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BU working to add master’s level Physicians Assistant program – The Owensboro Times

Brescia University started a feasibility study more than a year ago to examine the statewide shortage of healthcare workers and began developing a Physicians Assistant (PA) program at the school. According to BU, there are currently no PA programs in Western Kentucky, and only 3 in the state.

The need for physician assistants is projected to grow by 28 percent through 2031 according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Brescia received startup funding from HealthForce Kentucky to support the new PA program. HealthForce Kentucky is an effort to inspire careers in health care by providing wider access to the highest levels of instruction and technology. The collaboration involves 9 colleges and universities along with numerous school districts across 16 counties in Western Kentucky.

The proposed Physician Assistant degree program for Owensboro, Daviess County, and this region of Kentucky is a groundbreaking advancement in health care quality and access, said Bart Darrell, Chancellor of HealthForce Kentucky. There is an abundance of talent within our region. HealthForce Kentucky will partner on initiatives like this first-ever Physician Assistant program in Owensboro, to ensure that we keep as many of our best and brightest at home so that the region offers a broad range of health care with quality second to none.

The University is currently conducting a national search for a PA program director and is pursuing provisional accreditation, a status granted to new PA programs, from the Accreditation Review Council for Physician Assistants (ARC-PA).Brescia will be able to accept students during the provisional status.

Education consists of classroom and laboratory instruction in the basic medical and behavioral sciences (such as anatomy, pharmacology, pathophysiology, clinical medicine, and physical diagnosis), followed by clinical rotations in internal medicine, family medicine, surgery, pediatrics, obstetrics and gynecology, emergency medicine, and geriatric medicine.

The PA program has an anticipated length of 27 months, with the hope to accept the first cohort of students in Spring 2026. Brescia will work closely with Owensboro Health for clinical site rotations and staffing.

The path to accreditation will be necessarily tough, but we are up for the challenge, said BU Executive Vice President Lauren McCrary, Ed.D. We hope to get on the first available slot of the accreditors in summer 2025 and start accepting students soon after the site visit. That gives us about a year and a half to get ready. Our next step is to work to get a program director hired as soon as possible to start developing the program.

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Dependent on the mask my great-grandfather invented – Kevin MD

Decades ago, I missed my college graduation ceremony with President Clinton as the commencement speaker because I had to be elsewhere. I was in Shanghai, celebrating the 80th anniversary of the Chinese Medical Associationan organization founded by my great-grandfather, Wu Lien-teh, who was the first Chinese person to be nominated for a Nobel Prize. My father, his grandson, had immigrated to the U.S. from Beijing, met my mother in Palo Alto, and settled our family in Silicon Valley. He brought tales of Wu Lien-teh with him.

In 1910, my father told me, a plague swept through Northeast China. Victims spiked fevers and suffered coughing fits as their skin turned purple, often dying within days. Desperate government authorities summoned my great-grandfather, a 31-year-old physician and infectious disease expert. He traveled to the region by train, arriving on Christmas Eve, 1910, when the temperature was -30 degrees.

At that time, no one knew what caused the disease, and bodies piled up as the Lunar New Year, the most important holiday in Chinese culture, approached. Officials feared the disease would spread rapidly as families returned home to celebrate. Lien-teh, who had studied infections in Europe, discovered that the plague spread through coughs. To stop its transmission, he invented a mask, a forerunner to the N95, made from layers of cotton and gauze.

Battling racisma French doctor dismissed him as a Chinamanas well as the virus, Lien-teh and his mask brought the plague to an end in the spring of 1911.

I had heard these stories and knew them by heart, but their significance didnt truly hit me until that stifling day in May 1995 when my father and I landed in Shanghai for the medical association conference. Cousins and extended family greeted and feted us with a 10-course banquet, replete with delights like Chinese candied bananas.

That week, doctors paraded onto the conference stage to testify to the achievements of Lien-teh, who, after ending the plague, set up hospitals in China that blended Western and Chinese medicine. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1935.

