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New Curriculum Gives Opportunity for Early Clinical Experience
First-year medical students reinforced concepts from their cardiopulmonary, respiratory, and renal units through a week of hands-on simulation events known as the Synthesis and Application Module. This component of the new curriculum focuses on integrating more clinical experiences early on and challenges students to apply what they’ve learned in the classroom.
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Physician Assistant Program Receives Continuing Accreditation
Graduating its first class in 2012, Feinberg’s Physician Assistant Program has moved from provisional to continuing accreditation, receiving a rating of 100 percent compliant from the Accreditation Review Commission on Education for the Physician Assistant.
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Research Day 2013 Boasts Record Number of Participants
The Ninth Annual Lewis Landsberg Research Day, held on Thursday, April 4, had a record breaking 318 scientific posters, representing all 26 Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine departments.
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Heart Failure Risk Similar for Blacks, Whites
Lifetime risk for heart failure is similar for blacks and whites and higher than expected for both groups, according to a new Northwestern Medicine® study.
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Hospitals Measuring Up for Medicare Reimbursement
A new study gives an early look at how hospitals are measuring up under the new, mandatory Hospital Inpatient Value-Based Purchasing Program that went into effect October 2012. Hospitals receive financial rewards or penalties according to achievement or improvement on several publicly reported quality measures.
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Seifert Presented Second Consecutive MERIT Award
Hank Seifert, PhD, has received a second-consecutive Method to Extend Research in Time Award, an extremely rare honor for NIH-funded scientists.
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Viral Protein Hijacks Cellular Machinery to Invade Nervous System
Northwestern Medicine® scientists have identified a component of the herpesvirus that “hijacks” machinery inside human cells, allowing the virus to rapidly and successfully invade the nervous system upon initial exposure.
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Genome Collaboration Leads to Prostate Cancer Finding
Published in Nature Genetics, new research has helped outline the benefits of whole genome sequencing in validating the genes associated with a person’s susceptibility to prostate cancer.
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Fundraising Efforts Send Ultrasound to Largest Hospital in Uganda
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine student organization Unite for Uganda raised about $5,000 to ship an ultrasound machine to Mulago Hospital in Kampala, Uganda.
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New Chemo Drug Found to be Gentler on Fertility, Tough on Cancer
A new gentler chemotherapy drug in the form of nanoparticles has been designed by Northwestern Medicine scientists to be less toxic to a young woman’s fertility but extra tough on cancer. This is the first cancer drug tested while in development for its effect on fertility using a novel in vitro test.
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Northwestern Partners in Consortium to Develop New Ways to Treat Macular Degeneration
Northwestern University scientists are part of a multi-institution interdisciplinary consortium that has been awarded a $6.2 million grant over five years from the National Eye Institute to develop new treatments for exudative age-related macular degeneration.
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Oxygen Exposure Linked to Pulmonary Hypertension in Preterm Babies
Research findings from the lab of Kathryn Farrow, MD, PhD, associate professor in pediatrics-neonatology, illustrate that common treatment options may be detrimental to a newborn’s health.
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Antidepressants for Pregnant Moms Don’t Affect Infants’ Growth
Allaying previous concerns, a Northwestern Medicine® scientist found that an infant’s growth was not impacted by its mother taking selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor antidepressants during pregnancy.
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Genes Identify Breast Cancer Risk and May Aid Prevention
A newly identified set of genes may predict which women are at high risk for getting breast cancer that is sensitive to estrogen and, therefore, would be helped by taking drugs to prevent it, reports a new Northwestern Medicine® study.
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Physician Assistant Students Present Research Projects
On Friday, March 15, twenty-eight physician assistant (PA) students gave presentations as the culmination of their clinical rotations and final year in the program.
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Feinberg Seniors Meet their Match
As part of nationwide Match Day, members of the Feinberg Class of 2013 came together on Friday, March 15, to find out where they will head for residency after graduation.
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Medical Honor Society Inducts Newest Members
The Alpha Omega Alpha (AOA) medical honor society inducted its newest Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine members at a ceremony on Thursday, March 14. Inductees included medical students, residents, faculty members, and an alumnus. AOA recognizes scholarly achievement and qualities such as leadership, professionalism, and community service.
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Electronic Health Records Upgrades Needed for Big Medical Data
Even as physicians across the nation transition to electronic health records, commonly known as EHRs, these data systems are not sophisticated enough to handle or store the amount of electronic information created by currently available medical technology, argue the authors of a new viewpoint published online in JAMA -The Journal of the American Medical Association.
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Clinical Operations Announce Plans to Integrate
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern Memorial HealthCare, Northwestern Medical Faculty Foundation, and Northwestern Memorial Physicians Group today announced plans to integrate their clinical operations under one unified organization that will be branded Northwestern Medicine.
