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Q&A with Dr. Brett Ballingham, DMD Class of 2015
December 8, 2020It’s been five years since the very first class of Roseman DMD students graduated, and to mark the occasion, we reached out to an alumnus from that pioneer class, Dr. Brett Ballingham. Read below about his Roadrunner experiences, and his…
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Getting the Writing Pipeline Flowing
November 3, 2020Pharmacy writers seeking to improve their scholarly writing may have heard of the ever-expanding writing sprint called the #RXWritingChallenge. The #RXWritingChallenge is a 14-day challenge designed to encourage participants to dedicate 30 minutes a day, Monday through Friday, to writing.…
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Major Dr. Pete Emmons, College of Dental Medicine Faculty & United States Army Reserve, Deployed to Fight COVID-19
April 23, 2020Pete Emmons was deployed by the Army Reserve in March to be a member of an Urban Augmentation Medical Task Force. People may wonder why a dentist for these COVID teams…these teams are built for emergency management with FEMA. They…
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Henrietta Lacks: Remembering the Unsung Hero of Medical Research
February 5, 2020Thanks to the efforts of authors (Rebecca Skloot, HBO films and others) resolute to tell the story of Henrietta Lacks, and what her HeLa cells mean to medicine, the world is starting to know the origin story for many of…
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Writing Good Assessment Questions
January 7, 2020One Friday I was approached by a teacher from another institution who asked me how things were going. When I told him I’d just gotten out of a somewhat stressful assessment, he nodded understandingly and replied that he had heard…
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Motivational Interviewing in the Classroom
November 4, 2019What is motivational interviewing (MI)? It was originally developed back in the 1980s as a method to treat addiction. A counselor named Bill Miller discovered that patients’ openness to behavior change depended on how they were spoken to by a…
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Accountability, Emotional Intelligence, and the Lifelong Colleague Commitment
October 4, 2019Many people may have heard the term ‘Emotional Intelligence’, but few understand its full meaning and application. One misunderstanding is that Emotional Intelligence simply means “being nice”. Another misconception is that Emotional Intelligence is just a term used to describe…
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Practical Tips for Using Canvas
October 2, 2019On September 10, 2019, Dr. Dustin Christensen-Grant of the Roseman College of Pharmacy gave an excellent presentation on practical ways faculty can improve their use of the many features of the Canvas learning management system. A video of his presentation…
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Spotlight on Childhood Cancer & Dr. Alan Ikeda
September 4, 2019This September, families, caregivers, non-profits, and researchers across the U.S. observe Childhood Cancer Awareness Month. In the U.S, over 15,000 children a year under the age of 21 are diagnosed with cancer and approximately 12 percent of them will not…
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Domestic Violence: Recognize, Respond, Refer
September 3, 2019What are the chances a student you precept or mentor will experience domestic violence? According to an August 29, 2019 presentation to South Jordan faculty by Abbey Summers and Tiffany Perry from the prevention and education arm of South Valley…