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Faculty snapshot: Physical Therapy professor keeps the focus on pain and its impact on mood, mind and movement
Professor Maureen Simmonds brings personal experience to bear in her pain research. Years ago, Simmons broke her back and pelvis in a horseback riding accident. Her understanding of pain informed her research from the very beginning, she said, and continues to do so.
“What I was taught about pain didn’t match what I was feeling,” she said. “It influences mood, mind as well as movement.”
Simmonds recalled thinking, “I need to understand this better.”
Research retreat hones ideas, honors Kudolo Award winners
The School of Health Professions hosted its annual research retreat on Dec. 9.
The day’s offerings included a morning workshop, which allowed faculty to “refine and renew their research ideas,” according to Dr. Kathryn S. Aultman, Director, Research Operations for the Schools of Nursing and Health Professions.
“By developing their Programs of Science, faculty can integrate their teaching, practice and research activities and stimulate their productivity,” Aultman said.
Art Rounds: Elective course shows how visual thinking strategies translate from art to patient
It’s unlikely that first-year occupational therapy student Amy Honeck will soon forget Paul Gauguin’s Sister of Charity.
Honeck researched and visited the oil painting — and even tried her hand at painting the nun depicted in the work— throughout her time in Art Rounds, an enrichment elective course offered through a collaboration between the UT Health San Antonio and the McNay Art Museum.
Grand Rounds talks scheduled for spring semester
First-year Doctor of Physical Therapy student Mike Nash has a better idea of the role a physical therapist plays in treating a patient with sepsis, thanks to a recent Grand Rounds lecture.
Nash attended both of the Grand Round Lectures series events this fall. Open to all students, the series features faculty from the School of Health Professions and is designed to foster interprofessional exchange by illustrating the ways all six of the School’s health professions treat a range of diseases and disorders. The series debuted in the fall of 2015.
Department of Emergency Health Sciences offers mass casualty training to airport employees
Dozens of airport employees at the San Antonio International Airport learned how to help victims in mass casualty events during training led by Terry Eaton, assistant professor of Emergency Health Sciences and civilian training officer.
The training program, Stop the Bleed, familiarized airport workers with how to use special kits, called I-Paks, and also taught them how to assess and stabilize injuries until first responders arrive. The kits, which are located throughout the airport, include gloves, scissors, a chest seal, tourniquet, combat gauze and a space blanket.
Students donate more than 500 pounds of food to San Antonio Food Bank
The School of Health Professions collected 523 pounds of food in its student-led holiday food drive — enough to provide 409 meals.
The food collected Nov. 15 through Dec. 12 was donated to the San Antonio Food Bank.
First-year Physician Assistant Studies student Jo-Anne Espinosa said she proposed the food drive as a simple way for students to give back to the community. She would like to see the drive become an annual holiday effort to address the problem of food insecurity.
Q&A with Dr. Byron C. Hepburn, Director of the Military Health Institute
Q: When did the School of Health Professions begin partnering with the Military Health Institute?
Occupational Therapy students attend, present at TOTA conference
Angie Zurovec hopes to land a job in a school setting after she graduates with her master’s in Occupational Therapy this month. No matter where she finds herself working with patients, she already knows they will benefit from strategies she learned in an art class aimed at teaching doctors and other health professionals how to deepen their observation of patients.
Second annual Interprofessional Bowl a Win for Physical Therapy Second-Years
Jamie Burns made the winning touchdown last month in the School of Health Profession’s second annual Interprofessional Bowl, but she said relaxing with students from other programs was the real prize.
“It’s a way to get out and actually see people who are in the other School of Health Professions programs as well,” the second-year Physical Therapy student said of the Nov. 5 event.
School of Health Professions students work health fair at Bob Ross Senior Center
About 20 School of Health Professions students performed health screenings and provided information during a health fair at Bob Ross Senior Center on Nov. 3.
