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Dr. Michael Clearfield the inaugural winner of the Beyer, Everett, and Luibel Memorial Medal

For more than two decades, Dr. Michael B. Clearfield, DO, MACOI, FACP, has developed the Department of Internal Medicine and Geriatrics at the Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine into one of the largest and most productive academically in the osteopathic profession, serving as the chair from 1982-2002. His time as chair at The University of…
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The New TCOM-affiliated ONMM Residency program opens at Lake Granbury Medical Center

A second Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine-affiliated residency program has opened at Lake Granbury Medical Center. A new Osteopathic Neuromusculoskeletal Medicine Residency program welcomed its first residents in July, joining the new Dermatology program that is affiliated with TCOM, one of six schools at The University of North Texas Health Science Center, that also began…
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TCOM faculty member writes clinical reference book for health care providers

Dr. Malinda Hansen has quite a list of accomplishments throughout her career. She is an acclaimed physician, she was named the 2019 Resident of the Year by the American Academy of Osteopathy, a business entrepreneur, a former women’s basketball player at the University of Minnesota and now she’s an author. Hansen, an assistant professor with…
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TCOM student receives white coat 24 years after attending father’s ceremony

Allison Solby was just an infant when her father, Dr. Steven Solby, received his white coat from the Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine at The University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth. The year was 1999, and while Allison was only six weeks old and might have hazy memories of her dad's…
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No substitute for on-the-job experience in health care  

I've learned more in the last five days than I had over the last year. Don't get me wrong, being in medical school is no joke, and the hours I've spent in the classroom are undoubtedly valuable, but it is nothing compared to being on the job. I just finished my first year at the…
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TCOM faculty and staff awarded multiple grants from AACOM

Innovation in Graduate Medical Education is taking the next step, and the Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine at The University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth is leading the way. TCOM was awarded two grants from the American Association of the Colleges of Osteopathic Medicine one of them is to study the…
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TCOM’s Melva Landrum appointed to the prestigious Careers in Medicine Advisory Board

She’s an expert in residency and the Match for osteopathic medical students, and now Melva Landrum of the Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine is part of a national advisory board representing osteopathic medicine. Landrum, a director in TCOM’s Office of Medical Student Success, was appointed to the Association of American Medical Colleges Careers in Medicine…
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TCOM-affiliated dermatology residency program begins in July

The rise in physician shortages across the United States has left many specialties scrambling for answers, but the Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine is addressing the shortfall with a new dermatology residency program that is set to begin in July. The residency will have three residents per class with a total of nine positions once…
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After nearly half a century of unparalleled patient care and education, TCOM’s Dr. Nancy Tierney is retiring

It was a car ride with her father that Nancy Tierney, Ph.D., APRN, ACNP, CPPS has never forgotten. “We were on Broad Street in Peekskill, New York,” she said when a then 13-year-old Tierney told her father she wanted to be a nurse. He scoffed at the idea and steered her toward a future in teaching.…
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SaferCare Texas takes students to IHI Patient Safety Congress

Ensuring safe and equitable care for all is just one of the lessons students learned at a recent meeting of the Institute for Health Improvement’s Patient Safety Congress. SaferCare Texas, The University of North Texas Health Science Center’s patient safety institute, sponsored three students to attend the three-day event and learn from patient safety experts…