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  • UNT Health Science Center Launches Program to Address Opioid Overdoses

    The Fort Worth Business Press reports that the University of North Texas Health Science Center (UNTHSC) has started distributing doses of the opioid overdose reversal drug, Naloxone. They are also providing training to administer the medicine.

    Naloxone is used to treat someone suffering an opioid overdose. UNTHSC will train their medical students, faculty and staff and will also partner with the Fort Worth Fire Department to make Naloxone available as needed.

    The state-funded Texas Targeted Opioid Response project had awarded UNTHSC 4,5000 cartridges of Narcan, a brand product containing two doses of Naloxone.

  • TCU and UNTHSC School of Medicine to Integrate Technology into Teaching

    The Fort Worth Business Press reports Texas Christian University (TCU) and the University of North Texas Health Science Center (UNTHSC) Fort Worth School of Medicine has partnered with a leading online medical education platform to integrate technology into teaching.

    Instead of traditional lecture-based instruction, the new medical school will provide a technology-first approach to learning. Healthcare professionals will receive courses which focus on delivering compassion and empathy and innovative ways to reduce stress for the medical students.

    The new medical school will open in July 2019 in Fort Worth with 60 medical students.