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Xavier receives milestone $50M gift toward College of Osteopathic Medicine – Xavier University

Dec 12, 2023

Xavier University today announced it has secured a transformational $50 million gift, equaling the largest donation in the universitys 192-year history.

Pledged anonymously, the gift will support the launch of the Xavier University College of Osteopathic Medicine, anticipated to welcome its inaugural class of prospective physicians in 2027.

This historic gift will allow Xavier to take on an essential role in our nations primary care landscape, said Xavier University President Colleen Hanycz, Ph.D. As our university approaches two centuries of intellectual, moral, and spiritual education for our students, we continue laying the foundation for a Xavier that impacts even more lives in the decades ahead. I could not be more grateful for the extraordinary generosity of this donor.

Slated to become the nations first Jesuit osteopathic medical school, the College of Osteopathic Medicine will address a critical need for additional primary care doctors throughout Ohio and beyond. Xavier leaders aim to send off the colleges first graduates in 2031, a remarkable exclamation point as the university celebrates its bicentennial and 200 years of excellence in Jesuit Catholic education. The inaugural class is expected to number 75 students, with plans to gradually expand class sizes to 150 per class.

Xavier is tremendously blessed to have the support of such a humble family, whose generosity to our community cannot be overstated, said Vice President for University Relations Gary Massa. With President Hanyczs leadership, we have received an unprecedented outpouring of support from people who believe in the power of Xavier and its mission. Those investing in the university today are ensuring a lasting impact for generations of future students whose lives will improve through an education rooted in Jesuit Catholic values.

With todays announcement, Xavier achieved its greatest two-year fundraising total ever. This effort also includes an estate gift of $50 million from Harry and Linda Fath and another $20 million gift from John and Sarah Lechleiter, supporting endeavors such as making education more affordable for future Xavier students and establishing a state-of-the-art sciences building on campus.

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Brooke Wagen: Making Space for Connection in Practice | Dell Medical School – Dell Medical School

But what often goes overlooked is the true toll physicians experience during training. While navigating major life changes like moving across the country and establishing community within a new home and work environment, residents and fellow physicians are learning to maneuver health systems and also often bear the weight of their patients worst days.

Brooke Wagen, a hospice and palliative medicine fellow, describes this transition as a loss of self, an issue she aims to bring attention to and alleviate through her Distinction in Care Transformation project, the Lazarus Phenomenon, which provides her peer residents and fellows space to gather and share their stories.

As a member of Dell Meds inaugural class of students, I had a goal to provide excellent medical care to Austins oldest and most medically underserved residents. Prior to medical school, I was a mom, neighbor, church member, Meals on Wheels driver and volunteer medical interpreter. Connections to my neighborhood and community were, and are, vital.

The journey through medical school, residency and fellowship is long and tumultuous. I am grateful to have stayed in my home and hometown for all my training, but I have seen firsthand the need for more rootedness and connection for trainees due to multiple moves between schools and cities.

The Lazarus Phenomenon is a storytelling evening specifically for residents and fellow physicians. Trainees often lack space and time to process, connect and reflect on what theyve seen and felt. The goal is to allow them to share parts of their life and experiences in medical training with their peers across all departments.

I hope we can build connection and community through our shared vulnerability. Storytelling can be intimidating, perhaps, but my hope is that imperfection and authenticity lead. As people tell stories or give storytellers a place to be heard, they build connections one evening at a time.

I was talking with my neighbor across the street many years ago, and he told me his hearing kept getting worse, but his doctors werent doing anything about it. After some consideration, we decided I would go with him to his next appointment as an advocate and interpreter. I discovered that he never had the opportunity to voice his fears or needs at a typical visit due to a lack of a patient-doctor relationship and language barriers. He told the doctor that his hearing had been getting worse, but nothing was getting done about it. We learned that his audiology referral just to get his hearing tested had been sitting on an empty desk, and there was no longer an audiologist for his clinic.

Getting health care often requires a champion, which is why, as I take care of people now, I think of my neighbor. I try to see and attend to each persons concerns with the same level of personal attention he needed before hearing aids and a cochlear implant.

Ian Maclaren

This quote has resonated with me since first hearing it. The idea that everyone we meet in life, on the street, at work, in the hospital is fighting their own battle is central to my ethic in medicine. My faith compels me to be still, to listen and to see the intrinsic value in each human soul I meet. My vocation calls me to sit with them in their suffering and ask what I can do to serve or help or at least to be present as each is within my power.

