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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. Those visual thinking strategies…
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. Competing in…
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. The range of information and screenings was wide, said Dr. Greg Ernst, associate professor and interim chair of the Department of Physical Therapy. Physical therapy students performed fall risk screening and offered advice on balance,…, “, We thought this would be a good place that we could provide some services to benefit them as well as provide some experience for our students learning their skills in terms of communicating with clients or patients and providing information,” said Ernst, who estimated as many as 100 people attended the three-hour event. Clinical Laboratory Sciences senior Devaki Allen worked at a table with…
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…
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…
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…
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. “Our Outstanding Member award recognizes members who have contributed significantly to ASAHP,” said Dr. Linda Petrosino, ASAHP President. “David served two terms on the Board…
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…
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. The primary mission of NDMS is…
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. Physician assistant…