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DR. RACHEL CRAMTON (left), a pediatric attendee, and Dr. Aimee Steiniger (right), a second year pediatric resident, check on Acacia and David Manuel (center) before Acacia is transferred to Phoenix Children’s Hospital for physical therapy on Tuesday, at the University of Arizona Medical Center - Diamond Children’s. Steiniger is participating in an online integrative pediatrics curriculum that was recently launched nationally at four other U.S. colleges.
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UA’s Pediatric Integrative Medicine in Residency program recently expanded its online curriculum to include four other universities in the United States, making it the first national online pediatric integrative medicine program. Still in its pilot stage, the online curriculum now includes pediatric departments at Stanford University, the University of Chicago, the University of Kansas and Eastern Virginia Medical School Children’s Hospital of the King’s Daughters. Prior to the national launch, the online pilot program was only used at the UA’s College of Medicine. The Pediatric Integrative Medicine
in Residency program allows medical school graduates working on their specialization to learn a variety of methods to treat children beyond traditional medicine. These practices range from nutritional treatment to the Chinese healing tradition of acupuncture. Pediatric residents also learn stress management and physical activity as forms of treatment for their patients. “There’s a lot of good evidence and data that support the use of these interventions,” said Sean Elliott, director of the Pediatric Residency Program at the UA. “And this way, the residents learn about those so they could talk to their patients and their patients’ parents about them.” While the integrative online curriculum has been a pilot project at
the UA for two years, the UA is gaining recognition and refining its program nationally in hopes to someday create an international teaching tool, according to Hilary McClafferty, director of the Pediatric Integrative Medicine in Residency program. John Mark, a pediatric pulmonologist at the Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital at Stanford and associate director for recruitment at Stanford’s Pediatric Residency Training Program, said the UA’s online curriculum will also help Stanford attract residents to its program. Because the UA has a highlycompetitive pediatric department, the curriculum allows Stanford’s pediatric residents to learn on their own time and complement what they’ve already learned in Stanford’s
integrative clinical program, Mark said. “I thought it would be important to have residents early in their training learn about different therapies that people use besides the ones that are now taught just in medical schools and residencies,” he said. Mark, also an adjunct professor at the UA, said he made sure Stanford joined the program early in order for Stanford’s residents to benefit from learning about alternative therapy methods. The program includes 100 hours of online modules that incorporate online lectures, journal reading, writing, dialogue and videos, as well as interactive teaching methods.
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an augmented reality,” Qin said. “Our main focus is on an imaging system. Optical sciences is very large, and we are only working on a fraction of it known as a freeform optics design.” Within the past 10 years, optical sciences began focusing its research and design around eyeglasses. Google Glass is one of the few marketed technologies to rely on optical engineering and design. The eyeglasses
With federal budget cuts taking place nationwide, some UA veterans said they are concerned their education benefits will be next to go. Although there have been assurances made that veterans’ programs, ranging from disability payments to education benefits, will be exempt from the cuts, some veterans are still fearful changes will occur. “You always have that in the back of your mind. I’m also a retiree, so [I wonder], ‘what are they going to do with my pension?’ I kind of got it two-fold,” said Harold Noyes, a management and information systems junior and veteran of the Air Force. TRICARE, the health insurance available to veterans who have retired, changed its eligibility policies and cost. TRICARE offers several different programs, such as Prime, Standard and Extra, and the cost of the program varies significantly between them. For a veteran forced to leave the Prime plan and enroll into the Standard program, the change can raise ambulance ride fees from $20 a ride to 20 percent of the total cost. Hospital stays increase from $11 a day to $250 a day or 25 percent of billed charges, whichever is less. Prescription costs for veterans increase from $5 a prescription to $17 per prescription or 20 percent of the total cost, whichever is greater. UA’s Veterans Education and Transition Services center can help veterans out with expenses. The VETS center is funded through the university and is able to provide computers, printing, water and
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YI QIN (left) and Jason Kuhn (right) are both students of optical engineering at the UA. Qin and Kuhn are able to work in a lab located in the Meinel Optical Sciences building to design Heads Up Display.
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Optical science graduate students are working with a UA professor on a project that has the potential to outshine Google Glass. Four graduate students in the optical sciences program, Xinda Hu, ShengHuei Lu, Jason Kuhn and Yi Qin, are working together with Hong Hua, an associate professor of optical sciences, to create a product named Heads Up Display. The eyeglasses contain
two thick lenses attached to an LCD screen that is reflected and magnetized onto the lenses. Once connected to a computer, the eyeglasses can display almost anything. The manufacturing process has become better, cheaper and more precise, making this project possible for the optical sciences program at the UA and other organizations working toward a similar goal: hands-free technology. “We’re trying to produce a realistic virtual scene and
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