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117 UNMC Medical Students Receive Residency Training Assignments Through Match Day Program
A total of 117 senior medical school students at the University of Nebraska Medical Center College of Medicine have received their residency assignments in 27 states through the National Resident Matching Program. The program, a private, not-for-profit corporation, was established in 1952 to provide a uniform date of appointment to residency positions. Residencies last from […]
Mar 25, 2002
UNMC Researcher Designs Course to Teach Smoking Intervention Skills
A course has been designed at the University of Nebraska Medical Center to teach people from varied backgrounds the skills and techniques to help smokers break their cigarette dependency. Quitting smoking shouldn’t be a one-person battle, said David Daughton, a researcher in the internal medicine department and the course’s instructor. Smokers who receive adequate counseling […]
Mar 25, 2002
April’s mini-medical school focuses on ‘Taking Charge of Your Health’
UNMC and eight sites across Nebraska invite the public to attend UNMC Mini-Medical School, a free health educational series for three consecutive Thursdays beginning April 11.
The three-part series, titled, “Taking Charge of Your Health,” will focus on the changing health-care provider/patient relationship. Patients, thanks in large part to the Internet, now are more educated about their health and health products, which has created a new dynamic in the patient-health provider relationship.
Mar 22, 2002
Residency matches reveal students’ medical aspirations
In a short time, Son Tran has come a long ways.
In 1990, he and his family — one of the last to leave Vietnam under the U.S. government’s refugee program — moved to Lincoln, Neb., where the 17-year-old learned English and attended two years at Southeast High School before graduating from Nebraska Wesleyan University.
On Thursday, the UNMC fourth-year medical student read the National Resident Matching Program letter that defined the next step in his life: an internal medicine residency in Salt Lake City, Utah.
Mar 22, 2002
UNMC instructor named 2002 HHS Primary Health Care Fellow
Darwin Brown, instructor in UNMC’s Physician Assistant Education program, has been named to the prestigious 2002 Secretary’s Heath and Human Services Primary Health Care Policy Fellowship. He is one of two physician assistants named to the fellowship — marking only the second time in history that two PAs were chosen in the same year.
Mar 21, 2002
State’s anatomical board director dies, funeral services will be Friday
Mike Copple always drove a Jeep, but rarely took his 1949 metallic blue convertible Jeepster on the streets of Papillion.
“It was his baby,” said Warren Stinson, Ph.D., UNMC emeritus associate professor of cell biology and anatomy. “He kept it in pristine condition.”
Copple, director of the Nebraska State Anatomical Board, died Monday (March 18) of complications from diabetes. He was 56.
Mar 21, 2002
Faculty Senate recognizes faculty for years of service
Forty-two faculty members who have served 10, 20 or 30 years at UNMC will be recognized at the Annual Faculty Meeting Thursday, April 11 at 4 p.m., in the Eppley Science Hall Amphitheater. A reception, hosted by UNMC Chancellor Harold M. Maurer, M.D., will follow the meeting at approximately 5 p.m. in the private dining rooms. (See story for names of faculty members who have served five, 10, 20 and 30 years).
Mar 20, 2002
Our Healthy Community Partnership to provide home health guides to families
Making informed health decisions at home just became easier — thanks to a new health handbook now being distributed throughout the Omaha community by Our Healthy Community Partnership. OHCP is a 26-member group consisting of Omaha area hospitals, insurers, managed care companies, medical schools and other private and public health agencies and organizations.
Mar 19, 2002
UNMC Mini-Medical School
UNMC, Partners Across Nebraska Sponsor Free Health Education Series; Taking Charge of Your Health Beginning April 11 The University of Nebraska Medical Center and eight sites across Nebraska invite the public to attend UNMC Mini-Medical School, a free health educational series for three consecutive Thursdays beginning April 11. The three-part series, titled, Taking Charge of […]
Mar 19, 2002
Jan Atwood, Ph.D., receives Lifetime Achievement Award
Jan Atwood, Ph.D., of UNMC’s College of Nursing, recently received the Midwest Nursing Research Society’s Lifetime Achievement Award at the society’s annual conference in Chicago. The Midwest Nursing Research Society, which covers a 13-state region, has more than 1,400 members. For 20 years, it has been promoting the growth of nursing research quality and quantity in the Midwest.
Mar 19, 2002