Franklin Pierce University receives money for equipment - Monadnock Ledger Transcript

With the signing of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2023, Franklin Pierce University received $825,000 for healthcare simulation grooming equipment, which volition enactment specialized instrumentality for the University’s Master of Physician Assistant Studies (MPAS) programme successful its Lebanon, world center, with a absorption connected agrarian and medically underserved communities.

“This backing speaks straight to our committedness to innovation successful teaching and learning, arsenic outlined successful our existent strategical plan, Pierce@60,” said stated assemblage President Kim Mooney. “As we thatch and bid the adjacent procreation of wellness attraction workers, this simulation grooming instrumentality is 1 much illustration of however Franklin Pierce has go a destination instauration successful the allied wellness field.”

The petition for backing was spearheaded by the offices of U.S. Sen. Jeanne Shaheen and Rep. Annie Kuster. The task besides received letters of enactment from Kristina Fjeld-Sparks, manager of the New Hampshire Area Health Education Center (NH AHEC), and Scott Colby, president and CEO, and Ed Laverty, main aesculapian officer, of Upper Connecticut Valley Hospital.

“The assemblage is grateful for the efforts of Senator Shaheen and Representative Kuster,” Mooney stated. “Their committedness to New Hampshire’s higher acquisition institutions cannot beryllium overstated.”

Clinical simulation is an instructional plan that substitutes existent diligent encounters with artificial models, unrecorded actors or virtual-reality patients. For objective simulation structured to amended agrarian wellness attraction delivery, peculiar attraction is focused connected conditions specified arsenic bosom disease, cancer, chronic little respiratory illness and stroke.

“Intensive, high-quality simulated grooming is cardinal to preparing our students for occurrence upon graduation.” stated Priscilla Marsicovetere, dean of the College of Health and Natural Sciences. “By focusing connected agrarian wellness attraction scenarios, we are addressing the captious request for skilled providers successful New Hampshire’s agrarian and medically underserved communities.”

Franklin Pierce’s MPAS programme emphasizes collaborative medicine and enactment of lifelong learning. The Class of 2022 had a 100 percent pass complaint connected the Physician Assistant National Certifying Examination (PANCE). In 2016, the Lebanon, programme was ranked No. 2 successful the state by the Rural Health Research Center for percent of graduates who spell connected to signifier successful a agrarian setting, and successful November 2022, MPAS Program Director Kristi Collins was named New Hampshire’s 2022 Community Star by the National Organization of State Offices of Rural Health (NOSORH).