A graduate of Northwestern’s Honors Program in Medical Education, Rear Admiral Boris Lushniak, MD ’83, MPH, became acting surgeon general of the United States on July 17.
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Program will integrate training in mental healthcare for LGBT clients with rotations in an infectious disease clinic and more.
Five Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine faculty members were accepted into the 2013-14 Searle Fellows Program, a year-long faculty development program.
Graduates of the sixth class of the Master of Science in Healthcare Quality and Patient Safety program and the third class of the Master of Science in Health Services and Outcomes Research program were recognized at the Center for Education in Health Sciences 2013 Convocation on June 29.
Third-year medical students learned new skills during Introduction to Clinical Clerkships, a week-long orientation that marked their transition from the classroom to the clinic.
Interns spent three days in an intense training “bootcamp” to get ready for their residencies, which start in July. This year, the program has expanded to include general surgery residents and two new skills: chest x-ray and EKG interpretation.
Residents Rachel Issaka, MD, and Ike Okwuosa, MD, were recognized and honored with the 2013 Marco Ellis Legacy Award for their extraordinary contributions to increasing diversity at McGaw Medical Center of Northwestern University.
The Northwestern Medicine® community recently recognized forty-nine faculty members for their 25-year careers at Feinberg. The honorees joined other active faculty who have reached the quarter-century service milestone during an evening of celebration on June 19.
The new program is a competitive, 21-month postgraduate degree offering clinically-focused education in a research-rich environment.
The Class of 2015 received their white physician assistant’s coats at a ceremony on Friday, June 7. Thirty students are accepted into the Physician Assistant Program at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine each year.