DMU Osteopathic Students Achieve 100% Residency Placement
Des Moines University’s osteopathic medicine Class of 2024 achieved a 100% residency placement match rate.
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Alternative Therapies
Several alumni are applying their health care and public health expertise beyond traditional boundaries, promoting lifestyle medicine, healthy nutrition and a love for all earth’s creatures.
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Celebrate National Osteopathic Medicine Week
Sunday, April 17, marked the beginning of National Osteopathic Medicine (NOM) Week! Through April 23, members of the osteopathic medical profession come together to focus on one common goal—increasing awareness of osteopathic medicine and D.O.s in communities across the country.
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D.O. Day on Capitol Hill
Students took a break from studying last week to participate in D.O. Day on Capitol Hill. The event is sponsored by the American Osteopathic Association and the Student Osteopathic Medical Association. Every year, students from across the country gather in
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What is a D.O.?
Happy Osteopathic Medicine Week! Did you know there are two types of doctors in the United States? A doctor of osteopathic medicine (D.O.) and a medical doctor (M.D.). Most people don’t know if their primary care physician is a D.O.
DMU students see friends, not stereotypes
In the University’s Homeless Camp Outreach, students learn to help people “where they are” – and gain compassion in the process.
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Student research may help tackle vitamin deficiency, blindness
Tyler Mayo is working in a DMU laboratory to help address potential vitamin A deficiency among children on the other side of the world.
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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.
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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
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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.
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