This past spring, students in the Pre-Health Experiences in Volunteering, Education, Research, & Shadowing (PHEVERS) program were planning to host an outreach event called Minerals in Medicine. This event was going to be held in the Museum of Geology here on campus. It would have included readings from the play These Shining Lives by Melanie Marnich as well as a series of presentations by the PHEVERS students on various minerals found throughout the museum. Our students were going to be hosting this event after hours exclusively for the medical students attending the Rapid City Campus of the University of South Dakota's Sanford School of Medicine.
This would have been a wonderful event that would have given our pre-health students a chance to interact with (and even educate) current medical students. (And, I hear the hors d'oeuvres would have been fantastic!) However, with a pandemic breaking out long before the scheduled date of the event, which would have been held in April, we had to cancel for the safety of everyone involved and invited to the event.
The PHEVERS students had already been researching their selected minerals to get a better understanding of how those minerals have impacted human health and/or the healthcare industry. So, we decided to turn their work into short essays that could be made into a digital booklet. While we hope to be able to host the event sometime next spring if it is safe for us to do so, we are proud to present this digital booklet for your reading pleasure in the meantime!
Please enjoy Minerals in Medicine as a fun flipbook by going here: Minerals in Medicine Flipbook
