk to patients or providers.

“The government’s image of a conflict between (emergency medical treatment and labor law) and Statue 622 is fabricated and false, with no basis in fact,” attorney Daniel Bower wrote for the ‘Legislative Assembly.

The treatment of an ectopic pregnancy is not actually an abortion, and therefore is not prohibited by state prohibition, the legislature argues. Abortions performed to save the mother’s life will not be affected by law, Bower wrote, and any other emergency abortions that might be affected are extremely rare.

When they happen, the doctors will not be prosecuted, Bower wrote in the brief.

“Attorneys in this state, in the standard and ordinary exercise of their prosecutorial discretion, will not question the judgments and decisions of affected medical professionals,” Bower said.

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Hannah Schoenbaum contributed from Raleigh, North Carolina. Schoenbaum is a member of the Associated Press/Report for America Statehouse News Initiative. Report for America is a nonprofit national service program that places journalists in local newsrooms to report on underreported issues.

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Susan Smyth, MD, Ph.D., Dean of the College of Medicine, addresses the audience at Robinson Center Performance Hall. The class of 2026 fills the front rows.

Image by Bryan Clifton

August 15, 2022 | August 15, 2022 | The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) welcomed the College of Medicine’s new class of 2026 in a white coat ceremony Aug. 5 held simultaneously on two different campuses for the first time in the history of UAMS.

New doctors-in-training gathered for the first in-person ceremony celebrating this rite of passage since 2019, before the COVID-19 pandemic hit. But this time, the gathering of class members was split between Robinson Center Performance Hall in Little Rock, which the majority of the 188 freshmen attended, and Butterfield Trail Village in Fayetteville, where 17 of them start. medical school.

Three of the 17 at the Northwest Regional Campus are enrolled in the Accelerated Primary Care Program, which began last year and is offered only at the Fayetteville campus. The other 14 students – along with their counterparts from Little Rock – are enrolled in the traditional four-year track. Students in both streams will obtain a doctorate in medicine at the end of their studies.

Until last year, all students on their way to four years had to start medical school on the Little Rock campus, with the option of completing the final two years of study in Fayetteville.

Recite the medical student oath before going on stage to put on their white coats, resting in the chair in front of each student.

Linda Worley, MD, associate regional dean of the Northwestern Regional Campus College of Medicine, told incoming students that this is the first time that enrollment at Northwestern Campus has included students at all stages of the faculty of medicine.

Before students appeared on stage in single file to have their white coats draped over their shoulders by a faculty advisor, sometimes with a family member, UAMS Chancellor Cam Patterson, MD, MBA, told them, “I am so grateful that you have chosen health care as your profession, and I am so envious of the journey you are about to take.

After receiving their white coats, the students posed with their families on stage while having their pictures taken.

Students assigned to Fayetteville-based Compton University House were the first to officially don the mantle – a shorter version of the one they will receive after graduating from medical school. Then all eyes turned to the larger crowd in Little Rock, where students approached the stage in groups near the academic houses.

Patterson told aspiring doctors to appreciate taking their time talking to patients while they’re students, and later residents, because “you may never have another chance to talk to patients as long as that, once you get past medical school.”

“It’s going to be four tough years,” he said. “You are going to accomplish so much. You’ll be an incredibly different person when you’re done.

The students were selected from 409 interviewed applicants, including 77 from out of state. Only 7% of the 2,730 applicants were accepted.

For some students, medicine is a family affair.Bryan Clifton

According to Tom G. South, assistant dean of medical student admissions at UAMS, those selected are between the ages of 21 and 37, with an average age of 23. Fifty-two percent are women. Most of them – 72% – majored in one of the traditional sciences, with biology leading the way at 43%. Psychology and biomedical engineering majors were the most common non-traditional science majors.

“I can’t think of a more exciting time to begin a journey to become a doctor,” said Susan Smyth, MD, Ph.D., executive vice chancellor and dean of the College of Medicine. “Congratulations on all of your accomplishments and accomplishments that have brought you here today.”

“You were selected,” she said, “because we know you can contribute to our mission, which is to improve the health and well-being of Arkansans and those in our region, our countries and around the world.With this as a guiding principle since 1879, we have graduated over 10,600 doctors.

“Tonight,” she said, “you will recite the medical student oath and don that important emblem of our profession, the white coat. The mantle symbolizes your commitment to the science of medicine, the art of healing, and service to humanity. It symbolizes your commitment to uncompromising ethical and professional standards. Our professional standards are like guardrails that guide us and focus us on what matters most, such as respecting the backgrounds and perspectives of our patients, especially when they differ from our own.

