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First week of Tri-2 has already proven that this trimester will be a challenging one. Between Neuroanatomy lectures and ...
The time has finally come to present Dr. Addison Ozakyol, DC, ATC! After almost four years in the chiropractic program here at ...
Whirlwind was the only word I could think of to describe the last two weeks. With it currently being Week 12 (out of 15) of ...
As the clock slowly winds down to my graduation from the DC program here at NUHS-Florida, I now find myself staring ...
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The last two weeks have been pretty uneventful over here in Florida! I have been very busy at the clinic and have been seeing ...
The last two weeks have been relatively tame from a school and extracurricular standpoint. Last weekend, the Pinellas County ...
Over the past year I have been very involved with the ACA Sports Council (ACASC) as a member of the student executive ...
I’m not sure if all you readers feel the same, but with COVID, schedule changes, and the business of clinic life, time has ...
Our first two weeks back to in-person clinic were hectic to say the least. Integrating all the interns from both clinics and ...
The day has finally come, we are opening our clinic back up! The last two weeks have been fairly busy wrapping up some of the ...
After taking my Part 2 chiropractic board exam two weeks ago, I was able to score a flight home for a nice visit with the ...
The last two weeks since my last post have been busy to say the least! To start off, we finally had our first mock patient ...
As we move into finishing the first month of my 9th trimester, things are slowly but surely getting back to normal. Here in ...
Hello everyone--I hope that all the readers are healthy and well out there! Hopefully you are still able to go about daily ...
We are about four weeks into the stay at home order due to the coronavirus, and things are going okay. My professors and ...
What day is it? What week? What is real life like? I’m not sure about all of you readers out there, but the COVID-19 pandemic ...
Hello to all the readers out there! Man, it feels like a whole lot has happened since I last wrote to you all two weeks ago. ...
It is race season here in Florida and I couldn’t be happier! I have chosen as a 2020 goal of mine to try and attempt ...
The last two weeks have certainly felt busy and even though I have done so much, I still feel like I still have so much to do! ...
Just three weeks into this trimester, and we have already hit the ground running! To start things off, we had our trimesterly ...
Hello to all the readers out there! I hope that you all had a wonderful holiday season and the New Year is off to a great ...
I hope that all the readers out there had a wonderful and happy Thanksgiving holiday! This year I was not able to spend time ...
Every year, most of the chiropractic schools across the nation send students to Cocoa Beach, Fla. to compete in a wide range ...
This year has flown by at an insane rate! This trimester especially has gone by so fast I’m shocked that I am not falling ...
This weekend was absolutely amazing! I was able to head down to Miami, Fl to attend the American Chiropractic Association ...
The fall trimester is already 1/3 over, and it is seriously flying by! Hard to imagine that in 10 short weeks I’ll be moving ...
This weekend has been a very fun one! It all started with our Tri-Mixer on Friday night. At the start of every trimester we ...
As I get started into my 7th trimester I wanted to give you all a quick update on a very fun and productive summer break. To ...
We’re moving into the last couple weeks of the trimester and the studying hours are piling up. I am certainly ready for the ...
It’s almost finals week! That means it’s just about time to hunker down in the corner of my couch reviewing everything from ...
I hope that everyone had a safe and happy 4th of July holiday! Mine was certainly a busy one. My mom was able to come out for ...
Well, would you look at this, the trimester is already half over?! In what seems like a crazy blur, we are suddenly in week ...
I won’t lie, sometimes this program can be pretty challenging! This trimester, if you count the acupuncture elective course, ...
As we move into the fourth week of the trimester, we begin to have our first round of exams, so study time outside of class ...
This last break was certainly a fun one! I spent just about two weeks back home in Albuquerque, New Mexico and my girlfriend ...
Well here we are! We made it through (almost) yet another trimester! Tri 5 certainly had its challenges. With my acupuncture ...
I had a pretty cool and unique opportunity that came to develop this last weekend. A few months ago, I applied for the ...
This week had a slightly lighter study load than the previous couple of weeks, so I took some time to enjoy the festivities ...
This past week was a wild one down here in Florida. We got our part 1 national board exam results back after a long six weeks ...
Here we are completing week 6, and the business hasn’t slowed down for more than two seconds! We had a few exams last week, ...
The last weeks were busy ones for the clubs on campus! As president of Sports Council I had a few meetings, Club Lunch – where ...
Hello everyone! After a nice couple of weeks off, it’s time to get back to school and begin Tri 5 and Phase II of the DC ...
Here we are, the final stretch of the trimester! I can’t believe that I am already just about done with the first phase of the ...
As the holidays approach, we down here at the NUHS – Florida campus enjoyed one of our biggest annual events the TURKEY BOWL. ...
