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PROVIDENCE, R.I.The Rhode Island House has voted to allow a for-profit osteopathic medical school to open in the state.

The 65 to 6 vote Tuesday would permit the school to open, if it meets applicable academic standards.

Supporters say the Rhode Island School of Osteopathic Medicine would help address a projected shortage of primary care doctors, and would create 300 jobs in the state.

Opponents questioned the requirements for admittance to the school.

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NEW YORK, May 14, 2012 /PRNewswire/ — A full slate of complimentary leading industry education is on tap at the New York Spa & Resort/Medical Aesthetics Expo, June 19-20, at the Javits Center in New York, including the latest trends on health and wellness, skin brightening procedures and laser technologies. The Industry Education Theater on the Spa & Resort show floor will provide attendees with up to date access to the latest treatments, devices, trends, and marketing strategies for successful spa operations. Spa & Resort is co-located with HBA Global Expo & Conference and is part of the annual Beauty Week, at New York’s Jacob K. Javits Convention Center.

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Free educational programming for Spa & Resort attendees starts with “Creating a Successful Spa or Medical Practice,” presented by Carrie Gross, President & CEO of Dr. Dennis Gross Skin Care, on Tuesday, June 19th at 11:00 a.m. A true leader in the medical aesthetics industry, Ms. Gross who currently runs the NYC medical practice, will share her valuable insight and knowledge on best practices with attendees.

“Spa TrendsFocus on Health & Wellness” will be presented by industry veteran Joanne Berry, Director of Spa and Wellness, Bellus Academy, at 12 Noon on Tuesday, June 19th. She will talk about the new paradigm shift from ‘pampering’ to health ‘prevention’ and ‘promotion’ of a healthier lifestyle. This session delivers a glimpse into the future of the industry, giving attendees ideas on how to incorporate these key learnings to boost profitability, increases customer satisfaction, and attract new staffing talent.

Next in the theater will be”Trends in Skin Brightening Procedures, Products & Methods” by Ramona Ray, National Trainer and Educator, Strivection / NIA 24. This session will provide a comprehensive overview of the causes of visible skin pigmentation, the market and potential of new ingredient solutions, and current trends in this fastest growing skin care category.

“How To Become A Cosmetic Laser Technician & Build Your Business” will be taught by industry experts Louis Silberman, Founder, and Carolyn Heyland, Director of Education Development, of the National Laser Institute: School of Medical Aesthetics.

Another business-building workshop on the “Evaluation of the Utility of Low-level Laser Therapy for Non-Invasive Body Contouring” will be presented by Ryan Maloney, Zerona. Tuesday’s educational programming ends with “Slim Line System Featuring the Vevazz Lipo Light,” a complete turnkey weight loss business system showcased by Dr. Jamie Fettig, CEO, Slim Line System.

A popular well-being offering, “Reflexology: A Step into the Future,” kicks off the free sessions in the Spa & ResortTheater on Wednesday, June 20th. David Cook, Instructor, International Institute of Reflexology will discuss this unique modality in the health and wellness field and demonstrate the difference between massage and reflexology, and other kinds of manipulative procedure, as well as the history of reflexology, what is new in the field, and where the future is headed with reflexology.

A fun presentation of “Facial Exercise Techniques;” by Cynthia Rowland, Anti-aging Specialist and Creator, Facial Magic will show attendees how to lift their face in seconds, renew skin tone, and see immediate results. Demonstrations on “Bella Contour by Real Aesthetics;” and “Laser Treatment in the MediSpa Safe and Effective with Aerolase;” will also be presented.

Spa & Resort attendees also have access to the Trends Spot Theater (part of the adjacent HBA Global Expo), highlighting the latest in makeup, color, packaging, ingredients, and consumer buying and featuring presentations by professional make-up artists like Eve Pearl, the Eyebrow King, Damone Roberts,Aging Backwards, Jackie Silver and Lady Emmy with Beauty Trends 101.

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Medical school can be a grueling four-year journey consisting of never-ending memorization, clinical rotations and sleepless nights. So why do some students extend their medical school status by plunging into a research lab for an extra year of studies?

Its all about the why, explains Dylan Wolman, a medical student at Tufts University School of Medicine. A year of research provides an avenue to practice what should be an essential skill in any scientific field: questioning ‘why. It is a thought exercise that will serve you there by teaching you to question why an unexplained symptom in a particular disease constellation occurs, and perhaps even help you develop the spark necessary to pursue that question to its answer, Wolman says.

Wolman and another medical student awardee will immerse themselves in a year of intense lab research at the Howard Hughes Medical Institutes Janelia Farm Research Campus as part of the HHMI Medical Research Fellows Program, a $2.5 million annual initiative to increase the training of future physician-scientists. In all, 70 students from 27 medical schools across the country will participate in the year-long Medical Research Fellows Program. More than 1,400 students have participated in the Medical Research Fellows program since its inception in 1989.

