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Medical school after high school
Students cut costs, time with UMKC's six-year medical degree program
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — When Tiffany Williams graduated from high school in 1999 she wrestled with a choice: take off across the country to prestigious Duke University or head downtown to University of Missouri-Kansas City.
Williams chose UMKC, and not because it was close to home. She chose it because at 18 and right out of high school Williams was accepted into its six-year medical program.
Now at an age when other medical students are just getting the hang of anatomy class, Williams is applying for residencies in physical medicine and rehabilitation. She graduates in May with her M.D. and a bachelor's in liberal arts.
"I have a friend who's 28, and
he's doing the same thing I'm doing now," said Williams, who has sent out about a dozen applications to residency programs across the country. "He won't graduate until he's 30, and I wouldn't graduate at 24."
She said it was difficult to turn down Duke.
"It's the whole name thing. It was hard for me to get past that and realize that this is not about the name, and that it's about what I want to do with the rest of my life."
The University of Missouri Kansas City Medical School is one of about 50 medical schools in the country that takes students directly out of high school. About seven of those schools offer six-year combined degree programs. The others are seven- or eight-year programs.
The UMKC program, which
"I's the whole name thing. It was hard for
me to get past that and realize that this is not about the name, and that it's about what I want to do with the rest of my life."
Tiffany Williams UMKC student
was developed in 1971, gets about 600 applications for its 100 openings each year. Students from Missouri must have at least 26 on their ACT or a 1,200 SAT score, said Basma Jaffri, administrative assistant to the council on selection for the
UMKC Medical School. The medical school admission test, or MCAT, isn't required.
About 60 percent of the students are female, and 19 percent of the students drop out, she said.
UMKC is one of the only ones to offer a six-year combined medical degree program as its main option, said M. Brownell Anderson of the Association of American Medical Colleges. She said the six-year programs have been successful and are a good way for students to cut costs.
"In some ways (six-year programs are) going to be more important as the costs for medical school continue to increase, and medical schools are going to have to find ways to produce physicians cost effectively.
"That's one issue, certainly, fewer years in school," Anderson said.
Internet piracy of movies is not nearly as rampant as in the music industry, largely because huge movie files can take hours
Studios to sue pirated movie swappers
LOS ANGELES Hollywood studios said yesterday they would file hundreds of lawsuits later this month against individuals who swap pirated copies of movies over the Internet.
global revenue because of physical piracy, or bogus copies of videos and DVDs of its films.
The move is a reversal of the studios' earlier reluctance to follow the aggressive legal path taken by the music industry.
The MPAA claims the U.S. movie industry loses more than $3 billion annually in potential
to download, in contrast to less than a minute for most songs.
Videotaped copies of films in theaters often are digitized or burned off DVDs and then distributed on file-sharing networks accessed with software programs like eDonkey, Kazaa and Grokster.
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
But Dan Glickman, the new head of the Motion Picture Association of America, said the lawsuits were necessary now, before high-speed Internet access makes downloading pirated copies of movies easier.
"This was not an easy decision, but it must be done now before illegal online file sharing of movies spins out of control." Glickman said Thursday.
Glickman did not say how many lawsuits would be filed, although sources who spoke on condition of anonymity said several hundred individuals would be named in the first round. Glickman said the legal campaign would be ongoing.
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The lawsuits would seek civil penalties of as much as $50,000 per download and as much as $150,000 if the infringement is proven to be willful.
The lawsuits will be accompanied by an ad campaign featuring a photo of a finger on a computer mouse and the obscured screen names of people the MPAA says are breaking the law.
"Is this you?" the ad reads. "If you think you can get away with illegally trafficking in movies, think again."
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