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This month's news:
Planning for new medical campus continues
A time to celebrate learning and teaching: 4th
Annual Innovations in Medical Education event to be held April 28
The CALL FOR BRIGHT IDEAS extended
to April 13
RSVP for upcoming Phoenix Faculty Meeting
AzMEC to hold "Educating Physicians
for End of Life Care" class on April 15th
Annual Academic Excellence Day to be held May 4th
UA College of Medicine, Phoenix Campus appoints
new faculty
MHEP Program receives $59,350 grant
from the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation
Next session of the Arizona
Hispanic Center of Excellence Brow Bag Lunch Series to be held April
14
UA College of Medicine students selected as
national honor medical society members
Planning for new medical school campus continues
Renovation of the historic Phoenix Union High School buildings has
begun in preparation for the planned July 2006 opening of the
Phoenix Program of The University of Arizona College of Medicine.
A "Construction Kick-Off Celebration" will be held on April
27th to commemorate the start of the renovation efforts. The
event will start at 9 a.m. and the program will begin at 10:30 a.m.
For more information regarding the event, please call (602)631-6555.
In August, 2004 the Arizona Board
of Regents approved a historic agreement to expand the operations of
the UA College of Medicine in Phoenix, in collaboration with Arizona
State University. The City of Phoenix subsequently provided
land to establish the Phoenix Biomedical Campus of the Arizona
University System. The campus is located on 13 acres in
downtown Phoenix and will include the expansion of the UA College of
Medicine. The campus will serve a key role in addressing
Arizona's shortage of physicians.
Arizona Governor Janet Napolitano
has appointed a 10-member statewide Commission on Medical Education
and Research to guide the establishment of the Biomedical Campus.
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The 4th
Annual Innovations in Medical Education will be held at the Phoenix
Airport Marriott on Thursday, April 28. This is a special evening
for Phoenix faculty, community preceptors, and residents to come
together and reflect on their roles as Medical Educators.
The evening
begins with the Bright Idea Poster Session (5:30-6:30 pm) featuring
the scholarship of learning and teaching that depicts educational
research and innovation. This is followed by a candlelight buffet
and program (6:30 – 8:30 pm) that includes music, awards, an
entertaining Readers Theater, and a keynote presentation, “Humanism
and Medicine: A Personal Approach”, by Faith Fitzgerald, MD, MACP,
professor and associate dean, UC Davis Medical School. Dr.
Fitzgerald is known not only for her enthusiasm and passion for
teaching, but also recognized as a medical Sherlock Holmes who has
frequently demonstrated her powers of deduction to national and
international audiences.
Sponsors for the
event include the Maricopa County Medical Society, the Arizona
Medical Education Consortium, and The University of Arizona.
Registration is required! For more information or to register
call (602)631-4609 or email
bej@u.arizona.edu. Our website is at
www.ahsc.arizona.edu/phoenix/ime.
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The CALL FOR BRIGHT IDEAS extended to April 13
The CALL FOR
BRIGHT IDEAS for the poster session at the Innovations in
Medical Education Event (April 28) is being extended to April
13. The goals of the Bright Idea Network are to support the
development of a scholarship of learning and teaching. We
encourage faculty, community preceptors, fellows, or residents
to submit an idea (up to one page) that describes an
educational practice that you have found to be successful and/or
you may submit a poster that describes your work in
greater detail. Submit your application online at
www.ahsc.arizona.edu/phoenix/ime.
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The
next Phoenix Faculty Meeting and Teaching Awards Presentation will
be held on April 18, 2005 at 5:15 p.m. at the Phoenix Airport
Marriot. The Marriot is located at 1101 North 44th Street.
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Holistic
care, legal and ethical issues, communication, advance care
planning, medical futility, pain and symptom management are
topics to be discussed at the Educating Physicians for End
of Life Care conference that will be held on Friday, April
15. The course will be offered by the Arizona Medical
Education Consortium (AzMEC) from 8:15 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. at
the Flinn Foundation located at 1802 North Central Avenue.
This course is required by all primary care residency
training programs.
Pre-registration: bej@u.arizona.edu , call 602-631-4609 or online at
www.ahsc.arizona.edu/azmec/epecreg.htm.
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The Ninth
Annual Academic Excellence Day, sponsored by the Arizona Medical
Education Consortium and its member hospitals, will be held on
Wednesday, May 4, 2005 at the Mayo Clinic Arizona. Academic
Excellence Day is an opportunity to focus attention on the
magnitude and variety of clinical and bench research being done
by residents, fellows, graduate students, clinical allied health
staff and physician staff.
Participating
institutions include Banner Good Samaritan Hospital, Maricopa
Integrated Health System, Mayo Clinic Arizona, Phoenix
Children’s Hospital, St. Joseph’s Hospital & Medical Center and
Scottsdale Healthcare.
A panel of
jurors will judge the presentations and award the prizes at the
awards ceremony. The keynote speaker at the luncheon will be
Dr. David Duggan, research investigator at TGen.
For more
information regarding this event, e-mail
KMA@u.arizona.edu.
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The following individual has been awarded a faculty
appointment to the College of Medicine Phoenix Campus:
Francisco C. Ramirez, MD,
professor of clinical medicine
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The FACES.
(Fostering & Achieving Cultural Equity and Sensitivity in Health
Professions) Migrant Health Education Program (MHEP) was
recently awarded $59,350 from the Phoenix Affiliate of the Susan
G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation, Inc. The MHEP is a community
outreach program of the Arizona State University Chapter of
FACES, a pre-health student organization sponsored by the Office
of Academic Access and Achievement at the University of Arizona
Health Sciences, Phoenix Campus.
This is the
third consecutive time that MHEP program has received Susan G.
Komen funding. The grant enables the students to continue
offering free mammograms to medically underserved communities.
An example of the communities served in the past through these
dedicated students and the generosity of the Komen Foundation
include Gila Bend, Phoenix, Aguilar, and Eloy. The students work
with local health fairs, community clinics, and non-profit
agencies to offer the Mobile On-site Mammography (MOM) Clinics.
In addition, the pre-health students provide breast cancer
screening education to community participants.
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The next
presentation in the Arizona Hispanic Center of Excellence Brown
Bag Lunch Series, "Investigating Health Disparities: New Agendas
for National Research Institutes" will be held April 14 from 11
a.m. to 2 p.m. The telecast of the Harvard School of
Public Health – Health Disparities Symposia can be viewed at the
Phoenix Campus Videoconference Room. For reservations, please
call (602)631-6571.
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UA College of Medicine students selected
as national honor medical society members
Mo Khan and Brook Tlougan
from the UA College of Medicine in Phoenix and Joy Lippe,
Judah Pifer, and Jodi Sebso from the College of Medicine in
Tucson were recently selected to the prestigious Alpha Omega
Alpha (AOA) national honor medical society for their
outstanding excellence in medical science. AOA selection is
limited to the top one-sixth of each graduating class.
Students selected by the society have met the requisite high
academic standing and, in the judgment of the members of the
local chapter, show future leadership potential.
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