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Newswise Bethesda, Md Navy and Marine Corps enlisted service members will join their colleagues in the Air Force and Army for an opportunity to prepare for future careers as uniformed physicians through a new program headquartered at the F. Edward Hbert School of Medicine, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences. Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus officially authorized their participation in the program in a memo dated Sept. 9, 2014.

The Enlisted to Medical Degree Preparatory Program, or EMDP2, is a 24-month program for highly-qualified enlisted service members interested in a career as a military doctor. Candidates attend school full-time at George Mason University-Prince William (GMU-PW) campus in Manassas, Va., to prepare them to apply to medical school, while remaining on active duty. Candidates must possess a baccalaureate degree from an accredited academic institution with a minimum of a 3.2 grade point average and meet Service requirements for commissioning.

The inaugural EMDP2 class, five students each in the Air Force and Army, reported to USU at the end of August to begin the program, which includes full-time medical school preparatory coursework in a traditional classroom setting at GMU-PW, structured pre-health advising, formal Medical College Admission Test (MCAT) preparation, dedicated faculty and peer mentoring at USU, and integrated clinical exposure. Students completing the program successfully will qualify to apply to USU, or other U.S. medical schools through the Armed Forces Health Professions Scholarship Program.

Mabus directed the Navy Surgeon General to establish criteria for participation in the program as well as application procedures and policies and to coordinate policy guidance with the Chief of Naval Personnel and Commandant of the Marine Corps. The announcement to Navy and Marine Corps enlisted members, including criteria for applying, will be forthcoming.

"We are thrilled to welcome Navy and Marine Corps service members to the Enlisted to Medical Degree Preparatory Program at USU, said Army Lt.Col. (Dr.) Aaron Saguil, assistant dean for Admissions and Recruitment at the Hbert School of Medicine. With the participation of Navy and Marine Corps candidates, military medicine will even better reflect the faces of our service members and our nation.

Based on the caliber of the first group of Army and Air Force EMDP2 students, we are fully realizing the vision of this program to attract outstanding non-commissioned officers for careers as physicians in the Military Health System. The addition of Sailors and Marines will build upon their success, make this program stronger and make it a truly joint endeavor, said Dr. Art Kellermann, dean of the Hbert School of Medicine.

About USU: The Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, founded by an act of Congress in 1972, is the nations federal health sciences university and the academic heart of the Military Health System. USU students are primarily active duty uniformed officers in the Army, Navy, Air Force and Public Health Service who receive specialized education in tropical and infectious diseases, TBI and PTSD, disaster response and humanitarian assistance, global health, and acute trauma care. A large percentage of the universitys more than 5,200 physician and 1,000 advanced practice nursing alumni are supporting operations around the world, offering their leadership and expertise. USU also has graduate programs in biomedical sciences, public health, clinical psychology and oral biology, committed to excellence in research, which have awarded more than 1,500 degrees to date. The University's research program covers a wide range of clinical and other topics important to both the military and public health. For more information about USU and its programs, visit http://www.usuhs.edu. For more information about the EMDP2 program, visit http://www.usuhs.edu/adm/emdp2.html.

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Chesapeake, Va. Leita Watson strives to be a role model for her three sons.

She works full time and just completed her degree at ECPI Medical Institute.

But she says the hustle and bustle of her everyday life led to a kitchen fire in the Commerce Avenue duplex she had been renting.

I went to fix something to eat, forgot, left the stove on and walked to the library to do something else for school. Watson added, This just felt like a setback like I have to start over again.

The fire happened earlier this month. The same day the 30-year-old found out she was finally a college graduate.

[I] got an email at the same time I was standing out here with the ambulance, the fire department saying welcome to ECPI alumni, Watson said.

While Watsondescribes feeling defeated, her neighbors describe her as an inspiration.

Shes a real person, shes humble and yet shes motivated, said Tiffany Jedson.

Thats why Tiffany Jedson is taking action to collect donations for the single mom. She set up an email account at housefirecommerce@gmail.com for anyone interested in helping out.

Not only did the fire ruin all of Watsons kitchen appliances, she says she lost most of her childrens clothing and other household necessities to smoke damage.

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Dr. Paul Patrick, Anatomy and Physiology instructor and head of CPR at Arlington Medical Institute, is one of four Henderson High School graduates selected to receive the 2014 Distinguished Alumni award to be presented at the HHS Homecoming game on Friday.

