A medical school letter of intent is a notice to an institution explicitly stating one’s continued interest in the school. An applicant might write a letter of intent after interviewing or in response to a waitlist notification. Why write a letter of intent? Medical school admissions have become increasingly competitive of late – especially in this weaker economy. Competitive applicants who would have considered business or law school are now recognizing the stability of a medical career. The bottom line: The number of medical school applications has again increased this year.

Here are some tips for writing a noteworthy letter of intent:

1. Keep it brief. Do not write more than one page.

2. Write in a formal style with proper syntax, format, organization, grammar and spelling.

3. Focus on your fit with the institution, rather than using bland platitudes about the school. Be specific about what you saw and liked during your interview day.

4. Reiterate what makes you a distinctive candidate. Highlight your accomplishments to distinguish yourself. This section will be the most important part of the letter.

5. Be explicit about your enthusiasm. If the school is your first choice say so. If not, you should still make clear your zeal. (Remember: The institution may yet be your first choices if it turns out you have no other options!)

Finally, consider working with a professional medical school admissions consultant who can substantially improve your letter of intent. Medical school admissions consulting companies come in a variety of forms. Some are bigger businesses that focus on admissions to several types of graduate programs – not just medicine. Others are smaller and provide a medical focus, but have a pool of consultants of varying quality. Finally, elite companies offer both the medical focus and a highly experienced consultant who works one-on-one with clients. These professionals are ex-admissions officers from highly respected medical institutions. They have the inside knowledge of how medical admissions work, providing individualized guidance to optimize applicants’ personal statements, medical school application and interview skills.

When choosing a medical school admissions consulting company, a candidate should verify the company’s references and research its consultants. It is best if the company does not assign written materials to outside editors who cannot be evaluated. Elite companies that offer both the medical focus and a highly experienced consultant who works one-on-one with clients offer a large advantage for pre-medical applicants, especially during these competitive times.

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This 3D medical animation shows how antibodies stop harmful pathogens from attaching themselves to healthy cells in the blood stream. The animation begins by showing normal red and white blood cells flowing through the blood stream. Next, a single pathogen appears onscreen slowly moving toward its destination on the surface of a cell. The tubular extensions on the pathogen are surface proteins which attach to
corresponding surface proteins on a white blood cell, or leukocyte. As the animation continues, more pathogens continue to attach to the white blood cell, rendering it ineffective.

During the immune system response, Y-shaped antibodies begin attacking the pathogen, binding to its surface proteins as the pathogen attempts to anchor to the blood cell. The antibodies completely block the pathogen from attaching to the blood cell, “tagging” the pathogen so
that one of the immune system’s leaner cells, a macrophage, appears onscreen to engulf and digest the pathogen.

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There has always been a vulnerability in safety at medical facilities that leaves patients at risk and staff prone to legal suits. This weakness is the unreliable paper record keeping system that the medical world has relied on for years. Medical information can easily be lost or misplaced when work areas are inundated with stacks of messy paperwork, and precious time is lost trying to fax or mail important patient information. Medical management software offers a standardized, easily accessible solution to prevent medical mix-ups by making patient information more available and secure.

In the U.S., an estimated 100,000 deaths occur every year due to medical errors. This past March on the Oprah Winfrey show, actor Dennis Quaid shared a horrific experience in which his infant twins were accidentally given a dose of a blood-thinning drug that was 1000 times stronger than the dose prescribed. This appalling mistake was caused by a simple mix-up in hard-copy paper work. Quaid said that computerized record-keeping could have easily prevented the nearly-fatal medical error. He now advocates the use of medical management software systems. “It’s going to save lives,” Quaid said, “A lot of lives.”

Medical management software was created by physicians to improve care, reduce errors and simplify record keeping. Preoccupation with paper medical records leads to the neglect of the “humanitarian” side of medical practice. Facilities often become so engulfed in paperwork that they forget to focus on their patients. Medical management software reduces the time spent on paperwork and leaves more time for quality physician and patient interaction. With electronic medical records (EMRs), patients can be automatically billed and coded properly, and the probability of mistakes is reduced.

