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| February 22, 1999. Volume 7, Number 21 Return to: [Med.E.Mail Index] In This Issue: APPOINTMENT HONORS AND AWARDS NEW GRADING SYSTEM APPROVED INTERPROFESSIONAL EDUCATION COORDINATORS MRC SEPTEMBER 1999 COMPETITION 1999 MEDICAL STUDENT RESEARCH DAY HEALTH SCIENCES FORUM IMS SCIENTIFIC DAY EDUCATION GRAND ROUNDS EDUCATION RESEARCH ROUNDS FACULTY COUNCIL ELECTIONS APPOINTMENT Phil Marsden (Department of Medicine) has been appointed to the Joint University of Toronto/ St. Michael's Hospital Keenan Chair in Medical Research for a five-year term effective March 1, 1999. HONORS AND AWARDS Bob Kerbel (Department of Medical Biophysics) was awarded a one-year grant from the CaP CURE Foundation, USA for his project, "Analysis at the multicellular level of the intrinsic drug re- sistant phenotype of prostate cancer." Chaim Roifman (Department of Pediatrics) is a recipient of the 1999 E. Mead Johnson Award for Pediatric Research of the Society for Pediatric Research. The Award will be presented at the Society's Annual meeting which will be taking place in San Francisco in May. Paul Walfish (Department of Medicine) has been awarded a two-year Dairy Farmers of Canada grant for his project, "Regulation of vitamin D action by nuclear receptor coactivators". NEW GRADING SYSTEM APPROVED On February 10, 1999, the Academic Policy and Programs Committee of Academic Board considered and approved the motion referred to it by Faculty of Medicine Council to implement an Honours/Pass/Fail grading system for our Undergraduate Medical Program for the current academic year (1998-1999). No further approvals are necessary, and we will now proceed with this new grading system. INTERPROFESSIONAL EDUCATION COORDINATORS The Council of Health Science and Social Work Deans is seeking nominations and applications for the position of Interprofessional Education (IE) Coordinator in each of the three Academies (FitzGerald, Peters-Boyd and Wightman-Berris). These 0.5 FTE positions will be offered as a 2-year contract with the possibil- ity of renewal. Qualifications - health professional background - experience working on an interprofessional team - experience in an educational role with undergraduate and/or graduate health and/or social work professional students - strong commitment to interprofessional practice - excellent interpersonal skills and communication skills - demonstrated expertise in educational innovation - experience in educational evaluation Job Description The primary responsibility is to identify and develop, throughout the hospitals and associated community environments, opportunities for interdisciplinary clinical education, and to coordinate these initiatives across all the professional disciplines. The IE coordinator will be based at an Academy and will carry out these activities in collaboration with the Academy Directors and Academy Associates. Specific Activities - become familiar with the clinical programs of the Academy(ies) - work with clinicians (of all disciplines) and clinical educators (of relevant disciplines) to identify opportunities for interdisciplinary education - work with Academy Directors, Academy Associates and clinical educators to identify students to participate in interdisciplinary educational activities - monitor the quality and content of the educational activities - develop and implement evaluation strategies for the educational activities - coordinate the range of educational activities - communicate regularly with the Academy Directors and relevant faculty members - report annually to the Council of Health Science/Social Work Deans. During the first year, quarterly reports will be requested to permit the Council to provide direction and feedback on the coordinator's work. Reporting Relationship: The coordinators will report, operationally, to the Chair of the Council of Health Science and Social Work Deans and to the Academy Directors. Applicants should submit their curriculum vitae by Friday, March 12, 1999 to: Dean Dorothy Pringle Chair, Council of Health Science and Social Work Deans University of Toronto c/o Room 221, Simcoe Hall 27 King's College Circle Toronto, ON M5S 1A1 MRC SEPTEMBER 1999 COMPETITION The results of the MRC's September 1999 Competition were recently announced. University of Toronto investigators received 24.5% of the grants (43% University campus-based, 57% hospital campus-based) and 28.2% of the funding awarded. (McGill University was second with 13.5% of the grants and 11.7% of the funding awarded.) 