The other recipients are Hazel Carroll and Susy Sportsman and a posthumous award will be given to the late James Barton.

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Donna Wagner, interim dean of the College of Health and Social Services at New Mexico State University, talks about the new Nursing Wall of Excellence Monday afternoon. (Steve MacIntyre For the Sun-News)

LAS CRUCES >> A 3-D wall made up of photographs and video interviews highlighting the achievements of the New Mexico State University School of Nursing was unveiled Monday during a ceremony at the NMSU College of Health and Social Services building.

The School of Nursing, with the help of the Department of Art, designed and created the NMSU Nursing Wall of Excellence using $15,000 of the $125,000 in funds that will be donated by Memorial Medical Center over the next five years. The remaining $110,000 is being used for staff development.

"We are so delighted to pay tribute to nurses, not only here, but across the nation," said John Harris, CEO of MMC.

"It's really the nurses that do an outstanding job taking care of patients," Harris said.

Memorial Medical Center CEO John Harris helped unveil a new interactive display showing the history of the NMSU School of Nursing. MMC donated funds to make the tribute possible. (Steve MacIntyre For the Sun-News)

The wall is about 20 feet long and 10 feet high and is a permanent fixture in the CHSS Building. Gatis Cirulis, a graphic design professor at NMSU, constructed the wall over the course of four months. Initial plans for the project began about a year ago.

"Our nurses and our health-care providers make such an important contribution to our community and I think to have a visual representation of those milestones is really important," said Jennifer Cervantes, CHSS assistant dean for advancement.

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Lebanon Caregiver shortages that have forced veterans to wait for care from the Veterans Health Administration are early indicators of a more general problem in health care, the Cabinet secretary who oversees the 340,000-employee medical care system that serves the nations veterans said Monday.

We are approaching a national train wreck, Veterans Affairs Secretary Robert McDonald said in a speech to about 150 people at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center that was broadcast on closed circuit television at colleges in northern New England.

Nationally, the VA needs to hire 20,000 to 30,000 new medical personnel, said U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., chairman the Veterans Affairs Committee, who joined McDonald for the event.

We do not have enough doctors, Sanders said. We do not have enough nurses.

In White River Junction, the VA has 100 vacancies to fill, said Deborah Amdur, director of the VA Medical Center there.

The VA has already been busy hiring, Naaman Horn, a public affairs officer, said in an email: In the last year, White River Junction VA Medical Center has brought on 56 new employees for new programs and to ensure that we have good access to care.

McDonald stressed that the need for more caregivers extends beyond the VA. Florida needs 22,000 more doctors to serve its general population, and California needs 17,000, he said.

But the VA has a role to play in solving that problem as well, according to McDonald, who described the agencys three-pronged mission of medical education about 70 percent of the nations doctors receive some training at the VA, he said as well as research and clinical care for veterans.

The country needs a strong VA, he said.

Controversy about the role and performance of the VA erupted earlier this year, fueled by reports that veterans were enduring long waits for care at a VA hospital in Phoenix and elsewhere, and that some administrators were doctoring statistics to hide the backlog.

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National Association for Community College Entrepreneurship Honors Three Community College Alumni for Their Entrepreneurial Achievements

Community college alumni from Florida, Texas and Wisconsin are being honored for outstanding entrepreneurial achievements at the 12th Annual Conference of the National Association for Community College Entrepreneurship, underway this week in Phoenix, Arizona.

Winning the NACCE2014 Alumni Entrepreneur Awards are Gary Krause of Racine, Wisconsin; Pam Butler of Tallahassee, Florida; and Marilyn Harris of Houston, Texas. Each award winner received a $750 travel stipend to attend NACCE2014 and certificates for five Ed2Go Short Courses. These awards were funded through the generous donation from Cengage Learning, a leading educational content, technology and services company for the higher education and K-12, professional and library markets worldwide.

These alumni entrepreneurs each traveled a very different path to entrepreneurial success, said NACCE President and CEO Heather Van Sickle. We honor them as outstanding role models for others in their communities who have entrepreneurial dreams. We also are proud to highlight the role community colleges played in inspiring and supporting such outstanding business owners and job creators.

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Gary Krause is president and CEO of EKG Concepts, LLC. He decided to return to school 28 years ago after an industrial accident that nearly killed him and left him partially paralyzed for a time meant he needed to find a new career. He studied nursing at Gateway Technical College in Sturtevant, Wisconsin, and became a cardiac nurse, gaining over 20 years of experience in the medical field with an emphasis on emergency medicine and cardiac education.