Students also heard from Danny Wilkerson, MD, professor of anesthesiology, former president and chair of the board of the Arkansas Medical Society, and Rebecca Latch, MD, associate professor in the UAMS Department of Pediatrics. in 2000 and gave the keynote address.

Latch said that when he was asked to give the speech, “it actually brought back memories of my own white coat ceremony in 1996, which, believe it or not, was the inaugural white coat ceremony. white”.

She urged students to remember four lessons she learned from her years in medical school: 1) they all deserve to be here, 2) they have to put in the work to keep deserving to be here. here, 3) they need to take care of themselves so they can take care of others, and 4) they each need to “find their people”, i.e. those who challenge them, support them and can frame them.

Rebecca Latch, MD, was the keynote speaker.Bryan Clifton

“Nobody’s perfect. We all make mistakes, and it’s what you do with those mistakes that defines you,” Latch said.

She implored them: “Although your career is a big part of your life, it is not your whole life. Medical school is tough, and I’ve seen colleagues drift away from loved ones and lose the connections and pursuits that matter. Y’all, don’t do this. This is when you need your support system the most.

After reciting the Medical Student Pledge aloud, led by James Graham, MD, Associate Executive Dean for Academic Affairs, the students donned their white coats, one by one, ready to begin their medical training.

Sara Tariq, MD, conducted the ceremony.Bryan Clifton

Sara Tariq, MD, the college’s associate dean for student affairs who conducted the ceremony, concluded with these words, “I wish and pray that you will be well off in the past few years. I wish trust with humility. I wish courage and an open heart for others. Above all, I hope, wish and pray that you have a rewarding journey ahead. Welcome to our profession and to our UAMS family.

Fortunately, the vast majority of the city’s residents were evacuated before Katrina struck, but at least 100,000 people remained in the city. That figure includes some 2,000 patients, doctors, nurses and civilians at Memorial Medical Center in Uptown New Orleans.

The story of those fateful days after Hurricane Katrina hit Memorial Hospital is now being told in the new Apple TV+ miniseries Five Days At Memorial, based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist’s book Sherry Fink.

“Nothing compares to this. I don’t think anyone can say they’ve been through a hurricane as bad as this,” says Robert Pine, 81, who plays Dr. Horace Baltz, one of the doctors the oldest in the Memorial.

“I remember when it happened, watching the news…you could only feel empathy for these people and what they were going through.”

Subjected to high winds, catastrophic flooding and a power outage, Memorial was surrounded by flood water, had no sanitation and began experiencing indoor temperatures of up to 110 degrees Fahrenheit – 43° C – leaving patients and staff in dire straits. The evacuation was slow and delayed, and it was unclear whether the hospital’s sickest patients would survive the ordeal.

By the end of the crisis, 45 bodies had been discovered in the hospital’s makeshift morgue: more than any hospital of similar size in the city. What happened to Memorial in those days of catastrophe? Why were there so many bodies? And, above all, was the death of these people accelerated by the very hospital staff responsible for caring for them?

Primetime Emmy-nominated Bates Motel star Vera Farmiga plays Dr. Anna Pou, the highly respected head and neck cancer surgeon who remained at the Memorial throughout the crisis to help patients and was later arrested on charges of second-degree murder and conspiracy to commit second-degree murder, charges that she and her colleagues euthanized patients trapped in the hospital after the storm with lethal doses of drugs.

“Anna Pou was revered by her patients,” says Farmiga, 48.

“She’s the epitome of a good doctor: a bright, calm, unassuming woman who can come across as a bit aloof at times, like many surgeons. The truth about her is that she’s all about the work. And, she is fanatically committed to her patients.

“When everything, and I mean everything, falls apart at Memorial, she is one of the people who steps in and quietly takes matters into her own hands. Anna has chosen to stay and care for her patients and help others .She’s the kind of person who gets the worse things get.”

While a grand jury chose not to indict Pou in 2007, the story of what happened at Memorial continues to raise ethical and legal questions about the roles and responsibilities of medical professionals in situations of disaster.

“It’s a horrible circumstance when doctors are forced to play God,” says Five Days at Memorial executive producer, writer and director Carlton Cuse, best known for his work on Lost.

“That’s part of what we’re exploring here: the ethics of what happens in a crisis when tough decisions have to be made about who gets resources and who doesn’t.”

