Word: allen
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...They're smart. Well, anyway, their writers are. "There are jokes you won't get," says Groening, "unless you've actually attended a few classes in college." Lit. 101 will teach you that Lisa's poetry is inspired by Allen Ginsberg's and that the prison number (24601) worn variously by Marge, Principal Skinner and Sideshow Bob is Jean Valjean's in Les Miserables. It also helps if you know old movies. Simpsons plots have plundered King Kong, Citizen Kane, Thelma & Louise, Cape Fear and the entire Hitchcock oeuvre. "If you steal from a black-and-white film," Brooks told...
Unlike programs which allow only an arbitrary number of specialists and exclude others from specialty practice, the Binghamton program still allows graduates the possibility of specializing after medical school. In fact, many participants do end up specializing, according to Dr. Steve Allen Jr., assistant dean for student affairs at the Binghamton campus...
...recent years, interest in generalist care among the national medical school graduate population has dwindled from near 50 percent to somewhere around 25 percent. Allen says that Binghamton campus graduates have mirrored the numbers at the main campus, and have been consistent with national averages. In 1989 and 1990, however, Binghamton had more graduates entering primary care fields...
Perhaps most reassuring is the fact the SUNY Syracuse medical students have a healthy interest in learning more about primary care. The Binghamton campus assignment was formerly made by random selection. But since it became a voluntary choice, Allen says, students make it often...
...other difference is that those Binghamton graduates who do end up in specialty practice have been exposed to the basic importance of primary care. As Allen points out, 85 percent of all physicians practice in a community, rather than an academic setting, which means that the training Binghamton campus graduates receive in their last two years of medical school makes them more prepared for real-life practice...