No. 377,
February 2005
Editor: Kathleen Watson,
M.D., drwatson@umn.edu
Editorial Assistant: Allison
Campbell, aac@umn.edu
Planning group meets for Med 2010:
Transforming education
"We're
doing well now [educating medical students]," said Kathy Watson, M.D., "but by
2010, if we're doing the same things, the world will have left us behind." She
spoke at the first meeting of the planning group for Med 2010, a project to
transform education at the
Orientation added to Transition Day,
April 15
Year two
medical students from the
Outstanding service award to Helene
Horwitz
The
Association of American Medical Colleges Central Group on Student Affairs will
present its Outstanding Service Award for 2005 to Helene Horwitz, Ph.D., our
associate dean for Student Affairs, at its regional meeting April 14-17. Her
leading and service to the CGSA have been "remarkable," according to the letter
announcing her award. One who nominated Horwitz cited her involvement of
others, "creating greater member ownership and strengthening the organization
for the future." Horwitz also was praised for her skills in mentoring others.
Congratulations, Helene!
Delegation from
Led
by
New pediatrics fellowship for
clinician researchers
Pediatrics'
Division of General Pediatrics and Adolescent Health is accepting applications
for a new fellowship, the Primary Care Fellowship in General Pediatrics. The
overall purpose of this fellowship is to improve the status of children and
adolescents by training a cadre of pediatric clinician researchers who will
assume positions of leadership in general pediatrics within academic
institutions, conduct the next generation of primary care research, and train a
new generation of pediatricians who will be committed to serving children in
low-income, high-need areas. The fellowship is two to three years and includes
an integrated set of coursework leading to a Master's in Public Health, two
half-days per week in clinics serving historically underserved populations of
children, and mentored research experiences. The fellowship will be grounded in
a division with an extensive research and publication record as well as 25
years of experience in post-graduate fellowship training. The fellowship is
open to physicians who have completed a pediatrics residency program by the
start of the program and are board-certified or board-eligible. Those from
racial and ethnic communities underrepresented in medicine and primary care are
encouraged to apply. To find out more, please e-mail Iris Borowsky, M.D.,
Ph.D., at borow004@umn.edu.
During
their February and March preceptorship visits, second-year medical students
from
Feb. 8: Listen to a Great
Conversation
Medical School cardiologist Anne Taylor,
M.D., a researcher on a recent study of the effectiveness of a combination of
heart drugs for African-Americans, will discuss that controversial study and
other issues of race and gender in medical treatment with Vivian Pinn, M.D., director
of the Office of Research on Women's Health at the National Institutes of
Health, 7:30 p.m., Feb. 8, at Ted Mann Concert Hall. Tickets for this evening
in the University's Great Conversation series are $28.50--or $23.50 for U of M
faculty, staff and students, Presidents Club and UMAA members. Call 612-624-2345
or go online to www.cce.umn.edu/conversations
and click on Tickets.
Be immunized or be barred from
patient contact
To stay
enrolled and be able to see patients, about 250 students across the
Seeing more R.E.D. (Resident Educator Development)
Teaching during oral presentations (February 18) and How to give a
10-minute talk on anything (March 11) are upcoming topics during the monthly
Resident Educator Development (R.E.D.) training sessions. R.E.D. sessions are
scheduled for one Friday of the month from 7 to 8 a.m. in B-646 Mayo. Breakfast is provided and parking is validated. All
residents who are involved in teaching are strongly encouraged to participate.
To find out more, and to register, click on www.meded.umn.edu/red/ .
Alum with global focus chosen as
commencement speaker
At
commencement May 6, the class of 2005 will be addressed by an outstanding
alumna Joia Mukherjee, M.D., M.P.H. Mukherjee has been involved in health care
access and human rights issues since 1989 in the United States, Africa, Latin
America, the Caribbean, and the countries of the former Soviet Union. Since 1999, she has served as the Medical
Director of Partners in Health, an international medical charity with clinical
programs in
Summer fellowship in cancer research seeks medical student applicants
First-
and second-year medical students are encouraged to apply for the 2005 National
Cancer Institute Summer Student Fellowship Program at
Course director close-up: Manoj Monga, M.D.
"Every
student learns a little differently, so it's important to be adaptable and have
a variety of teaching techniques," says Manoj Monga, M.D., course director in
urologic surgery. When Monga was medical student, one of his most inspiring
teachers worked in the
Urology
is one of the surgical specialties that medical students may choose during
their clerkships and about one-third take it. Monga would like all of the
students to have some clinical exposure to urology, because much of his
specialty's work has shifted to the primary care arena: what were once surgical
problems, like sexual dysfunction, benign prostatic enlargement, and
incontinence, can now often be effectively managed with medications. All
students who take Urology 7200 receive a CD-ROM with lectures on common
urologic topics. To reach all the medical students with information about
urologic surgery, Monga's colleague Steven Schwartz, M.D., is developing a
handbook for students.
Monga's
commitment to education extends to serving on the Education Council and the
planning group for the Med 2010 curriculum project to transform education. "It's
not that often that you get involved on the ground level [of a project] that
has the potential to be revolutionary," he says. It's exciting and, he adds, "it
will be a good learning experience."
Editor's note: Here's food for
thought, from Hippocrates...
Source:
Hippocratic Writings, "The Canon" A brief note on the characteristics
desirable in a student of medicine.
"For
a man (sic) to be truly suited to the practice of medicine, (s)he must be
possessed of a natural disposition for it, the necessary instruction, favorable
circumstances, education, industry and time... Prolonged industry on the part of
the student is necessary if instruction, firmly planted in his mind, is to
bring forth good and luxuriant fruit... Our characters resemble the soil, our
masters' precepts the seed; education is the sowing of the seed in season and
the circumstances of teaching resemble the climatic conditions that control the
growth of plants. Industrious toil and the passage of time strengthen the plant
and bring it to maturity."