1999 MEDICAL STUDENT RESEARCH DAY Seventy-two abstracts were presented at the 13th Undergraduate Medical Student Research Day on January 12, 1999. The annual George Brown Memorial Awards were given to undergraduate stu- dents judged to have the best poster presentations. In the Undergraduate Research (Basic) category: Kylen McReelis (third year medical student, supervisor Elise Heon, Department of Ophthalmology) for her project, "Molecular characterization of a family affected by hyperferritinemia-cataract syndrome". In the Undergraduate Research (Clinical) category: Gordon Buduhan (third year medical student, supervisor Donna McRitchie, Depart ment of Surgery) for his project, "Missed injuries in multiple trauma patients" and Marianna Kapala (second year medical student, supervisor Don Low, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology) for her project, "In vitro evidence in support of an outbreak due to conjugative transfer of vanA genes into a hospital's endemic vancomycin susceptible enterococci". In the Undergraduate Research (Health Care) category: Raymond Fung (second year medical student, supervisor Frank Ferris, Department of Family and Community Medicine) for his project, "Attitudes, level of competence, and fear of medical students and residents towards care of dying patients". In the Graduate Research (Basic) category: Richard Bitar (second year medical student, supervisor John Fitzpatrick, Department of Surgery, University College, Dublin, Ireland) for his project, "Androgen induction of NF-kB is important for prostate tumour cell survival". In the Graduate Research (Clinical) category: Erik Saettler (second year medical student, supervisor Michael Wood, Department of Medical Imaging) for his project, "Development of a new MRI scanning protocol for the brain". In the Graduate Research (Health Care) category: Hillary Chen (second year medical student, supervisor Andrea Bezjak, Department of Radiation Oncology) for her project, "Patient perspec- tives on decision-making in treatment of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma". In the MD/PhD Student Researcher (Basic or Clinical) category: Ali Khan Somani (second year medical student, supervisor Kathy Siminovitch, Department of Immunology) for his project, "The SHP-1 tyrosine phosphatase inhibits antigen receptor induced apoptosis of activated peripheral T cells". Ali Khan Somani and Richard Bitar will be given financial support to present their work at the 38th Annual National Student Research Forum at the University of Texas, Medical Branch at Galveston. The Department of Medicine sponsors one undergraduate medical student researcher to attend the Forum each year. This year's winner is Theodoros Tsakiridis (second year medical student, supervisor Greg Downey, Department of Medicine) for his project "Alternative pathways of MAP kinase activation by tyrosine kinase receptors". We are very grateful to the student committee who organized the event (Adrienne Chan, Avik Banerjee, Gordon Buduhan, Charles Dela Cruz, Andrew Lustig, Joanna Holland, Martin Jugenburg, Peter Kan, Marcus Law, Andrew Lustig, Julian Mathoo, Laura McAdam, Craig Railton, Tom Ransom, Stacey Shapira, Daniel Wong, Elaine Yeung, and Catherine Yu) and to faculty judges for the difficult task of scoring the participants (Isabelle Aubert, Peter Backx, Mathew Bjerknes, Niall Byrne, Pat Brubaker, Catherine Chalin, Catherine Birt, David Cole, Charles Deber, Raisa Deber, Eleftherios Diamandis, Harry Elsholtz, Lorraine Ferris, Joe Fisher, Rick Frecker, Bart Harvey, Bob Hilliard, Robert Hurta, Ian Johnson, Andras Kapus, Miriam Kaufman, Gidi Koren, Kamel Kamel, Ren-Ke Li, Megan Lim, Ming Yao Liu, Charles Lumsden, Phil Marsden, Rosemary Meier, John McGurran, Judith Miller, Harvey Moldofsky, York Pei, Mike Rauth, Dennis Raphael, Walter Rosser, Jim Scho- ley, Ed Sellers, Mel Silverman, Graham Trope, Tom Wolever, and David Zakus). HEALTH SCIENCES FORUM All students in the faculty