Emergency Health Sciences posts 100 percent first-time pass rate for SAFD paramedic exam
The Emergency Health Sciences program announced that 100 percent of the 22 students who took the National Registry of Emergency Medical Technicians’ Cognitive Exam this fall passed on the first try, exceeding the national rate of 74 percent during the same time period.
Mark Dieterle, director of initial education in the Department of Emergency Health Sciences, said that the program consistently sees at least 90 percent of students pass on the first try, but that this class is the first to achieve a 100 percent first-time pass rate in recent memory.
Ana Allegretti speaks about "GoBabyGo!"
Modified ride-on toy cars have opened up a whole new world for mobility-challenged children in a program that Dr. Ana Allegretti, assistant professor of occupational therapy, is using to study the impact of early independent mobility on development.
Allegretti collaborated with The Children’s Rehabilitation Institute of TeletonUSA (CRIT) to bring the GoBabyGo! program to San Antonio. Founded by Dr. Cole Galloway at the University of Delaware, GoBabyGo! has spread to locations through the U.S. and the world.
Master of Science in Medical Laboratory Sciences offers opportunity.
Advances in testing and rapidly improving technology make first-year graduate student Matthew Landry particularly excited about the impact he will one day have on patient care as a medical laboratory scientist. Landry is one of 16 students in the inaugural year of the Master of Science in Medical Laboratory Sciences.
“You want to provide the patients with the most accurate and the quickest results,” he said. “Being the scientist that puts them into action, to be able to help patients—that's pretty exciting in my opinion.”
Master of Physician Assistant Study Graduates Have a Bright Future
Recent graduates of the UT Health San Antonio Physician Assistant Studies master’s program accepted jobs in primary care at almost twice the national rate of their peers.
Data from the National Commission on Certification of Physician Assistants reveal that 46.4 percent of the program’s graduates from 2013-2015 accepted jobs in family medicine/general practice and internal medicine/general practice upon certification, compared to 25.6 percent of certified graduates from other programs nationwide during the same time period.
Association of Schools of Allied Health Professions recognizes Dean Shelledy
By Kate Hunger
School of Health Professions Dean Dr. David Shelledy received the Outstanding Member Award on Oct. 19 from the Association of Schools of Allied Health Professions during its annual conference in New Orleans.
Respiratory Care beefs up clinical component; hosts international visitors
Undergraduate and graduate respiratory care students spend 36 hours per week in clinical rotations during the last year of their programs—more than twice the number of hours per week under the previous curriculum.
The three 12-hour shifts per week allow students to work on their time management skills and to gain a strong understanding of the teamwork and flow of an entire shift, said De De Gardner, chair of the Department of Health Sciences and the Steven Lloyd Barshop Endowed Chair in Respiratory Care. Students spend the last three semesters in clinical rotations.
Career Advice with special Speaker - Lauren Brody-Terrill
The timing of a job search advice session hosted by the School of Health Professions in October was perfect for third-year occupational therapy student Gayle Tabotabo . “This was a really great opportunity to get that information right before graduating,” said Tabotabo , who is currently in her second field work rotation and will graduate in December.
EHS faculty member deployed to Louisiana flooding
David A. Miramontes, M.D., assistant clinical professor of the School of Health Professions Department of Emergency Health Sciences and medical director of the San Antonio Fire Department, was deployed to the Louisiana flooding in August as part of his duty with the National Disaster Medical System (NDMS), a part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
PA studies graduates pass national certifying exam for third year
For the third consecutive year, 100 percent of the graduates from the Physician Assistant (PA) Studies program at the School of Health Professions have passed the Physician Assistant National Certifying Exam (PANCE) at first attempt.
The department’s five-year first-time taker pass rate averages at 95 percent in comparison to the national average of 94 percent.
Students provide health screenings at State Senator’s School Fair
School of Health Professions’ physician assistant and respiratory care students joined State Senator Carlos Uresti’s Annual “Back 2 School Fair” Saturday, August 6 at Palo Alto College.
Every year the school kickoff event provides around 10,000 backpacks, school supplies, and other resources to the counties in Senator Uresti’s district- one of the poorest districts in Texas.
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