My Mandarin, despite years of Friday night lessons, was too shaky for me to understand all the speakers said. But the passion with which they spoke was unmistakable. Touched by their words, I spent the following summer in Taiwan with my aunt, where my Mandarin improved, and my connection to my roots deepened.

I returned to the U.S. and became an emergency medicine doctor in Boston. Then, in March 2020, I faced a plague of my own. Previously healthy people flooded our intensive care unit and needed ventilators to breathe. Suddenly, the terror my great-grandfather must have felt became real in a way it never had before.

As the pandemic wore on, my children became my solace. But as I curled up at night with my 6-year-old daughter, we noticed something in the stories we read: the heroes never looked like us. We resolved to change that. Together, we wrote a childrens book, Masked Hero, about my great-grandfather, a bespectacled man who stood about 5 feet tall.

He grew up in Malaysia with ten brothers and sisters, in a house with no electricity, studying by lantern at night. He won a scholarship to attend prestigious Cambridge University, only to face discrimination when he returned to Malaysia, then a British colony, and sought a government job. Yet, throughout his life, nothing stopped himnot the severe typhoid he suffered as a child, the rejection from his native country, or the sneers of some doctors in plague-stricken China who refused to believe in his masks.

Now it is up to us, his descendants, to carry on his legacy of benevolence, resilience, and scientific curiosity. We aim to show children that heroes come from all races, genders, and geographies. We hope our book is a small part of that.

Shan Liu is an attending physician in the department of emergency medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital. She earned her MD from Harvard Medical School, her doctorate in science in health policy from Harvard School of Public Health, and completed her residency at the Harvard Affiliated Emergency Medicine Residency Program. Currently, she is an associate professor of emergency medicine at Harvard Medical School and serves as the MGH Geriatric Emergency Medicine Division Fellowship Director. She is the co-author of Masked Hero: How Wu-Lien Teh Invented the Mask and Ended an Epidemic and can be reached at her website and Instagram @shanwliu and @maskedhero_wulienteh.

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Mount Sinai Health System Names Brendan Carr, MD, MA, MS, as … – Mount Sinai

Kenneth L. Davis, MD, Elected Executive Vice Chairman of the Boards of Trustees

Mount Sinai Health System announced that Brendan Carr, MD, MA, MS, a nationally recognized leader in academic medicine and health policy, will be its next Chief Executive Officer.

Dr. Carr joined Mount Sinai as its head of emergency medicine in February 2020, just before New York City became the initial epicenter of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States. He played a critical role during the pandemic and led local, regional, and national initiatives focused on improving the Health Systems emergency and critical care capacity. He was chosen after a nationwide search.

Kenneth L. Davis, MD, a transformative leader who has been Chief Executive Officer of the Health System and its predecessor since 2003, will become Executive Vice Chairman of the Mount Sinai Boards of Trustees. Both appointments are effective early next year.

Dr. Carr is a visionary leader and physician who will chart an exciting course for the Health System, said Richard A. Friedman and James S. Tisch, Co-Chairmen of the Boards of Trustees of the Mount Sinai Health System. We are certain that he will propel Mount Sinai to further success in our mission to provide compassionate patient care through unrivaled education, research, and outreach in the many diverse communities we serve.

Mr. Friedman and Mr. Tisch added: We want to once again thank Dr. Davis for his remarkable and transformative tenure leading Mount Sinai for more than 20 years, and are delighted that we will continue to benefit from his wisdom in his new role. We are extremely fortunate and grateful for Kens service and equally excited and honored to have a physician-executive as qualified and accomplished as Dr. Carr as the systems next leader.

As Chief Executive Officer, Dr. Carr will report to the Boards of Trustees. In partnership with them, he will chart a strategy for Mount Sinais next chapter, and will oversee all critical strategic, operational, and business-building areas of the Health System, including its eight hospitals, the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, and more than 400 ambulatory locations and physician practices.