of Dentistry, Medicine, Nursing, Pharmacy, Physical Education and Health, and Social Work are invited to attend a forum to discuss interprofessional practice. The forum will be held on Monday, February 22, from 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. in Room 2172 of the Medical Science Building. There will be panelists from Dentistry, Medicine, Nursing, Pharmacy, Physical Education and Health, and Social Work. Refreshments will be served. IMS SCIENTIFIC DAY The Institute of Medical Science (IMS) Scientific Day is scheduled for Tuesday, April 20, 1999, in the Medical Sciences Building. The morning will be devoted to a series of multidisciplinary sessions highlighting the work of students and faculty. There will be a student poster competition and luncheon at noon. The "Molecular Medicine" session in the afternoon features the interdisciplinary research of IMS faculty. Highlight of the day is the presentation of the 1999 Bernard Langer Annual Lecture in Health Sciences by Philippe Gros (McGill University) on "Nramp proteins: role in resistance to infection and in iron metabolism". All are invited to attend. For more information, contact Josie Chapman at 978-8886 (voice), 971-2253 (fax) or j.chapman.smith@utoronto.ca (e-mail). EDUCATION GRAND ROUNDS On Thursday, February 25, 1999, the Centre for Research in Education Grand Rounds will explore the topic, "Problem-Based Learning: Where do we go from here?" The presenters will be Rick Frecker (Associate Dean, Undergraduate Medical Education) and Daniel Tosteson (Dean Emeritus, Harvard Medical School). The session will be moderated by Risa Freeman (Department of Family and Community Medicine). The Rounds will take place from 7:30 to 9:00 a.m. in the Cummings Auditorium of the Women's College Site of Sunnybrook and Women's College Health Sciences Centre, 76 Grenville Street, 1st floor, East Wing. EDUCATION RESEARCH ROUNDS On Thursday, February 25, 1999, the Centre for Research in Educa- tion Research Rounds will explore the topics, "Professional Development and Distance Education: The Radiation Therapy Perspectives", presented by Gabrielle Kane (Department of Radiation Oncology) and "Visualizing Clinical Reasoning in an Internet-Based Learning Environment", presented by Leila Lax, (Ph.D. candidate, Division of Biomedical Communications, Department of Surgery). The Rounds will take place from 4:30 to 5:30 p.m. at the Centre for Research in Education, Bell Wing 6-663, 585 University Ave. FACULTY COUNCIL ELECTIONS In accordance with the By-laws of the Council of the Faculty of Medicine, the Faculty Council's Striking Committee is seeking nominations for: Speaker and Deputy Speaker of Council Chairs and Members of Standing Committees In making nominations, the current (1998-99) membership of each Standing Committee and the membership of Faculty Council 1999-2000 session should be referred to, since membership on Faculty Council is a requirement for two of the Standing Committees, i.e., the Agenda and the Striking Committees. These documents are available from Department Chairs or Sonia Wadwhani, Faculty Council Secretary (978-2711 or sonia.wadhwani@utoronto.ca). For other Committees and the Speaker and Deputy Speaker positions, any member of staff of the Faculty of Medicine may be nominated. Note that the term of Speaker and Deputy Speaker and membership on standing committees is only one year, but the By-laws encourage terms of at least three years for reasons of continuity and experience. According to the By-laws, "when making nominations, members will obtain the written concurrence of nominees to stand for election as chair and/or member of the committee to which nominees are being proposed". A Nomination Form, on which nominees can indicate their willingness to stand, is available from Department Chairs or Sonia Wadwhani. Nominations must be submitted, along with the written agreement of the nominee(s) to stand, no later than 4:00 p.m., Friday, March 5, 1999, to: Mrs. Sonia Wadhwani, Faculty Secretary Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto Room 2118, Medical Sciences Building Tel: 978-2711 Fax: 978-1774 Contact Sonai Wadhwani if you have any questions or need documentation. 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