Monday, August 17, 1998
The University Daily Kansan
Section A·Page 13
Medical students receive lab coats during ceremony
By Sue Franke Kansan staff writer
During a historic ceremony for the University of Kansas School of Medicine, 175 first-year medical students received their lab coats.
This first White Coat Ceremony, which took place Aug. 7 at Battenfeld Auditorium in Kansas City, Kan., launched the academic year for the School of Medicine's class of 2002. As on the Lawrence campus, Thursday marks the first day of class for medical students.
Michelle Yoon, Wichita first-year student, said she was looking forward to the clinical exposure she would receive early in the program.
"It didn't used to be that way," she said. "The emphasis was more on basic science."
Delivering the keynote address, Physicians for the 21st Century, Deborah E. Powell, physician and executive dean of the School of Medicine, said the ceremony denoted the students' entry into the medical profession, which she
described as one of teaching and learning.
"All physicians are teachers," she said. "Each of you brings a wealth of information and life experience to share."
She asked students whether physicians in the 21st Century would be hightech or high-touch, given the sophistication of patients and said that she hoped there would be a fusion of the two.
"Patients pull information off the Web and ask informed questions," she said. "They want to be partners in the decision-making process."
In addition to lab coats, the incoming medical students received a copy of On Doctoring, a collection of essays, poems and other works written by physicians. They also stood together in their white lab coats and recited an Oath of Commitment with Powell.
Tinka Wells, Los Angeles medical student, talked about what she would face in her first year.
"Trying to adjust to the load of information and the environment it's given in — we will be working closely with
patients — will be the best part but also the most challenging part," she said.
Dwayne Ollerich, associate dean of student affairs, shared an analogy that one graduate told him about the experience of attending medical school. The student said it was like climbing an intimidating mountain — but once you reach the pinnacle, the view from the top is great.
"I see this ceremony as a rite of passage for you," he said.
Luis Espinoza, Turon first-year student, said he liked the analogy.
"I know school is going to be tough, but it will be fulfilling," he said. "I'm ready to go. I have been preparing for this for a long time."
The size of the first-year medical student classes consistently has been 175 students, the maximum admitted, during the last three years, said Van Buckley, a University Relations representative from the Medical Center. The majority of students are from cities in Kansas, ranging from Olathe, Hutchinson and Garden City to Hays and Heston.
Marquita Norman, first-year medical student, receives her white coat from Deborah E. Powell, executive dean of the School of Medicine. First-year students were given their coats during a ceremony to kick off the start of the semester. Contributed photo
Med centers form partnership to increase interest in health care
Minority students focus on new math science, English programs at schools
By Sue Franke
Kansan staff writer
The University of Kansas Medical Center and the University of Missouri-Kansas City have reached across the state line to form a partnership to increase minority students' interest in health-care professions.
The two universities, with the help of Kansas City-area community partners, will develop programs in math, science and English for six Kansas City, Kan., and Kansas City, Mo., schools. A triad of one grade school, middle school and high school in each state have been selected to be partners with the University and UMKC.
The programs, which are geared toward kindergarten through 12th-grade classes, will give minority students an early start in preparing for professions in health care.
"The rationale for choosing the schools in the triad was that at least one of the schools is a science magnet school or has a health-profession club or focus," said Patricia Thomas, interim associate dean for minority affairs at the Med Center. "You have a greater chance of success if you identify children in kindergarten and give them a hand up all the way through school."
The programs will include mentoring, tutoring, visiting scientists, job shadowing, health fairs and computer-based learning.
"We'll have project packets that we will send to schools that will be tailored to grade levels and to what each school may or may not already have in place," Thomas said. "For example, high school students might have a shadowing program where they could come to the Medical Center, while kindergarten children might have a simple 'about the body' program."
In addition, she said, teachers would receive in-service training and a school coordinator would interact with the programs' project office. The project office would house an independent staff of three core members to make sure that the project lived beyond the grant, she said.
The $550,000 grant, awarded to the Med Center and UMKC in June by the Association of American Medical Colleges, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the W. K. Kellogg Foundation, will help finance the program. It would be dispersed in $70,000 increments during the next five years, according to Thomas. The grant is part of the Greater Kansas City Health Professions Partnership Initiative, which develops long-term strategies for increasing minority participation in medicine, nursing and other health professions. In addition, the Med Center, UMKC and Kansas City area philanthropists are providing $350,000 each in matching funds.
Reaner Shannon, assistant dean for minority affairs at UMKC, said that the project pulled together resources that previously were dangling and that the University and UMKC complemented each other.
"When we were first approached,we were apprehensive about how it would work," she said. "But it made sense. We could reach more people and be more effective."
The next step for the project is to form an executive committee and standing committees. The committees would be charged with overseeing the development of specific programs, Thomas said.
Although they are not part of the budget, scholarships will be developed for students who go through the program from kindergarten to 12th grade and make a commitment to practice medicine in Kansas or Missouri.
The elimination of affirmative action in states such as California, Texas, Louisiana and Mississippi had caused the rate of minority enrollment in medical schools to drop, Thomas said, making programs like this one even more important.
Johnson County movie house plans to draw KU crowd with promotion
Cut-rate ticket offers cheap concessions through Halloween
By Steph Brower
Kansan staff writer
It is safe to say that the way to a poor college student's heart is through his or her stomach. At least that is what the management at AMC Studio 30 Theatres is hoping.
The 30-screen cinema, at 12075 South Strang Line Road in Olathe, will try to reel in the student population in Lawrence this fall with a marketing campaign featuring an all-you-can-eat concession approach.
At 120,000 square feet, AMC 30 is the largest movie theater in the world, and business has been good since it opened last December, said managing director Steve Wood.
AMC is looking to expand their market and plans to do this with the "Mega Movie Deal" this fall.
The promotion offers a movie ticket and up to $20 in concessions for $5.75. AMC will start putting coupons for the promotion in newspapers this week and will continue through Oct. 31.
minute drive from Lawrence, some students say the promotion and the regular student rate of $3.75 is worth the drive. Stephanie Wood, Lawrence sophomore, said prices in Lawrence were the high.
Although the theater is a 30-
Wood said, "They don't have student prices."
Wood and Emily Puris, Lawrence freshman, also said they thought Overland Park was a better place to take a date.
Steve Wood said the complex, which includes several restaurants as well as the theater, was designed for that purpose.
"The whole center was designed with one concept in mind, and that was dinner and a movie," he said.
The theater has another purpose—to be AMC's guinea pig. Not only is it the company's largest theater, but it also has unique features such as an automated, self-serve ticket window and ATMs inside the building. If the new features are successful with moviego "The whole center was
designed with one concept in mind,and that was dinner and a movie."
Steve Wood
Managing director
AMC
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ers, AMC will implement them in other parts of the nation.
AMC chose Olathe as the site for the theater partly because its headquarters is in Kansas City, Mo., and partly because of Johnson County.
"Johnson County is one of the fastest and richest-growing counties in the U.S." Wood said.
AMC is benefiting because of ticket and concession sales and special events such as birthday parties and conferences. Recently, the theater was host to the Olathe Chamber of Commerce and Sprint. Wood said they hoped to tap the college market by playing host to fraternity and sorority events.
The theater may be impressive with its size and design, but it is still a bit of a drive for a student population that can go to the movies in Lawrence.
"We can arrange almost anything they want to do," he said.
Josh Worthington, Overland Park junior, said he would go because it was cheaper than theaters in town.
"I'm not going to pay for all the nachos, but I'll pay $3.75," he said.
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