During the Covid-19 pandemic, there were fears that ventilators would be rationed, that doctors would be forced to make impossible calls to find out who would be ventilated and who would not – which is why Cuse felt that the moment had come to tell the story. of Memorial on TV.

“I think it’s important to recognize that what we’re going through has a context, that there’s a story here, that there are other examples of these kinds of circumstances,” he says.

“Hopefully we can put ourselves in a position to do better. Putting medical workers in a position where they have to make some really untenable decisions about limited resources in a medical crisis… there just isn’t right answer. It’s a horrible circumstance.

“And I think with a little planning and forethought, we wouldn’t end up in those circumstances.”

At a 2007 rally marking the first anniversary of Pou’s arrest, speakers warned that doctors could leave in droves if a doctor was charged after serving in a disaster – and the treatment of doctors and nurses is a hot topic on both sides of the post-pandemic pond.

“I wanted to work on Five Days At Memorial because it’s about everything that’s happening right now,” says Cherry Jones, 65, who plays Memorial’s director of nursing, Susan Mulderick.

“Whether it’s the climate or racial injustice, or our healthcare workers who are now our soldiers on the front line again and again and again.

“During Covid, my little hospital in Henry County, Tennessee went from 800 staff to 300 now,” Jones adds.

“Healthcare workers are our soldiers now. And I will say part of the reason it works so well is because Carlton Cuse and John Ridley are honorable men, and they understand the importance that a story like this one is broadcast on television. .

“So people on their couches are going to be thinking and asking these tough questions, all these questions about ethics, and people are going to be debating it for years.”

But Five Days At Memorial isn’t just a cautionary tale about the healthcare profession: it’s also a warning about climate change.

On July 19, 2022, the UK recorded its hottest day on record at 40.3C, and this July was England’s driest since 1911. The warning about the impact of weather extreme weather and natural disasters is one we should all be heeding.

“John Ridley and I talked about how the story rhymes,” Cuse explains.

“I think we all hope people learn from these kinds of experiences, but yet it seems hard to do. With global warming, and with the increasing number of extreme events like this, are we able to Are we able, as a human species, to be ready the next time these things happen, or to somehow take the necessary steps to perhaps mitigate these events?

“I do not know.”

Five Days At Memorial comes to Apple TV+ on Friday, August 12.

Eastern Kentucky continues to experience record flooding and people are in desperate need of medical attention.

In response, Lake Cumberland Regional Hospital sent a mobile clinic to eastern Kentucky filled with medical supplies as well as water, food, cleaning supplies, baby items, blankets and more. again to lessen the damage done to the people of Eastern Kentucky.

Many of these items have been donated by people across the Commonwealth to treat those most affected.

The Schoolhouse Mobile Clinic was established in 2019 to help school children whose parents are too busy at work to have their children treated in hospitals. However, the clinic has since expanded its care to provide disaster relief to Kentucky residents.

A notable example of this was after last year’s tornado, which ripped through western Kentucky and killed 58 people.

The seven-person team that traveled to eastern Kentucky included Dr. Barry Dixon, president of medical services and Valerie Allen, APRN with Lake Cumberland Schoolhouse Health.

Hailing from the eastern part of the state themselves, their need for relief was personal.

“One clinic I stopped by and visited was Isom, where I’m from,” Dr Dixon said. “There are two feet of mud in the parking lot and in the building. They’re still shoveling that with the Bobcats. It’s just amazing. Until you see it first hand, you just don’t realize.

Dr. Allen clarified the team’s goals in a press release.

“The Mobile Clinic’s mission is to be ready at a moment’s notice to help citizens in need, and right now our neighbors in eastern Kentucky need our help,” Allen said.

Robert Parker, CEO of Lake Cumberland Regional Hospital, said, “We are concerned about the communities affected by the flooding,” he said. “We are using our resources to provide immediate relief and recovery assistance to those affected by the storm. We thank everyone involved for their tireless efforts and want to do everything we can to help them.

Dr Dixon said a spike in positive COVID-19 cases could be expected due to people huddle close together to shore up resources.

“You have all these people coming to a central place to get [resources]”Dixon said. “For example, if you look at Gospel Light Church in Hazard right now, there are 89 people living there in that church.”

Those people whose homes were washed away by the stormy waters have few methods of self-isolation.

“You go to other relief locations, there are 100 people here, there are 132 people here, and they’re all together, so you’re going to see the number of COVID cases increase dramatically.”

