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U.S. News Lists UAMS Grad Schools Among Nation’s Best Three University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) programs are featured in the latest U.S. News & World Report “America’s Best Graduate Schools,” which hit newsstands this month. The UAMS College of Medicine geriatrics program placed in the top 10 geriatric programs in the nation for the sixth year in a row. This year, as last year, the program ranked 10th. Others in the top 10 are Johns Hopkins University in Maryland, Mt. Sinai School of Medicine in New York, Duke University in North Carolina, University of California – Los Angeles, University of Michigan – Ann Arbor, Harvard University in Massachusetts, University of Washington, Yale University in Connecticut, and University of California – San Francisco. The UAMS College of Medicine primary care program, which includes family medicine, internal medicine and pediatrics, ranked 35th among top medical schools in the nation – up 10 places from last year. UAMS tied with Mayo Medical School in Minnesota, University of California – San Diego, University of Maryland, University of Virginia and Wake Forest University in North Carolina. The magazine did not freshly rank nursing programs, but included last year’s list in which the UAMS College of Nursing master’s program ranked 40th – tied with Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C.; Loyola University Chicago; University of Kansas; University of Rochester in New York; University of Texas Health Science Center in San Antonio; and Wayne State University in Michigan. |
UAMS Surgeon Travels To Africa on Medical Mission Perhaps it was the 14-year-old boy with a broken leg that illustrated for UAMS surgeon Ruth Thomas during a medical mission trip the challenges orthopaedic surgeons face in the developing African country of Uganda. First taken to the village “bone setter,” usually a local practitioner with no formal training, it became apparent after three weeks that more treatment was needed. His family took him to Mulago Hospital in the city of Kampala with the bone still protruding from an open wound. Since the bone was already contaminated, it was not considered an emergency case by the small orthopaedics staff and the boy waited another week before he had surgery, Thomas said. It took three surgeons holding and pulling in opposite directions to correct the leg – which had already started to heal in the wrong position – to proper alignment for pins to be inserted, she said. Since the break was above the knee and near a growth plate, the boy faces the possibility the leg could stop growing and leave it shorter than his other limb. Also with a fracture wound open for about a month, he also faces a high risk of continuing infection. “This is an example of how the villagers still don’t understand the concept of doctors and hospitals,” Thomas said. “They still put their faith in non-medical healers.” In a two-week medical mission to Uganda, in east Africa, Thomas, M.D., professor of orthopaedics in the UAMS College of Medicine, performed surgery, saw patients in clinic and worked to forge a path to better orthopaedic care in the country. |
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