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?
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.”
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.
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.
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.
Good work by DMU student is good news for cancer patients
Scientists, including those at DMU, are exploring a better approach to treating non-small cell lung cancer: high doses of radiation specifically targeted at the lung tumors using stereotactic body radiation therapy, administered by a robotic system.
Glanton Scholarship Fund Dinner 2010
The annual Scholarship Fund Dinner was held Oct. 14. Elizabeth Ceballos was the recipient of this year’s Glanton Scholarship.
OMM powers athletic performance
By easing pain, improving function and increasing mobility, osteopathic manual medicine offers clear benefits to athletes.