The main concern of the team was to provide vaccines to the victims. Muddy water easily gets into small cuts that can cause infection, and making sure people are properly inoculated has been a top priority.

Among the most important vaccinations is tetanus. Also known as lockjaw, tetanus is a bacterial infection that causes painful muscle twitches and spasms.

Although vaccinations against this disease are common, the risk of contracting this disease is low under normal circumstances. However, due to the contaminated water that fills eastern Kentucky, people are at high risk and likely haven’t had a tetanus shot in years.

“The last tetanus booster I got was 17 years ago, I just didn’t think about it and I’m in the medical profession,” Dixon said. “So most people are well over 10 years old.”

Hepatitis A was also a major risk, and many flood victims were also vaccinated against it.

“Mainly vaccines. People arrive with cuts and scrapes. A gentleman chained himself to a security gate to prevent him and his wife from washing,” Dixon said.

LCMA nursing supervisor Rob Edwards, who also traveled with the team to eastern Kentucky, estimated that 100 tetanus shots were given on the last day the team was there.

“We ran out of doses early in the morning and had to ship more,” Dixon said.

Dixon claimed that only half of the people who needed vaccines were flood victims. The others were rescue teams who needed reinforcements to continue pulling people out of flooded areas.

Fortunately, Dixon said, as vaccine concerns grew in relation to COVID-19, people were more than willing to get their shots.

“Most people, if they cut or scratch themselves, will take a tetanus shot quite easily. It’s not like giving vaccines. COVID vaccines, you have to put aside a lot of fears,” Dixon said. “People who have been cut and skinned and scratched, they just walk up and get a tetanus shot. Quite easily. We really don’t need to tell a lot of people about this one.

Medical supplies are scarce, and it was the mission of the teams to provide as many as possible. Dixon spoke about the Letcher County Clinic, which was destroyed by flooding and lost nearly all of their medical supplies. Electronically stored medical records will likely be recoverable, Dixon says, but little can be recovered beyond that.

“They lost everything. Both of their clinics were six to seven feet under water,” Dixon said.

The team provided them with everything they could – even “simple” items like glucometers and blood pressure cuffs were a necessity.

“They say, ‘We have a lot of help. We just need supplies. We have the bodies to see the people; we just need supplies to take care of these people,” Dixon recalled.

Dixon said one overlooked item of necessity was cleaning supplies. Thanks to donations, those in eastern Kentucky have clothes and “tons” of drinking water. However, items to help destroy mold by capitalizing on the moisture provided by flooding are invaluable.

The gymnasium at East Perry Elementary School had been stocked with relief items. Dixon recalled the donations filling the building to the brim available to those who needed help.

“You can’t describe it,” Dixon said. “You go to this big gym, and it’s wall to wall with clothes and diapers and formula. Every square centimeter contains something.

Dixon estimated that thousands of people had already come to receive donations.

He noted, however, an unfortunate drop in help from those in Kentucky whose passion for helping people had waned as the crisis sees no quick end.

Dixon said: “They had almost 600 volunteers the first day they opened this school to help distribute supplies and unload. The next day they received 500 cents. The next day 400. It’s like anything else. The fear is that people forget it. In about two to three weeks, that’s history.

“It’s going to take months of ongoing care,” Dixon continued.

Cleaning up floods and repairing roads is just a small part of reversing the damage.

“A lot of these places, there’s a total loss of everything. There are no trailers. There are no houses. There is nothing,” Dixon said.

Efforts to provide housing and buildings that provide important social services like schools and shops could take months to mobilize.

Dixon told what he felt was the most heartbreaking story. The team members traveled to the town of Buckhorn which had suffered some of the worst destruction. An elderly man’s house was in ruins and had no choice but to abandon it.

Dixon said: “They were taking food and giving it to people who were afraid to leave their homes and caravans because of the looting. What’s left, they were afraid someone would steal. So they don’t have running water. They have no electricity. It is 95 degrees the day we deliver food. It’s miserable. and the only little guy is over 80, and he was born and raised in Buckhorn. and he lived there all his life. He has no other family members here.

The man said he should eventually leave Kentucky and stay with his daughter in Ohio. “I have no other choice,” the man said.

“That’s the thing you see. People are displaced and have to move. There is no quick rebuild,” Dixon said.

Although the situation was grim, Dixon was still optimistic about what the team had accomplished. The team was deeply moved by the ordinary people who responded to the disaster that threatened their home.

