Community is Our Campus/Bradenton
Community is Our Campus
Summer Camp Physicals: Eight LECOM Bradenton osteopathic medical students provided free summer camp physicals for 89 Boy Scouts in Manatee County on May 12. The 3rd annual event was sponsored by LECOM. Assistant Dean of Clinical Education Anthony Ferretti, D.O. was the attending physician for the event. From left (Students are current OMS4): Rianna Sonny, Caroline Davis, Patricia Chun, Leana Garibova, Assistant Dean of Clinical Education Anthony Ferretti DO, Kirk Szustkiewicz, Michael Young, Joshua Watson and Charles Miller.
Dania Rehman Award: Third-year pharmacy student Dania Rehman received a national award for her leadership on public health issues from Dean Hershey S. Bell, MD. Rehman received the United States Public Health Service (USPHS) Excellence in Public Health Pharmacy Practice Award. The USPHS recognizes and encourages students to become involved in public health issues in their community as well as to increase awareness of the Public Health Service and its mission to protect, promote and advance the safety of the nation.
Operation Prom: Bayshore High School students received a sobering reminder about the dangers of drinking and driving thanks to the LECOM Bradenton annual Operation Prom event. In conjunction with Manatee County emergency operations personnel, LECOM’s Emergency Medicine Club members staged its annual re-enactment of a drunken driving crash. Manatee County Sheriff’s Office, EMS, Fire Rescue and Bayflite personnel, shown with Daniel Martino (OMS2), responded to the school’s football stadium as though the crash were real. LECOM students posing as crash victim were positioned in and outside of wrecked cars. 38 lecom connection / july 2012