Recently, I spent the weekend out in Cocoa Beach, Florida with about 12 other NUHS – Florida students competing at Chiro ...
These last two weeks have been a nice break from the business of this trimester. After my conference we finished up the first ...
I spent this past weekend in Minneapolis, Minn. attending the American Chiropractic Association Sports Council annual ...
Does anyone else feel like just yesterday it was the middle of July? This trimester has by far been the busiest for me and it ...
Hello everyone, I’m back!! It is the start of my fourth trimester at the NUHS – Florida campus. I am eager to get back into a ...
It’s finals week!! Yay? Although it means the end of the trimester with four practical exams last week and eight lecture exams ...
Here we are, week 13, the last week without an exam before diving headfirst into final exams. I have been slowly preparing my ...
The last two weeks have been a whirlwind. The Fourth of July was rather uneventful down here in Florida. I spent the day at ...
Although I was unable to celebrate NUHS Homecoming in Chicago, I had a chance to go on a little vacation of my own. The Tampa ...
The last two weeks have been pretty busy with early assessment exams (basically stage one of midterms). Not much to report ...
The last two weeks have been very rainy and windy here in Florida. We survived the first storm of the season (Alberto) without ...
Well, here we are. Two weeks into the trimester and things are already moving very quickly! I am really enjoying my classes ...
Hello! My name is Addison Ozakyol and I am currently in my third trimester in the Doctor of Chiropractic Program at NUHS – ...
Hello! My name is Addison Ozakyol and I am currently in my third trimester in the Doctor of Chiropractic Program at NUHS – ...
So many thoughts are running through my head. My emotions have been all over the place. I am overwhelmed with elation to begin ...
With graduation just around the corner, I want to address what we all have on our minds upon graduation. The end game is ...
I recently heard a fellow chiropractic student from another school make a claim that NUHS was the most expensive chiropractic ...
Recently, National University of Health Sciences brought National Public Health Week to St. Petersburg College. The student ...
This week was just like any other with a few exceptions. As always, I tried to have fun during my free time and continue to ...
This past weekend Dr. Greg Doerr, the co-creator of Functional and Kinetic Treatment with Rehab (FAKTR), came to Tampa, Fla. ...
This past week I celebrated my 26th birthday! I went to clinic where my fellow interns and my patients all wished me a happy ...
We had a three-day weekend for President’s Day and the interns of NUHS headed to the local beaches for a day of fun in the ...
As a New Jersey native, there are a few things that are foreign to me. Wine made from fruit and sunsets on the beach in ...
Over this past weekend, I attended a seminar on the instrument assisted adjusting technique Activator Methods. The seminar was ...
My First Interview and a Trip to Washington D.C. Last weekend I was flown up to North Virginia for an interview for a ...
I have good news! I received my certificate from the National Board of Chiropractic Examiners also known as NBCE. I knew I ...
Three years ago in January 2015, I arrived in St. Petersburg, Florida to begin the Doctor of Chiropractic program at National ...
While everyone in basic and clinical sciences is studying for finals, I am looking around asking, “Where did the time go?” I ...
We got the day off for Thanksgiving as well as the day after so I went home to New Jersey for Thanksgiving break to see my ...
Every November on a brisk fall night in Florida, we celebrate a tradition that spans back to the beginning of NUHS Florida. ...
The time has finally come. I took Part IV of the NBCE chiropractic licensure exam this past weekend. One of the biggest draws ...
For the last 26 years, all the chiropractic schools have gotten together for a weekend to compete in sports. The last two ...
It is the conclusion of week 8, which means I am over halfway done with Clinical Internship 2 also known as Trimester 9. This ...
This past weekend, I attended my friend’s wedding and took two board exams. When I first arrived at NUHS I became friends with ...
This past week I saw the most patients I have seen since starting clinic. It was a busy week and I am happy to be gaining ...
As an intern, I am required to obtain outreach hours for volunteer work in the community. This past week a fellow intern and I ...
We have a triannual event at NUHS as sort of a welcoming party for the new students as well as a chance to mingle with our ...
The past week was an amazing learning experience, one that only comes from real life scenarios and cannot be simulated in a ...
This week was like nothing I have ever experienced before. School was closed all week because of the incoming Hurricane Irma, ...
With the conclusion of Trimester 8, I have finished my lecture and lab coursework at National University of Health Sciences. ...
With two weeks to go in Trimester 8 and only finals left, I am starting to feel a huge weight lifted off my shoulders. In two ...
This past week in Sports Council, we had a guest speaker come to talk to us about life in practice. Joe Giovatto, DC, spoke ...