• Doctors supporting John Fetterman have accused his opponent, Mehmet Oz, of betraying the medical profession.
• “We are committed to doing no harm,” said Dr. Marcelle Shapiro. “It is clear that Dr. Oz breached his recognizance.”
• Oz, a Republican, promoted questionable weight loss treatments on his daytime TV show.

PHILADELPHIA, Pa. — Before he was a television star, Dr. Mehmet Oz was a renowned cardiothoracic surgeon. But at a press conference outside City Hall on Wednesday, medical professionals supporting his Democratic Senate rival accused him of betraying his responsibilities by promoting questionable treatments to his daytime audience. .

“Oz just doesn’t have the trust of real medical professionals,” Dr. Val Arkoosh, who briefly sought the Democratic Senate nomination, told reporters at the event, hosted by Lt. -Pennsylvania Governor John Fetterman.

Arkoosh singled out Oz’s promotion of hydroxychloroquine as a treatment for COVID-19, despite studies showing it’s not effective; the FDA has warned against its use for the coronavirus, citing reports of kidney damage and liver failure. She also pointed to the Oz campaign’s attacks on the Democratic nominee.

Fetterman suffered a stroke in May, just before winning the Democratic primary, and has been recovering at home for three months. The Oz campaign, in turn, called Fetterman a “basement bum,” citing his lack of public events. He returns to the campaign trail Friday with a rally in Erie.

“No real doctor – or any decent human being, to be honest – would ever laugh at a stroke victim recovering from that stroke the way Dr. Oz laughs at John Fetterman,” said Arkoosh. “It’s disgusting.”

Brittany Yanick, communications director for the Oz campaign, did not address the specific accusations during the press conference, but in a statement she said Oz is a “world-class surgeon, inventor, educator and author. in the domain of health”. Fetterman, she said, is a “radical liberal supporting the government’s takeover of health care.”

As Insider previously reported, Oz — which won the Republican Senate nomination after being endorsed by former President Donald Trump — has used its television platform to promote a number of extraordinary but false claims. In 2012, for example, he told viewers that, according to scientists, green coffee extract was a “magical weight loss remedy for every body type.” In fact, the study he cited, which claimed that the extract reduced a consumer’s weight without the need for exercise or dietary changes, was retracted.

A study published by the British Medical Journal found that more than half of the medical recommendations Oz made on his TV show were either unsupported by evidence or actively contradicted by it. A 2015 letter signed by 10 doctors at Columbia University, where Oz is a lecturer, accused him of promoting “quackery treatments and cures.”

At the press conference, Dr. Marcelle Shapiro, vice chair of the Medical Alumni Advisory Council at the University of Pennsylvania’s Perelman School of Medicine – which Oz attended – noted that when the Republican candidate appeared before a Senate committee in 2014, “he received a bipartisan rebuke for misleading claims.”

His record, Shapiro argued, is disqualifying.

“As physicians, we pledge to do no harm as part of our Hippocratic oath,” she said. “It is clear that Dr. Oz breached his recognizance.”

Dr. Lisa Perriera, chief medical director of Women’s Centers, which provides abortion care, said Oz’s opposition to Roe v. Wade was a dealbreaker. Since the Supreme Court overturned the decision, Perriera said, she has been inundated with overseas patients seeking care in the Commonwealth, where it remains legal.

“If Dr. Oz were elected, he would only make it harder for my patients to fight,” she said.

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A Department of Health and Medical Services survey of nurses in Lautoka and Labasa indicated that the majority preferred 12-hour shifts because they had more continuous days off.

The Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Health, Dr James Fong, made the comment when responding to claims made by the leader of the National Federation Party, Prof Biman Prasad, and said that the exodus of medical personnel was a global problem. and not specific to Fiji.

Prof Prasad said 25 nurses have resigned in the last two months and in the first six months of this year 50 mostly young doctors have applied to the Fiji College of General Practitioners to join general medicine whereas normally, in one year, it is on average only five to six doctors.

He said one of the reasons this happened was because nurses and doctors were scheduled to work 12 hours per shift instead of the normal eight hours.

However, Dr. Fong said otherwise.

He said there were staffing shortages that were forcing some health workers to stay on the job longer.

“I’m glad we have overtime pay and compensatory time off that helps alleviate that,” he said.

Dr Fong also clarified that there are currently eight operating theaters working at CWM and the reason there are a lot of emergency surgeries is because of the backlog.

“The backlog in normative services is linked to the prolonged closure of normative functions.

“I know that clinicians have followed those on the backlog for surgeries, however, I understand that in some cases our communication intentions have been less than ideal.