"I am honored and deeply grateful for the opportunity to lead this preeminent institution and dynamic team of people who care deeply about advancing health for the patients and communities we serve, Dr. Carr said. Together, we will continue to innovate in order to provide the safe, high-quality, and equitable care that our patients deserve and expect. I would also like to recognize Dr. Davis for his tremendous accomplishments and thank Jim and Rich for their support and partnership.

Dr. Davis became President and Chief Executive Officer of The Mount Sinai Medical Center in 2003 and of the Mount Sinai Health System upon its formation in 2013. He has led Mount Sinai through an era of unprecedented growth and change, including the creation of the Health System, the transformation of care delivery, the COVID-19 pandemic, and sustained academic and research growth.

I look forward to working with Brendan in the next few years, Dr. Davis said. With Brendan and our existing leadership team, I know the system is in the right hands as we continue to serve New York with the exacting precision and immense passion that are the hallmarks of Mount Sinai.

Dr. Carr is currently Mount Sinai Professor in Emergency Medicine at Icahn Mount Sinai and Chair of Emergency Medicine for the Mount Sinai Health System. As a renowned emergency physician and health policy researcher, he has focused on building regional systems of emergency care, especially for trauma, stroke, cardiac arrest, and sepsis, and developing innovative delivery system solutions to create a more distributed and accessible acute-care delivery system. He has served in an advisory role to domestic and international organizations and is a member of the National Academy of Medicine.

Dr. Carr previously served on the faculty at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and as an Associate Dean of the Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia. In addition to his academic accomplishments, Dr. Carr also served the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services in a variety of roles focused on improving trauma and emergency care delivery for the nation. His portfolio focused on aligning the public sector and private sector response during disasters and public health emergencies.

Dr. Carr earned his medical degree from Temple University School of Medicine, and completed both his residency in emergency medicine and his fellowship in trauma and surgical critical care at the University of Pennsylvania. He is an alumnus of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundations Clinical Scholars Program and holds masters degrees in both clinical psychology and health policy research. He is an accomplished researcher, has authored more than 175 manuscripts, and has received funding from the National Institutes of Health, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and multiple foundations.

About the Mount Sinai Health System

Mount Sinai Health System is one of the largest academic medical systems in the New York metro area, with more than 43,000 employees working across eight hospitals, over 400 outpatient practices, nearly 300 labs, a school of nursing, and a leading school of medicine and graduate education. Mount Sinai advances health for all people, everywhere, by taking on the most complex health care challenges of our time discovering and applying new scientific learning and knowledge; developing safer, more effective treatments; educating the next generation of medical leaders and innovators; and supporting local communities by delivering high-quality care to all who need it.

Through the integration of its hospitals, labs, and schools, Mount Sinai offers comprehensive health care solutions from birth through geriatrics, leveraging innovative approaches such as artificial intelligence and informatics while keeping patients medical and emotional needs at the center of all treatment. The Health System includes approximately 7,300 primary and specialty care physicians; 13 joint-venture outpatient surgery centers throughout the five boroughs of New York City, Westchester, Long Island, and Florida; and more than 30 affiliated community health centers. We are consistently ranked by U.S. News & World Report's Best Hospitals, receiving high "Honor Roll" status, and are highly ranked: No. 1 in Geriatrics and top 20 in Cardiology/Heart Surgery, Diabetes/Endocrinology, Gastroenterology/GI Surgery, Neurology/Neurosurgery, Orthopedics, Pulmonology/Lung Surgery, Rehabilitation, and Urology. New York Eye and Ear Infirmary of Mount Sinai is ranked No. 12 in Ophthalmology. U.S. News & World ReportsBest Childrens Hospitals ranks Mount Sinai Kravis Children's Hospital among the countrys best in several pediatric specialties.

