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January 23, 2024 • Physical Therapy, School of Health Professions School of Health Professions
Last year, three students revived The University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth’s Institute for Healthcare Improvement Open School Chapter, or IHI. An IHI Open School Chapter is a face-to-face group of students who work together to learn and apply skills in quality, safety and leadership. The shared goal of the group…
January 19, 2024 • Physician Assistant Studies, School of Health Professions, TCOM, Whole Health School of Health Professions, TCOM, therapy dogs, Whole Health,
It’s the middle of finals week, you have three exams in the next two days and you’ve spent more time in the library with your textbooks than you have at home. The stress is making it hard to focus and you’d love to take a walk to clear your mind, but you don’t have enough…
January 18, 2024 • Physician Assistant Studies, School of Health Professions
In one room, a patient was suffering from hypovolemic shock due to her ectopic pregnancy. In another, a patient was dealing with cholangitis — an infection of the biliary system. In both cases, a group of physician assistant and medical students from The University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth diagnosed and…
January 17, 2024 • Physical Therapy, School of Health Professions School of Health Professions
When Do Kyung Yun was young, he spoke with a stutter. Throughout his childhood, he attended speech therapy, which he credits as a significant driving factor in his decision to pursue a career in physical therapy. “It was one of the most painful and toughest challenges that I had to go through,” he said. “But…
January 12, 2024 • School of Health Professions Department of Personalized Health and Well-Being, School of Health Professions,
During a break year before starting college, Bethany Brady developed her passion for nutrition while traveling the world. She witnessed the ravages of malnutrition up close and wanted to learn how to help. Before pursuing her PhD, Dr. Karrie Curry was an endurance athlete, having competed in eight triathlons, seven marathons and several century cycle…
January 4, 2024 • Physician Assistant Studies, School of Health Professions emergency medicine, EMS, EMT, PA, paramedic, Physician Assistant, School of Health Professions,
By the time Zach Harmon and his team of paramedics arrived at a crash scene on Interstate 20 in Weatherford, Texas, the man they’d been deployed to help was already unconscious. He was breathing just six times a minute with a dangerously low heart rate. The truck driver was pinned inside the cabin of his tractor-trailer…
December 8, 2023 • Banner feature, Physical Therapy, School of Health Professions art project, art therapy, autism, empathy, first-year projects, PT, PTSD, School of Health Professions,
Natasha Blizzard had never spoken to her father about his post-traumatic stress disorder. The first-year physical therapy student at The University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth’s School of Health Professions said her father’s 27 years of military service, including several combat tours, changed aspects of his personality. “He felt so isolated,”…
November 20, 2023 • School of Health Professions, Whole Health mental health, Physical Health, Self-Care,
“When working in family medicine, I had a 60-year-old patient with a history of coronary artery disease and prior stent placement. She was a smoker and was frustrated by multiple failed attempts to quit. She felt like a failure and was very concerned that her heart condition would worsen. She tried nicotine replacement and varenicline…
November 16, 2023 • School of Health Professions Academic Resilience, Association of Schools Advancing Health Professions, J. warren Perry Award, Journal of Allied Health, physical therapy,
The University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth’s Michael Furtado, PT, DPT, EdD, was recently recognized by the Association of Schools Advancing Health Professions with its prestigious J. Warren Perry Award. Dr. Furtado, School of Health Professions associate professor and Department of Physical Therapy chair, received the honor for his paper, “Assessment…
September 19, 2023 • School of Health Professions Erika Jackson, Glenn Forister, Lauren Dobbs, Michael Furtado, Misti Zablosky, School of Health Professions, Tara Jo Manal, Todd Pickard,
Modern medicine is a team sport, and roughly 60% of that team is composed of practitioners who exist outside of the doctor-nurse paradigm. These vital pillars make up the backbone of the $3 trillion health care sector, and they’re among the fastest-growing professions in the world. From 5 to 8 p.m. on Thursday, The University…
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