University of the Virgin Islands
University of the Virgin Islands
Medical School Update
Medical School Classrooms
Medical School Simulation Center
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APPOINTMENT OF INTERIM DEAN OF
MEDICAL SCHOOL (May 2014)
Dr. Benjamin Sachs
Harvard Medical School (1978-2007)
Rosenfield Professor & Chair Ob/Gyn HMS and HSPH
President Beth Israel Deaconess Physician Organization
SVP & Dean, Tulane medical School (2007-13)
Senior lecturer Harvard Medical School (current)
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UVI School of Medicine: Why?
Train next generation of physicians for the USVI
USA: growing shortage of physicians
• To Improve the healthcare of the people of the USVI
USVI hospitals to become teaching hospitals
Teaching hospitals:
Offer wider range of clinical services
Easier to recruit MDs and allied health professionals
Higher quality care
Higher reimbursement — financial improvement
Research: public health & Infectious disease
Better understand healthcare needs of the Territory
Economic impact on USVI: Classroom and simulation center facilities
UVI: Grow biomedical sciences, raise stature of university
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address pressing national and international health issues in
support of the global community.
Mission
The mission of UVISM is to educate students from the diverse
communities of the U.S. Virgin Islands, the wider Caribbean
and the Continental US as physicians dedicated to the health
and well-being of their communities. These physicians will be
prepared through innovative pedagogy that results in
physicians who are life-long learners, solution finders, team
,players and leaders of the 21st Century.
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Liaison Committee Medical
Education (LCME) Timetable
• December 2014 - Preliminary submission
• Including names of faculty
• Spring 2015 - Site visit
• Summer — Preliminary approval
• August 2016 — 1st class 25 students
• August 2017 — 2"d class 50 students
• Full Accreditation -2020
Key issues: Facilities, Faculty and Finances
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Medical School Education
• Year I: basic science e.g. physiology, anatomy, nutrition, biochemistry
etc.
• Other: medical ethics, public health, preventive medicine, culture & health
• Taught by PhDs and MDs
• Year 2: Understanding organ function health and disease e.g. Heart,
kidney, brain etc. and disease e.g. diabetes
• Other: Preventive medicine, communication skills, patient safety &
healthcare quality
• Taught by PhD scientists and MDs
• Year 3: clinical experiences- hospitals, clinics etc.
• Year 4: clinical experiences -sub internships, preparation for residency
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AQS Training Cellular Function and
Medical Genetics (8
Imppkcl Structure and Function (17 weeks) Psychosocial Issues in Healthcare (11 weeks)
Health and Disease (8 weeks) Hematology/Oncology
[4 weeks)
Practice of Medicine including Community of Practice I
Emergency Medical Services, Autopsies - Medical Examiner, MPH-course work (elective), Institute for Healthcare Improvement Certification
Emergency Medical Services, MPH - course work (elective), Institute for Healthcare Improvement Certification
ractice of Medicine including Community of Practice II
M2 Cardiovascular and Endocrine and Gastrointestinal and Skin and USMIE STEP 1 M3
Pulmonary Systems Reproductive Systems Renal Systems Musculoskeletal Brain and Behavior (7 weeks)
(6 weeks) (6 weeks) (6 weeks) Systems (4 weeks)
Internal Medicine (12 weeks)
Family Medicine (4 weeks)
Ob/Gyn (6 weeks)
Pediatrics (6 weeks)
Psychiatry & Neurology (10 weeks)
Surgery (10 weeks)
Emergency Medicine (4 weeks)
Tampa General Hospital (16 weeks including 2 sub-internships and critical care)
Electives (22 weeks)' 0
toA Internal Medicine
Neurology-Psychiatry
Ob/Gyn
Pediatrics
Family medicine
Surgery
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4 USMLE STEP 2
CK/CS by December
Graduates begin
Residency Training as
M.D.
Culture, Health & Ethics & Medical Gender Based Geriatrics & Principles Medical Longitudinal Curricular Themes: Medical Nutrition Society Humanities Medicine of Pallative Care Informatics
1. MPH students required course work
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Models: Classical vs. New School
Boston University /Tufts UVI
# students/year 200 501
Departments:
Preclinical 7+/- 1
clinical 12 +/- 3 (each STT & STX): Chairs nary and
specialty care, chief ambulatory
medicine
Pedagogy: Lectures "flipped" classroom —Just in Time
Teaching (JiTT)
Anatomy Cadaveric labs 3D simulation + autopsies with
Medical examiner
Intro. Clinical med. Student clinic EMS, homeless clinic, geriatrics
# FT faculty needed for UVI: 25
Develop curriculum 33 UVI existing faculty, clinicians and
new hires
Purchase curriculum
1. Limited by clinical sites: USVI can accommodate - 5o students
2. St. Thomas (STT) St. Croix (STX)
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Partnership Objectives
• To provide high quality cost effective medical education
' To take advantage of an extremely high quality curriculum
developed by another school.
' To take advantage of UVISOM's PhD faculty:
• opportunity to teach in the medical school.
• UVISOM faculty will be paid extra
• Improve UVI's undergraduate education.
• In the unlikely event of forced closure of the UVISOM (e.g.
major hurricane) another school to take the responsibility of
arranging the placement of the students so they will be able to
complete their studies.
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Medical School Simulation Center
CAMLS - model
• https://www.youtube.comiwatch?v-OfdXCbk8pUs
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How We Teach
"Physicians will be prepared for the challenges of the 21st century: doctors
who are life-long learners, solution finders, team players and educators."
NO LECTURES
The "flipped" classroom
Just in Time Teaching (JiTT)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2b7GeuqkPc
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Medical School:
Years i & 2 —basic science
Medical School:
Years 1,2,3 & 4 simulation
Residency training (future plan)
Continuing professional
development: local, regional,
national and international physicians
and nurses
Allied health professionals, is
responders
Additional biomedical research
facilities for medical school & other
UVI schools St Thomas
Medical School
Years 3 & 4 -clinical medicine St Croix St John Mainland
Schneider Juan Luis Hospital Myrah 4th year
Hospital Frederiksted Clinic Keating rotations
East End family Clinic
Clinic
Schneider
Hospital
Combined with
Classroom
Building Medical school
simulation center
Juan Luis Hospital
Medical school
simulation center2
Medical school
simulation center2
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1I Estimated Annual Economic Impact
St Thomas St Croi Total Comment
Medical school
classrooms)
FTEs $24-30m
64 $1M
5-10 $31m
69-74 4 years -5o students/year
Includes approximately 24
existing faculty, support
staff & 6 new faculty
Medical school
simulation
center
FTEs 0 5o 5o New Hires: technical jobs
Fully
operational
Classrooms +
simulation $24-30m $30m $54-60m
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University Central Florida
New medical school —17 miles south Orlando Florida
Brainchild Governor Jed Bush
Investment: $3om / year 3 years
Size of investment proportional to economic benefit
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UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL LLOrT ioa
Economic Impact
The College of Medicine, combined with a life
sciences cluster, by 2017, could create:
30,000 jobs
$459.9 million in annual tax revenue
$2.8 billion in annual wages
$7.6 billion in annual economic activity
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2 ANNUAL
Act TYPO( Current activity
generates
80 percent of
the 2006 study's
animated economic
Impact from the
potential cluster.
Source: Arduin. Laffer & Mawr Econometric,
The l/CF College of Medicine'. Burnett School of
Biomedical Sciences Is where the best and brightest
graduate students can cream tomorrow's cures. _ A NI 0 O
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