School of Medicine alumni are scattered across the state and throughout the country, representing numerous graduating classes and practicing a variety of specialties at an assortment of institutions. By March 2020, they, like their colleagues here at UMMC, were facing a common enemy, sharing similar emotions and hoping for the same thing: an end to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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The need for more health care administrators and community college nurse educators will be addressed through Building a Strong Future for Nursing in Mississippi, a project funded by the Bower Foundation that will also provide scholarships for the School of Nursing’s RN-to-MSN program.
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For Sandra Horne, the American Dental Hygienists’ Association Educator of the Year, the classroom is more than a place for teaching dental hygiene students how to clean a patient’s teeth or prevent and treat diseases of the gums. In the School of Dentistry, she imparts wisdom on how to take pride in their work and have genuine concern for the provision of optimum care.
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Throughout April, giving to the fund to help pay for the Kathy and Joe Sanderson Tower can be twice as nice. The Texas-based Madison Charitable Foundation will double every gift made this month to the Campaign for Children’s of Mississippi up to $100,000. A COVID-19-safe drive-through giving event is planned for April 29.
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Just because the COVID-19 vaccine is free doesn't mean it's easy to get. Many of those served by the student-run Jackson Free Clinic can't access the Internet to make appointments to get the shot at state-run, drive-through operations. The clinic has stepped up, providing the one-dose Johnson & Johnson vaccine to an ever-changing patient base.
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Self-care is an important part of health for nurses and their patients. With that in mind, the Sarah Elizabeth Allison Foundation is giving the School of Nursing $600,000 toward a self-care and wellness lab to promote resilience.
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When a rogue wisdom tooth sent Wilbert McGee to the dentist in 1979, all of his teeth ended up being removed. Forty years later, the sheet rock installer is getting a free set of dentures through the School of Dentistry at UMMC. Fourth-year students are making the dentures and handling the clinical care of special patients in need, learning lessons that will carry into their residencies or private practice.
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Learning to work together to care for a homeless veteran was the goal of an interprofessional exercise involving medical, nursing and pharmacy students. During the simulation at the School of Nursing, students could listen to the lung function of a manikin named Pete Prince Jr., observe his vital signs and advocate for him as their patient. The annual exercise teaches students the importance of every care team member.
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Life-saving brain surgery to remove a dangerous tumor was inevitable for Dereck Moore, and complications from such a sensitive procedure were possible. When he awoke from the procedure with some facial paralysis, help was already on the way. Dr. Randall Jordan transferred a nerve from Moore’s calf to his face, making it possible for him to smile again.
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The Department of Microbiology and Immunology is hosting a Visiting Scholar through the Fulbright Program, one of the world’s most selective research fellowships. Dr. Babek Alibayov, a microbiologist from Azerbaijan, is spending the first half of 2021 studying antibiotic resistance and food-borne diseases at UMMC.
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Last week, more than 130 students in the School of Medicine discovered where they will spend the next several years as physicians. On Friday, scores of these students mounted the stage of Thalia Mara Hall in Jackson to announce to their peers where they will train in their specialties as residents, in locations from Boston to Gainesville, and from Chapel Hill to Portland. Nearly half of those students – 60 in all – matched right here at the Medical Center.
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Everyone around medical student Conner Ball knew he was a gifted singer/musician – in fact, they seemed to know it better than he did. Then, as a kind of confidence-booster, his wife Carrie bought him a recording session at a local studio, and that was, more or less, the first step toward a coveted audition with one of America’s premier TV talent shows.
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It truly was a race against the clock: When a team of plastic and oral/maxillofacial specialists at UMMC agreed to remove a large, aggressive tumor from the jaw of a Puerto Rican teen and then rebuild that bone, the surgeons had no time to waste. The fast-growing tumor, already the size of a softball, left the patient unable to open her mouth or eat. Today, she is cancer-free.
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It’s Patient Safety Week, five days of both fun and focus on keeping all of the Medical Center’s patients safe from harm during their time in UMMC's hospitals and clinics.
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