Tag: Awards
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Leading Female Physicians Share Journeys, Give Advice
Students listened as doctors discussed picking a field, the pros and cons of their specialty, and other professional experiences at the American Medical Women Association’s Annual Women in Medicine Panel.
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VIDEO: Preparing the Next Generation of Medical Leaders
Feinberg began rolling out the first phase of its renewed Doctor of Medicine curriculum in August with the Class of 2016. Learn more about the changes from Feinberg faculty who have been involved in its development.
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Pair of Students Piloting First DPT Global Health Opportunity
For the first time, students in the Department of Physical Therapy and Human Movement Sciences will be participating in an international learning experience. The students will be in Belize from December 3-21, with the expectation that more will study there in May, November, and December 2013.
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World AIDS Day 2012 Recognized with Panel Discussion, Poster Session
Organized by the Student Advisory Committee for Global Health, Feinberg’s World AIDS Day events included a panel discussion, student-research poster session, and the opportunity to discuss the disease and its treatment with healthcare professionals.
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New Guidelines Aim to Help Researchers Become More Effective Mentors
A major four-year review of academic literature led by Northwestern Medicine researcher Michael Fleming, MD, MPH, offers a thorough understanding of what actually works and what doesn’t when it comes to mentoring and how institutions should approach research trainee mentorships.
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Rotation in Montana Offers Insight into Rural Healthcare
Fourth-year medical student Amy Chen piloted a new rural health rotation in Montana. She spent four weeks this fall in small towns observing the similarities and differences between primary care in urban versus rural environments.
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Montgomery Receives ASBH Lifetime Achievement Award
Kathryn Montgomery, PhD, Julia and David Uihlein Professor of Medical Humanities and Bioethics, is being honored with the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities (ASBH) Lifetime Achievement Award.
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Assessing the Health of Chicago Communities
As part of the new curriculum, first-year medical students compiled information regarding health resources in 21 Chicago communities. Over the next few years, this project aims to have health data from all 77 Chicago communities, which they will make available to Northwestern physicians, who can use it to better understand their patients.
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Medical Simulation Brings New Training Tool to Urology
Simulators in use since June are helping residents and physicians in the Department of Urology learn and perfect their surgical skills. The state of the art technology is being tested as a means to improve real time skills by training doctors to perform minimally-invasive laser prostate procedures.
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Faculty Receive Fellowships for Educational Innovation
Augusta Webster Faculty Grants were awarded last week to four faculty members to fund projects related to medical education research. Past fellows have produced new courses, new teaching strategies, and a number of advances in educational assessment.
