High-Tech Patient Simulators Enhance Student ExperienceNow in their third semester at Murphy Deming, students in the Master of Science in Physician Assistant program are ramping up their hours inside the lab working with human-like simulators to enhance their classroom and clinical experiences. Read more >>
Third-Year Students Spend Final Year in the Field Once she graduates with her Doctor of Physical Therapy in May, Joanna Bierlein’s five-year plan includes developing a mother/infant program, educating both health professionals and women about the potential for improved maternal recovery that simultaneously optimizes the infant’s developmental years. Now in her third year at Murphy Deming College of Health Sciences, she is working at Women’s Health Physical Therapy and Men’s Pelvic Health Clinic in Richmond, an outpatient PT facility that treats in the specialty area of women’s and men’s pelvic health PT. Read more >>
PA Director Contributes to First-Ever Guidelines on Children's Concussions Hospital emergency rooms and clinical offices across the world will soon have a copy of a report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention about concussions in children. And Murphy Deming College of Health Sciences’ own David Paulk was the sole physician assistant who participated in the workgroup that created it. Read more >>
Student-Led Assessments Bring Best Practices to Local Clinics Earlier in her career as an occupational therapist, Allison Ellington specialized in neurological rehabilitation and began learning about more functional ways of assessing clients’ cognition than she had learned in school. Now working as an assistant professor and director of clinical education at the OT program at Murphy Deming College of Health Sciences, Ellington has incorporated teaching these more functional cognitive assessments into the curriculum. For the past two years, she’s taken the idea one step further and tasked her students in the Adult Populations II course with creating and sharing these assessments with local clinics. Read more >>
Stepping up in Service As Mary Baldwin University launches an initiative to complete 175 Acts of Good in its 175th anniversary year, students, faculty, and staff at Murphy Deming of Health Sciences have already stepped up in service to the local community and beyond. Read more >>
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