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By Kate Hunger Students in the Departments of Physician Assistant Studies and Occupational Therapy have recently augmented their study of anatomy by using digital dissection tables as part of their curriculum. The School of Health Professions has seven Anatomage Tables, which feature several segmented cadaveric specimens, both total body and regional anatomy, rendered in high-definition 3D that…
By Kate Hunger The Speech-Language Pathology program is holding its first free pediatric summer clinic. The clinic began in early July with individual diagnostic evaluations for children ages 3 to 13 in the areas of speech-language delays and disorders, speech sound disorders and social communication disorders. The evaluations were followed by the following clinics: • Interact, a social…
By Kate Hunger Patients in Texas soon will be able to receive physical therapy treatment without a physician referral. Signed into law by Texas Governor Greg Abbott on June 14, HB 29 allows patient access to physical therapy without a physician referral. Michael Geelhoed, D.P.T., OCS, MTC, associate professor and director of clinical education, attended the bill signing on July 14. The Texas…
By Kate Hunger Riley Morgan was stressed out during his first day providing physical therapy services at a clinic in the Dominican Republic this summer. Then a man who came in complaining of shoulder pain walked in. “I did three simple techniques that we all learned in our first year,” said Morgan, a third-year Physical Therapy student. “At the end of the exam I asked him to raise his arms again…
By Kate Hunger The Department of Physician Assistant Studies held its annual white coat ceremony on May 16, with 48 students receiving their short white coats. The Frank M. Tejeda Ceremony for the Class of 2021 represented a milestone for students, who also received their pins from the president of the Texas Academy of Physician Assistants (TAPA) and recited the PA professional oath. “It’s a…
By Kate Hunger For the first time ever, the School of Health Professions commencement was held at the Tobin Center for the Performing Arts. About 150 students from Emergency Health Sciences, Medical Laboratory Sciences, Physical Therapy, Respiratory Care and Speech-Language Pathology participated in the May 18 ceremony, said David Henzi, Ed.D., Associate Dean for Academic and Student Affairs,…
By Kate Hunger When C.J. Winckler was growing up, first in South Dakota and then Southeast Texas, he had no plans for a career in medicine, but after four years of college, he knew he wasn’t suited for an office job. “I graduated UT undergrad in psychology on Sunday and started paramedic school on Monday,” he said. Now deputy medical director of the San Antonio Fire Department and an assistant…
By Kate Hunger After her teenage son was caught vaping twice last school year, Physician Assistant Studies Assistant Professor/Clinical Tammy Harris, MPAS, PA-C, spent a lot of time thinking about ways to address the increasing use of e-cigarettes among youth. “They are so influenced by their peers,” she said. She thought back to a study involving respiratory care students in the School of…
By Kate Hunger The School of Health Professions has a new library liaison: Rebecca Ajtai, MLIS. Ajtai, an experienced and enthusiastic medical librarian who has always loved science, joined the Library Liaison Services team in March. The primary point of contact for the School of Health Professions, Ajtai most recently spent seven years as a research librarian at the Texas Heart Institute…
By Kate Hunger A new pilot study involving the Department of Physical Therapy in collaboration with the Institute for Health Promotion Research will gauge the impact of a holistic intervention program on the overall wellbeing of cancer survivors. “We are finding out that if physical therapists just take care of the physical aspects of health by itself, we are pretty much just scraping the surface…