Keeping doctors down on the farm
With its Area Health Education Centers program and new rural medicine scholarship, DMU is bringing health care to underserved areas, today and for the future.
Students help spinal cord-injured get moving
Everyone is smiling on this golf outing. Wheelchair users just want to have fun–and golf and bicycle and bowl and go kayaking. When the Spinal Cord Injury Association of Iowa (SCIAI) offers those opportunities to people with mobility issues, DMU …
Coming together on health care
If America’s health care system were a patient, its doctor might declare “code blue.” Our health status is vulnerable at best: The United States spends more per capita on health care than other industrialized nations yet performs poorly–37th in the most recent World Health Organization ranking–in many key outcomes, such as obesity and infant mortality.
William Anderson: Never Quit
Born in the segregated South, Anderson was determined to become a doctor at a time when many African-Americans had limited access to basic health care.
Not just a pretty face!
Hundreds of actors have played health care roles on TV and in movies. But an actor in real health care? Meet Dan Deublein, future physician assistant.
In the heart of Harlem
Starting a medical school anywhere is daunting enough. But when Martin Diamond, D.O.’62, was invited to help with such an effort in Manhattan, he agreed only if the school would be located in a neighborhood with few doctors, high needs and a rich history.
Training America’s military medics
Local medics practice at DMU’s Iowa Simulation Center.
Show them the way: Mentor a DMU student
Alums give back by mentoring students
In the battle of the sexes, we’d all be better in this together
Preparing competent leaders in health care is going to take more than cracking the glass ceiling.