Beyond increasing safety, medical management software can also save money. By converting a paper-based medical office to a fully integrated EMR system, offices can save in maintenance and storage costs. The creation, tracking, storage and maintenance of paper records cost an average of $8 per record, per year versus EMRs that can be maintained for $1.00 to $2.00 per year. EMRs also reduce the expense of real estate space needed solely for paper record storage. The space saved by EMRs will open up space for other needs, allowing for more efficient use of medical facilities. By integrating medical management software into your practice, you can save time, money and lives.

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The answer to this question is both yes and no. Although there are methods in place that can help reduce, if not cure, peyronies completely – such as penile corrective surgery and penis enlargement devices – actually preventing peyronies before it occurs is still not possible. All you can do is learn how to handle it.

What is Peyronies?

Caused by the development of fibrous tissues on the inner lining of your penis, peyronies is reputed to affect 388 out of 100,000 men across the world between the age groups of 40-60 years old.

Yet despite this classification peyronies has been found in men as young as their teens causing penile curvatures of between 30° to 60°. But the main problem with this condition is the health risks it can cause if left untreated.

Alongside its ability to make penetration uncomfortable, peyronies can cause impotency removing your chances of having children in the future. For this reason penis enlargement devices and surgeries could make the difference to helping you lead a better life.

Penile correction surgeries

There are various surgeries available, but the best 3 would have to be: placation, excision-grafting and prosthetic implantation. Known to be effective in correcting penile curvatures, these surgeries do as a whole work. The only problem with them is the possible risk they each incur, as we shall now explain.

Plication surgery

Designed to reduce the length on one side of your penis to match the other, this method should remove the curvature and straighten your penis. That being taken into account, this surgery as a result will shorten the length of your penis as a whole.

Excision-Grafting surgery

Based around applying a graft to your penis once an incision has been made into the lump on the tunica albuginea, this procedure on the one hand does straighten your penis. Its only consequence is a risk of deformity that can come as a result of blood vessels dying in the graft.

Alongside risks of deformation, grafts are known to cause the penis to shorten (with time) and induce impotency.

Prosthetic Implantation surgery

Utilising a semi-rigid silastic inflatable cylinder, this device is inserted into the corpora cavernosa to promote the straightening of your penis. You need to be careful with this procedure though as this too can cause impotency.

Penis enlargement devices

Specifically designed to encourage tissue cell generation in your penis chamber, the use of Medical Type 1 materials within a penis traction device means users can experience the benefits of increased blood flow, a penis length increase of up to 3 inches and penile corrections of 60%.

Surgery or penis enlargement devices?

Both penile correction surgeries and penis enlargement devices can ease penile curvatures, but out of the two methods available traction devices can by far offer users the most security.

Risk free and medically backed by European CE standards, penis traction devices hold none of the risks that can come with surgery. Deformities and impotency… none of these are evident within these types of devices. Instead consumers can use a credible, affordable device that can cure their curved penis by 60% whilst naturally increasing their penis size by up to 30%.

Salt Lake City held the Winter Olympics back in 2002, and now, they are giving Vancouver information on how much money they’ll likely need for medical supplies and support.  As reported by vancouversun.com, medical attention is top priority for 2010, and Vancouver is ready to go above and beyond.  Read More…

Original Source: Vancouver Sun

Up to 250,000 people from around the world will descend on Vancouver and Whistler for the 2010 Olympics. And to get an idea of how many might need medical attention, we can look south, to Utah.

Salt Lake City held the last winter games on North American soil in 2002, so the Vancouver Organizing Committee (Vanoc) can be guided by that city’s experience.

In 2002, 11,575 medical cases were handled, but athletes accounted for only 1,377 of those cases treated at 35 temporary venue clinics, other Olympic sites and some Salt Lake City hospitals, where Olympic-related visitors went. Spectators, officials, media, contractors, venue volunteers and staff were the ones mostly in need of medical attention.

