Senior medical students from the University of South Alabama College of Medicine will gather tomorrow at 11 a.m. (CDT) at the Mitchell Center to find out their residency training program assignments.
In this annual tradition called the National Residency Matching Program (NRMP), or more commonly termed Match Day, future doctors at medical schools across the United States and Canada simultaneously learn where they will be doing their residency training.
The Match works like this. After interviewing with several different residency programs - both near and far - students provide a ranking of their top-choice programs in order of preference. The training programs, in turn, rank the students who interviewed. The NRMP matches applicants’ preferences for residency positions with program directors’ preferences for applicants. Each year, thousands of medical school seniors compete for approximately 24,000 residency positions across the United States.
The NRMP also allows couples to form pairs of choices on their primary rank order lists. The couple will match to the most preferred pair of programs on the rank order lists where each partner has been offered a position.
There are 11 distinct residency training programs in the USA Health System. On Match Day, these programs also compete to fill a total of 69 entry-level resident positions in family medicine, internal medicine, med/peds, neurology, obstetrics/gynecology, orthopaedics, pathology, pediatrics, psychiatry, radiology, and surgery. There are a total of 240 residents currently enrolled in these training programs.
Wednesday, March 16, 2011
Friday, March 11, 2011
"Brogdon's Forensic Radiology" Second Edition Introduced at American Academy of Forensic Sciences Annual Meeting
Dr. Brogdon, who is the Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Radiology with the University of South Alabama College of Medicine, has authored and co-authored more than 300 scientific publications. This is his fifth book.
With more than 600 pages and 1,300 figures, the second edition of “Brogdon’s Forensic Radiology” is more than half as large as the 1998 first edition, which was a worldwide best seller and the standard reference in the field of forensic sciences.
Dr. Brogdon, who chaired the USA department of radiology from 1985 to 1992, has received numerous awards for his work, including the Hunt Award and the Distinguished Fellow Award and Medal from the American Academy of Forensic Sciences. He teaches regularly at the USA Medical Center. In addition, Dr. Brogdon continues to write, accepts speaking invitations, sees local clinical cases, and receives forensic referrals from across the country.
Mark Your Calendars - Upcoming Events
Gulf Coast Liver Support Group Meeting - March 17 at 7 p.m., Infirmary West Hospital Conference Center, http://bit.ly/ftyUZH
Mitchell Endowed Lectureship in Traumatology and Surgical Care - March 24 at 6:30 p.m., Five Rivers Delta Resource Center, http://bit.ly/gQmXlw
Greater Gulf Coast Trauma and Acute Care Surgery Symposium - March 24-25, Five Rivers Delta Resource Center, http://bit.ly/g5yrZ1
Azalea Trail Run Health and Fitness Expo - March 26 from 6 a.m. to 2 p.m., Mobile Civic Center Arena, http://bit.ly/flh1tt
Gumbo Chili Showdown - March 26 from 12 p.m. to 3 p.m., USA track, http://bit.ly/hXxwIp
Med School Café - "Ten Things Mobilians Can Do to Significantly Reduce Their Cancer Risk" March 31 at 11:30 a.m., Mary Abbie Berg Center. RSVP - kebarnes@usouthal.edu .
2011 Sickle Cell Conference - April 9 from 8 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., USA Student Center Ballroom, http://bit.ly/gqfdrQ
Women's Imaging Conference - April 9 from 7:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Atlantis Room in the CWEB II building, http://bit.ly/i0JdgL
March Med School Café - Ten Things Mobilians Can Do to Significantly Reduce Their Cancer Risk
His lecture, titled “Ten Things Mobilians Can Do to Significantly Reduce Their Cancer Risk,” will take place March 31, 2011, at the Mary Abbie Berg Center in Mobile. Lunch will be served at 11:30 a.m., and the presentation begins at noon.
Dr. Contreras, who is also affiliated with the USA Mitchell Cancer Institute, will lecture on managing risk factors associated with various types of cancers. He will also include information on appropriate preventative measures, as well as the importance of knowing your family’s medical history.
Dr. Contreras earned his undergraduate degree in biochemistry and molecular biology from the University of Wisconsin in Madison, and his medical degree from Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago. Dr. Contreras completed his residency in general surgery at the University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics in Madison.
In addition, he completed a clinical surgical oncology fellowship at the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston.
The Mary Abbie Berg Center is located at 1717 Dauphin St. in Mobile. To view a map, visit http://bit.ly/hZoFgl.
The Med School Café lecture and lunch are provided free of charge, but reservations are required. For more information or to make reservations, please call Kim Barnes at (251) 460-7770 or e-mail kebarnes@usouthal.edu.
Med School Café is a free community lecture series sponsored by the USA Physicians Group. Each month, faculty from the USA College of Medicine share their expertise on a specific medical condition, providing insight on the latest treatment available.
Next Week's DSS - Dr. Giovanni Manfredi
His lecture, titled “Regulation of Mitochondrial Energy Metabolism by Protein Phosphorylation,” will take place March 17, 2011, at 4 p.m. in the Medical Sciences Building auditorium on USA’s main campus.
Dr. Manfredi’s main focus of research is on the regulation of mitochondrial metabolism in diseases associated with mitochondrial dysfunction.
Dr. Manfredi received his M.D. and a Ph.D. in anatomy and cell biology from Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Rome, where he also completed a postdoctoral fellowship in neurology. He is a member of the Society for Neuroscience and the recipient of the Telethon Italia Research Fellowship Award.
For more information on Dr. Manfredi’s research, visit http://med.cornell.edu/research/gmanfredi/biography.html.
For additional information on the seminar, contact Natalie Kent at (251) 461-1548.
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