Second-year PNWU Student Doctor Remy Arnot details her experiences volunteering at local COVID-19 vaccination efforts.
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In anticipation of Washington’s expanded COVID-19 vaccination eligibility standards, Dr. Julie Randolph-Habecker, PNWU’s interim chief of the division of pathology, offers Health Blog readers some practical pre-vaccination advice.
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In recognition of National Occupational Therapy Month, PNWU’s Founding Program Director for the developing School of Occupational Therapy joins the Health Blog to answer a common question: What is Occupational Therapy?
“Occupational therapists have long debated whether the profession’s use of the term ‘occupation’ does more harm than good, because the concept can be confused with job or work,” explained Dr. Heather Fritz. “For able-bodied individuals without significant health issues, occupations often go unnoticed. However, when one’s capacities or context changes in such a way as to disrupt either the performance (the “doing” of the occupation) or participation (how one is involved in life situations), one suddenly becomes aware of how central occupations are to life, health, and wellbeing.”
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PNWU Research Development Facilitator Lizzie Lamb welcomes readers inside PNWU’s 2021 Research Symposium. “As they showcase their research projects and unique findings,” Lamb explained, “they also showcase the passions that will go on to reshape healthcare for all of us.”
Presented virtually from April 5-11, the 2021 Research Symposium aims to offer a spotlight and a microphone to our community’s future healthcare leaders.
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Fourth-year PNWU student doctor Anne Keeling examines the responsibility of gatekeeping the crossroads between life and death.
In her fifth Health Blog appearance, Keeling shares the story of an Alaskan woman struggling to overcome the terror and helplessness she feels following an attempted robbery.
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Scrub into the OR with third-year student PNWU doctor Annika LaVoie.
In her latest jaw-dropping blog, LaVoie catapults readers into the bright lights of an Alaskan operating room, and highlights one of medicine’s most challenging juxtapositions: the balance of performance and empathy.
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For the first time in a long time, second-year PNWU medical student Oak Sonfist is feeling okay — perhaps even hopeful.
Reflecting on a year shaped by unprecedented challenges, Sonfist provides Health Blog readers a glimpse into a brighter tomorrow.
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Despite her distaste for standardized tests, second-year PNWU student doctor Allyssa Jonnson was sure she’d pass the COMLEX exam. So sure, in fact, that the word “FAILED” on her results page almost made her quit her medical pursuits altogether.
Today, having overcome what was once one of her biggest fears, Jonnson is providing something she wishes she had access to: someone willing to talk about the often taboo subject of failure.
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It goes without saying that 2020 has been a challenging year. Pandemics, wildfires, civil unrest, and more have all reshaped the world as we know it.
Reflecting on the impact that such events have had on her own life and medical education, PNWU third-year osteopathic medical student Ciara Gorman provides readers with her guide to surviving 2020.
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Equipped with little more than shovels and hoses, fourth-year student doctor Justine Lawson and her family did all they could to fight the flames that surrounded their rural Oregon home.
Today, as people across the west coast continue to reel from a historic wildfire season, Lawson brings readers into the flames of the Obenchain Wildfire, and illustrates the impact that such natural disasters are having on communities throughout the Pacific Northwest and beyond.
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