Category: Medical Students
Student Health provides vaccines to students
The College of Pharmacy and Student Health have partnered together to administer Student Run PPD and Flu Shot Clinics. The needs of the student population are being met by using the new College of Pharmacy Simulation Lab. More than 900 vaccines have been provided over the course of six weeks with five clinics still remaining […]
Oct 19, 2016
FMIG Hosts NAFP for monthly meeting
The UNMC Family Medicine Interest Group (FMIG) welcomed the Nebraska Academy of Family Physicians to their monthly meeting held on September 29. The Nebraska Academy of Family Physicians Executive Vice President, Liz Simon, NAFP President, Christine Jeffrey, MD, and board chair of the American Academy of Family Physicians, Robert Wergin, MD spoke about American Academy […]
Oct 3, 2016
Family Medicine Professors Big Role in New SIM Mobile Unit
Family Medicine Professor and Assistant Dean for Clinical Skills, Paul Paulman, MD, served as the principal investigator in the partnership with The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust to obtain a $5.5 million grant for the Simulation in Motion-Nebraska (SIM-NE) mobile simulations unit. Clinical Professor, Audrey Paulman, MD, MMM, also assisted with fundraising […]
Jul 25, 2016
Variety of department involvement for M3 send-off
The 2016-2017 academic year for the Department of Family Medicine begins with organizing six, eight-week rural rotations for third-year medical students. A family medicine preceptorship experience is required for all students. There is no comparable way for the student to observe the physician in his/her medical, ethical, and community relationships. Eighteen UNMC students are visiting fifteen different rural […]
Jul 8, 2016
Smoking Cessation in Clinical Practice
Andrew Ensz, a fourth-year medical student, presented ‘Smoking Cessation in Clinical Practice’ as part of a Family Medicine senior selective course on nicotine addiction. Ensz focused on the “five A’s” of smoking cessation and how he will work it into his practice. “For my final year of medical school, I choose selectives that focus on […]
May 20, 2016