I want my co-workers to see me this way, as a friend and colleague who noticed that they too were in the midst of a battle, and was kind.

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Florida is trying to catch up to the retention rate of medical residents in other states – Florida Phoenix

The Florida Senate wants to spend $70 million to increase the number of physicians training to practice medicine in the state, which lags behind other states in retaining its trainees.

Senators in the Health Policy Committee on Tuesday approved legislation SBP 7016 a part of the Live Healthy initiative seeking to bolster the healthcare workforce in Florida.

This is my 22nd session in the Florida Legislature, and I have never seen a bill that has the dramatic changes and advancements and the ability to really incentivize people come to Florida, Republican Sen. Gayle Harrell said during the committee meeting on Tuesday.

Among the provisions of the bill is the $70 million recurring allocation for the Slots for Doctors Program.

Those funds would be divided into $100,000 per slot to create 700 additional slots for medical school graduates to complete their training in Florida. Medical school graduates must go through a residency program to become fully licensed physicians. This year, Florida provided funding for 6,176 residents, according to a report from the Florida Agency for Health Care Administration.

The multimillion-dollar investment comes with some requirements. Institutions sponsoring residencies must provide annual reports detailing how they spend state funds and information about whether the positions are filled or unfilled. At the end of the physicians residency, the institutions would have to request they fill out an exit survey developed by AHCA asking the following questions:

The answers to the survey also have to be turned into AHCA annually. Institutions have to submit those reports to maintain eligibility for the funds, according to the bill.

The bill also establishes a Graduate Medical Education Committee composed of medical school deans and representatives of medical boards and associations appointed by the governor, the secretary of Health Care Administration, the state surgeon general, the senate president and the house speaker. The goal of the GME committee is to produce an annual report about the status of the resident workforce.

The nonprofit Community Health of South Florida, Inc. has trained 42 residents over nine years, said Peter Wood, CHIs vice president for planning and government affairs. A little more than half remained in Florida after their residency and CHI hired six of them.

Were hopeful that the state may be able to provide these additional fundings that would enable us to increase the number of residency slots that were able to manage, he said in a phone interview with Florida Phoenix.

He continued: The total [number of residents CHI has] is 35, we can increase that. So, in essence, increasing the number of primary care providers in the pipeline that have been trained to provide health care to underserved communities and be prepared to provide that quality of care to communities in rural areas here in Florida.

CHI funds its residencies primarily through federal dollars from the Health Resources and Services Administration.

Aside from the 700 residency slots, Live Healthy has $40 million set aside for non-profits like CHI. The bill would establish the Training, Education, and Clinicals in Health (TEACH) Funding Program to fund residencies and clinical rotations at nonprofit health centers in medically underserved areas like. Facilities that qualify can apply for reimbursement for the administrative cost and loss of revenue associated with training residents and people studying medicine, dentistry, nursing and behavioral health.

The program would reimburse up to $75,000 per fiscal year for facilities training students and $100,000 for facilities training medical school graduates. AHCA will have greater oversight of this program to evaluate its effectiveness, according to the bill.

TEACH gives preference to students and graduates of Florida schools and people whose permanent residency is within the state.

We want Florida physicians going into residencies to stay in Florida, Republican Sen. Colleen Burton said. She is the chair of the Health Policy Committee.

People who graduate from medical schools in Florida and also complete their residencies in the state are more likely to stay.The Office of Program Policy Analysis and Government Accountability recommended strengthening the pipeline of physicians who receive graduate medical education in the state and stay to practice medicine by prioritizing Florida medical school graduates.

Between 2008 and 2015, Florida retained 75 percent of its residents who also graduated from medical school in the state, according to an OPPAGA report. However, over the past decade, 35 percent of physicians left Florida after their residency ended, according to the Association of American Medical Colleges.

Across the country, California has kept 76 percent of its physicians after completing training, making it the state with the highest retention rate. But Florida isnt falling too far behind. In fact, its rate is only lower than California, Alaska, Idaho and Texas, according to AAMC.

The scope of power the Legislature would have over this is limited as the National Resident Matching Program places medical school graduates into residency programs based on their preferences and the types of candidates specific programs are looking for.

