Double Duty
“House calls” has an entirely different meaning for these DMU students, who successfully juggle family life with the heavy lifting of medical school.
Helping a hurting Haiti
Amy Borden takes notes on a Haitian family. Among the many memories DMU students acquired in earthquake-ravaged Haiti, the visual images stick like one’s t-shirt in the island nation’s oven-like temperatures: the once-beautiful capitol building in ruins. People eating and
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Global health trip to Guatemala
In a mountainous village in Guatemala, Natalie Hinchcliffe positioned her stethoscope on a female patient’s chest. Not a sound from the woman’s left lung field. Now what?
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Superheroes of song
Members of the DMU Choir and String Quartet juggle classes and tests. They excel on board exams and clinical rotations. And somehow they’re able to meld medicine and music, masterfully. Can these people fly?
Health PASS inspires next generation of health care leaders
Imagine medical school with all the camaraderie and none of the exams or grades: Wouldn’t that get you excited about a health care career?
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Healthier women = healthier everyone
In her Peace Corps work, education, research and practice, Jenell Stewart has strived to follow an uncle’s advice to “put a heartfelt effort into this life.”
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Students helping students
Many students choose a medical career because they want to help people. That’s also why many DMU osteopathic medicine students volunteer every summer through the University’s educational support services office to tutor students in the physician assistant program.
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Research in translation
The biggest strength DMU brings to the translational table: open-minded scientists, clinicians, health care professionals, collaborators and students with a shared passion for serving patients through discovery and its application.
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Imposter or Not
Rachel Hammer is a second-year student at Mayo Medical School in Rochester, MN. Her essay, excerpted here, appears in the 2010 edition of Abaton, DMU’s annual medical literary journal.
OPTI-mizing residency opportunities
This summer DMU created the HEARTland Network, an Osteopathic Postdoctoral Training Institute (OPTI) for residency training in osteopathic specialties.
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