While the coronavirus shut down major aspects of daily life for many, those working in health care and public health, of course, have to soldier on. These front-line health heroes face significant risk of contracting the virus and passing it …
DMU M.H.A., M.P.H. students are health heroes amid pandemic crisis Read More
Sheltering-at-home and social distancing are not options for front-line health care employees. Working to provide some relief to these individuals and their families are more than 80 Des Moines University students, representing all eight of DMU’s graduate medical and health …
One student described the numbness he increasingly felt toward patients in his job as a scribe in a hospital emergency room until a homeless person came in, drenched by the rain and despondent that his wife had left him for …
The Comprehensive Osteopathic Medical Licensing Examination of the United States, or COMLEX-USA, is the three-level national standardized licensure exam that osteopathic students typically take after their second, third and fourth years of medical school to become licensed osteopathic physicians. In …
Dr. Martin Schmidt, DMU’s “item writer” extraordinaire Read More
Elections were held this spring for trustees to the board of the Iowa Osteopathic Medical Association (IOMA). DMU graduates serving as trustees include Dustin Arnold, D.O.’96, who was re-elected for a two-year term. He practices with UnityPoint Clinic Hospitalists in …
V. Kathleen Satterfield, D.P.M.’91, FACFAOM, MAPWCA, has had many accomplishments in her career as well as at least two failures: She’s twice failed at retirement. She had planned to retire this spring as associate dean of the College of Podiatric …
Daniel Sipple, D.O.’03, FABPMR, DABPM, believes that thinking and acting like an entrepreneur is an effective way for physicians to avoid burnout. One way he practices that belief is in his role as co-founder and medical adviser for the St. …
Taking an entrepreneurial view of global health problems Read More
Sol Weiss, B.S.Ph., D.O.’59, was a family medicine physician who sometimes covered the emergency room at a time when “few physicians wanted to get near one.” He was particularly troubled by the possibility of having to perform an emergency tracheotomy …
Robert Orenstein, D.O.’87, is a professor of medicine at the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science in Phoenix, and he chairs the division of infectious diseases at Mayo Clinic Arizona. He has been editor-in-chief of the Journal of the …
MEDICAL SCHOOL PERMANENTLY CHANGES YOU. It changes not only how you think, but also how you see people and, in turn, how they see and think about you. This has been most evident to me over the past several years, …
Eric Johnson’s idea of a good time is no walk in the park. It’s a 1,000- mile slog that he does on foot with Old Man Winter up wind-whipped mountain passes, over rivers, across desolate tundras and through dense forests …
Alumnus crushes the Iditarod – on foot – for the sixth time Read More
As a board-certified neurologist, Wynde Cheek, D.O.’03, FACN, learned from mentor Robert Simkins, D.O.’75, how to have “difficult conversations with patients with devastating conditions.” She manages that challenge by keeping up in her profession and walking patients through their diagnoses, …
Alumna unites generations to advance her specialty, serve patients Read More