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Penn’s medical school dean is being eyed as interim president of the university – The Philadelphia Inquirer

Update: J. Larry Jameson has been named Penns interim president. Heres what to know about him.

J. Larry Jameson, who has served as executive vice president of the University of Pennsylvanias health system and its medical school dean for more than 12 years, is emerging as a leading candidate to take the role of interim president of the university, according to multiple sources.

Jameson, 69, was referred to as an ideal candidate during a board of trustees meeting last week addressing Liz Magills resignation, a source had told The Inquirer. But at that time, the source said, no one had reached out to him yet.

Its not clear where the board is in the process to appoint an interim president.

The Universitys Board of Trustees is actively working to appoint an interim president, and that process is well underway, with a formal announcement anticipated in the coming days, the university said in a statement.

Well over half of Penn employees are connected to the health system and medical school collectively an $11.1 billion enterprise making it the largest single unit within the university. The Perelman School of Medicine employs more than 2,600 full-time faculty members and more than 3,700 students, trainees, residents, and fellows, according to Penns website.

READ MORE: Penn leadership upheaval could have a chilling effect on college presidencies and university operations nationally

Its unclear how long Jameson who earned a base salary of nearly $4.5 million in 2021 and additional compensation of $1.1 million, according to the most recent tax filing available would serve, or whether or when the university would launch a search for a new permanent president.

Other than to announce that Scott L. Boks replacement as board chair would be Julie Platt, the board has been mum since Magills departure Saturday night in the wake of congressional committee testimony on antisemitism that drew intense scrutiny.

READ MORE: Penn president Liz Magill has resigned following backlash over her testimony about antisemitism

Jameson will be taking over the presidency at perhaps the most tumultuous time for leadership in the universitys history. Magills less-than-18-month tenure was the shortest of any Penn president and followed presidents who served for 10 years and 18 years respectively.

He is already involved in fundraising and managing faculty and has developed a reputation as a strong and thoughtful leader, said several sources close to the administration.

Jameson, a molecular endocrinologist and native of Georgia, came to Penn from Northwestern University, where he had most recently served as dean of the medical school and vice president of medical affairs. He received his medical school degree at the University of North Carolina in 1981 and had worked at Harvard Medical School earlier in his career.

Jameson is the only dean to sit in on whats known as the discussion group at Penn, which is basically the presidents cabinet.

Earlier this year, Penn joined Harvard, Stanford, and Columbia in dropping out of U.S News & World Reports annual medical school rankings. In a memo to faculty, staff, and students, Jameson said the rankings relied too heavily on test scores and grades, while undervaluing qualities that Penn seeks.

We strive to identify and attract students with a wide array of characteristics that predict promise, Jameson wrote. The careers of transformative physicians, scientists, and leaders reveal the importance of other personal qualities, including creativity, passion, resilience, and empathy.

Under Jamesons leadership in 2022, Penns medical school formed a partnership with historically Black colleges and universities to attract more students from racial groups underrepresented in medicine.

He oversaw the medical school through the COVID-19 pandemic. After the success of the COVID vaccines made using mRNA technology pioneered at Penn, the medical school in late 2021 opened the Penn Institute for RNA Innovation, to expand the use of the genetic molecules for treating other conditions.

Penns health system is directly owned by the university, with clinical, educational, and research operations integrated under a management entity called Penn Medicine.

As executive vice president for the health system and dean of the Perelman School of Medicine, Jameson is in charge of the medical schools education and research components, but there is some distance between Jameson and the management of the health system and its six acute-care hospitals.

The University of Pennsylvania Health System has its own CEO, Kevin Mahoney, who reports to Jameson, along with the health systems chief financial officer Keith Kasper. The combination of Penns medical school and the health system, marketed as Penn Medicine, had $11.1 billion in revenue in the year ended June 30, 2022, mostly from the health system. That amounted to more than three-quarters of the universitys total revenue of $14.4 billion that year.

On Thursday, two days after Magills testimony in which she said it was a context-dependent decision when asked if calls for genocide of Jewish people would violate the schools code of conduct, Jameson and Mahoney put out a statement on genocide.

Calls for genocide, echoing horrors of the past, violate our behavioral standards and remind us that we must forcefully condemn, prevent, and respond to hate in all forms, said the Penn Med letter, according to the Daily Pennsylvanian, the student newspaper.

