- Patient Care
HSC experts offer advice for the upcoming flu season
By Kathryn Lytton The flu season is approaching and experts at The University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth are tackling questions about the yearly virus as communities continue to fight COVID-19. Here is a Q&A about the seasonal flu and related topics: ...
- Our People
50 Heroes: Betty Belton
Betty Belton began her career in TCOM’s early days in their office of admissions. She watched the school morph from a stand-alone osteopathic college into a bustling health science center during her time at the university. The school grew, as did her career when...
- Education
HSC and National Association for Healthcare Quality partner to prepare MHA graduates to improve quality outcomes
The HSC School of Public Health has collaborated with the National Association for Healthcare Quality (NAHQ) to provide its Master of Health Administration (MHA) students with the opportunity to pursue the only accredited certification in healthcare quality, the Certified Professional in Healthcare...
- Education
HSC creates alternative licensing exam test site for medical students
By Steven Bartolotta Medical students overcame a lot in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic. Learning shifted to remote, rotations grinded to a halt and, perhaps most problematic, prometric test sites nationwide shut down in the middle of March with no immediate plans to reopen. Osteopathic medical students, like those...
- Our People
50 Heroes: H. Paul Dorman
When entering Tulane University to pursue a Mechanical Engineering degree, Paul Dorman’s father paid his first year’s tuition. From there, he was on his own, working full-time at his father’s company at night and attending Tulane during the day. More than 60 years later, Mr. Dorman committed...
- COVID-19
Each patient’s story illuminates Tarrant County COVID data, strengthens contact tracing
By Sally Crocker HSC 2020 graduate Julia Aiken was finishing the last semester of her MPH in Public Health Practice when COVID-19 arrived. By May, she had finished her degree and was helping Tarrant County Public Health’s (TCPH) with contact tracing efforts to track and help stop community spread of the virus. Aiken volunteered extra hours above her temporary work...
- Education
TCOM, PA students comply with COVID social distance rules while fine tuning their skills via the HSC Simulation Center
By Diane Smith HSC Fort Worth has taken virtual learning to new levels during COVID-19. Consider, for example, medical students at the Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine who must master ultrasound technology to better identify the diseases that ail patients. At TCOM, students gain these skills while also learning to teach their peers. Earlier this year,...
- Education
Dr. Erica Spears one of 15 national scholars to new well-being and inequality research training program
By Sally Crocker Health inequality and systemic racism have long threatened the lives of African Americans. The COVID-19 pandemic and increased awareness of police violence in 2020 have intensified nationwide action toward solutions and change for traditionally underserved populations. For...
- Research
(Un)solved mysteries
By Alex Branch In June 2017, Shawn Neill, 42, got on his four-wheeler and rumbled toward the banks of the Ohio River near his Illinois home. The only son of Rex and Judy Neill loved camping, fishing and hunting for wild mushrooms and arrowheads. He pitched...
- Our People
50 Heroes: HSC Student Advocates Association
It takes a village to guide our future health care providers throughout their medical school career. At HSC, the Student Advocates Association is a big part of that village. The Student Advocates Association (SAA) is a non-profit organization comprised of the spouses, significant others and families of Osteopathic Medical...
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