“Clinicians are working to continue to improve in this area. Although we would like to believe that the effects of the pandemic are over, the only thing we have mitigated are the effects of acute illnesses. »

On the issue of the exodus of doctors and nurses, Dr Fong said Australia, New Zealand, the United States and many developed countries have reported shortages related to the exodus of medical personnel.

“The key factor is underlying or impending burnout.

“So many medical staff around the world will be moving towards what they perceive as greener pastures and/or less stressful working conditions.

“A particular survey in the United States, published by Elsevier Health, predicts that up to 75% of healthcare workers will leave the healthcare profession by 2025.

“The same study discusses factors related to burnout such as work-life balance and finding caring for families too stressful.

“This exodus to developed countries means that many of our healthcare workers are finding vacancies abroad which allow them new experiences and the Department of Health and Medical Services, as well as our Minister, always wishes them well. luck in their endeavors.”

Dr. Fong also said the move of doctors to private practice was good for the ministry.

Łódź, Poland – With one last hammer blow, U.S. Army Brig. General Clinton Murray affixed the U.S. Army Europe and Africa emblem to the wooden patch panel at the Polish Military Medicine Training Center in Łódź, Poland on July 27. This act emphasized the deepening of the collaboration between the military medical teams of the two allies. Earlier in the morning, US Army Europe and Africa Command Surgeon Murray and Polish Surgeon General Dr. Aurelia Ostrowska signed a historic Memorandum of Understanding on Combat Medicine Interoperability.

The MOA on Combat Medicine Interoperability establishes the scope, principles and procedures for combat medicine professionals from both countries to conduct bilateral training activities at two of Poland’s main military medicine facilities: the Military Medical Training Center in Łódź and the Military Medical Institute in Warsaw. The goal is to enable U.S. troops stationed in Poland to conduct collaborative training at these facilities with their Polish partners to enhance cooperation and gain confidence when operating as part of multinational teams.

Asked about the importance of the MOA, Murray replied, “As a medical officer, you work in two professions. One is a profession of arms and the other is a profession of medicine. In a place like Poland, you always balance the two. What is unique is that both professions serve in a way that goes beyond our country and ourselves. Having a servant leadership approach to combat medicine creates an essential balance with great partners like the Polish military medical team. It is a very exciting and humbling event.

Interoperability is key to the US Army’s vision for Europe and Africa. MOA marks a milestone in combat medicine training and supports continued interoperability with Polish allies. The resulting training opportunities will enable U.S. and Polish forces to routinely act together cohesively, effectively, and efficiently to achieve tactical, operational, and strategic objectives in support of maneuver operations.

Polish Colonel Zygmunt Glogowski, chief of plans at the Department of Military Medicine of the Ministry of Defense, described his views on Polish-American military medical relations.

“The most beneficial way to build our ties and cooperation is to understand how we can cooperate better together in the future.” said Glogowski. “I’m really proud that American medical leaders have visited our country. I deeply believe that this will open a new chapter in our cooperation for medical services.

Following the signing of the MOU, senior Polish and U.S. leaders attended MILITARY DOCTOR 22 Distinguished Visitors Day. MILITARY DOCTOR is Poland’s premier annual military field medical training exercise that functions as the l basic training event for their graduating military medical cadets. The eight-day exercise consists of combat medicine pathways from the point of injury, evacuation and treatment at field medical units (Role 1 and 2 facilities). This year, 16 U.S. soldiers from the 30th Medical Brigade, 4th Security Force Assistance Brigade, and 7th Army Training Command supported the event as guest observers and trainers. This was the third consecutive year that U.S. Army units in Europe and Africa have supported Exercise MILITARY DOCTOR.

News – PARK RIDGE, Ill. (AANA)—Leaders of the American Association of Nurse Anesthesiology (AANA) congratulated Shereef Elnahal, MD, on his confirmation as the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Undersecretary of Health and pledged the continued support of the ‘AANA at the VA to ensure that the nation’s veterans receive prompt, expert, and quality care.

In an Aug. 1 letter to the Undersecretary, AANA CEO Bill Bruce, MBA, CAE, emphasized the critical role that Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetists (CRNAs) play in the VA healthcare system. Bruce requested a meeting with the new Undersecretary to continue AANA’s discussions with the agency on the need to permanently expand the full practice authority under the CRNA license to provide medical services. anesthesia to veterans in every state.