Staff writers Tom Avril and Harold Brubaker contributed to this article.

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Is it noble or selfish to never practice medicine after getting a medical degree? – Kevin MD

A Harvard medical school student realized in his third year that he had lost his desire to become a doctor. Nevertheless, the student decided to complete his fourth year and obtain his MD degree. The student is now planning for a career in pharma or even comedy. Some individuals who read his onlineessay found the students decision-making comical in itself. Overall, their comments were evenly divided about the students virtues and next moves.

Before exploring readers reactions, we ought to know something about this students reasons for opting out of the medical profession. The student wrote: Reflecting on the elements that brought me down, I felt sadness for my patients health, particularly when it seemed their condition could not be cured or treated effectively; disappointment over the influence of insurance coverage in determining which treatments patients received; frustration at the amount of documentation, which seemed to take precedence over time spent with patients; and discouraged by the overall environment where it seemed hospital personnel did not feel valued or happy to be there.

Lets not dwell on the merits of the students reasons but dive right into readers reactions to it, whether they shamed or commended him on his decision. I divided the comments into selfish and noble. Here is a sample:

Selfish

Noble

The comments do not provide a consensus on whether it is selfish or noble to never practice medicine after medical school. One commentator not the only one was able to see the argument philosophically from both sides, saying, Lets not shame people into staying where they deeply do not wish to be or condemn them based on good faith decisions made when they didnt fully understand what they were getting into.

I think this reader made many good points, so I decided to quote him entirely: The practical realities of clinical practice as a physician must be experienced to fully appreciate [them]. Pursuing and, if ultimately admitted, getting through medical school is something of a leap of faith for many. Sometimes it turns out to be a bad fit, a realization that may dawn after committing to a lot of debt. Of course, it rankles some given that accepting admission indirectly crowds someone else out (of this scarce resource) and doesnt provide the expected societal return on investment of a practicing clinician. On the other hand, do any of us want a physician who chronically doesnt want to be in that role? He may yet apply his education and degree profitably outside of clinical practice.

Many years ago, I conducted a smallstudy showing that over 90 percent of students who matriculated in two U.S. medical schools (Temple University and the University of Pennsylvania) graduated in four years. This percentage is in line with the Association of American Medical Colleges, which found that 4-year graduation rates ranged from 81.7 percent to 84.1 percent. Still, after six years, the average graduation rate was 96.0 percent.

However, asurvey released by the health science and journal publisher Elsevier in October 2023 found that a quarter of medical students in the U.S. were considering quitting their studies due to the pressure facing todays clinicians issues not unlike those cited by the Harvard grad.

Reasons for dropping out of medical school can be diverse, but common ones include academic struggles, financial pressures, personal health or family issues, lack of interest, or, in this instance, a desire to pursue a different career path. It is important to note that the majority of dropout causes are non-academic.

After leaving medical school, former students may pursue a range of alternate career paths. Some may choose to continue their education in a related field, such as public health, biomedical sciences, or health care administration. Others may decide to enter the workforce directly, taking jobs in health care, education, or research. Some will pursue careers distant from medicine or unrelated to it.

Perhaps this student will follow in the footsteps of the Monty Python actor Graham Chapman (1941 to 1989), who turned down a career as a doctor to be a writer and comedian. I wish this student well, and I do not begrudge him for (almost) forcing me to go to Mexico for medical school. Well, I never would have had a shot at Harvard anyway.

Arthur Lazarusis a formerDoximity Fellow, a member of the editorial board of the American Association for Physician Leadership, and an adjunct professor of psychiatry at the Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University in Philadelphia, PA. He is the author ofEvery Story Counts: Exploring Contemporary Practice Through Narrative Medicine.

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Tulane University launches new nursing program | Tulane University News – Tulane University

Tulane University is launching a new nursing program through a collaboration between the Tulane School of Medicine (SoM) and the Tulane School of Professional Advancement (SoPA). The program, which will offer a Bachelor of Science in nursing, will help increase the states healthcare workforce at a time when the need for such healthcare heroes is critical.