Now that I am in clinic, the waves of exams have let up. Since this is my first trimester of clinic, I still have some classes ...
This past week I had two exams and gave two presentations. The exams were in Advanced Technique and Jurisprudence. The ...
This past week in Business Management, we discussed personal injury protection. Last week, I completed the second module of ...
This past week in clinic, I continued to see new patients. At the NUHS clinic, we do health physicals for the students of St. ...
Another week in the books and a lot has happened. Our professors collaborated and gave a "Lunch and Learn" on otitis media, an ...
When I first started here at NUHS, I was excited to join the Sports Council. National University of Health Sciences in Florida ...
This past weekend I took a taping seminar in Tampa with Dr. Gregory Doerr, the co-founder of FAKTR. In addition to writing the ...
I have found that when most people think of a chiropractor or a doctor of chiropractic, they think of the traditional ...
Another week of clinic and class is behind me. My colleagues and I did another set of X-rays in Radiographic Positioning but ...
Now that my colleagues and I are in clinic, we will be treating patients mostly on our own with some help from our clinicians. ...
After all the basic science classes from biochemistry, anatomy, and microbiology, to the clinical sciences classes like ...
After multiple standardized patients, case reports, mock physical exams, practical exams, and written tests, I am moving into ...
Last week I left Washington D.C. and came back to Florida with strep throat. I have theorized that many factors lead to a ...
I fell ill at the tail end of my trip to Washington, the last day in D.C. I had a sore throat and a headache. I attributed ...
This previous week, I had the pleasure of attending a conference in our nation's capital. The American Chiropractic ...
A lot happened this week both in and out of school. I was introduced to a few more modalities this week in Physiological ...
This past weekend, I attended a hands-on certification class for Functional and Kinetic Treatment with Rehabilitation, or ...
In my modalities class, I have been learning about thermotherapy. There are a few thermotherapeutic modalities we use in our ...
This week in Sports Council we went over cupping therapy. Cupping is a modality from Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) and ...
Having over 6 years of postsecondary education is an impressive thing. That is not meant to toot my own horn; it is meant to ...
This week was monumental for me and my fellow classmates. We practiced spine boarding and applying a cervical collar on a ...
This week we had our first Sports Council meeting of the trimester. Dr. Guadagno, the American Chiropractic ...
Every trimester has been a new and exciting experience. This trimester doesn't seem like that. Thus far this trimester feels ...
After a long and well-deserved break, I am back in Florida to start my last trimester of classes before I start clinic. I am ...
I have reached the end of trimester six with 13 weeks of classes down and two weeks of finals to go! This past week, we had a ...
I had a shortened week because we had off Thursday and Friday for Thanksgiving. Though it was a shortened week we still had a ...
Every year for the past eight years, the students, faculty, and friends of National University of Health Sciences gather at ...
Last week was short because we had off for Veteran's Day. I have friends and family who are veterans so I want to thank them ...
Every year in late October or early November, all the chiropractic schools from the U.S. and Canada gather in Florida to ...
There is one class that everyone has a difficult time with and that class is Fundamentals of Imaging: Skeletal Dysplasia and ...
This past weekend I took Part I of the National Board of Chiropractic Examiners Licensure exams. We call them Part I Boards ...
While the residents of the east coast of Florida were worrying about the category four Hurricane Matthew, we were praying for ...
With Part I of the National Board of Chiropractic Examiners licensure exam right around the corner, I have been reviewing my ...
This week in Physical Diagnosis, we learned how to operate an audiometer, a machine used to measure auditory acuity. The ...
This past week was very eventful. Week three had our first Chirogames and Student American Chiropractic Association meetings ...
In previous classes, we discussed ordering laboratory tests to help with our differential diagnosis. I thought I was falling ...
My final week of Trimester Five couldn't end soon enough. I received a scholarship for my essay on chiropractic in sports ...
It is Week 14! That means only one more week before the break. Over the weekend, my friend Alex and I attended the Blink-182 ...
The trimester is coming to an end, which means it is time to start preparing for finals. In addition to exams I have a ...
After missing school because of my fractured mandible, I had to make up the exams I missed. This past week I made up three ...
I am three weeks into having a broken jaw. Last week I discussed research I found that suggested fracture healing could be ...
So a week ago, I sustained a fracture to the left angle of my mandible. I visited a maxillofacial surgeon and had my jaw wired ...
This week I experienced some unforeseen circumstances. I sustained an injury playing soccer for a recreational soccer league ...
It is already halfway through the trimester. That means midterms galore! With two this past week and four the coming week, I ...
Being a graduate student requires resiliency. I am going to be honest, I did not do well on one of my exams this past week but ...
First week of exams are done and more are on the way. We have an exam in Evaluation and Management of the Eyes, Ears, Nose, ...