Standardizing the most effective anesthesia care delivery models across the country will help ensure veterans receive safe, high-quality care at all VHA facilities, Bruce said. “VHA’s failure to utilize the safest and most effective models of care is causing our veterans to wait too long for the critical care they have earned and deserve.”

“Nurse anesthesiologists are experienced and highly trained anesthesiologists who provide high quality patient care, demonstrated by evidence from decades of scientific research,” Bruce wrote. “More than 1,000 CRNAs are available in the VHA to provide all types of anesthesia care as well as chronic pain management services to veterans.”

“We appreciate the work the agency has already done to protect our country’s veterans, especially during the [COVID-19] public health emergency,” Bruce wrote. The public health emergency “showed the urgent need for healthcare professionals to care for patients and also underscores the important role that CRNAs play in our healthcare system, especially when barriers to workforce practice work are eliminated at the state and federal levels,” he said. .

In April 2020, the VA issued Directive 1899, which allowed medical professionals, including CRNAs, to practice and operate at the peak of their training and state scope of practice. The following fall, the VA issued an interim final rule confirming that VA medical professionals, including CRNAs, may practice within the scope and requirements of their VA employment, notwithstanding any state licensing, registration, certification or other requirements that unduly interfere. with their practice. The regulations also confirm the authority of the VA to establish national standards of practice for healthcare professionals, which will standardize the practice of a healthcare professional at all VA medical facilities.

CRNAs are the primary providers of anesthesia for US military personnel. The ability of CRNAs to provide high quality care, even under the most difficult of circumstances, has been recognized by all branches of the U.S. military. CRNAs have full practice authority in the Army, Navy, and Air Force and are the primary provider of anesthesia in forward surgical teams and in combat support hospitals, where 90% of surgical teams advances are made up of CRNAs.

“We appreciate the recognition by the VA and VHA of the skills and value of CRNAs to healthcare, including the work on Directive 1899 which emphasized the importance of allowing CRNAs to practice to the fullest extent of their training,” Bruce said.

“We strongly applaud the VHA’s decision to remove barriers to care for our country’s veterans, including encouraging facilities to implement full practice authority for CRNAs, to enable them to practice at the top of their scope and training. This decision has allowed the VHA greater flexibility to care for our veterans, in a more efficient and cost-effective way that increases access to care,” he wrote. “Our country’s veterans deserve access to timely, cost-effective, high-quality care within the VA health care system. Removing unnecessary oversight and permanently implementing FPA for CRNAs will improve excellence in healthcare and practice by increasing veterans’ access to safe, high-quality healthcare personnel in the GO.

GLENVIEW, IL — A local cardiologist is not only making a difference in the lives of his Northwestern Medicine patients, but the Glenview resident is also giving medical students the chance to get first-hand experience before they even get their University diploma.

Micah Eimer, cardiologist and medical director of Northwestern Medicine’s Glenview, Evanston and Deerfield Ambulatory Centers, helped turn a summer internship program into a destination for students in need of on-the-job training.

Under the program, students from the United States, Canada, and Puerto Rico are assigned a clinical ward where they work and report to a physician as well as a program administrator. Once a week they rotate to observe a different specialty as part of the unique learning opportunity.

“We strive to offer a mix of academic work and observation, and are pleased to offer those dedicated students who have already shown a passion for medicine an 8-week paid opportunity to work with some of the greatest medical experts,” Eimer, a Glenview native, said in a news release.

“What I realize now is how much of an impact this is also having on doctors, who have a moment to step back from their busy schedules and professional demands, and take the time to provide advice. and inspiration to a young adult who has shown a passion for the study of medicine.”

Students from 21 schools have been accepted into the internship program, which has tripled since its inception. However, due to the influx of applicants who wanted to participate, only 4% of applicants were accepted for the internship.

In addition to the direct work experience students receive, the program also offers a weekly lecture series. The students recently met and had lunch with John Bluford of South Carolina, who spoke about his lessons learned as health system CEO and provided advice on leadership and equity, officials said.

Since this year, 143 pre-med students have completed the program, many of whom are now in medical school. The current class is 51 students, who have the opportunity to shadow and learn from more than 45 leading physicians at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago, in the northern suburbs of Northwestern Medicine Lake Forest Hospital, and Northwestern Medicine Outpatient Centers in Glenview and Gurnee; Northwestern Medicine Palos Hospital in Palos Heights and Northwestern Medicine Central DuPage Hospital in Winfield.

