Friday afternoon, officials with TTUHSC El Paso announced that Prashant Joshi, M.D., vice-chairman of the Foster School of Medicine’s Department of Pediatrics, has been appointed to the Pediatrics Committee of the Texas Governor’s Emergency Medical Services and Trauma Advisory Council. “I feel pediatrics needs a voice at the table, and I’m thrilled to be able […]Read More
The Foster School of Medicine Class of 2024 received their first white coats as part of the time-honored White Coat Ceremony on Saturday, September 26. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, this was the first year that the medical school’s deans did not place the coats on the future doctors. Following social distancing protocols, each of the […]Read More
The Foster School of Medicine class of 2024 will receive their first white coats as part of the time-honored White Coat Ceremony on Saturday. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, this will be the first year that the school’s future doctors will not have their coats placed on them by deans of the medical school. Instead, each of the 116 students […]Read More
Abhinav Mishra, a former high school teacher now entering his fourth and final year at the Foster School of Medicine, was one of five medical students nationwide to be selected this spring for the American Psychiatric Association Foundation’s Medical Student Externship in Addiction Psychiatry. The fellowship program included a cash stipend to support Mishra for […]Read More
A Foster School of Medicine student‘s project to study and learn more about PTSD symptoms in El Paso patients received a major boost from a nationally recognized organization. Shannon Tung, a second-year medical student, was awarded a $5,000 grant from the American Psychiatric Association to help local patients become more aware of their post-traumatic stress […]Read More
On Monday morning, Superior HealthPlan awarded a $2,000 grant to the Foster School of Medicine‘s Medical Student Run Clinic to provide health care services – including supplies and patient education materials – for underserved residents in the rural area of Sparks and neighboring colonias. The grant will help provide free primary and preventive health care and education, including […]Read More
This year, nearly to 18,000 family and friends across the globe logged onto Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center El Paso’s Facebook and YouTube pages to celebrate the graduation of students from the university’s three schools. Although the COVID-19 pandemic forced the cancellation of traditional Spring 2020 commencement ceremonies at TTUHSC El Paso, each student […]Read More
The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has forced the cancellation of traditional commencement ceremonies for universities across the nation and at Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center El Paso. Although social distancing guidelines are in place, TTUHSC El Paso already has plans in the works to host virtual ceremonies to honor graduates from the Foster School of […]Read More
Being in the health care profession means caring about others. Students at the Foster School of Medicine aren’t waiting until they become doctors to put that caring into motion. The student body of the medical school at Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center El Paso is donating $1,268 to the University Medical Center Foundation of […]Read More
Ashtyn Barrientes, a fourth-year student at Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center El Paso’s Paul L. Foster School of Medicine, presented her team’s research at the recent 2019 American College of Surgeons Clinical Congress in San Francisco. “This was my first conference as a medical student, and it was definitely an ideal and enlightening place […]Read More
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