MSACP Graduate - Evangelia Skokos
Evangelia Skokos, DC, MS, sees patients in faculty practice at
National University's Whole Health
Center while also working as an attending clinician. So
when she graduated with her MSACP in 2013, the benefits she
received were two-fold.
"I wanted to share the knowledge I gained with my interns along
with the patients at my faculty practice," she said.
The program covered a wide variety of topics specifically geared
toward post-professional degree students. "The training was
rigorous and covered such a vast amount of patient cases, it felt
as if I was gaining several years of experience as a clinician,"
she said.
The program helped Dr. Skokos understand different patient
diagnoses through lab work while also co-managing complex patient
conditions. In addition, Dr. Skokos said she gained a more
expansive knowledge of specific patient populations including men
and women's health, pediatrics and geriatrics, all while helping to
increase her patient base in faculty practice as well as
integrating her newly acquired knowledge with her current
patients.
As an educator, Dr. Skokos was also able to gain the knowledge
she needed to publish articles in medical journals. She
specifically learned how the revision and acceptance process
works.
One of her favorite aspects was working integratively with
medical doctors and learning about the kind of pharmaceuticals they
prescribe. With the profession moving toward training DCs to
understand pharmaceuticals, Dr. Skokos said this aspect was
important, specifically for elderly and other populations who may
be on multiple medications. "This helped me further understand
which alternative, non-drug solutions could effectively replace
certain drugs and which could not," she said.
Dr. Skokos highly recommends the program for both educators and
those in private practice. "It really gives you an advanced
perspective on health care and the confidence to tackle many
different medical conditions," she said.
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