Medical Students Get First Taste of Patient Care
First-year medical students shadowed a wide variety of medical professionals, part of Introduction to the Profession week.
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Incoming Medical Students Celebrate Founders’ Day
Founders’ Day, an annual Feinberg tradition, welcomed the incoming class of first-year medical students and marked the official beginning of the school year.
Med School Curriculum Kicks Off With a Patient’s Story
As part of medical students’ Introduction to the Profession week, rapper and motivational speaker David Rush opened up to first-year medical students about his experiences during treatment for kidney disease.
Medical Student Heads to India to Assess Management and Cardiac Care
Fourth-year medical student Kyle Yoo has been selected as a Fogarty Global Health Fellow and will travel to Kerala, India to study the interplay between management practices and acute cardiac care.
Investigating the Role Visual Perception Plays in Autism Spectrum Disorder
Kritika Nayar, a fourth-year student in the Clinical Psychology PhD Program, studies visual perception and its role in autism spectrum disorder in the laboratory of Molly Losh, PhD, associate professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences.
Transforming Medical Education as Translational Science
A recent seminar explored the topic of innovation in medical education and the role of mastery learning in training of the next generation of physicians.
Healthcare Quality and Patient Safety Graduate Programs Celebrate a Decade of Education
Northwestern recently celebrated the 10-year anniversary of the creation of the Healthcare Quality and Patient Safety program, the first graduate-level program in the field.
Student and Resident Receive AMA Excellence in Medicine Awards
Quentin Youmans, MD, a second-year resident in internal medicine, received the Leadership Award, and Elsy Compres, a second-year medical student, received the Minority Scholars Award from the American Medical Association Foundation.
Medical Student Awarded Schweitzer Fellowship to Work With LGBT and Homeless Youth
Michael Musharbash, a second-year medical student, has received a Schweitzer Fellowship to implement educational services for LGBT and homeless youth at the Center on Halsted.
Advancing Medical Education Through Mastery Learning
Jeffrey Barsuk, ’99 MD, ’02 GME, ’10 MS, professor of Medicine in the Division of Hospital Medicine and of Medical Education, was recently recognized for his innovative research into simulation-based mastery learning.