The team DMU is assembling for a health service trip to the Central American nation of Honduras March 16-24 will wear multiple hats. To date, the group includes students from all three DMU colleges and five of its nine programs; […]
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Daniel Cole was a memorable medical school interviewee: Within one week’s time, he was in Panama as a Peace Corps volunteer, then on DMU’s campus as an osteopathic medical student candidate and then back in a remote village in the Comarca Ngäbe-Buglé.
Building latrines and relationships abroad Read More
In the master of health care administration program’s first on-campus executive residency, students gained insights on personality and communication styles, practiced their interprofessional skills and discovered their faculty are not “Dr. Drone-on.”
MHA students embrace inaugural executive residency Read More
The University lost a distinguished alumnus and small-town Iowa lost a great physician with the passing of Richard “Doc” Coatney, D.O.’60.
DMU mourns alumnus, emeritus trustee Read More
Renee Atherley thought the inability of her DMU classmate and significant other, Jeff Messerly, to be dishonest would prevent him from ever surprising her. She was wrong.
Romance in a hospital room Read More
Coming up with a way to convince older women to wear sensible shoes led a group of Des Moines Girl Scouts to learn teamwork, practice problem-solving and advance in a regional Lego competition. In the process, they gained mentors in some DMU podiatric medical students.
Lego competition sparks friendship between podiatric students, Girl Scouts Read More
Did Associate Professor Matthew Henry really once hang out with pro skateboarder Tony Hawk? Did Associate Professor Wayne Wilson truly once sport a Mohawk? Students pondered these and many other fascinating facts during DMU’s first-ever “Get to Know the Faculty Night.”
Nearly 50 million Americans, including more than 16 million children, struggle with hunger. Last Halloween, DMU students worked to alleviate this scary problem by trick-or-treating for food pantry donations.
Fighting a scary problem on Halloween Read More
One might debate who is more competitive, medical students or law students, but on Sept. 29, the former showed they were more gifted on the gridiron: Both DMU’s men’s and women’s teams took the trophy in the 2012 Malpractice Bowl,
DMU’s “masters of manipulation” again triumph in Malpractice Bowl Read More
DMU osteopathic medical student Katie Eggerman was “one of those three-year-olds” who always knew a health care career was her destiny. She’s also one of those students who seizes leadership opportunities, such as her new post with the Student Osteopathic Medical Association.
DMU student elected SOMA region trustee Read More