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Best Dual FNP/PMHNP Programs | 2024

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The University of Tennessee Health Science Center offers a dual-concentration DNP program specialized in FNP/PMHNP. The program emphasizes the development of skills such as performing systematic and complete history and physical examinations, communicating significant findings, assessing and recording findings, and using advanced nursing processes.


The payer trend 1 physician is watching

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Chad Campion, MD, clinical instructor of orthopedic and spine surgery at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center-Campbell Clinic in Memphis, spoke with Becker’s about the two trends he is watching in 2024.


Shorter antibiotic course non inferior for UTI recurrence in kids

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Five days of oral antibiotic treatment for febrile urinary tract infections (UTIs) in kids was noninferior to the standard 10-day course, the randomized controlled STOP trial showed.  


COVID cases rise with holiday social season underway

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“On a national level, hospitalizations are increasing for COVID-19; they’re up about 51% over the last four weeks or so,” said Dr. Shirin Mazumder, infectious diseases physician at Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare.


Study: Spinal, general anesthesia offer ‘reliable’ same-day discharge for outpatient TJA

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Published results showed spinal and general anesthesia were associated with high rates of successful same-day discharge among patients who underwent outpatient total joint arthroplasty at a free-standing ASC. Tyler E. Calkins, MD, and colleagues from the University of Tennessee Health Science Center performed a matched cohort study of data from 105 patients who underwent outpatient TJA with… Read More


UTHSC, Vanderbilt University receive $2.4 million grant to promote diversity in speech-language pathologists for high-need children

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The Department of Audiology and Speech Pathology at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center and the Department of Hearing and Speech Sciences at Vanderbilt University have secured a $2,399,454 grant to fund a five-year project to address the need for diversity in highly trained professionals in speech-language pathology.


UTRF Innovation Awards celebrate UTHSC researchers

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The University of Tennessee Research Foundation (UTRF) celebrated the researchers whose achievements are making life better locally, nationally, and globally at its annual Innovation Awards ceremony, held December 14 at the Mooney Library at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC) in Memphis.


UT Health Sciences Center honors impact of exemplary faculty, staff, students

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At the 2023 UTHSC Impact Awards, the Office of Inclusion, Equity and Diversity recognized faculty, staff, students and trainees for outstanding work at the University of Tennessee Health Sciences Center.