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91麻豆精品 College of Pharmacy and Southern Nevada Health District Partner to Offer Free Flu Vaccinations
October 7, 2020As the flu season approaches, health experts are warning that the addition of another respiratory illness on top of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic could overburden the health care system, strain testing capacity, and increase the risk of catching both diseases…
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Alumni Spotlight: Dr. Laura Okolo
September 9, 202091麻豆精品 College of Nursing Alumni Dr. Laura Okolo returned to Roseman as the Graduate Practicum Coordinator College of Nursing 鈥� ABSN in June 2020. spectRUm caught up with Dr. Okolo for our September issue. Q: Welcome home Dr. Okolo!…
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Major Dr. Pete Emmons, College of Dental Medicine Faculty & United States Army Reserve, Deployed to Fight COVID-19
April 23, 2020Pete Emmons was deployed by the Army Reserve in March to be a member of an Urban Augmentation Medical Task Force. People may wonder why a dentist for these COVID teams…these teams are built for emergency management with FEMA. They…
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Dental Student Shares How He’s Spending His Time During the Pandemic
April 16, 2020I appreciate, as a student, the opportunity to update you guys on what I’ve been up to! I feel like this pandemic has challenged me to seek out ways to stay active in my learning and keeping my brain “cobweb…
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Are student evaluations of teaching (SETs) biased?
March 9, 2020Around the proverbial water cooler of many colleges and universities, you will often hear faculty discussing their student evaluations of teaching (SETs). Faculty may feel that SETs do not adequately represent the quality of their teaching, and in some aspects,…
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Summerlin Report – March 2020
March 4, 2020The coming month will bring more than just the start of spring to the Summerlin campus, because on March 16 we will welcome the new Director of Philanthropy for the College of Medicine, Ms. Amy Wiles. Amy has an extensive…
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Henrietta Lacks: Remembering the Unsung Hero of Medical Research
February 5, 2020Thanks to the efforts of authors (Rebecca Skloot, HBO films and others) resolute to tell the story of Henrietta Lacks, and what her HeLa cells mean to medicine, the world is starting to know the origin story for many of…
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Writing Good Assessment Questions
January 7, 2020One Friday I was approached by a teacher from another institution who asked me how things were going. When I told him I’d just gotten out of a somewhat stressful assessment, he nodded understandingly and replied that he had heard…
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Motivational Interviewing in the Classroom
November 4, 2019What is motivational interviewing (MI)? It was originally developed back in the 1980s as a method to treat addiction. A counselor named Bill Miller discovered that patients’ openness to behavior change depended on how they were spoken to by a…
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Accountability, Emotional Intelligence, and the Lifelong Colleague Commitment
October 4, 2019Many people may have heard the term 鈥楨motional Intelligence鈥�, but few understand its full meaning and application. One misunderstanding is that Emotional Intelligence simply means 鈥渂eing nice鈥�. Another misconception is that Emotional Intelligence is just a term used to describe…