Jyoti Patel, MD, oncology at Northwestern Memorial Hospital, appreciated the mentorship of Shreyas Menon, a rising junior at Northwestern University, and Mason Hewlett, a rising junior at the University of Kentucky.

“Shreyas and Mason’s mentorship has given me the opportunity to not only teach what I’ve learned, but it’s given me a new appreciation for what I do,” Patel said. “The program is excellent and so rejuvenating for me personally. Seeing the curiosity and wonder of students at the intersection of patient care and science reminds us why we love our profession so much.”

More information about the internship program can be found here.

The Ateneo de Manila University shooter was handed over to a Bureau of Prisons Management and Penology (BJMP) facility in Quezon City, the Philippine National Police (PNP) said on Sunday.

Dr. Chao-Tiao Yumol will be held at the office premises in Quezon City Police District (QCPD) Chief Payatas. said General Remus Medina.

Yumol was transferred to Payatas prison on Saturday.

He will be arraigned this week on three counts of murder; a frustrated murder boss; car theft, illegal possession of firearms and malicious mischief.

No bail has been recommended for the murder charges. Bail of 200,000 pesos was recommended for the frustrated murder charge.

Yumol shot and killed former Lamitan, Basilan Mayor Rosita Furigay, his aide Victor George Capistrano and campus security guard Jeneven Bandiala last week.

Medina said Yumol had a personal grudge against Furigay.

The Furigays filed 76 cyberdefamation cases against Yumol, leaving the suspect unable to practice his medical profession.

Meanwhile, the remains of the former mayor arrived in her hometown on Sunday, a week after she was shot dead on the campus of Ateneo de Manila University in Quezon City.

The wooden coffin carrying his remains arrived in Calugusan, Lamitan Town around 8 a.m.

Her husband, the Mayor of Lamitan, Roderick Furigay, took the remains of the ex-mayor to their home in Barangay Malinis.

Fulfilling both an educational and medical role, Boston University School of Medicine and Boston Medical Center, BU’s primary teaching hospital, have hired Anthony “Tony” Hollenberg as the new chairman of MED’s Department of Medicine and Chief Medical Officer and Chief Medical Officer of BMC. Hollenberg, an endocrinologist who will also be a John Wade professor at MED, will arrive in the fall, replacing David Coleman, who announced his intention to retire in 2021.

“It’s clear that BMC’s mission is even bigger now,” Hollenberg said. UB today, a reference to the impact of Covid-19 on society. “We learned during the pandemic that people from underrepresented populations or with limited access to health care experienced greater illness and higher death rates, especially during the early stages of the pandemic.”

He described the pandemic as “an MRI of our health care system” because of how it exposed inequities in health care delivery. BMC, together with BU Academic Excellence, is poised to lead efforts to improve our health care system in Boston and across the country.

Hollenberg is currently chairman of the Joan and Sanford I. Weill Department of Medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine and chief medical officer of New York-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center in New York City. Previously, he was Chief of the Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Metabolism and Vice President of Mentoring at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) and Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School.

A Toronto native (he admits he’s a Blue Jays fan but also loves the Bruins) and a leading physician-scientist specializing in endocrinology, Hollenberg completed his residency in internal medicine at BIDMC, followed by a clinical and research fellowship in Massachusetts. General Hospital. His work focuses on thyroid disorders, specifically studying the physiological and molecular mechanisms by which thyroid hormones regulate metabolism, including body weight.

His laboratory explored the foundations of thyroid gland development; he has published nearly 100 original studies.

In a joint memo, Karen Antman, Dean of MED and Provost of the Medical Campus, and Kate Walsh, President and CEO of BMC, wrote of Hollenberg: “Under her leadership, the department will cultivate and attract top talent. in academic medicine and research while also nurturing and mentoring emerging talent, advancing our core missions and further raising the national profile of BUSM/BMC.

Mentoring, Hollenberg said, is an important part of his role that he looks forward to. “Medical students are only better these days,” he says. “They know the world we live in better and are determined to have a greater impact. We need to train them to be extremely good at what they do and then to have an impact on society.

When Hollenberg spoke at Weill Cornell Medicine’s annual white coat ceremony last year, he talked about what it means to be a doctor in today’s trying times. “Donning the coat is a privilege, and with it comes great responsibility,” he said. “Indeed, the importance of the education you begin or the career you embark on cannot be overstated. It is a career and a profession steeped in tradition, but welcoming change based on new science, understanding the mistakes and inequalities of the past, and seeking innovations that will challenge and meet the needs unsatisfied doctors.