‘Tis the season to walk, race or run for good causes. Here’s a few coming up…

On April 10 you can walk or run to raise money for and awareness about AIDS with The Project’s annual run at DMU. Kickoff is at 10.

On April 10, beginning at 8 a.m. you can walk the skywalks for juvenile diabetes.

April 16 DMU is host to one of the rare evening awareness events. Doors open at 5:30 p.m. for Take Back The Night – a program to fight sexual violence.

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HAPPY DOCTORS’ DAY to our graduates, our faculty and our doctors-to-be!

Happy doctors’ day to all those working in the DMU Clinic — we have docs in occupational health, physical therapy, family medicine, ophthalmology, podiatric medicine, physical medicine and rehab, osteopathic manual medicine & radiology.

I can think of very few professions as altruistic as the one you have chosen. You go through years & years of school and devote yourselves completely to the well-being of others. For this we thank you and celebrate you!

Posted in Current Students, DMU Alumni, Osteopathic Medicine, Physical Therapy, Podiatric Medicine, Post-professional Physical Therapy, Prospective Students, Rural Health | 1 Comment

Technology has become an essential part of many of our lives and medical students are no exception. DMU osteopathic medicine, podiatric medicine and physician assistant students receive iPod Touches which are especially useful while they are on rotations.

Jonathan Thompson, D.P.M.’12 shares five of his favorite medical apps:

ePocrates
Price: Free
Info: A must-have in the clinic and on rotations.  This gives you all the information you need on drugs—interactions, dosages, mechanisms.  You should have an activation code for a full subscription, so if you do not, contact the IT Department for this information.

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I went through a phase where I made (and ate) quesadillas several times a week. They were so easy and so tasty, but a couple years ago I must have hit my quota and haven’t made them since. Until I found this recipe on fresh365 (a great source for vegetarian recipes using in-season produce). I’m not a vegetarian, but when I heard black bean & sweet potato quesadilla I had to check it out. I wasn’t disappointed.

Black bean & sweet potato quesadillas
Ingredients
2 large sweet potatoes, peeled and cut into 1/2″ cubes
2 T olive oil
3 garlic cloves, minced
2 small jalapenos, finely chopped
14-oz can diced tomatoes
15.5-oz can black beans, rinsed and drained
juice of 1 lime
1/2 t salt
1/4 t pepper
1 large handful fresh cilantro, leaves chopped
1/2 small red onion, finely chopped
1 c crumbled feta cheese (optional)
8 whole-wheat tortillas
1 c salsa

Directions

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I was looking online for a faxing service and came across faxzero.com. Has anyone tried it? I do not know if it is safe and if it works but I really needed to fax something today and didn’t want to trek any further than my doorstep to do it for one sheet. There are still some places that do not accept email and prefer to have documents faxed for some reason. I don’t think it would be all that logical to buy a fax machine in this era of internet technology so if you have any advice for free faxing online, please send it this way!

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As a third-year podiatry student at DMU, we get the opportunity to observe an internal medicine doctor for a week. At first, I didn’t know what was to come and so felt indifferent until I met the doctor I was shadowing.

Day one was the hardest for me to adjust to. Since the hospital I was at has completely transitioned to electronic medical records (EMR), the majority of time spent with the patient is fumbling with the computer. If the computer was slow, then it was a bad day and appointments were backed up. EMR is very useful and helps organize a patient encounter at every visit. However, I am concerned about how patients are perceiving their visits when the doctor is bound to their computers. This was the hardest part for me to understand, how time spent on the computer requires the patient sitting in the room silently while the doctor types away.

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