Category: Education News
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Students Apply Humanities Skills to Medicine
First-year medical students explored the applied arts during a five-week seminar in medical humanities and bioethics.
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Student Knitting Group Aids Domestic Violence Survivors and Rehabilitation Patients
Medical students in the Fein Yarns and Healing Threads student group work with patients at the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago on their fine motor skills through knitting, and making baby hats for underserved patient populations.
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Medical Students Present on the Strengths and Challenges in Chicago’s Neighborhoods
As part of their community health project, first-year medical students presented on the barriers populations in different Chicago neighborhoods face to lead healthy lives.
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Medical Students and Physicians Volunteer Skills at Devon Clinic
Every Sunday, volunteer medical students and attending physicians provide primary care services at the Devon Clinic, a free health clinic that serves a predominantly uninsured, South Asian population.
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Housestaff Panel Helps Medical Students Prepare for Residency
A new resident-led program at Northwestern fosters community among underrepresented minority students in undergraduate and graduate medical education programs.
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Mission to Keep Seniors at Home Keeps Alumna Home at Northwestern
A passion for senior care brought Lee Lindquist, ’00 MD, ’03 ’05 GME, ’05 MPH, ’10 MBA, to Northwestern as a first-year medical student in 1996 and has kept her here for two decades.
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Medical Students Start the New Year With Wellness Activities
Medical students attended sessions addressing different aspects of wellness during a week dedicated to student well-being.
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Medical Student Charts a Map of Memory in the Brain
Kelsey Bowman extended her medical school program from four years to five years to develop a test to map regions of the brain associated with memory.
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Student Calls for Firearm Safety in Medical School Curricula
Second-year medical student Arianna Yanes recently published an editorial in JAMA Internal Medicine about incorporating firearm safety into the medical school curricula.
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Medical Students Discuss HIV Treatment and Advocacy During Hands-on Learning Module
First-year medical students participated in small group discussions and activities focused on HIV/AIDS to integrate and apply what they’d learned previously in a new context.
