OSU Pride Works

   Cindy Joice and Kelly
   Dipboye

   OSU pediatrics team: Back, from left: Shannon Spoor, Cindy
   Joice, Kelly Dipboye, Melissa Duke, Kayse Shrum, D.O., Misty
   Miller, Lu Piszek, Susan Burke, Davell Jones.

   Second row: Linda Frey, Felicia Davis, Christine Clary, D.O.,
   Rhonda Casey, D.O., Tina Ramsey.

   Seated: Britnee Freeman, Penny Forth.

OSU Physicians - Houston Parke Pediatrics
Solid black exam tables and beige walls aren’t exactly what you expect to see in a pediatrics exam room. Bright colors and cartoon characters seem more fitting. Kelly Dipboye noticed this issue at the OSU Physicians - Houston Parke pediatrics clinic, and came up with a creative solution. 

She purchased colorful OSU fabric featuring Pistol Pete and OSU logos and set about to re-cover exam tables. With help from Cindy Joice and others in the pediatrics department, the exam rooms now show OSU pride for our youngest patients. Dipboye said that a total of 24 tables are slated to be covered with colorful new fabric.

Coburn discusses health care plan

U.S. Sen. Tom Coburn stressed the urgency for health care reform and disease prevention in a presentation on campus Aug. 7. He said today’s health care is structured to treat chronic diseases but needs to change to provide preventative medicine.  Spending more dollars on prevention will significantly reduce health care costs, he explained.

His presentation was part of the Tulsa Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce’s Health Care Forum Series. Coburn, a practicing physician, discussed the proposed Universal Health Care Choice and Access Act, a comprehensive health care reform plan that puts individuals in charge to preserve access, affordability, and choice. He introduced the legislation in March. He is a member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP). Jonathan Bushman, MS I class president, presented Coburn with an honorary white coat certificate for his support of OSU-CHS and his efforts in the health care industry.

Medical school meets the real world

MS-II Jon Mills Jr., (center) with
Maria Euresti, clinic coordinator,
and R. W. Goens, M.D., spent the summer in a community service
project at Neighbor For Neighbor
and Xavier medical clinics.

Jon Mills, MS II, spent the summer in a community service project at Neighbor for Neighbor and Xavier medical clinics, where caring for low-income patients is the top priority. It provided a world of supervised experience for the student doctor as he took weight, blood pressure, and temperature, listed complaints, health history and current medications. He reported findings to the doctor, observing as the doctor worked and made treatment decisions.

At Xavier, Mills provided Spanish translation and shadowed doctors. The doctor reviewed the chart and in the exam room and Mills translated the doctor’s instructions.

Mills said informal board examination preparation was an unexpected bonus as he assisted an internal medicine physician whose favorite pastime was to ask Mills and others probing questions about endocrine pathology and classic diagnostic signs of all diseases.

Caring for the sick and the uninsured added a new dimension of learning to medical school for Mills and showed him the cooperative efforts of many systems. He found that doctors’ offices and pharmacies help with medication needs. Community donations help buy blood pressure cuffs, otoscopes and medicine. Hospitals offer access to X-ray machines, CT scans, and blood laboratories.

Beyond the material necessities, Mills said, the true pulse of clinical care arises from the pharmacists, translators, nurses, and doctors who volunteer.

“The clinics helped me make sense of the tsunami of information that pummeled me during my first year of medical school. To bring the textbooks to life, there is no substitute for spending time in medical clinics. Working at Neighbor for Neighbor and Xavier medical clinics has helped bring a sense of completeness to my medical school experience,” Mills said.

OSU Medicine student doctors receive white coats

A total of 88 new OSU-COM student doctors receive medical student white coats at 10 a.m. Saturday, Aug. 18 at Tulsa Community College - VanTrease Performing Arts Center for Education, 10300 E. 81st St. Speaker for the event is John Fernandes, D.O./M.B.A., president and dean. The event is open to the public. A brunch will be held at the OSU-CHS campus after the ceremony. The public is invited.

Campus Fitness Center to open soon
The new fitness center opens in the former ER cafeteria space later this month. The facility has 20 pieces of exercise equipment, including 13 cardio pieces, as well as benches and free weights. Men’s and women’s locker rooms each will have restrooms, 36 lockers and four shower stalls. The center is available to all students, faculty and staff. Membership fees help to maintain the facility. Professional personal training sessions will be available on a private-pay basis.

Hours of operation are:
Mon. - Fri:              5 a.m. to 11 p.m.
Saturday:               8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Sunday:                11 a.m. to 5 p.m.