DMU Associate Professor Joins AACOM NAOME Fellow
Maria Barnes, Ph.D., joins AACOM NAOME Fellowship, making her the seventh DMU faculty member to earn the recognition.
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Des Moines University Professor Named a Fellow of the National Academy of Osteopathic Educators
Sarah Clayton, Ph.D., associate professor of physiology and pharmacology at Des Moines University Medicine and Health Sciences, was accepted as NAOME fellow.
DMU faculty present winning posters at AACOM annual conference
Des Moines University was delighted this spring that the American Association of Colleges of Osteopathic Medicine (AACOM) honored DMU President and CEO Angela Walker Franklin, Ph.D., with its 2022 Dale S. Dodson, DO, Award, during its annual conference in Denver,
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Grant bolsters cultural humility course at DMU
DMU is an innovator and leader among medical schools with its multifaceted efforts to develop students’ cultural humility. One example is the osteopathic medical program’s year-long Foundations of Physicianship course, the second semester of which focuses on socially and culturally
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DMU offers virtual mental health lecture series
Loneliness has a negative impact on physical and mental health, even more than do obesity, inadequate physical activity or exposure to air pollution. Now add a pandemic and its “new rules” of physical distancing to the picture, and the situation
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Program may reduce health care providers’ biases against people with mental illness, study shows
A recent study by investigators at Des Moines University and the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) shows that NAMI’s Provider Education Program can improve the way medical students perceive and treat patients with severe mental illness, or SMI, helping
DMU College of Osteopathic Medicine honors Class of 2022
The DMU College of Osteopathic Medicine honored members of the doctor of osteopathic medicine Class of 2022 with its annual dean’s award program, which marks the transition students make from their first two didactic/academic years to their next two years
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DMU is nation’s first medical school to require mental health course
In 2018, Des Moines University became the nation’s first medical school to partner with the National Alliance on Mental Health (NAMI), the nation’s leading advocacy group for mental illness, to offer its provider education program to third-year osteopathic medical students. All medical schools train
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Royce White to address stigma around help-seeking for men and boys, July 11
Royce White, former NBA player and Iowa State University basketball star, will give a presentation on July 11 that will address stigma around help-seeking for men and boys. The event is being co-sponsored by the Des Moines Pastoral Counseling Center
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We have to start somewhere on addressing mental illness. DMU did.
We have to start somewhere on addressing mental illness.DMU did. The dire lack of access to mental health care represents a moral, medical and financial catastrophe worldwide. To tackle this enormous crisis, DMU decided to start somewhere: It is the
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