TY - JOUR
T1 - Texas needs physicians trained in public health
T2 - a new 4-year integrated MD/MPH degree program
AU - Cooper, Sharon P.
AU - McCormick, Joseph B.
AU - Chappell, Cynthia L.
AU - Clare, Charlotte
AU - Vela, Leonel
AU - Walker, Tatjana
AU - Smith, Mary A.nn
AU - Heilbrun, Lynne D
AU - Stark, Debra L.
AU - Schoenly, Reed
AU - Urrutia-Rojas, Ximena
AU - Miller, Claudia S.
N1 - Funding Information:
Z.M. was supported by The Single Cell Gene Expression Atlas grant 108437/Z/15/Z from the Wellcome Trust. E.W. was supported by the French National Program Investissement d’Avenir (Labex NetRNA) administered by the Agence National de la Recherche (ANR-10-LABX-0036_NETRNA). Y.X. was supported by NSFC under Grant No. 31570722 and 11874162. M.S. and her group were supported by the Polish National Science Center (NCN; 2016/23/B/ST6/03931) and by the statutory funds of Poznan University of Technology, Poland. S-J.C was supported by NIH R01-GM117059 (S.-J.C) and NIH R01-GM063732 (S.-J.C). R.D. and his group were supported by NIH R35 GM122579 and R21 CA219847. D.M.J.L. group was funded by Cancer Research UK program grant A18604. R.T.B. and his group were funded by NIH R01-GM073850. J.M.B. and his group were supported by the Polish National Science Center (NCN; 2012/04/A/NZ2/ 00455 to J.M.B. and 2015/17/N/NZ2/03360 to M.M), and by the Foundation for Polish Science (FNP; POIR.04.04.00-00-3CF0/16). Support from the National Institutes for Health (5R01GM123247, 2R01 GM114015, and 1R35 GM134864 to N.V.D.) and the Passan Foundation are acknowledged. The project described was also supported by the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences, National Institutes of Health, through Grant UL1 TR002014 (J.W. and N.V.D.). Funding for the open access charge was provided by Shanghai Fourth People’s Hospital. The authors thank the Lee group at the Korea Institute for Advanced Study and an anonymous group for their participation in RNA-Puzzles. The authors also thank the members of the Bujnicki group for technical contributions, including Stanisław Dunin-Horkawicz (IIMCB), Grzegorz Chojnowski (IIMCB), Wayne Dawson (IIMCB), Dorota Matelska (IIMCB), Catarina Almeida (IIMCB), Bharat Madan (IIMCB), Grzegorz Lach (IIMCB). The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the NIH.
Funding Information:
Z.M. was supported by The Single Cell Gene Expression Atlas grant 108437/Z/15/Z from the Wellcome Trust. E.W. was supported by the French National Program Investissement d'Avenir (Labex NetRNA) administered by the Agence National de la Recherche (ANR-10-LABX-0036_NETRNA). Y.X. was supported by NSFC under Grant No. 31570722 and 11874162. M.S. and her group were supported by the Polish National Science Center (NCN; 2016/23/B/ST6/03931) and by the statutory funds of Poznan University of Technology, Poland. S-J.C was supported by NIH R01-GM117059 (S.-J.C) and NIH R01-GM063732 (S.-J.C). R.D. and his group were supported by NIH R35 GM122579 and R21 CA219847. D.M.J.L. group was funded by Cancer Research UK program grant A18604. R.T.B. and his group were funded by NIH R01-GM073850. J.M.B. and his group were supported by the Polish National Science Center (NCN; 2012/04/A/NZ2/ 00455 to J.M.B. and 2015/17/N/NZ2/03360 to M.M), and by the Foundation for Polish Science (FNP; POIR.04.04.00-00-3CF0/16). Support from the National Institutes for Health (5R01GM123247, 2R01 GM114015, and 1R35 GM134864 to N.V.D.) and the Passan Foundation are acknowledged. The project described was also supported by the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences, National Institutes of Health, through Grant UL1 TR002014 (J.W. and N.V.D.). Funding for the open access charge was provided by Shanghai Fourth People's Hospital. The authors thank the Lee group at the Korea Institute for Advanced Study and an anonymous group for their participation in RNA-Puzzles. The authors also thank the members of the Bujnicki group for technical contributions, including Stanis?aw Dunin-Horkawicz (IIMCB), Grzegorz Chojnowski (IIMCB), Wayne Dawson (IIMCB), Dorota Matelska (IIMCB), Catarina Almeida (IIMCB), Bharat Madan (IIMCB), Grzegorz Lach (IIMCB). The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the NIH. Author contributions: E.W. conceived and supervised the project, coordinated the collaboration, and wrote the manuscript. Z.M. organized the prediction, analyzed the results, built the website, and wrote the manuscript. All other authors predicted the structures, analyzed the results, and wrote the manuscript.
PY - 2010/4/1
Y1 - 2010/4/1
N2 - Traditionally, medicine and public health have not worked as synergistic disciplines because they are based on fundamentally different models. However, a number of very recent imperatives emphasize the need for dual training in these fields to address major public health problems facing society as well as the documented and forecasted workforce shortages. In response to this need, two University of Texas institutions based in San Antonio, Texas, partnered in 2007 to offer a dual 4-year Doctor of Medicine/Master of Public health (MD/MPH) degree program, one of a handful in the nation. Approximately 65 students (or 10% of three consecutive medical school classes) are currently enrolled. The dual-degree program meets the requirements of both degree programs while giving shared MPH credit for relevant courses taken in the medical curriculum and medical school credit for some courses in the public health curriculum. However, 75% of the MPH coursework originates at the School of Public Health. Initial results from focus groups conducted after the first year showed a high degree of student satisfaction, with frequent comments that the program was broadening their perspective on medicine and influencing their career and life goals. A dual MD/MPH degree is an important option for all medical students as a means of addressing pressing health issues in our society through combined training in medicine and the broader areas of prevention and population health. The four-year MD/MPH program, while posing challenges for faculty and students, attracts community- and prevention-minded medical students, reduces training costs (housing/living costs and lost time and wages before entering residency), and allows students to progress with the rest of their class.
AB - Traditionally, medicine and public health have not worked as synergistic disciplines because they are based on fundamentally different models. However, a number of very recent imperatives emphasize the need for dual training in these fields to address major public health problems facing society as well as the documented and forecasted workforce shortages. In response to this need, two University of Texas institutions based in San Antonio, Texas, partnered in 2007 to offer a dual 4-year Doctor of Medicine/Master of Public health (MD/MPH) degree program, one of a handful in the nation. Approximately 65 students (or 10% of three consecutive medical school classes) are currently enrolled. The dual-degree program meets the requirements of both degree programs while giving shared MPH credit for relevant courses taken in the medical curriculum and medical school credit for some courses in the public health curriculum. However, 75% of the MPH coursework originates at the School of Public Health. Initial results from focus groups conducted after the first year showed a high degree of student satisfaction, with frequent comments that the program was broadening their perspective on medicine and influencing their career and life goals. A dual MD/MPH degree is an important option for all medical students as a means of addressing pressing health issues in our society through combined training in medicine and the broader areas of prevention and population health. The four-year MD/MPH program, while posing challenges for faculty and students, attracts community- and prevention-minded medical students, reduces training costs (housing/living costs and lost time and wages before entering residency), and allows students to progress with the rest of their class.
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M3 - Article
C2 - 20361387
AN - SCOPUS:84890536781
SN - 0040-4470
VL - 106
SP - e1
JO - Texas medicine
JF - Texas medicine
IS - 4
ER -