In 2010, Krause founded EKG Concepts Company in Racine with a vision to develop and market innovative and unique tools to significantly improve the overall process of reading/interpreting EKG output. During his nursing career he had become aware that many high-risk EKG abnormalities are often misread, creating potentially life-threatening situations. His goal was to develop and market products providing improved accuracy, as well as superior ease and speed of use.

The six products Krause has developed during the past three years have been well received by the market with sales growing thanks to a partnership initiated with a distributor in 2013. Two of Krauses products were awarded Top Products at the Journal of Emergency Services Conference in 2012 and 2014. Translation of EKG Concepts products into multiple languages for introduction into Europe and Latin America is in progress.

In addition to managing his company, Krause continues to work 20 hours a week in at a local hospital. He also continues teaching and provides counsel for other entrepreneurs and students.

Pam Butler is CEO of Aegis Business Technologies and a graduate of Tallahassee Community College in Tallahassee, Florida. She is also a graduate of Florida State University, where she became one of the first FSU graduates to earn a B.S. degree in Management Information Systems. After nearly two decades working for the State of Florida in an information systems leadership role. In 1997 she, along with business partner Brad Mitchell, founded Aegis Business Technology, a managed-services provider dedicated to offering technical support to small businesses.

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MAA MEMBERSHIP is a tangible way to express support for your medical alumni association. Dues are collected each year to help underwrite the associations operating expenses. As an independent foundation affiliated with the universitynot funded by the school or the statewe depend on the membership revenues from alumni, faculty and friends to support our programs and services.

BENEFITS OF MEMBERSHIP include access to online classroom lectures, grand rounds, and historical CPCs. Alumni also receive the Bulletin magazine, a quarterly publication designed to keep classmates in touch with one another as well as updated on developments at the medical school and university. Members receive invitations to reunion celebrations as well as regional- and specialty-related social gatherings. And they are invited to take an active role in the Association by voting on important issues at the annual business meeting.

ANNUAL MEMBERSHIPis $85 for alumni, faculty and friends. Membership is complimentary to alumni the first four years after graduation. In addition, emeritus membership is granted to those graduated 50 years or upon reaching the age of 70. While no longer required to pay dues, many emeritus members choose to continue sending a membership payment in an amount commensurate with their budget.

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PALM BEACH COUNTY SCHOOLS

ST. CLARE CATHOLIC SCHOOL

A 50th anniversary celebration for the school will be held on Sunday. Bishop Gerald Barbarito of the Diocese of Palm Beach will celebrate Mass at 11:30 a.m., followed by a barbecue on the school grounds from 1 to 4 p.m. Families of current students, staff and alumni are invited.

Fifth-grader Kasey Gillespie was chosen as the schools Rotary Student of the Month. She attended a recent luncheon at the Doubletree Hotel where she received her award from the Rotary Club of the Northern Palm Beaches.

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Students selected to attend the Junior National Young Leaders Conference in Washington, D.C.: Anna Blood, Abigail Perree, Riley Ziegler, Caleb Adams, Elana Barnhart, Joseph Karch, Emma Muschett, Ciara Nevad and Kayla Thompson. The sixth- and seventh-graders were selected for their academic achievements and demonstrated leadership potential by their teacher, Annette Schumacher. She also nominated five eighth-graders for the National Young Leaders State Conference, LeadNow 2015: Samantha Barthelemy, Bailey Moss, Matthew Ohnmeiss, Rebekah Thompson and Olivia Carrino. The students were selected for their leadership potential and maturity.

BRIEFLY

The 18th annual Showcase of Schools takes place 4 to 8 p.m. Oct. 21 at the Expo Center at the South Florida Fairgrounds. Representatives from Palm Beach County Choice schools and programs will be on site with information on programs, including Aerospace Science, Performing Arts, Medical, Criminal Justice, Culinary, Engineering, Teacher Education, JROTC, International Baccalaureate, Construction, Technology and Dual Language. New programs available for the 2015-2016 school year include Environmental and Animal Science, STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Math), Symphony Orchestra, Fire Science, Graphic Arts and the expansion of the arts programs at Boynton Beach High.

The Palm Beach County College and Career Fair is 6 to 8 p.m. Oct. 22 at the Palm Beach County Convention Center, 650 Okeechobee Blvd., West Palm Beach.

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