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Friends in the health care sector and interested in workforce development have a great opportunity to suppport a Concord kid(family friend). They are fundraising to attend a national conference for high schoolers interested in a career in the medical field. They need to raise $1700. If interested, can you email me at mvlacich@cgagroup.com and I can help facilitate? March 26,2024 To Whom It May Concern: Health Science and Technology is a two-year program for high school juniors and seniors interested in pursuing a career in the medical field. During this two year program, students learn many skills and theories that directly relate to health care. As part of our curriculum, we also have a club called HOSA future healthcare professionals. HOSA is a student-led organization that is committed to providing students with opportunities to attain medical knowledge, skills and develop leadership capabilities. Each year the students in the Health Science class from Concord Regional Technical Center (CRTC) attend a State Leadership Conference. Students compete in many different events against students from all over the state. Some of these competitive events include Emergency Medical Technician, Certified Nursing Assistant, HOSA Bowl, (knowledge bowl game) Creative Problem Solving, and written tests on such topics as Medical Math, Medical Terminology, Pharmacology and others too numerous to name. There are over 50 different competitive events. This year we had 23 students from Concord register for our conference. Of these students, 19 qualified for the HOSA International Leadership Conference by placing either 1st, 2nd, or 3rd in their competitive event. Our 47th Annual International Leadership Conference is being held in Houston, Texas, June 26-29. In view of our success, we believe attending this conference would be a valuable experience filled with many opportunities for these students. Not only would they compete at an International level, but they would also have the opportunity to attend educational symposiums and leadership conferences. They would also begin to network with students, who like themselves, are interested in pursuing a career in the healthcare field. In order to attend this conference, the Health Science and Technology students must finance this trip in its entirety. This can mean the difference between attending or not attending the conference for some of these students. The approximate amount of money we are looking to raise is $1700 per student. We are looking for community support to help defray the cost of this trip. Any help that is given will be greatly appreciated. It is also a tax-deductible gift! All check donations should be made to Concord High School, CRTC-HOSA. Thank you in advance for your support. Sincerely, Sharon L. Bean Sharon Bean RN, BS MS NH HOSA State and Local Advisor Health Science and Technology Instructor 603-225-0800 x 6507 Concord Regional Technology Center Concord NH 03301

Bloomberg Philanthropies makes founding gift to Xavier Ochsner College of Medicine 06 AUGUST 2024 Today, Bloomberg Philanthropies announced a gift of $5 million in seed funding to support the creation of the Xavier Ochsner College of Medicine (XOCOM), a newly established medical school in New Orleans founded by Xavier University of Louisiana and Ochsner Health. Earlier this year, Xavier University of Louisiana, a historically Black college and university (HBCU) with a strong track record of sending graduates into the medical field, and Ochsner Health, the Gulf South’s leading not-for-profit health system with a long academic record of training physicians, announced their partnership to establish Xavier Ochsner College of Medicine (XOCOM) to address health disparities in diverse communities and helping fulfill the urgent need for more Black and Brown physicians in Louisiana and the nation. The new medical school will be located in Benson Tower next to Caesars Superdome, in the BioDistrict of downtown New Orleans, and will be the first HBCU medical school in the Gulf South. Bloomberg Philanthropies’ investment in XOCOM’s planning is part of its Greenwood Initiative – an effort that seeks to advance racial wealth equity by addressing systemic underinvestment in Black institutions and communities. Four already existing historically Black medical schools--Charles R. Drew University of Medicine & Science, Howard University College of Medicine, Meharry Medical College, and Morehouse School of Medicine—are the recipients of $600 million to bolster their endowments, strengthening their financial stability and institutional capacity to respond to the rising costs of tuition, innovative research, and operations. “We have much more to do to build a country where every person, regardless of race, has equal access to quality health care – and where students from all backgrounds can pursue their dreams,” said Michael R. Bloomberg, founder, Bloomberg Philanthropies and Bloomberg L.P.“ 🎥@drobmd Read More 🔗: https://lnkd.in/ee4tUr7z

