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A New Way of Learning Medicine
This fall, UNMC medical students are learning medicine a new way – the 21st century way and they are learning to think like a physician from the start. Phase I of Training the Physicians of Tomorrow (TPT) was launched in August for incoming medical students. It is an active learning-based curriculum that emphasizes hands-on learning […]
Sep 20, 2017
Rapport with patients spurred med student’s match
Jacob Wardyn began to notice something during his med school years. In his first clinical experience, during his first year as a medical student, a patient came out to him. In his second clinical experience, a patient told him he was an alcoholic, and finally wanted help. Staff had been waiting and hoping for a […]
Sep 20, 2017
Pharmacy student finds building perfect for new generation
Cozy study nooks and patient simulation
rooms are favorites.
Mar 31, 2017
10 till 2
Andy Peck, M.D., wants us to see through the eyes of someone with Alzheimer’s disease. So, the first-year anesthesiology resident asked people at long- term care facilities to draw a clock set at 1:50, then arranged them on the wall to form a clock face and opened an exhibition, "10 till 2: Alzheimer’s in Omaha," […]
Mar 31, 2017
Scientist laureate builds research bridge
Tammy Kielian goes where the research
leads her.
Mar 31, 2017
Heiser name lives on in fitness facility
Nick Heiser, M.D., assistant professor of anesthesiology and 2008 UNMC graduate, remembers that his family was always active. Hiking, biking, sports were just what the Heisers did. But among Nick’s favorite memories was watching his father drive up after work for early-evening pick-up basketball games in the driveway. His father, also a physician, would get […]
Mar 31, 2017
Find your ‘wow’ moment at the Nebraska Science Festival
There was the time – during our science night at Werner Park – that a young boy who stood waist high to a cardiologist, lobbed question upon question about the heart surgery he once had. All while the two walked through a giant inflatable heart. Another time, there was a pint-sized girl whose white coat […]
Mar 31, 2017
Boosting America’s Health Security
In 2015, more than a dozen American aid workers in Sierra Leone were flown home to be monitored for Ebola. None got sick, but, for three weeks, they stayed in Omaha, Bethesda, Md., and Atlanta near hospitals with special isolation units in case they did. Now, thanks to a $19.8 million award from the U.S. […]
Mar 31, 2017
Ebola’s lesson – more research
When the Ebola outbreak overwhelmed health care resources in Africa and challenged them in the U.S., research on the virus was quite limited. Little was known in 2014 and there was no vaccine. Researchers were frantic to catch up. Since then, UNMC has rewritten the book on patient care and the use of personal protective […]
Mar 31, 2017