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Success is not a one-time thing – Monitor

Briefly describe your journey in the field of emergency medicine. While I was an intern at Mbarara Regional Referral Hospital, one of my longtime friends and mentors, Dr Tendo, whom I had worked with told me about emergency medicine. At the time, I liked working in the Trauma Emergency Department and I always called Dr Tendo when I had a patient. One time he came to the window and told me to major in emergency medicine but I was determined to major in surgery because my elder sister is a surgeon.

He told me to think about it but I did not. When my best friend was applying to study emergency medicine in Malaysia, I escorted her to fill out her applications. The entrance into emergency medicine was through the life support courses. I watched an emergency physician at work and the ease with which they worked with medical and trauma emergencies was quite fascinating.

One day I woke up curious to know more about the speciality; I spent a lot of time reading about it and decided this was what I wanted to do. This was around 2011-2012 and there was no emergency training in Uganda. The only countries offering this were South Africa and Tanzania was just starting. South Africa had trained a lot of emergency physicians from what I read online so I decided to go to South Africa. I was working in Mulago as a medical officer at the time but did not have the emergency care skills so I knew the best place was to work in the ICU or emergency department. I volunteered for two years in ICU. I loved it. I worked with good passionate doctors and they taught me a lot. They solidified my interest and assured me that I was on the right path.

South Africa was a struggle since I did not have funding for the four-year Masters degree course. I had to buy a car since I had to drive to different hospitals and cater for all the other bills. I had a young child, so when I was leaving for South Africa I had to take her to her grandparents in Rukungiri which was heartbreaking. My husband was not around, so it was tough. I managed to finish my Masters degree because I had an incredible support system, my friends raised the money for my ticket. The money I saved was used to pay for my tuition.

How would you break down your job? Raising my children is the most important job to me. My husband is the other important job; he is my biggest secret weapon. I encourage women who are not married and are in professional careers to choose their husbands really carefully because they determine the rest of your professional life; my husband is so supportive. He is my biggest cheerleader. He knows me so much and knows my needs and the right things to say and do. We take care of our children together and he did not mind changing diapers when the girls were young.

I work as a full-time consultant and I support health systems strengthening. I support the team in Geneva, World Health Organisation Clinical Systems and Services. My other job is supporting different countries to build their emergency care system, what it is and what can make the system better. I do capacity building, support training designs, looking through documents and strategies which is something I enjoy. I enjoy systems because emergency care is a system dependent speciality.

What is it like working in a male-dominated field? Most careers are male-dominated and they put a lot of strain on women. Many times women lose themselves trying to be men but emergency medicine plays to our strengths as women. We are generally gifted to multitask and we have a lot of foresight and hardwork comes naturally for us. Emergency Medicine is a calling within a calling. Doctors are called to do emergency medicine which is something your heart chooses, not your brain.

Women have always been worked hard from generation to generation and emergency medicine is a lot of hardwork. It is important to put your best foot forward whether you are male or female.

What are your non-negotiables?What kind of music do you do? Anything that compromises my family is a non-negotiable; whatever I do has to go well with my family. It has to be okay with my husband and children. I do not take any step without discussing it with my husband and looking at the pros and cons. The integrity and hardwork that my parents instilled in me are my non-negotiables.

How have you managed to balance your personal life with your work? There is a concept in emergency medicine called Triage where you attend to your sickest patient first and the least sick at the end of the line. I apply it to my daily life. The most urgent first but also anything to do with my family will always be top priority and it does not change. At the end of the day, there are so many balls that need to be juggled. It is essential not to neglect the other balls.

What encouragement do you give girls wishing to pursue this field? You can do whatever you put your mind to. You can do whatever any man can do. Work hard, do not expect any favours and work for yourself. Give back to community.

What has been that one thing that drives you? Making a difference in peoples lives. Knowing whatever you have done will make a difference in someones life whether someone knows or does not know you.

