NSU-COM Students Snare American
Osteopathic Foundation Honors
Medical Education Department Wins
CAE Healthcare Video Award
COMmunications
On September 29, a number of NSU-COM stu-
dents were honored at the
American Osteopathic
Foundation (AOF) Honors
ceremony in Las Vegas,
Nevada, which recognizes excellence among osteo-
pathic physicians, educators, and students. Listed
below are the recipients as well as the scholarship
amounts they received:
Carisa C. Lippmann (OMS-III)
AOA Presidential Memorial Award ($5,000)
“HumanTouch Student Leadership Project”
Staten Island, NY ($1,100)
Erik A. Adair (OMS-IV)
Welch Scholars Award ($2,000)
Austin Bach (OMS-III)
Rossnick Humanitarian Grant ($2,000)
Samantha Berr (OMS-II)
“HumanTouch Student Leadership Project”
Coachella Valley, CA ($850)
Brendan Green (OMS-II)
“HumanTouch Student Leadership Project”
Coachella Valley, CA ($850)
Elizabeth E. Price (OMS-II)
“HumanTouch Student Leadership Project”
Staten Island, NY ($1,100)
Sofia A. Stull-Funes (OMS-II)
“HumanTouch Student Leadership Project”
Staten Island, NY ($1,100)
Jennifer Paquette
Spouse of OMS-I Konstatin Mazursky
Donna Jones Moritsugu Memorial Award
On July 1, the
Department of Medical Education
earned first-place honors and a $250 prize for its self-creat-
ed video entitled
Simulation Tips and Tricks
at the Human
Patient Simulation Network (HPSN) Annual World Con-
ference held June 30-July 2 in San Francisco, California.
The department submitted the video to CAE Health-
care, the manufacturer of NSU-COM’s high-fidelity man-
nequins. The film included techniques for removing ink
stains from mannequins and competed in a contest at CAE
Healthcare’s HPSN Annual World Conference.
The video is based on the September 2012 simulation
experience in which second-year NSU-COM students
spent a week in the Simulation Clinic working with faculty
members on simulated severe burn victims—part of the
integumentary course that focuses on the bodily system
consisting of the skin and its associated structures such as
hair, nails, sweat glands, and sebaceous glands.
Medscape Malpractice Report
Offers Up Key Insights
In an exclusive survey pub-
lished in July by the
Med-
scape Malpractice Report,
key
insights were uncovered in the
report, which is based on the
personal experiences of 1,400
U.S. physicians who were sued.
For example, 74 percent were surprised they were sued, 93
percent felt that saying “I’m sorry” would not have helped,
while 29 percent said they treat patients differently after
going through a lawsuit. Based on the 1,400 respondents,
internal medicine physicians were most often sued (15 per-
cent), followed by family medicine (13 percent), obstetrics/
gynecology (9 percent), and psychiatry (8 percent).
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