Projects of Healing Words Foundation

Vance Thompson, M.D. and Prairie Doc Richard P. Holm, M.D.
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On Call with the Prairie Doc® is a one-hour live medical Q&A program aired most Thursdays at 7pm central on South Dakota Public Television and streamed on our Prairie Doc® Facebook page. Prairie Doc® hosts and various guests discuss medical issues and answer questions from viewers. Recordings of the show are available at your convenience on the Prairie Doc® YouTube channel and you can find Prairie Doc® On Call wherever you get your podcasts. See samples of the show at www.PrairieDoc.org/television.
Prairie Doc Radio's Joan Hogan and Prairie Doc Richard P. Holm, M.D.
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Prairie Doc® Radio is an hour long radio show on SDPB. Host Laura Ellsworth, and her Prairie Doc® guests offer medical information as callers across the listening area ask questions about health and wellness topics. The program is also available wherever you get your podcasts. Find convenient links from our website http://www.PrairieDoc.org/radio.
Prairie Doc Perspectives essay in The Brookings Register
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Prairie Doc® Perspectives are short essays written by the Prairie Docs® and published as columns in newspapers in South Dakota, North Dakota, Wyoming, Montana, Nebraska, Kansas, and Illinois. Read the essays on this blog page https://www.PrairieDoc.org/blog. 
Prairie Doc Radio's Joan Hogan and Prairie Doc Richard P. Holm, M.D.
Hopeful Spirit Chorale, founded by the late Dr. Richard Holm, is a group of volunteers dedicated to singing to people in need of cheer. Don Norton serves as coordinator for the group based in Brookings, S.D. The Hopeful Spirit Chorale takes their music wherever they are needed. They sing for people in nursing homes or hospice patients in private homes. Their music is for those who are dying as well as for people who are well physically, but their spirit is a little sad. 

Student Involvement 

​Healing Words Foundation values student involvement and tries to involve students in as many aspects of our foundation's activities as possible. The television show provides an excellent opportunity for a variety of students to learn outside the classroom.

Experiential Learning with the SDSU Journalism Department
On Call with the Prairie Doc® works with a variety of SDSU students in the production of our show. Many of the people in the production crew are journalism students who assist with running the cameras and sound equipment. 

Prairie Doc® Assistantship
A professional development program for SDSU undergraduates interested in medical careers
This is a group of pre-professional undergraduate students who are interested in learning more about the medical field.  They volunteer their time each week to answer the viewers’ calls during On Call with the Prairie Doc®. Additionally, some of the students help research show topics. Before each show, the students  meet with the guest physicians and have a chance to ask questions about the various medical sub-specialties. We also try to arrange other events throughout the year to expand their knowledge of the medical field and help them grow in professionalism as they prepare for whatever their career may be.