A year spent focused on research has been transformative for many fellows, and shaped their interest and determination to become physician-scientists. Sean B. Carroll

Wolman, who is halfway through his medical studies at Tufts, is taking a year off from medical school to conduct cutting-edge research on brain wiring at Janelia Farm in Ashburn, Virginia. At Janelia Farm, Wolman will use light and electron microscopy techniques to study the neural connectivity between the mouse motor and barrel cortex. He will work under the mentorship of Janelia Farm fellow Davi Bock and group leader Karel Svoboda.

A year spent focused on research has been transformative for many fellows, and shaped their interest and determination to become physician-scientists, says Sean B. Carroll, HHMIs vice president for science education.

One of the medical research fellows will spend a part of his year researching tuberculosis in South Africa. Eric Kalivoda, a student from the University of Vermont College of Medicine, will work at the KwaZulu-Natal Research Institute for Tuberculosis and HIV (K-RITH), in Durban, South Africa, for several months under the mentorship of HHMI investigator William Jacobs. This is the first time that one of the medical fellows will be spending a portion of the fellowship year at K-RITH.

K-RITH is a groundbreaking collaboration between HHMI and the University of KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa. K-RITHs mission is to conduct outstanding basic science research on tuberculosis (TB) and HIV, translate the scientific findings into new tools to control TB and HIV, and expand the educational opportunities in the region. Kalivoda will travel to Durban mid-way through his fellowship, and then return to the United States to spend the rest of the year in Jacobs lab at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York.

K-RITH offers the unique perspective to study and address HIV/XDR-TB at its epicenter, and I look forward to working with my mentor and the K-RITH team of scientists to develop improved diagnostics for rapid TB drug-susceptibility testing, said Kalivoda.

David McMullen, a fellow from the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School in New Jersey, will spend the year doing research on brain-computer interfaces in a non-HHMI lab at Johns Hopkins University. McMullen will work with Hopkins scientists who are developing brain-computer interface technology as a potential treatment that would help patients with neuromuscular damage regain motor function.

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Ministers are to be asked by Plymouth City Council to review a decision to divide a medical school.

Plymouth and Exeter universities announced in January that they wanted to separate the Peninsula College of Medicine and Dentistry.

Councillors are concerned about the potential impact of the de-merger on the economy and healthcare provision.

The universities said separate schools in each city would result in places for more students.

The college currently has places for 200 medical and 64 dentistry students.

The de-merger would see a medical and dentistry school in Plymouth and a medical school in Exeter.

The council decision to write to ministers comes after Plymouth University announced its leadership team for the city’s new school, due to open in 2013, earlier this month.

The city council had requested a 12-week consultation into the de-merger proposals.

A Conservative councillor and former member of the now Labour council’s health scrutiny panel, Dr David Salter, said: “We do not want these universities to pull apart without us being sure on behalf of our citizens that healthcare will continue to be good in our area.”

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GRAND FORKS, N.D. (AP) The University of North Dakota medical school is holding its spring commencement ceremony.

The school says doctor of medicine degrees will be conferred on 61 people during the Sunday afternoon ceremony at the Chester Fritz Auditorium on the Grand Forks campus.

A ceremony for the school’s physician assistant class was being held Saturday. Fifty-five people were eligible to receive that degree.

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AUGUSTA, Ga. — Friday is the big day for nearly 200 medical students at Georgia Health Sciences University. They’ll graduate and officially become doctors.

One of those students is Ajay Pillai. His mother and father are both doctors in Warner Robins, Ga., so maybe it’s not a surprise that Pillai would take the medical path, too. But he sure took a short cut.

“So, I’m 21. Definitely different starting medical school when you’re 17 years old,” Pillai joked.

Definitely different … and definitely impressive.

Sound like a real-life Doogie Howser?

“No,” Pillai groaned. “That nickname has stuck with me since I was 13 years old!”

That’s because Pillai has been on the fast track to his M.D. since middle school.

“It’s an interesting story! I was 13 years old in the eighth grade, and I was taking the SATs to get into a summer camp.”

Those scores were so good, the school sent them to the University of West Georgia for a program called Advanced Academy. They typically enroll juniors and seniors in high school to take college courses.

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By John Dorschner The Miami Herald

1:32 p.m. EDT, May 8, 2012

MIAMI

The University of Miami medical school is laying off 800 people, a state website reported at mid-day Tuesday.

As required by law, UM filed a WARN notice announcing the layoffs. The layoff date is July 31.

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MIAMI (CBSMiami) TheUniversity of Miami medical school says it has already started laying off employees. And while the school did tell the state that 800 positions would be affected, the dean of the school says he hopes that fewer than 800 people will be laid off.

