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attendance of about a third of the students from each
class.
“At its foundation is educating the students so they
understand patient care is not just a prescription pad,”
Dreibelbis said. “The incredible opportunity that we are
faced with in health care right now is to partner with our
patients and allow them to see that they can be
successful in improving their health through the
decisions they make on a daily basis. That is
empowering. Now we have the supreme responsibility to
educate our WesternU students and prepare them to
understand how to have these crucial conversations with
their patients.”
Dreibelbis and Joachim Brown, DO, MSHPE, teach
“Essentials of Clinical Medicine” to second-year students,
emphasizing the importance of including nutrition,
exercise and lifestyle information in patient interactions.
For the past two years, COMP-Northwest has invited the
public to the Lebanon library for its “Nutrition Made
Simple” series of presentations. Sitting in comfy chairs by
the fireplace, community members learn about student-
driven health topics and content in a laid-back,
Claire Donley, DO ’17, and Peter Fox, DO ’16, shop for healthy foods.
conversational manner. Topics have included salt
The initiative started because of student interest on content in food, volume overload, heartburn, mindful
campus. The evening lecture series “Nutrition in eating, vitamin and herbal supplements, and fad diets,
Medicine,” which began two years ago, drew a voluntary Dreibelbis said. Continued on page 18
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class.
“At its foundation is educating the students so they
understand patient care is not just a prescription pad,”
Dreibelbis said. “The incredible opportunity that we are
faced with in health care right now is to partner with our
patients and allow them to see that they can be
successful in improving their health through the
decisions they make on a daily basis. That is
empowering. Now we have the supreme responsibility to
educate our WesternU students and prepare them to
understand how to have these crucial conversations with
their patients.”
Dreibelbis and Joachim Brown, DO, MSHPE, teach
“Essentials of Clinical Medicine” to second-year students,
emphasizing the importance of including nutrition,
exercise and lifestyle information in patient interactions.
For the past two years, COMP-Northwest has invited the
public to the Lebanon library for its “Nutrition Made
Simple” series of presentations. Sitting in comfy chairs by
the fireplace, community members learn about student-
driven health topics and content in a laid-back,
Claire Donley, DO ’17, and Peter Fox, DO ’16, shop for healthy foods.
conversational manner. Topics have included salt
The initiative started because of student interest on content in food, volume overload, heartburn, mindful
campus. The evening lecture series “Nutrition in eating, vitamin and herbal supplements, and fad diets,
Medicine,” which began two years ago, drew a voluntary Dreibelbis said. Continued on page 18
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