Tulane was founded as a medical school devoted to eradicating yellow fever. We are still laser-focused on treatment and cures for the epidemics of our times, while ensuring we have the workforce available to provide comprehensive and accessible healthcare in New Orleans and throughout Louisiana, Tulane President Michael A. Fitts said. This program is part of Tulanes commitment to improve our city and regions health and economy by reimagining downtown New Orleans as a national hub for medical education and as a center of bioscience research and innovation.

In addition to caring for patients, registered nurses such as those who earn a Bachelor of Science in nursing degree also play key roles in health promotion, disease prevention, research, health policy planning, patient education, administration, leadership within healthcare facilities and more.

"Our program will prepare students to provide competent, team-based patient care and instill a deep commitment to community and community health outcomes,"

Fitts noted that nurses are more crucial than ever given the transformation American healthcare has undergone in recent years with patients more frequently receiving treatment across networks and systems and often through a distributed model that shifts care from a clinic or hospital setting to the patients home.

Tulane has been at the forefront of groundbreaking medical research and care for generations and recently partnered with the locally based health system LCMC Health to enhance the regions role as a destination for medical care, innovation and training. Through this partnership, Tulane Medical Center, Lakeview Hospital and Lakeside Hospital joined LCMC Health.

Tulanes nursing program will combine a rigorous curriculum with hands-on learning in state-of-the-art skills andsimulation labswhere students will practice technical skills and test their critical thinking and clinical judgment with real-time feedback. Students will complete hundreds of hours of education in clinical settings at Tulane's local hospital and healthcare partners.

This nursing program is an exciting addition to our academic offerings and reflects our deep commitment that each of our programs be of the highest quality, said Robin Forman, Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost at Tulane. "This program offers a uniquely Tulane experience that provides an exceptional preparation for the professional pursuits of our graduates.

Set to begin in fall 2024, the program will initially be housed in the Tulane University School of Medicines Murphy Building, 131 S. Robertson St., before moving to its permanent location at the renovated Tulane Medical Center building on Tulane Avenue. The program plans to enroll more than 200 students each year.

The timing for such a program couldnt be better, according to Dr. Lee Hamm, Tulanes Senior Vice President and Dean of the School of Medicine. Tulanes SoM has a proven track record of producing top physicians and other healthcare workers and ranks among the best nationwide.

Louisiana and the nation are in dire need of nurses, especially with the toll the pandemic took on the profession, Hamm said. The field of academic medicine is powered by the collaborative efforts of physicians, scientists and nurses. Implementing a Bachelor of Science in nursing program that culminates in a high-quality Tulane degree is an important milestone as we partner with LCMC Health to educate our workforce and care for the Gulf South community.

Suri Duitch, Dean of the Tulane University School of Professional Advancement, believes the program will be popular with students currently enrolled in SoPA as well as new applicants.

The Bachelor of Science in nursing program is ideal for students who want to find their calling in a field they love while contributing to something bigger than themselves, Duitch said. The hands-on nature of this program carries instant appeal for the students we attract and for those who will be drawn to this exciting and innovative program.

Brenda Douglas, a nationally recognized, board-certified registered nurse and nurse educator, will lead the program as Dean of Nursing. Douglas is developing an innovative, hybrid curriculum that will enable nursing students to learn alongside medical students, provide flexibility with asynchronous online learning, support the development of technical and clinical competence in a state-of-the-art skills laboratory and simulation center, and deliver care to patients in clinical and other settings.

Our program will prepare students to provide competent, team-based patient care and instill a deep commitment to community and community health outcomes that will be fostered by experiences in caring for our neighbors as part of their studies, Douglas said.

Douglas said students will get extensive academic support as they progress through the program, prepare to complete the Next Generation National Council Licensure Examination (NCLEX) and transition to practice.

The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics projects that themarket demandfor nurses will grow 9% through 2030, with approximately 194,500 openings each year, on average, over the next decade. In Louisiana, the state Board of Regents estimates there will be a shortfall of approximately 6,000 registered nurses 40% of the current workforce by 2030.

The Louisiana Board of Regents has created an ambitious master plan to double the number of nurses in the state during the next seven years. To help meet this goal, Tulanes program will put more nurses on the front lines of care in as little as 16 months.

For more information on registering for the nursing program, visitnursing.tulane.edu. There will be three program start dates per year in the spring, summer and fall. Prospective students must have at least 60 transferable credits to enter the program.

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