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University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine
• Fox 11 News Reno
Folks who are uninsured, under-insured, or without social security can take advantage of free medical services in August and September at University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine Student outreach clinics.
• Nevada Independent
In an attempt to encourage bilingual students to enter the health-care workforce in Nevada, the University of Nevada, Reno and UNR Med hosted a three-week program in July for students from multiple Northern Nevada school districts.
• KTVN Channel 2 News
More than 30 Washoe County School District (WCSD) high school students are participating in an intensive residential summer program at the University of Nevada, Reno and UNR Med as they explore careers in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) health care. The students are bilingual in English and Spanish and are part of effort to recruit and train a more diverse network of health care professionals in Nevada.
• Reno Media Group | ALICE 96.5
UNR Med's Dr. Daniel Spogen discusses no-cost Student Outreach Clinic services. UNR Med offers no-cost Student Outreach Clinics in a continuing effort to assist the region's medically uninsured with needed health care services, as a way to give back to the community and prepare medical students as future physicians. Licensed faculty and clinical community physicians supervise the medical students and the care patients receive. For more on "INSIGHT," a Public Affairs Segment from Reno Media Group, visit http://www.alice965.com/2019/06/20/insight-a-public-affairs-segment/.
• Fox 11 News
Throughout July and August, northern Nevadans who are currently uninsured, under-insured, or without a social security number are able to receive free medical care at the University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine Student Outreach Clinics.
• Nevada Today
The 2019 Artown poster and featured work of art was created by mother, daughter and son, Debbie, Rachael and John-Henry Lambin (of My Thousand Words, book sculptures). Rachael Lambin and her brother John-Henry are second-year medical students at the University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine, who share a passion for both art and medicine."We are proud to be UNR Medical Students and to have been asked to make this year's Artown poster," Rachael said. "We are super excited and love our school very much."
• KUNR
Dr. Arthur Islas is the Fellowship Director for Sports and Wilderness Medicine at the University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine. Every year during the Reno Rodeo, Islas mentors recent med school grads who are there to treat athletes with concussions, sprains and other common injuries.
• Fox 11 News
The UNR Med Student Outreach Clinic is currently offering free vasectomies. Dr. Daniel Spogen says, a lot of insurance don’t cover vasectomies, most places that offer vasectomies require upfront payment. It’s an add on for a lot of people but a great form of contraception.
• KTVN Channel 2 News
The University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine (UNR Med) Student Outreach Clinics are now providing free vasectomies.
• Nevada NewsMakers
Nevada NewsMakers host Sam Shad interviews UNR Med Dean, Thomas L. Schwenk, M.D.
• Univision
La Universidad de Nevada, Reno Esquela de Medicina está ofreciendo servicios médicos gratuitos para miembros de la comunidad sin seguro médico.
• KRNV News 4
The University of Reno School of Medicine hosts a diabetes prevention program that kicked off earlier this year. The Sanford Center for Aging and the Division of Endocrinology, Clinical Nutrition and Metabolism holds a workshop for those who are living with pre-diabetes.
• KNPR Nevada Public Radio
Elko, like much of rural Nevada, suffers from a doctor shortage. That ailment became less acute last year when the University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine assigned a group of residents to the northeast Nevada community that’s halfway between Reno and Salt Lake City. The Elko Family Medicine Residency program puts family care doctors in a Nevada Health Centers clinic, where each physician sees about 35 patients a week. The residency has been deemed a success and will expand from four doctors to six this summer.
• Nevada Business
The University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine (UNR Med) graduated 63 new doctors last month. Six of the new doctors will remain in Northern Nevada for their graduate medical education. In addition, approximately 27 percent of UNR Med students are staying in Nevada for some part of their training and 43 percent of the students matched in primary care, helping fill a shortage in Nevada and across the United States. Since its founding in 1969, UNR Med has educated over 3,500 students, residents and fellows.
• Nevada Business Magazine
The University of Nevada, Reno (UNR) has been awarded an $11 million, five-year grant through the Centers of Biomedical Research Excellence, a program of the National Institute of Health.
• KOLO Channel 8 News
People in Northern Nevada who are uninsured, under-insured, or without Social Security numbers can receive free medical care at the University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine Student Outreach Clinics. UNR Med offers the free clinics to assist the region's medically uninsured with needed services.
• KRNV Fox 11 News
UNR's School of Medicine is offering Northern Nevadans who are uninsured, underinsured or without a social security number free medical care this May and June 2019 at upcoming Student Outreach Clinics.
• Psychology Today
Organizations such as the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention and the American Medical Association have recommended reforming medical licensing questions to make it clear that physicians may get help without fear of negative consequences. Despite the growing support, Thomas Schwenk of the University of Nevada School of Medicine noted that change isn’t happening fast enough.
• Nevada Business Magazine
Data from University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine indicates that Nevada ranks 47th in the nation in terms of physicians per capita. The state would need another 2,500 doctors just to reach average, and that’s a 68 percent increase.
• Sierra Sun
80 students from North Tahoe, Truckee and Incline high schools got to step into the shoes of an orthopedic surgeon last week, helping to perform a knee replacement surgery on a cadaver at University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine.
• KOLO Channel 8 News
In an anatomy lab at UNR Med, first-year student Miguel Gonzalez shows us an additional tool that helps make the class a little easier. It's called Anatomage.
• KTVN Channel 2 News
Lawmakers are discussing a bill that would encourage doctors to move to small towns in Nevada. If AB358 passes, the state would re-pay tuition for graduates of the UNR and UNLV medical schools. The exchange would be for working in rural Nevada for at least five years.
• KTVN Channel 2 News
Assembly Bill 358 would encourage new doctors to move to small towns for work. If passed, graduates from the UNR or UNLV Schools of Medicine could get the tuition portion of their student loans reimbursed by the state. In exchange, they would have to work in the rural areas of Nevada for five years.
• Northern Nevada Business View
The NNBV April 2019 People Briefs include UNR Med's Alison Westfall, M.D., FACOG, who has joined the department of OB-GYN at UNR Med, Danielle Eaton, who has been promoted to senior director and research manager for the UNR Med Clinical Research Center, and Lauren Siri, who has joined the Advancement and Engagement department as manager of events and protocol.
• KOLO Channel 8 News
People in Northern Nevada who are uninsured, underinsured, or without Social Security numbers can receive free medical care this May and June at upcoming University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine Student Outreach Clinics. UNR Med offers the free clinics in order to assist the region's medically uninsured with needed services.
