SCHOOL WEBSITE WINS TOP HONORS The Office of Communications in the School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences has received the highest honor from the Association of American Medical Colleges’ Group on Institutional Advancement (AAMC-GIA) for its transformation of the Department of Psychiatry website. The AAMC-GIA Award for Excellence recognizes the most creative and effective approaches used to promote academic medicine in the United States. Only a few institutions won the award in 2013, making UB’s accomplishment that much more notable, explained awards chair David B. Anderson, associate dean for advancement at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine. “Your entry represents the best of the best,” he said. The Office of Communications won the award in the electronic communications/website category. The group launched the psychiatry department site in the summer of 2012. The award was presented at the annual AAMC meeting in Hollywood, Fla. on April 4.
“This is a vote of confidence for UB’s residency programs. We do know that the residents have a tendency to remain in the areas where they train, so many will start their careers here, providing quality health care for our region.”
our training programs continues to improve, so students are more receptive, not only staying in Buffalo for postgraduate training, but some who leave also will return once their training is complete. The growth of the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus, including the forthcoming medical school downtown, is also attracting young —Roseanne C. Berger, MD physicians here.” Seventy-three percent of the UB Class of 2013 are New York State residents. A total of 75 students, half of the class of 2013, will stay in New York State to do their training.
Fifty percent more students in the UB School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences have chosen a UB residency program this year than last year, according to statistics compiled on the graduates at Match Day 2013 held March 15. Thirty-eight out of the 150 students who make up the Class of 2013 have chosen to stay in Buffalo and do their residencies at UB, up from 24 in 2012, according to Roseanne C. Berger, MD, senior associate dean for graduate medical education. “This is a vote of confidence for UB’s residency programs,” says Berger. “We do know that the residents have a tendency to remain in the areas where they train, so many will start their careers here, providing quality health care for our region.” “We’re excited to see this,” agrees David A. Milling, MD ’93, senior associate dean for student and academic affairs in the UB medical school. “We have recruited so many new faculty and the quality of
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