The 10-Story Project Will Expand Enrollment and Revitalize Community Samuel Merritt University (SMU), a national leader in health science education, has received final approval from the Oakland City...
Watching Alzheimer’s disease take her father and seeing her mother endure dialysis for 10 years and go through a kidney transplant had a profound effect on Aleesha Woodruff, BSN ’21. “Seeing what they...
After greeting the half-dozen or so seniors who had joined the Zoom exercise class, SMU nursing students queued up Sam Cooke. As the song “Having a Party” faded in, one of the students announced the...
Shifting his weight from side to side like he’s ready to pounce, Huy Trinh, DPT ’21, signals the next move to half-a-dozen community members tuned in on Zoom for a physical therapy shadowboxing class...
Like many healthcare students during the COVID-19 pandemic, my Doctor of Physical Therapy program clinical experience prior to my graduation was affected. My first clinical experience was in...
An innovative initiative led by faculty and students in the Doctor of Physical Therapy program invites people with Parkinson’s disease into student-led labs on campus. There, students learn from local...
When Rachel Fariscal, BSN’ 20, arrived to check on a man in his early 90s she was nervous. She’d completed clinical hours at hospitals before but as part of her community health rotation she was about...
As a child, Pablo Tavares, DPT ’20, was a regular companion to his mother’s appointments, translating her Spanish to health care providers. At 12, he accompanied her to a physical therapy appointment...
New research out of Samuel Merritt University’s Occupational Therapy program offers a potential road map for how to teach health science students cultural responsiveness. The research, published in...
