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Recent HSC Class of 2021 grad, Dr. Samantha Watson
  • Education
| May 19, 2021

Pharmacy graduate overcomes difficult journey to fulfill her dreams

By Krista Roberts  When Samantha Watson was in middle school, she dreamed of becoming a doctor. Through many ups, downs and detours along the way, she realized her dream Friday when she finally held that title, Doctor of Pharmacy, from the HSC College of Pharmacy.   “It’s very surreal,” Watson said....

Amber Deckard, School of Public Health 2021 Dean’s Commencement Award for Academic Achievement Recipient
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| May 18, 2021

For 2021 academic achievement honoree, food equals love, connections, healthy communities and more

By Sally Crocker Food has inspired student Amber Deckard’s academic career path and community service endeavors for as long as she can remember. Deckard - winner of this year’s University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth (HSC) School of Public Health (SPH) Dean’s Commencement Award for...

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| May 7, 2021

TCOM’s Primary Care Pathway Program pipeline to Midland opens this summer

By Steven Bartolotta This is the summer TCOM medical student Clarence Sparks has dreamed about — he gets to go home. Sparks isn’t taking time off from his medical school training though. He starts training rotations in his hometown of...

TCOM Peer Teaching
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| April 28, 2021

TCOM students learning key Ultrasound technology, but also teaching it themselves

By Steven Bartolotta Louisa Weindruch saw what it could do in an emergency room. Cassidy Weeks recognized its value to rural health care. That’s why both students are striving to learn all they can about the emerging use of ultrasound technology to diagnose disease and potentially save patients’ lives. The pair of second-year Texas College...

PA Alumna Emily Holloway
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| April 19, 2021

Tourniquet training pays off in emergency for HSC PA alum

By Alex Branch Emily Holloway (PA ’20) has sewn shut plenty of open wounds at the rural urgent care center where she works in on the East Coast. But she hadn’t encountered anything like the bleeding man who rushed through the clinic’s doors recently....

TCOM Big Bend Trip
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| April 15, 2021

TCOM Students Partner with TRHA for Big Bend Border Medical Mission Trip

By Steven Bartolotta and Mallory McMahon The Texas Rural Health Association chapter at The University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth spent spring break on their second annual Big Bend medical mission trip to west Texas. The...

Tcom Met Building
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| April 2, 2021

TCOM student organization hosts virtual youth summit

By Steven Bartolotta Learning how to suture, perform CPR and applying a tourniquet was on full display as TCOM’s Student National Medical Association (SNMA) helped host a virtual session of Black Men in White Coats Youth Summit. The activities, which were conducted in...

TCOM Students at MET Building
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| April 1, 2021

U.S. News Ranks TCOM as top osteopathic school for primary care in Texas, second in the nation

By Steven Bartolotta   U.S. News & World Report released its annual list of best medical schools for primary care and for the second consecutive year, the Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine was the highest ranked osteopathic medical school in Texas...

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  • Education
| March 30, 2021

Women’s History Month 2021

As Women’s History Month draws to a close, HSC College of Pharmacy would like to recognize the immense contributions and significant gains women are making in the pharmacy profession. According to a 2019 National Pharmacist Workforce Study, the pharmacy profession...

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| March 26, 2021

One-of-a-kind Patient Safety Course gives TCOM students an edge

By Steven Bartolotta Lillee Gelinas, MS, RN, CPPS, FAAN, remembers the first patient she ever lost. She was in the U.S. Navy Nurse Corps and missed a respiratory depression that ultimately led to the patient’s death. Devastating experiences like that...