How would you describe success? Success is a balance of having moderation. It is having a complete life.

What is that one thing you think Human Resource professionals should take seriously in a workplace? Integrity, it cuts across everything. HR professionals should get people with integrity at workplaces.

How do you spend your time outside meetings, presentations and consultations? I spend time with my family and watch movies with my daughters. I read books and games with them. We have movie nights as well. I like walking, it helps me clear my mind.

If you could have turned back the hand of time All the things I have done have brought me here so I am happy where I am. If I changed anything, I would be somewhere else.

Who are your role model and why? My late mother. She was forced to get out of school but she pursued a government programme in adult education. I remember my young sister and I would help her read and write her name. She managed to raise us well selling vegetables in Bugolobi market and all of us are graduates. My late father is my other role model. He instilled a lot of discipline and hardwork in us.

Advice to those interested in pursuing emergency medicine Pursue excellence and success will run after you.

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NYU Langone Health in the NewsWednesday, November 22, 2023 – NYU Langone Health

When Does Life Stop? A New Way of Harvesting Organs Divides Doctors. (Subscription required.) The New York Times November 22 -Nader Moazami, MD, professor, Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, NYU Langone Transplant Institute

22 NYU Professors Named Among Worlds Most Cited Researchers Washington Square News November 21 -Orrin Devinsky, MD, professor, Departments of Neurology, Neurosurgery, and Psychiatry, Comprehensive Epilepsy Center

Five Foods Cardiologists Avoid on Thanksgiving and What They Eat Instead TODAY November 21 -Sean P. Heffron, MD, assistant professor, Department of Medicine, the Leon H. Charney Division of Cardiology -Nieca Goldberg, MD, clinical associate professor, Department of Medicine, the Leon H. Charney Division of Cardiology

Why Some People End Up in the ER on Thanksgiving and How to Stay Safe Yahoo! Life November 21 -Kelly Dougherty, MD, clinical instructor, the Ronald O. Perelman Department of Emergency Medicine

Mysterious Respiratory Illness Infecting Dogs Fox5 New York November 21 -Rabia A. De Latour, MD, assistant professor, Department of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology

How Does Stress Affect the Skin? GQ November 22 -Arielle R. Nagler, MD, associate professor, the Ronald O. Perelman Department of Dermatology

Hidden Belly Fat Could Signal Alzheimers Disease Risk 15 Years Before Symptoms Show Up, Study Finds Fox News November 21 -Marc K. Siegel, MD, clinical professor, Department of Medicine, Division of General Internal Medicine & Clinical Innovation

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Waikato Business Awards 2023: Emergency Consult CEO wins … – New Zealand Herald

Emergency Consult CEO, Jenni Falconer, won the Emerging Leader of the Year Award at the 2023 Waikato Chamber of Commerce Business Awards.

A business specialising in online emergency health care, and its CEO, has won big at the Waikato Chamber of Commerce Business Awards.

Emergency Consult and its CEO Jenni Falconer, entered the competition for the first time and left the awards as champions.

Falconer has been recognised as the Emerging Leader of the Year, and the business received the Innovation Award.

In the late 1990s, Falconer served as a nurse alongside the three co-founders of Emergency Consult and during that time, they attended to about 50 patients daily in the emergency department (ED), and the waiting times were not excessively long.

Twenty years later they saw a need for change when the number of patients arriving in ED and after-hours clinics had increased significantly and wait times became lengthy.

They came to the solution of a tele-health service in 2019, where Emergency Consult provided 24-hour urgent care remotely with a team of doctors and nurses treating patients on-demand via web-based video chat.

When we set it up, we were working in emergency medicine and saw all these people turning up to ED and wondered how do we take ED to the people?

We thought we could help people who were time poor and who could afford to pay to see a doctor, she said.

Emergency Consult was then approached by the Waikato DHB during Covid-19, to help support people stuck at home and who needed to see a doctor.

