Health Science Programs Provide Professional Development Opportunities

The College of Graduate Studies is proud to highlight recent professional development opportunities of some health science graduate students at UT.

Nursing Students Participate in a Medical Mission Trip to Nicaragua

Several Master’s students in the College of Nursing took a medical mission trip in March to set up mobile clinics to provide medicine, vaccines and screenings to the inhabitants of Leon, Nicaragua.

Britteney Stanton, Kelly Jackson, Stephanie Blanchard, and Stacy Swanson also conducted research on the roles women now play in family life and health care in Nicaragua. Rica Davis, Lina Barakat-Boraby, and Davis Bothe studied the impact of education on cervical cancer screening. This group provided educational sessions on general health and cervical cancer and analyzed the resulting number of women seeking cervical cancer screenings.

For the full story on this experience, please see the UT News article.

Doctoral Student Helps Burn Victim as Part of Capstone Project

Emily Fahrer, an Occupational Therapy doctoral student, recently spent a month in Bucharest, Romania working to help rehabilitate a 16-year-old burn survivor. She worked with an organization called “The Door” as part of her capstone project. For this project, students may do a case study, develop or modify a program/course relating to occupational therapy.  Although Emily had only two weeks instead of the usual two months for her project, she found it to be a holistic learning experience.  The trip not only increased her knowledge of occupational therapy, but also her exposure to the gypsy culture and Romanian alphabet. Ms. Fahrer’s case study is the first from the OT program to be completed internationally.

For more information on Ms. Fahrer’s experience, please see this article in the UT News.

Medical Physics Students Present for American Association of Physicists in Medicine

Nine graduate students in the Medical Physics program recently presented papers at the Great Lakes Chapter of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine during their spring meeting in Ann Arbor.

Doctoral student, Gregory Warrell, was awarded third place for his oral presentation on “Experimental Evaluations of the Thermal Properties of a Novel Thermo-Brachytherapy Seed for Treatment of Solid Tumors”. Presentations were assessed based on the categories of scientific content, innovative research idea, candidate’s knowledge of the subject and effective delivery, among others. Mr. Warrell was awarded a certificate and $150 award

The College of Graduate Studies encourages and supports students in experiential learning opportunities.  Congratulations to all the above participants for their research and international outreach experiences.

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