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Pandemic Warriors: How WSU Applebaum is helping during COVID-19From the earliest days of the pandemic through the vaccination rollout and beyond, WSU Applebaum faculty, students and alumni have rallied. Because much of our work takes place behind the scenes, here's a look at just a few of the ways every program in the college is involved with our community’s coronavirus response.
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Proving her Worth: In a four-decade journey, professor goes from student to director“I never forget that students are integral to everything we do at Wayne State,” said Doctor of Nurse Anesthesia Program Director Prudentia Worth. “My life is centered around doing the best I can so they can do the best they can.”
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Upcoming workshop will broaden interprofessional experience for WSU Applebaum studentsOn Jan. 26 and 28, 2021, nearly 300 students from across WSU Applebaum will participate in a virtual workshop that has been carefully designed to cover various IPE core competencies including roles and responsibilities, values and ethics, communication and cultural competence.
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Nurse anesthesia student Toleka Taylor aims to inspire low-income youth to pursue health care careers“Despite growing up in the inner city surrounded by drugs, violence and crime, the importance of education was always stressed to me,” Taylor said. Now she intends to pay it forward.
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Ask a Mentor series helps prospective students explore health sciences career optionsOn May 28-29 and June 11-12, a series of four one-hour virtual Q&A sessions will connect prospective students with those currently studying health sciences. Each panel will answer questions about their program — including physician assistant studies, physical therapy, radiologic technology and nurse anesthesia — and offer admission tips.
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RESCHEDULED: Fulbright faculty information session at EACPHS rescheduled for May 13The Fulbright information session at EACPHS originally scheduled for Wednesday, March 18, has been postponed until May 13.
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Interprofessional education sessions at WSU Applebaum bridge health disciplines for studentsThe first in a planned series of IPE events took place Jan. 14 and 16, 2020, with 240 students from five programs actively participating in large and small group sessions focused on interprofessional roles in pain management.
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Nurse Anesthesia students win state Quiz Bowl tournamentOn Oct. 5, 2019, WSU Applebaum Nurse Anesthesia students participated in the Quiz Bowl at Michigan Association of Nurse Anesthetists (MANA) fall conference in Grand Rapids and brought home the trophy.
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Pre-Health Sciences Mentoring Program launched at WSU ApplebaumA new Pre-Health Sciences Mentoring Program is available for Wayne State undergraduates who are considering applying to one of WSU Applebaum's bachelor's, master's or doctoral degree programs in the health sciences.
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Students honor 234 lives at Body Bequest Program memorial serviceOn May 17, the chapel at Oakland Hills Memorial Gardens Cemetery in Novi overflowed with Wayne State University students and the loved ones of the men and women who donated their bodies through the Body Bequest Program for education in medicine, mortuary science, pathologists' assistant, nurse anesthesia and more. The students and families gathered in the space to celebrate the lives of 234 people at the 22nd annual memorial service, which is held to pay respects to the donors and includes the internment of their cremated remains.
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Dean’s Diversity Fellowship aims to recruit new doctoral studentsThe fellowship covers three academic years with living allowance, tuition up to 10 graduate credits per term, and subsidized medical, dental and vision care insurance. The final two years of funding must be provided by the department.