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June 21, 2016 • Community, Education, Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine
By Jan Jarvis After breaking a few teeth and struggling to get the tongue out of the way, Pritul Sarker, 15, successfully intubated his first patient. “It’s in the esophagus – oh, oh, oh!” the Canterbury Episcopal School student said. “I got it, I got it! I gotta get this on Snapchat.” Fortunately the…
June 10, 2016 • Education, School of Public Health
Two UNTHSC public health students won Best Student Poster awards at the 2016 American Industrial Hygiene Conference and Exhibition, recently held in Baltimore. The international conference is held annually for professionals in industrial hygiene and other occupational and environmental health and safety professions. The organization’s Biological Monitoring Committee recognized Vedant Gohil for his presentation on…
June 1, 2016 • Education
For four decades, late spring has been a joyous time in the life of the Health Science Center. Health professionals complete their degrees and graduate, carrying forward the work of creating healthier communities. With their diplomas, some are receiving their first credentials as health care providers, public health experts and biomedical researchers. Many are building on…
May 13, 2016 • Education, Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine
By Betsy Friauf Experience is the best teacher, and experienced physicians have much to teach the next generation. To help pass the torch, Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine students co-founded a study group for sharing knowledge among the young people and experienced local doctors. It’s called the Fort Worth Osteopathic Study Group, which the…
April 27, 2016 • Education, School of Public Health
By Sally Crocker UNTHSC student Courtney Searles decided to study public health because of her dad. Her father, diagnosed with cancer at age 24, grew up close to a chemical plant, where environmental factors may have contributed to his illness. He lost his battle with the disease at 30, inspiring Searles to pursue a career…
April 11, 2016 • Education, Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine
By Alex Branch A group of UNT Health Science Center students are helping classmates and community members learn to survive medical emergencies in the wilderness. The Wilderness Medicine Student Interest Group has organized camping trips and free weekend workshops at the Fort Worth outdoors store Backwoods to educate the public about everything from treating…
March 29, 2016 • Education, School of Public Health
by Sally Crocker Scientists have long recognized the connection between diseases in animals and diseases in people. Tuberculosis, brucellosis and African sleeping sickness, for example, are common infections passed from livestock to individuals in some Third World countries. So when Katherine Fogelberg, DVM, PhD, with the UNTHSC School of Public Health, announced a practice…
March 22, 2016 • Education, Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine
By Jan Jarvis For five Saturdays, 35 students from economically disadvantaged high schools got a chance to see themselves as the physicians they hope to one day become. They sutured artificial skin, examined human hearts in the anatomy lab and experienced life as medical students. As participants in the Mentoring and Health Professions Exposure…
March 21, 2016 • Education, Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine
By Jan Jarvis Minutes before opening envelopes that would determine their fates, UNT Health Science Center medical students Christine Langner and her boyfriend Matthew Bartow struggled to stay calm. “If we stay along I-35 that would be great,” said Langner, as she waited to find out which residency program she matched with. “Temple, Tulsa, San…
March 17, 2016 • Education, MD School
Texas Christian University and UNT Health Science Center have selected Stuart D. Flynn, M.D., dean of the University of Arizona College of Medicine-Phoenix, as the founding dean of the new M.D. school the two institutions are establishing in Fort Worth. Dr. Flynn, who led a medical school in Arizona that started as a partnership between…
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