All members of the DMU classes of 1988, 1963 and earlier years should prepare to be honored, exalted and celebrated in May with a new alumni reunion tradition for “medallion alumni.”
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After serving five generations of patients over nearly four decades of general practice in Ida Grove, IA, John Sinnott, D.O.’68, and his wife, Lenee, tried something entirely different – an endeavor that’s grown into Old Town Vineyard and Winery.
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The DMU Alumni Association invites everyone to the May 22 Golf Benefit to build on the successes of past college golf outings, underscore DMU’s strengths as a united University and – most important – to raise critically needed scholarship funds for DMU students in all programs.
Bringing everyone together for swinging fun and a good cause Read More
With all the discoveries that have remarkably advanced medical care, we have a delivery system characterized by a shortage of primary care physicians, high expenditures on chronic disease and pressure to improve efficiencies and access. The “Phoenix Physician” must rise out of the ashes of this outdated system.
The Phoenix physician Read More
Throughout Roger Senty’s years as a student and faculty member at the College of Osteopathic Medicine and Surgery, now DMU, its leaders had talked about upgrading and relocating the institution. He ultimately was the one who got the job done.
A mover (literally) and shaker in DMU’s history Read More
If you ask an attorney, says David Kapaska, D.O.’86, the standard of health care is the same at the renowned Mayo Clinic as it is in Bowdle, SD, population 499 (U.S. Census Bureau). “That’s a high bar,” says Kapaska, regional
Virtual medicine works in reality Read More
When you ask Greg Paris, M.H.A.’98, what Monroe County Hospital and Clinics (MCHC) were like just over a decade ago, his eyes widen and his smile fades. “We were a remarkably different hospital,” he says. The chief executive officer isn’t
Nurturing a crop of top-quality health care professionals Read More
In the same way orchard owners plant trees with a long-term view of the fruits of their labors, some organizations are working to plant interest in health care careers among young students. They include the nation’s Area Health Education Centers,
Growing their own: sowing interest in health careers Read More
Last summer, DMU osteopathic medical student Bill Bensen found many benefits during a preceptorship at Kossuth Regional Health Center (KRHC) in Algona, IA. The critical care hospital and multi-specialty clinic let him dive into a variety of patient-care cases, working
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Health care providers may be scarce as hen’s teeth in rural areas, but that paucity is producing a bumper crop of employment opportunities for health care professionals ready to embrace the perqs and quirks of rural practice. Here are some ways the University, individuals and organizations are sowing interest in rural medicine.