Dean Pascal Goldschmidt told reporters that no medical care givers would lose their jobs. The layoffs will impact those in administrative and research positions.

This is really the last resort, said Goldschmidt. We have done everything to solve this, reducing our expenses and now the number of employees.

The UM school of medicine has about 8,000 employees.

TheUMschool of medicinehad filed a WARN notice with the state that the layoff date would be July 31st. Goldschmidt said the layoffs would be staggered over a period of time.

Dr. Obi Ekwenna is the chief resident in Urology and in his fifth year at the school. Hes concerned not only for those losing jobs, but also for the patients.

It is tough, people their jobs and being laid off, Dr. Ekwenna said. Its very sad, not only for the community, but for the patients. Ultimately, they are the ones affected the most.

The move comes just weeks after UM President Donna Shalala told employees that significant cuts were being planned at the medical school. Shalala said a huge drop in funding for research and clinical care, along with a sharp cutback in payments from the Jackson Health System, and the Great Recession were all factors in the decision.

According to the Herald, payments to UM from Jackson have dropped by $16 million in the last two years.

I think the economic downturn is affecting our country as a whole, trickling down to hospitals and universities as a whole, Dr. Ekwenna said.

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MIAMI

The University of Miami medical school is laying off 800 people, a state website reported at mid-day Tuesday.

As required by law, UM filed a WARN notice announcing the layoffs. The layoff date is July 31.

The full story can be read at MiamiHerald.com.

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The University of Miami’s medical school on Tuesday started laying off up to 800 workers, NBC 6 learned.

The layoffs at the Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine will be completed by May 31, the end of UM’s fiscal year. A Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification was posted to floridajobs.org.

A UM spokeswoman told NBC 6 that no clinical staff workers who directly deal with patients are affected and that some workers will be rehired in restructured positions.

In a letter sent to employees April 24, Miller’s Dean Dr. Pascal Goldschmidt announced the reductions, calling them “painful but essential.”

“There are no easy choices due to decreases in government funding, health insurance changes, and the financial struggles of our valued partners at Jackson Memorial Hospital, and it is clear that part of our strengthening must involve rightsizing our organization and reducing our workforce,” Goldschmidt said. “To remain focused on providing better care to our community, we are reducing administrative duplication and unfunded research so we may deploy more resources to our clinical operations.”

Goldschmidt told NBC 6 that “patient care is entirely untouched.”

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1:32 p.m. EDT, May 8, 2012

MIAMI

The University of Miami medical school is laying off 800 people, a state website reported at mid-day Tuesday.

As required by law, UM filed a WARN notice announcing the layoffs. The layoff date is July 31.

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MIAMI (AP) – University of Miami officials say the medical school is planning to lay off as many as 800 people.

UM President Donna Shalala told The Miami Herald (http://bit.ly/Ju2nBc ) Tuesday that the move will better prepare the school for the future.

Shalala says state budget cuts, reduced funds for research, cuts in compensation from insurers and cutbacks in payments by Jackson Health System have made the changes necessary. She says said some medical school employees will be let go, but may be rehired after restructuring of departments. Some will retire and others will accept severance packages. Shalala says no doctors or nurses who provide clinical care would be affected.

Those laid off will be notified this month. The reduction amounts to 8% of the medical center’s 10,000-person workforce.

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University of Miami President Donna E. Shalala talks about layoffs at the University of Miami Health System, including the medical school. Shalala spoke to the Miami Herald Tuesday, May 8, 2012.

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Up to 800 people will lose their jobs under a major restructuring at the University of Miami medical school, President Donna Shalala said Tuesday.

State budget cuts, less research money, lower compensation from insurers and cutbacks in payments by Jackson Health System made the changes necessary, Shalala said during a meeting at the Miami Herald.

Its not a great situation, Shalala said, but at the end of the day, well be a much stronger healthcare system of a much higher quality because we will be able to reinvest in healthcare delivery. … Weve moved this institution to new heights. The world is changing beneath our feet.

Laid-off workers are being notified this month, Shalala said. A notice UM filed with the state Tuesday announced the university would cut 800 jobs by July 31, but Shalala said the final number is likely to be lower. The cutback is the largest by any employer in the state since the medical schools campus neighbor, Jackson, announced 920 layoffs in February.

The UM reduction amounts to 8 percent of the medical centers 10,000-person workforce. Shalala said no doctors or nurses who provide clinical care would be affected. The cuts announced Tuesday come after 182 temporary workers were laid off in late March.

Most of the UM layoffs are concentrated in research and administration as the university centralizes services to serve the entire enterprise. About 150 people who schedule appointments will lose their jobs in various departments as that service is centralized. About 150 in research administration and 110 researchers will also be let go, according to the letter UM filed with the state.

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