Category: Education News
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Medical Student Brings Passion to Youth Mentoring
Raheem Bell, a first-year medical student, is one of several student advisors overseeing an outreach program that exposes underrepresented high school and college students to health careers.
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Student Advocates for Environmental and LGBT Issues at Home and Abroad
Michael Musharbash, a second-year medical student, is the national student representative of Physicians for Social Responsibility, which was awarded the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize as part of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons.
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Student Investigates Sun Safety in Daycare
Daycares and early childhood education programs frequently use spray sunscreen on children, but still have room for improvement when it comes to sun safety, according to a new Northwestern Medicine study.
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NUPOC Students Win Scholarship Honoring Prosthetics Pioneer
Charity Smith, first-year student in the Master’s in Prosthetics and Orthotics degree program, and Michael Hoggatt, second-year student in the program, were selected to receive the International African American Prosthetic and Orthotic Coalition Sam D. Benson Scholarship.
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Students Bring Cardiovascular Disease Prevention to Underserved Areas
At Keep Your Heart Healthy events, Feinberg medical students provide cardiovascular disease risk assessment and prevention counseling to underserved communities.
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Medical Student Promotes Wellness at Feinberg Through Research, Advocacy
Max Kazer, a third-year medical student, is investigating the impact of a meditation practice on stress reduction among medical students as part of his AOSC project.
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Medical Students Share Business Acumen to Improve Community Health
Medical students in Second Opinions, a student-run pro-bono consulting group, shared their experiences consulting for local healthcare nonprofits at a recent lecture.
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Medical Student Brings Lessons Learned at Teach for America to Feinberg
Omar Bushara, first-year MD/MPH student, discusses how spending a year teaching biology on Chicago’s South Side crystallized his interest in public health.
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Exploring Techniques for Bedside Diagnostic Reasoning
Georges Bordage, MD, MSc, PhD, professor of Medical Education at the University of Illinois at Chicago, delivered a talk on diagnostic reasoning and how to teach it to trainees.
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Role Model
Roopal Kundu, ’01 MD, ’02 GME, guides students through the admissions process and beyond.
