AAMC Reporter: March 2001

VOLUME 10, NUMBER 7

JORDAN J. COHEN, M.D., PRESIDENT

APRIL 2001

New California Institutes Promise Futuristic Medical Breakthroughs In a move that heralds an unprecedented three-way partnership among academia, industry, and the state, California Gov. Gray Davis has announced the formation of the California Institutes of Science and Innovation.

The Ties that Bind: VA-Medical School Partnerships Still Strong After More Than Two Decades In the 1970s, five medical schools were started with funding from the Department of Veterans Affairs. A quarter century later, the medical school-VA partnerships are stronger than ever.

Hacker at UW Raises Red Flag for Medical Centers An incident in which an unauthorized, external user downloaded thousands of medical records at the University of Washington has sparked public concerns that patient information is only a point-and-click away for experienced hackers.

Wanted: A Few Good Nurses: Addressing the Nation's Nursing Shortage The looming nursing shortage--predicted to decrease the work force by 20 percent in as many years--could handicap academic medical centers' operations.

photo contest
The Caring Side of Medicine: Reaching Out to Communities Mount Meru, Tanzania: "Last summer, I returned to the land where I was born. My mission was to understand a culture, a people, and their medicine. The Maasai were a tribe in East Africa who practice traditional medicine. For nearly two months, I stayed with a Maasai medicine man in a mud hut at the base of Mount Meru. In this image, an old woman reports of her inability to sleep throughout the night."

Azul, Shiraz Jaffer, Third-year medical student
University of Massachusetts Medical School

This series features photographs from medical students and residents selected as winners of the AAMC's 2000-2001 photography contest, "The Caring Side of Medicine: Reaching Out to Communities."

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