It quickly became evident that there was a huge demand for remote specialist support from within the healthcare sector itself.

Emergency Consult was now opening a bricks-and-motar clinic in Ppmoa, Tauranga, as a trial because Falconer said the population had mushroomed, and Tauranga Hospitals ED was under considerable pressure.

Youll come in, be quickly seen by a nurse who can either help or direct you through to a virtual consult with a doctor and it will include a team of high-skilled nurses supported by the tele-health model.

Were always looking at where the next need is. We know thats an acute mental health service, paediatrics, and in palliative care.

Falconer felt humbled to learn her team had nominated her for Emerging Leader of the Year.

To be a leader you need to have a team. Ive surrounded myself with people whove helped make this journey easy in some ways and certainly enjoyable.

It was a really nice surprise to find out theyd nominated me and then to read what theyd written. The judging process was a great opportunity for reflection. You do forget how far youve come.

Emergency Consult has grown rapidly with almost 90 staff from an initial start of eight, with a range of healthcare providers utilising the tele-health service today.

Emergency Consults team of emergency medicine specialists provided virtual support to hospital EDs, rural clinics, nurse-led clinics, ambulance services and pharmacies.

A different team of senior registered nurses also provided covid care, acute care triage, and aged care support.

Falconer said the tele-health service has been emerging internationally as a cost-effective and convenient means of delivering health care, and they were going a step further by offering 24-hour on-demand care.

The Waikato Chamber of Commerce Business Awards were overseen by a panel of 29 judges who evaluated 76 business entries from Te Kauwhata to Taup.

The annual awards are run by the Waikato Chamber of Commerce with support from Hamilton developer Foster Construction, and the winners were judged across 11 categories this year.

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Bridging the ruralurban health-care divide through community … – Nature.com

Kotzebue is one of the most remote places in Alaska. The Siamit programme, a collaboration between Indigenous Iupiat people and researchers based at institutions in Boston, Massachusetts, aims to improve the health of people in Kotzebue and the surrounding region.Credit: Design Pics Inc/Alamy

Achieving health equity in rural areas requires researchers, communities and health workers to collaborate to translate knowledge into clinical care1. Partnerships that bridge research hospitals, medical schools and rural health systems can play a part in this process by fostering relationships, sharing training infrastructure and exchanging knowledge between communities, academic institutions, patients and carers2. In turn, rural communities can be productive, lifelong homes for clinician-researchers who are pursuing careers in academic medicine3.

Our programme, Siamit, is a small-scale example of this model in a remote, predominantly Indigenous Iupiat region in northwest Alaska that spans 12 villages and more than 100,000 square kilometres of the Alaskan Arctic. Founded in 2016, Siamit encompasses a series of interwoven research, training and service partnerships between three organizations: the Maniilaq Association, the regions non-profit health system; the Harvard Medical School (HMS) Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, based in Boston, Massachusetts; and the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) Division of Wilderness Medicine, also in Boston. Siamits mission is to advance rural health equity by connecting academic medicine and community care.

Our first year of programme development focused on a series of needs assessments, conducted in each of the regions villages by teams of academics and community members. Through interviews with patients and their families and professional carers, as well as other community members, we identified three priorities: expanding access to physician care in outlying villages, meeting workforce-development priorities in the region, and addressing social- and behavioural-health needs through the primary-care system4.

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In 2017, we began to address these priorities. Physicians from MGH, including faculty members and fellows in relevant specialties, began working at village clinics and the Maniilaq Health Center, the regional hub hospital in Kotzebue, Alaska. Meanwhile, academic staff in both Alaska and Boston developed and taught a social-medicine curriculum for health workers and trainees in rural Alaska. Pursuing funding for research and clinical practice in parallel became part of our strategy to implement necessary health-care programmes, while evaluating their impact and sharing results. We established programmes in primary care, emergency medicine, psychiatry and addiction medicine, womens health and social medicine each of which includes research components that inform programme design. In all programmes, the main focus is on care delivery.