Only 48 people required hospital admission over the one month period.

“Patients [were] admitted for things like broken bones, heart attacks and severe illness. There were no deaths,” said Daron Cowley, spokesman for Intermountain Healthcare, a nonprofit organization in Utah that was the official supplier of medical care for the 2002 games.

“Emergency rooms were not affected in a noticeable way — the venue clinics handled nearly all the patient volume,” he added.

In Utah, the highest volume of patients was at the clinic in the Athlete Village, with 2,080 cases, followed by the Main Media Center, with 1,995. Mobile medical teams, which circulated among crowds at venues and celebration sites, treated 1,914 cases. The Park City Mountain Resort, venue for several skiing and snowboard events, saw only 162 patient visits.

Of the 11,575 medical cases treated during the 2002 Winter Olympics, there were 16 cases of frostbite and 43 cases of altitude sickness. Cowley, director of communications for Intermountain Healthcare, said the frostbite and altitude sickness cases affected spectators who arrived early at alpine events and climbed up the mountains to secure good positions for watching events. “They would sweat and then get chilled. And then you had people who were not accustomed to the elevation on the mountains.”

The Paralympic Games resulted in another 1,013 visits to medical centres, including on-site venue clinics or hospitals throughout the region. At both the Olympic games and Paralympics, the most common types of medical issues were relatively minor and included respiratory infections, sprains and strains, cuts and scrapes.

Cowley acknowledged there were cynics who thought the games might compromise health care services of the population at large by diverting precious resources. Vancouver General Hospital (part of Vancouver Coastal Health) is the dedicated Olympic Family Hospital and St. Paul’s Hospital (also part of VCH) is the dedicated Olympic spectator hospital. VCH has announced a 35-per-cent reduction in the number of elective surgeries during the one-month period of the Games. Fraser Health region has also announced a similar reduction.

Cowley said Intermountain also reduced the number of scheduled operations in its Utah hospitals by the same amount to accommodate health providers who were working at the games or taking time off during that period. “We also found that patients were not interested in scheduling their cases during the Olympic period, so it worked out all around.”

While elective procedures for local residents decreased during the 2002 Games, for all other types of medical care (emergency and urgent) Cowley said volumes were normal.

When the Games ended, the tally for medical services was $8 million, an amount that was far lower than the actual cost since so many medical supplies were donated and services volunteered. Vanoc estimates $5 million in medical equipment/supplies have been donated for Games use.

In its bid book in 2002, Vanoc showed a projected medical services budget of about $5 million. Vanoc now says it does not have a specific budget for medical services.

“Unfortunately, we don’t have an exact breakdown,” said Vanoc chief medical officer Dr. Jack Taunton. “Our medical services budget falls within our Sport and Games Operations budget. Vanoc’s total budget for Sport and Games Operations is $247 million.”

Medical services must be provided to about 7,000 athletes, coaches and team officials, 10,000 members of the media, 50,000 Olympics workers and thousands of spectators. Yet Vancouver organizers say it’s also hard to predict the number of people who might need medical attention. “. . . the data from past Games tells us our medical team could anticipate a few thousand medical encounters. A medical encounter could be anything from a request for a Band-Aid, to a cold/flu, to a serious injury,” said Taunton.

About 1,200 medical volunteers (similar to Salt Lake) and 15 full-time paid medical services staff will work during the 2010 Games. That does not include an equal number of allied health professionals (nurses, lab technicians, chiropractors and physiotherapists).

Each athletes’ village (Vancouver and Whistler) will have a 10,000-square-foot polyclinic. There will also be medical stations at other 2010-related venues including one at the airport, one for each media centre in Vancouver and Whistler, one at BC Place, and another at the Whistler Celebration Plaza. As well, each 2010 competition venue will have a medical station for both spectators and athletes.