23 Feb
Archive for ‘New Students’
18 Feb
Discover DMU!
by Gina Smith
Check out the anatomy lab!
Have you ever gone on a campus tour and felt like you didn’t really get to see the heart and guts of the school? We don’t want that to happen at DMU. We also don’t want you to visit and leave without every question answered. So if you’re thinking you want to enter the health care field (or your child or student does), then come check out Discover DMU on March 3.
It’s informal yet informative and you’ll get to see where students really learn and grow. You’ll hear about all 9 of our programs and go on a tour with a current student to our labs and classrooms and gym and all the other cool stuff that makes DMU awesome.
You’ll get to:
- Examine lifelike human simulators and sit in on a suturing session or laparoscope demonstration.
- Experience the simulated clinical setting students train in before entering a real clinic.
- Watch an osteopathic manual medicine demonstration.
- Meet DMU faculty, alumni and current students.
Come with questions! Our students are amazing and they are happy to share their experiences.
10 Feb
Spend your summer doing research!
Research is key component for a successful medical and health science school and DMU is proud of its research department.
You don’t have to be a DMU student to rub shoulders with faculty and medical students, though! Every summer, undergraduate students work with faculty researchers for 8 weeks on projects in microbiology, pharmacology, physiology, biochemistry and physical therapy.
Students work up to 40 hours per week and receive a stipend of $10/hour. Housing is not provided. It’s a great way to dip a toe in the water of graduate school or research and see what the research world is all about!
4 Feb
Are you crazy?
If jumping into ice cold waters when the temp is below freezing, or riding a snowbike down hill sounds like fun, check out the Des Moines Winter Games this weekend!
2 Feb
Good food reviews!
On Friday when I got home from work, my husband surprised me with having dinner and hotel reservations ready for a night out (he is THE BEST) and we hit up Centro, one of our favorite dinner spots. We devoured the pancetta-wrapped gulf shrimp that we love, gobbled up the focaccia bread, then I had the chicken & proscuitto penne. DELISH! It’s hard to try new dinner places when we have some we love so much!
Last week I stumbled across two sites I’d never seen before that rated, reviewed or shared info about Des Moines eateries. So check out TheTopDesMoinesRestaurants or SneakySunday.
How do you find new places? Do you look up reviews before you try ‘em or just jog on in?
11 Jan
Planning an Iowa-cation?
Is that a real word? Probably not but maybe it should be!
Whether you’re considering moving to town for the awesome DMU experience OR you live here & want to know more about the Hawkeye state, check out this travel guide &/or the calendar of events!
