By UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL BRANCH
The University of Texas Medical Branch’s Institute for the Medical Humanities and the Galveston Arts Center will present “The Creative Expressions Project,” a public reception and one-night exhibition at 7 p.m. Thursday at the Galveston Arts Center, 2501 Market St.
Original works of art, music and performance pieces by second-year medical students at UTMB will be showcased on this evening celebrating the reflective side of medical study and practice.
Text health tips
UTMB offers a free text messaging service called UTMB Health Tips that sends health messages designed to help patients and the public maintain a healthy lifestyle and manage health concerns. Text HEALTH to 37420 to begin receiving the tips. This service, provided by the UTMB Center to Eliminate Health Disparities, is anonymous and no personal information will be collected. The tips also are available at www.facebook.com/UTMBHealthTips.
Discussing telepsychiatry
The topic of today’s UTMB Health Policy Dialogue is “1115 Waiver: Using telepsychiatry to advance healthcare’s triple aim and optimize resources.”
The featured speakers are Dr. Avrim Fishkind, CEO of JSA Health Psychiatry of Houston, and Craig Kovacevich, vice president of waiver operations and community health plans at UTMB. The 2 p.m. presentation is in Research Building 6, Room 1.206.
School of Nursing white coat ceremony
The UTMB School of Nursing will hold its inaugural white coat ceremony on Aug. 31 in Levin Hall Auditorium on the Galveston Campus. The ceremony will include the recitation of an oath, cloaking of the white coats and a reception. These types of ceremonies are a symbolic way to welcome a student into the medical profession.
Inside UTMB is compiled by the communications department at the University of Texas Medical Branch.