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  Heart and stroke collaborative seeing results
  Oct 04, 2018 -- Advances made by the Kansas Heart and Stroke Collaborative should continue to benefit many of the state’s residents.
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  Collaborative team contended with many hurdles to find winning solution in CLARION competition
  Oct 04, 2018 -- A Wichita team’s multifaceted plan to address the opioid crisis earned them second place in a national case-based competition that teaches interprofessional collaboration while crafting solutions to thorny problems.
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  The Only Woman in the Room
  Oct 04, 2018 -- At the time, they thought they were just making their way in a challenging field instead of making history. But looking back over challenges they faced – and with the wisdom of hindsight – many senior women physicians believe they have stories worth telling.
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  Virendra and Urvashi Patel give $1 million to KU School of Medicine-Wichita, supporting rural community medicine
  Sep 20, 2018 -- The Virendra C. Patel, M.D., and Urvashi V. Patel Scholarship, through KU Endowment, will give preference to KUSM-W students who are from or are interested practicing in southeast Kansas.
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  KU School of Medicine ranks among the nation’s leaders
  May 01, 2018 -- The KU School of Medicine, which includes campuses in Kansas City, Salina and Wichita, fares among the nation's finest in the areas of primary care (95th percentile), producing doctors who are working in rural settings 10 to 15 years after graduation (96th percentile) and family medicine physicians (98th percentile) as determined by the American Association of Medical Colleges (AAMC).
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  In annual rite of passage, graduating medical students learn on Match Day where they will be spending their residencies
  Mar 16, 2018 -- In annual rite of passage, graduating medical students nationwide learn on Match Day where they will be spending their residencies
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  KU psychologists leaving a century of experience behind them
  Feb 16, 2018 -- When Drs. Lyle Baade, Don Morgan and Glenn Veenstra leave KU School of Medicine-Wichita this year, the trio of psychologists will take with them 106 years of combined experience at the school.
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  New Wichita center focuses on reducing infant mortality
  Jul 24, 2017 -- Drawing on lessons gained through work on safe sleep practices and other maternal and infant health issues, a new center based at KU School of Medicine-Wichita plans to take aim at another challenging, multifaceted health issue: infant mortality.
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  KU School of Medicine-Wichita answers call for psychiatrists in Kansas
  Jul 21, 2017 -- With the demand for psychiatrists at an all-time high, the role of KU School of Medicine-Wichita in producing them has never been more important.
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  CLARION project lets students make a case for collaboration
  Jun 07, 2017 -- Put a medical student, a social worker, a nurse and a speech pathologist to work on a problem and what do you get? A well-rounded solution that applies a range of skills to a medical issue complicated by a mixture of social and systemic factors.