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The University of California, Los Angeles, has started a one-of-a-kind program that may start a trend among medical schools serving large Hispanic populations, experts said.

The pilot program prepares international medical graduates who speak English and Spanish for family medicine residency by coaching them through the multistep U.S. Medical Licensing Exam and giving them clinical observerships.

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Boston College has employed a roving party patrol to keep tabs on off-campus student house parties, with liaison Steve Montgomery tasked with warning revelers about keeping noise down, the Boston Globe reported Nov. 18.

Montgomery drives an official BC van around Brighton and Chestnut Hill, checking in on about 40 private homes known to be rented to BC students. He has a list of 18 properties known to be “problem houses” that are tagged for special attention.

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Washington — Adolescents were included for the first time in a large national survey on immunization rates, and the news is good and not so good depending on the vaccine in question.

More than 84% of teens had received three or more doses of the hepatitis B vaccine — in use for about 15 years — and 89% received two or more doses of the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine — in use for decades. But only 11% received the Tdap shot, and about 12% were immunized with the meningococcal conjugate vaccine.

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