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Join us at the downtown YMCA for a wellness event with vendors, keynote speakers, fitness classes, *colon cancer screening kits, and *produce boxes to go. *while supplies last.

If you are a medical student or a physician, taking care of yourself is a challenge in the best of times. In the most stressful times, it can become nearly impossible if you're not familiar with tools and support systems to make it easier. SIUSOM has developed an ongoing program and tools to facilitate what the school believes is a major professional responsibility for physicians: taking care of yourself!!! Carbondale Campus Programs: Wellness Orientation Session includes: Stress Management - Tips from a stress management professional about coping strategies to survive the fast pace and heavy

Residency training is a time of tremendous personal and professional growth. It can also be very stressful. Residency training has long been identified as a high risk time for symptomatic levels of stress, burnout and depression. Between 22 and 43% of residents experience some level of depression during residency and 50-75% suffer from burnout. Suicide, although quite rare, is a leading cause of death among residents. If you have concerns about a resident’s level of wellness, please talk to them and encourage them to seek help. If you have concerns about a resident’s suicide risk, consult with

“I'm a third-generation healer. My father is a physician; my grandmother delivered babies. It's part of my path and I want to honor this legacy.” Wendi Wills El-Amin, MD, is also a third-generation educator. Both her grandfather and mother were science teachers. Her work in academia is not only an extension of her father's work, but it also mirrors her mother's magnetic way of teaching neighborhood kids about the sciences. She can remember asking many questions while she sat on her skateboard, surrounded by neighborhood boys who gathered for “science Saturdays.” Before STEM was in style, many

The Adult Hearing Aid Center at 2659 West Lawrence Springfield, IL has CLOSED. Patients who received care at this office will now be treated at the Ear Nose and Throat Clinic/Hearing and Balance Center, 720 N. Bond Street, Springfield, IL 62702. Please call 217-545-8000 to make an appointment or you need directions.

ADULTS We will test your hearing and speech understanding both with and without your hearing aids to determine if you could benefit from an implant. Testing is performed by an audiologist who specializes in advanced hearing care. You should bring your recent hearing tests and your hearing aids to your appointment. If you do not have hearing aids – or – if your current aids are not appropriate for your hearing loss, a trial period with new devices will be offered. This step is required by the FDA to ensure that candidates for implantation are selected appropriately. If the audiologist feels

A cochlear implant is a surgically implanted device for people who cannot benefit from hearing aids. 1. A device that looks like a small hearing aid fits behind the ear and is held in place on the scalp by a magnet. 2. The internal device is surgically placed under the scalp and sends the signals from the external processor through a small array of electrodes to the inner ear. 3. The signals through the electrodes stimulate the hearing nerve allowing the brain to perceive sound.

What is an Audiologist? An audiologist is a health care professional who works with patients who have hearing, balance, and other ear related problems. They examine patients of all ages and diagnose, treat, and monitor disorders of the auditory or vestibular (balance) systems. If a patient is not able to hear within normal limits, the audiologist is able to fit the patient with hearing aids or map a cochlear implant for those patients with severe to profound hearing loss. An audiologist counsels a patient and the patient’s family through a diagnosis of hearing loss, offering instruction for