Does Bloomberg's $1 Billion Donation to The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine Really Matter? 🤔 Mike Bloomberg just dropped $1 billion to make the med school tuition-free, but it doesn't move the needle for the healthcare industry. Here's why: Yes, it opens doors for some students who might not afford med school otherwise, and that's great to break this financial barrier. But let's be realistic—Johns Hopkins med school accepts about 100 new students each year. In the face of a nationwide healthcare labor shortage, this initiative isn't going to fix the problem even if we fill all of these seats with people who deserve it or come from worse socioeconomic backgrounds. The same problem applies to my alma mater, NYU, which has offered tuition-free med school since 2018. These programs are simply too exclusive, so you don't really see a needle moving one way or another. We've got a healthcare system bogged down by inefficiencies and systemic problems. We make it way too hard to be a doctor in this country, and even harder to get doctors from abroad to practice here. Free tuition for a select few won't fix it. Don't get me wrong—Bloomberg's donation is a commendable step in the right direction. But let's not let the benevolent headlines blind us into thinking it's a cure-all. We need to rethink how aspiring healthcare workers can access medical education and break down the systemic barriers causing a labor shortage that is getting out of hand. It's time to look for innovative solutions and revolutionary approaches to streamline our healthcare system. It's time for a real conversation about what comes next. 💡 Learn more: https://lnkd.in/gxMn7QD6 #HealthNews #MedEd #Healthcare #Equity

An important step in overhauling the health care system to improve quality of care, treatment of patients, accessiblity to care, affordability of treatment, improving the overall potential of healthcare professional training, selection of those with the best overall potential to train, and other important issues that need to be addressed to maximize and improve healthcare in this country!

Rose Horowitch reviewed the racial and financial makeup of medical students attending the New York University Grossman School of Medicine after the school waived tuition for its students due to a $100 million donation. The number of Black students declined and the number of "financially disadvantaged" students fell from 12% in 2017 to 3% in 2019. Horowitch notes that the medical schools that have gone tuition-free have not historically sent graduates to work in underserved areas. Excerpt - Toyese Oyeyemi, the director of Social Mission Alliance, a nonprofit that tries to improve equity in the medical profession, told me that donations need to be coupled with admissions reform or accountability efforts to have any effect. And experts generally agree that the real bottleneck to getting more physicians is the cap on student and residency slots. Philanthropic money would be better spent expanding class sizes, establishing new schools, or lobbying Congress to allocate more federal funding to increase residency spots, instead of subsidizing demand. “People have plenty desire to go into medicine,” Joshua Gottlieb, a health economist at the University of Chicago, told me. “You’re making medicine more attractive for the people who were already at these top schools.” [..] A public-spirited policy intended to help disadvantaged people and benefit society ends up giving more benefits to those who were already ahead. Medical schools that are already prestigious jockey for even higher rankings. Students from wealthy families get an extra leg up. And the whole thing gets wrapped up in the language of social justice.

The roar of these students will be the best 30 seconds of your day. Dr. Gottesman should be a folk hero. If a billion-dollar donation can create a permanently tuition-free medical school, what other moonshots will bring tuition down from its prohibitively high number? “But it doesn’t really cost that much, students get aid” is not an answer for families who start filling with finacial anxiety in kindergarten because of the sticker price of universities. While focusing successfully on diversifying student bodies, nearly all private universities have simultaneously made higher education out-of-reach -- or non-aspirational -- for far more families. The future of American higher education is depending on aggressively addressing this issue, as schools quickly approach the $100,000 mark. And the school which does it first will reap the reputational rewards. Because it’s the right thing to do.

This article is certainly food for thought - Turns out tuition-free med school does not translate into more students choosing primary care: "the nation is projected to have a shortage of up to 40,400 primary-care physicians by 2036. The problem is worse in poorer areas, many of them in rural communities or urban centers, which have shortages of all physician types. Meanwhile, the profession has a long-running diversity problem. As of 2022, only about 6 percent of the nation’s doctors identified as Black and only 7 percent as Hispanic"....."donations need to be coupled with admissions reform or accountability efforts to have any effect. And experts generally agree that the real bottleneck to getting more physicians is the cap on student and residency slots. Philanthropic money would be better spent expanding class sizes, establishing new schools, or lobbying Congress to allocate more federal funding to increase residency spots, instead of subsidizing demand" Omrana Pasha-Razzak Maranda C. Ward, Ed.D, MPH Patricia Pittman Toyese Oyeyemi

Certainly, a billion dollars is a transformational gift-although the transformation might come in many positive ways or not. In my view, the best possible outcome might be increased representation of the local community in the medical school class so patients can see docs that are like them. Possibly a race to the top of the medical school rankings because hey!, who wants 100,000's in medical school debt? Medical students choosing specialties based on their interests rather than a specialty that will allow them to pay off loans fastest-maybe there is hope for Endocrinology in this scenario 😊! Only the future will tell. Is there any data on how NYU's student body was effected? Any unintended consequences? What are your thoughts about how this beyond generous gift might change Einstein, the student body, the faculty and everything else that follows?