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Med-Start begins program in Maricopa County ‘Innovations in Medical Education’ caps the Professional Development Series Awards
and honors Med-Start begins program in Maricopa CountyThe new summer pilot program called Maricopa Med-Start (M²) begins on June 20, 2004 and will offer 12 students from Maricopa County an opportunity to learn first-hand what it takes to become a health care professional. The intensive five-week program is modeled after the successful 35 year-old Med-Start Program at the University of Arizona Health Sciences Center in Tucson. Starting a Med-Start program in Maricopa County is definitely needed. “Each year close to 250 applications are received for the Tucson program; with almost 50 percent of those applications coming from Maricopa County. Yet, since the capacity in Tucson is 60 participants, many qualified Maricopa County students have to be turned away,” said Jonathan Robles, director, Phoenix Office of Minority Affairs, director, Hispanic Center of Excellence and past Med-Start participant. Maricopa Med-Start is designed for Maricopa County high school students to explore health and biomedical research careers while learning the realities of college academics and college life. “The students who participate in Maricopa Med-Start have interest, talent and ambition, but need our help to reach their goals,” said Robles. The program provides academic enrichment and health career exploration in college level English; clinical skills training; special lectures on health careers, tours of health care and research facilities; preparation for college seminars; leadership sessions; and dormitory life experience. The students will earn six units of college credit. Since its beginning at the UA Health Sciences campus in 1968, over 2,000 students have completed Med-Start. Eighty percent of these students have continued on in pursuit of college degrees and rewarding careers in health care, among others.
‘Innovations in Medical Education’ caps the Professional Development SeriesThe Third Annual Innovations in Medical Education (IME) that caps the Best Practices of Medical Educators’ professional development program was held on Tuesday evening, May 11, at the Arizona Medical Association. Grace Caputo, MD, MPH, director of the Phoenix Children’s Hospital MMC Pediatric Residency Program, hosted the event. Nearly fifty people were in attendance. The two winners of the Bright Idea Network poster exhibit, which featured current scholarship of learning and teaching were: Emily Zaragoza Lao, MD, family & community medicine, St. Joseph’s Hospital & Medical Center, for her poster “Interactive Teaching on Inpatient Rounds: Using Internet Searches to Answer Clinical Questions” and Sandra Miller, MD, family & community medicine, Banner Good Samaritan Medical Center, for her poster “Ambulatory Longitudinal Seminars.” This focus of this year’s program, “Humor Is the Best Medicine,” was captured through skits performed by Drs. KeriLyn Morgan (Banner GSMC), Allan Markus (St. Joseph’s Hospital & Medical Center), and William Dachman (Maricopa Medical Center). Our guest presenter, Maria Patti, who directed the Readers’ Circle, discussed “Bringing Humor into the Classroom.” The sponsors
for the IME event were, Arizona Medical Association, Arizona Medical
Education Consortium, Maricopa County Medical Society, and the UA
Health Sciences Phoenix Campus.
Awards and honors• In addition to the Teaching Awards that were presented at the spring Phoenix Faculty meeting on April 12, the following faculty received "Honorable Mentions" for their teaching service: James Balducci, MD, Ob-Gyn, St. Joseph’s Hospital & Medical Center; David Beyda, MD, pediatrics, Phoenix Children’s Hospital; Matthew Borst, MD, Ob-Gyn, Good Samaritan Regional Medical Center; William Chavira, MD, Ob-Gyn, Maricopa Integrated Health System; John Ferrara, MD, surgery, Good Samaritan Regional Medical Center; Michael Foley, MD, Ob-Gyn, Good Samaritan Regional Medical Center; Glen Y. Kishi, MD, Ob-Gyn, Phoenix Indian Medical Center; Leigh McGill, MD, pediatrics, Phoenix Children’s Hospital; Lilia Parra-Roide, MD, pediatrics, St. Joseph’s Hospital and Medical Center; Jordan Perlow, MD, Ob-Gyn, Good Samaritan Regional Medical Center; Chris Ramsook, MD, pediatrics, Phoenix Children’s Hospital; Patricia Rocha, MD, internal medicine, Carl T. Hayden VA Medical Center; and William Salyer, MD, surgery, Good Samaritan Regional Medical Center. • Michele Lundy, MD, has been named by the Arizona Academy of Family Physicians as the Arizona Family Physician of the Year. •
The UA College of Medicine Senior Awards Breakfast was held on May
13, following is a list of those honored with awards from the Phoenix
campus: Jennifer Baumbach, Glasgow-Rubn, Achievement
Citation Award; Darcey Winterland, The Merck Manual
Award; Molly Knecht Haley, Matthew Porter, Sandy (Haberman)
Stack, Stephanie Mayes, Outstanding Achievement Award;
Ruth Franks, Ben Martel, John Hacket III, Arizona
Medical Association Award; Ben Martel, Community
Scholar Award to Oustanding Seniors in Community Medicine; Tara
(Kelley) Gregory, Outstanding Student of Medicine; Stephanie
Mayes, American Academy of Neurology Prize; Shauna
Gulley, Hugh C. Thompson, M.D. Student Award for Excellence
in Pediatrics; Rishi Gosalia, Department of Radiology
Outstanding Student Award; Chandra Krishnan, Department
of Surgery Outstanding Senior Student in Surgery Award; Ben
Martel, Peter J. Attarian, PhD Humanitarian Award; Ben
Martel and Kipp Charlton, MD, Leonard Tow Humanism in Medicine
Awards; and Harlan Stone, MD, Outstanding Teacher
in the Clinical Sciences. Welcome new employees to UA College of Medicine - Phoenix Campus• Shari Wall was recently hired as the administrative assistant for the Arizona Biomedical Collaborative (ABC). Shari will be located at the ABC office, which is in downtown Phoenix at the APS building next to TGen. She will support the ABC staff, and support and report to Ginger Yrun in her capacity as director of the Arizona Health Policy and Law Initiative. •
Yessica Chavez recently began as administrative
assistant for the UA College of Medicine - Phoenix Campus Development Office. She is
a graduate of the Maricopa County Medical Interpreter Project and
previously served for the past six years as administrative assistant
and program coordinator for the Gift of Life Program. Yessica will
report to and support Shaun Brenton in her capacity as director
of development for UA College of Medicine - Phoenix Campus.
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