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January 11, 2016 • Education
By Alex Branch When students in the Master of Science program in Medical Sciences sat down to plan a community service project, they weren’t interested in anything routine. “We wanted to make an impact,” student Rhett Butler said. “We wanted to do something that has never been done at UNT Health Science Center.” Butler, Erica…
December 18, 2015 • Community, Education
By Betsy Friauf This holiday season, an abandoned newborn boy has a loving home because medical student Chandler Sparks, 24, and his wife, Emily, feel called to serve humankind. They are the foster parents of a baby born this fall whose mother left him at the hospital. He went into foster care immediately, and his…
December 15, 2015 • Education, Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine
By Betsy Friauf Third-year medical student Kristen Slaymaker is working to change Tarrant County’s soaring infant mortality rate. Her research on unsafe sleeping conditions for babies is winning awards, and she is seeking ways to educate parents so they can keep their babies safer at night. “We found that it’s not unusual for mothers we…
December 7, 2015 • Education, School of Public Health
By Sally Crocker The year was 1986 when the country was stunned by the news that first-team All-American college basketball player Len Bias had died of a cocaine/alcohol overdose on the University of Maryland campus. The young athlete – described by some sportswriters as one of the greatest college players ever – had just been…
December 2, 2015 • Education
By Cari Hyden Myriam Martinez-Banuelos discovered a way to create healthier communities both in Texas and in Mexico – simultaneously. As a result, many librarians in Mexico now are aware of Spanish-language health information resources provided by the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM). And Martinez-Banuelos has better insights into the Hispanic culture, an underrepresented…
November 24, 2015 • Education, Physician Assistant Studies, School of Health Professions
By Alex Branch Dr. Hank Lemke, founding director of UNT Health Science Center’s nationally recognized Physician Assistant Studies Program, has earned a national honor for achievements in PA education. Lemke, DHSc, PA-C, received the 2015 Master Faculty Award, an honor given annually by the Physician Assistant Education Association to one PA in the nation…
November 19, 2015 • Education, School of Public Health
UNT Health Science Center’s School of Public Health has received reaccreditation from the Council on Education for Public Health (CEPH). CEPH assures quality in public health education and training, and accreditation helps demonstrate that a school is committed to leading and fostering innovation and continuous quality improvement in its education programs. CEPH is an independent…
November 17, 2015 • Education
By Jan Jarvis Southern Methodist University senior Sarah Levin stared at the body before her in the Anatomy Lab at UNT Health Science Center. “I’ve seen ligaments and tendons in textbooks,” she said. “But now I’m actually seeing all the things I learned in class in real life.” That reaction was exactly what Rita Patterson,…
November 11, 2015 • Education, Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine
By Alex Branch U.S. Marine Sgt. Andrew Zovath served his country for four years before he returned home to Houston and started his transition to civilian life. A veteran who served two tours in Iraq, he wanted a career with a sense of service. He found it while visiting a family friend who worked at…
November 2, 2015 • Education, Interprofessional Education
By Betsy Friauf The international audience was so eager to learn about innovations at UNT Health Science Center, they raised their hands before the speakers clicked past their first slide. The topic was teaching tomorrow’s health care providers to work in teams – interprofessional education, or IPE. David Farmer, PhD, Interprofessional Education Director at UNTHSC,…
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