Feature Stories
Featured Stories
Five Stucky family members address rural doctor shortage through family medicine residency program
Dec 16, 2020 -- Four Kansas brothers, along with one of their spouses, are putting the "family" in family practice medicine.
T-shirts unite school nurses, promote hand-washing
Dec 16, 2020 -- With support from the Kansas Pediatric Foundation, KU Wichita Pediatrics bought and is distributing the T-shirts, along with hand-washing resources and other supplies, including soap, at KU Wichita Pediatrics clinics.
Simulator trains residents to navigate scopes, digestive system
Nov 18, 2020 -- Two residency programs sponsored by KU School of Medicine-Wichita recently pooled resources to invest in a simulator, the GI Mentor, to improve training for gastrointestinal procedures.
Retired physicians take on coaching roles to aid medical students
Nov 18, 2020 -- When the University of Kansas School of Medicine-Wichita needed to find coaches for its medical students, it drafted some retired physicians living in the Wichita area.
Clinical trial of COVID-19 vaccine resumes at KU Wichita Center for Clinical Research
Nov 05, 2020 -- The vaccine will be available regionally at multiple sites in partnership with KU Wichita Center for Clinical Research.
KU School of Medicine-Wichita grad gives back to school that prepared him for success
Oct 28, 2020 -- Tulsa dermatologist Don Seidel, M.D., and his wife, Brenda, feel fortunate to have reached the point in life where they can look back — and give back — to schools and people who have made a difference in their lives.
KU School of Medicine-Wichita receives $200K grant for substance abuse education
Aug 26, 2020 -- With a recent $200,000 federal grant, the University of Kansas School of Medicine-Wichita has started offering substance abuse education as part of its training for the school’s medical students and residents, as well as area practicing physicians.
Telehealth passes ‘stress test’ for psychiatry clinic
Aug 19, 2020 -- When it came to figuring out a way to treat psychiatric patients safely during the coronavirus pandemic, there wasn’t a whole lot of time to spare for the KU Wichita Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences clinics.
Residency training and suicide risk assessment in the COVID-19 era
Aug 19, 2020 -- Starting in March of 2020, emergency departments in the Wichita area went from busy to almost empty.
Employee spotlight: Robert Wittler, M.D., pediatric infectious disease specialist
Jul 22, 2020 -- Robert Wittler, M.D., has been a pediatric infectious disease specialist at KU School of Medicine-Wichita for 25 years.
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Dec 16, 2020