For the past five years, Rick McGee, PhD, associate dean for faculty recruitment and professional development, has facilitated a novel grant-writing program that helps guide junior faculty through the process of writing National Institutes of Health K and R award applications.
The Physician Assistant Program accepts 30 students every year. Half of the two-year program is spent gaining hands-on experience during clinical rotations throughout Chicago, with the other half devoted to classroom instruction.
Fifty-eight high school and college students presented research posters on Saturday, February 16, concluding the six-week Health Professional Recruitment and Exposure Program at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. Medical students organized ethics sessions, problem-based learning cases, and anatomy classes for the participants.
Meghan Bliss-Moreau, a fourth-year PhD candidate in Northwestern University’s Driskill Graduate Program in Life Sciences, develops therapeutics for cancer in the lab of Steven Rosen.
Nonprofit organization Chicago Youth Programs recognized 12 Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine students for their participation in a one-on-one high school mentoring program.
Northwestern’s Center for Device Development is bringing together clinicians and engineers to develop medical devices with guidance from entrepreneurial experts and through a series of real-world experiences.
Elizabeth G. Nabel, MD, president of Brigham and Women’s Hospital and professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, will speak at this year’s medical school commencement ceremony.
Fostering and recognizing outstanding medical educators – including faculty, physician assistants, nurses, fellows, residents, and students – Feinberg’s third annual Medical Education Day carried with it the theme of “Active Learning.”
Started by Dean Eric G. Neilson, MD, the annual luncheon celebrating Feinberg’s endowed professors serves as a way to thank and honor these faculty members for their accomplishments and contributions to science, education, and research.
Jeffrey Barsuk, MD, MS, presented information about the central line insertion simulation training program he developed and implemented with Diane Wayne, MD, to a national audience during an AAMC webinar.