ENGLEWOOD, Colo., July 30, 2012 /PRNewswire-iReach/ — The Medical Sales College, the only licensed, approved, and regulated college in the United States focusing on the training and preparation of medical sales professionals, announced today its most recent placement rates for 2011 graduates of their 8-week orthopaedic training programs. That placement rate is currently at an all-time high of 81.99% and continues to grow. (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20120730/CG48734) Jim Rogers, CEO of the Medical Sales College, was quoted today as saying, “We are excited to offer our students the opportunity to make an expedient and affordable transition into medical device sales. Our graduates work very hard at preparing themselves for these very demanding and competitive positions, and we are proud that this process has been so successful for so many.” He goes on to say, “In the current economic climate, those applicants who are proactive, engaged, and take the necessary steps to prepare for a career are very frequently the ones who get the most consideration. Vocational education and very specific training programs such as those offered at the Medical Sale Read more text

Dr. Hugh Stephenson, who died Thursday (July 26, 2012), helped turn the School of Medicine at the University of Missouri at Columbia into a full, four-year institution. During the 1950s, he successfully lobbied the Legislature to build a medical school to replace one that provided only two years of training. Students had to transfer to a four-year medical program to finish their degrees. Dr. Stephenson was a popular professor and the first full-time surgery faculty member at the medical school. In 1958, he performed the university’s first open-heart surgery. The university also credits him for designing the “crash cart”— the Mobile Cardiac Resuscitation Unit — as well as being one of the first surgeons to implant an automatic cardiac defibrillator for shocking the heart after it goes into arrest. Dr. Hugh Edward Stephenson Jr. died at his family’s summer home in Rehoboth Beach, Del. He was 90 and also had a home in Columbia. He had been treated for at least 10 years for complications of Parkinson’s disease, a family friend said Monday. Before Dr. Stephenson, university officials had been trying since the early 1930s to build a four-year medical sch Read more text

  Transgenomic Inc and the Medical College of Wisconsin in Wauwatosa announced Monday a collaboration agreement under which Transgenomic will offer its genetic testing services performed at the MCW Clinical Sequencing Program. The pact will make testing for mitochondrial disorders available at the Medical College of Wisconsin. Under the agreement, the MCW laboratory will become the first laboratory to offer Transgenomic’s NuclearMitome Test, which identifies mutations in 448 genes that are considered important for mitochondrial function, the college said. The test represents the most comprehensive genetic test available for mitochondrial disorders. Mitochondrial disorders are often caused by inherited or acquired mutations in mitochondrial DNA and can result in symptoms affecting multiple organ systems including the liver, brain, nervous system, kidneys and cardiovascular function. Mitochondrial diseases are the most common metabolic diseases of childhood with an estimated frequency of 1 in 2000 births. “The NuclearMitome Test is designed to improve the speed and precision of diagnosis for a host o Read more text