Exams are right around the corner, but I have maintained balance between school, technique, and extracurricular activities. ...
This week, I was very busy. I had a quiz in Botanical Medicine and a quiz in Evaluation and Management of Extremities. I did ...
My first week of clinical sciences was certainly different than the first weeks of the previous four trimesters. It was a ...
After another two weeks of finals, my colleagues and I finished Trimester 4. With the end of Trimester 4, we have concluded ...
I can't believe it is already Week 14. I have finals the next two weeks so I am going to be battening down the hatches and ...
Though finals are right around the corner, new material is still being presented in all of my classes. There are only 15 weeks ...
There is always something fun to do in and around the Tampa Bay area! Major League Baseball (MLB) teams have their spring ...
Last week was fun yet difficult. In the beginning of the week, the Tampa Bay Lightning's chiropractic physician, Dr. Timothy ...
With another three midterms this week, I spent most of my free time studying. Wednesday we had an exam in Nutritional ...
Since coming back from Washington D.C., I jumped right back into the routine. We had two midterms to study for. One in Science ...
This past week, the American Chiropractic Association held the National Chiropractic Leadership Conference (NCLC) in our ...
With two midterms this week, my friends and I were hard at work studying for our exams. We had Cardio, Renal, & Respiratory ...
This week was very eventful. We had two guest speakers in Sports Council. Coach Kevin Barr, CSCS, from the Tampa Bay Rays and ...
Another week down. This week came and went faster than the rest because I was looking forward to the Tri-mixer. Classes We ...
Week Three has come to a conclusion and a lot has been happening here at NUHS-Florida. Motion Palpation Club had its first ...
Week 2 is already in the books, while my family and friends have snow in the north we are experiencing cooler temperatures by ...
After a long and much needed break, I am happy to be back in Florida for trimester number four. While home in New Jersey, I ...
Finals start this coming week so this will be my last post of the trimester. There is a theory that the older we get, the ...
In honor of Thanksgiving, I want to say what I am thankful for. Seems a little cliché but it's more like a tradition and ...
Dr. Joseph Stiefel, president of National University of Health Sciences, told us last week, "The difference between the ...
We celebrated Veteran's Day this week, and I want to start this blog by thanking all who have served and continue to serve our ...
At last, all my midterms are over and I have a couple weeks before I have to worry about any more exams. Chiropractic school ...
Midterms are finally almost over! The reason midterms seem to never end is because some classes have three exams and others ...
The Student American Chiropractic Association (SACA) had their Halloween potluck for their fund raiser this week. The members ...
Yes, we have reached that point in the trimester where things get a little crazy. With six midterms in two weeks I have been ...
My whole world has been turned upside down! We had a guest speaker in Sports Rehab Club on Friday and everything I thought I ...
This week had an all too familiar feeling. My first exam of the trimester came on Wednesday. Studying for exams has become ...
The trimester is in Week Three and clubs have started their meetings. Chirogames Club, Motion Palpation Club, Student American ...
It's Week Two and the trimester is already in full swing. I decided to work 3 days a week instead of four because last ...
After an intense two weeks of finals, I spent the first few days of the break here in Florida with my friends from National. ...
So much has happened this week I don't know where to begin. I will start by saying thank you to Dr. Machini for taking time ...
With finals around the corner, I have started to prepare myself (both mentally and physically) for the marathon that is Finals ...
Where did the time go? Seems like yesterday I started this trimester and it is already the end of July! One month to go which ...
Week 10 started with two exams in radiology. I studied for them all weekend and now that the grades are in, I am happy to say ...
Finally, a week without exams! Though I have three exams next week, I am happy to have a break from the stress of exams this ...
Finally most of our midterms are over! We still have two more to take but they are not for another week. These weeks are going ...
We had our first meeting for Chirogames Club where we discussed fund raising ideas as well as gauged who was interested in ...
I started the "Chirogames Club" here in Florida to enable us to fund raise for the chiropractic games, an event where all the ...
Week five has been the most difficult week thus far. Midterms are rapidly approaching, and we have been reviewing for our ...
The 4th week was an interesting week indeed. Classes are getting awfully hard, we have quizzes every week and our first exams ...
This week had an interesting start. After Memorial Day weekend the common phrase among my classmates and I was, "Oh it's ...
Monday, I attended open adjusting lab where I practiced static and motion palpation. Open adjusting lab gives students an ...
After a two-week break, I'm back in the swing of things. I am on the fast track here at NUHS because I want to earn my degree ...
Salutations! My name is Christopher Kotwicki and I am a future Doctor of Chiropractic! I am also a self-proclaimed beach bum, ...
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