In the following years, Siamit focused on expanding research and training infrastructure between Alaska and Boston. We developed a medical-resident rotation programme at Maniilaq Health Center that supports physicians pursuing rural health careers, as well as a postgraduate research fellowship for early-career Indigenous health workers. Our faculty members developed medical-education courses for physicians across the Indian Health Service, the national health programme serving American Indians and Alaska Natives, and the Alaska Tribal Health System, the sovereign health system serving Alaska Natives5. Over time, some graduates became part of our core medical staff and Alaska-based faculty; others became affiliated faculty and research partners at academic medical centres across the United States. An ecosystem began to take shape, with the three-fold mission of teaching, research and service at the centre, at the second most remote hospital in the country.

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Over the past seven years, a few principles common to community-medicine projects have resonated deeply in our work. First, governance is key. Rural communities tend to know their needs, values and priorities best, and they should lead partnerships to address those priorities. In Indigenous-health research, in the face of a long history of extraction of knowledge and exploitation, particular attention should be paid to governance systems and sovereignty6. Formal community leadership and clearly stated organizational values can all have a role in reinforcing this principle.

Second, health research in under-resourced communities should focus on real, material improvements to health and health care. This could mean that the scope of work is narrower and deeper, with less focus on the incentives of conventional academic life, and more emphasis on long-term commitments to understanding local contexts, needs and concerns. Such work requires a particular kind of researcher, as well as a particular kind of academic home. Institutions that move towards embracing public service, social responsibility and care for the community in their hiring and promotion criteria will be the ones where such efforts succeed.

Third, the value of academicrural health partnerships grows exponentially once a certain threshold of integration is reached. Isolated projects can have great impact, and a more limited, well-defined scope of work can make sense as an anchor point for academiccommunity teams. Still, the ecosystem of relationships, projects and priorities that has taken shape under a broader, community-governed mandate in our region has value. Such an approach requires a clear framework for decision-making and action, along with optimism for the future of rural health.

Although rural communities might be distant from the typically urban infrastructure of health research and training, many have high levels of community engagement, strong social networks and innovative health systems that dovetail with the ethos and function of academic medicine. We can imagine a not-too-distant future in which many academic clinicians base their lives in rural and remote communities, which will have a larger role in the shape and conduct of academic life. The common ground between rural priorities, clinical need and academic mission is enough for lives, careers and institutions to be built on and all parties will be better for it.

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Emergency Medicine Receives National Distinction with Ultrasound … – University of Alabama at Birmingham

Maxwell Thompson, MD, Assistant Professor and Program Director, Emergency Medicine Ultrasound FellowshipThe Department of Emergency Medicine's Ultrasound Fellowship has received a three-year accreditation from the Emergency Ultrasound Fellowship Accreditation Council (EUFAC). The accreditation application process was led by Maxwell Thompson, MD, Program Director of the Ultrasound Fellowship.

EUFACrepresents several prestigious emergency medicine organizations with a common goal of quality subspecialty training in ultrasonography, including the Society of Clinical Ultrasound Fellowships, the Society of Academic Emergency Medicine, the American College of Emergency Physicians, and others. Itwas created to provide subspecialty fellowship program accreditation for Advanced Emergency Medicine Ultrasound Fellowships. To be granted accreditation, programs must complete an application process which evaluates them in comparison to published accreditation standards. Programs earning EUFAC accreditation are recognized as top emergency medicine ultrasound training programs. Only graduates of fellowships with EUFAC accreditation are eligible to sit for certification through the American Board of Emergency Medicine. Among other requirements, programs must demonstrate excellence in faculty and fellow evaluation, scholarly activity and educational work, professionalism, teamwork, and quality improvement.

By earning EUFAC accreditation, UAB joins over 100 other institutions which have demonstrated excellence in this area.

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