Three first-year medical students, Paul Jansson, Andres Camacho, and Jessica Shim, performed at Northwestern Memorial Hospital on May 23 for the Chicago Symphony Orchestra citywide event “Pianos in Public Spaces.”
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The Emergency Medicine Group, Sports Medicine Interest Group, and Orthopedic Surgical Society held a hands-on splinting workshop on May 2.
On the second Saturday in May, members of the inaugural class of Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine’s Physician Assistant program became its first graduates.
In honor of National Women’s Health Week, which runs now through Saturday, May 19, the American Medical Women’s Association, American Medical Student Association, and Medical Students for Choice are raising money for the Chicago Women’s Health Center by selling women’s health t-shirts for $15 and lapel pins for $3. Donations are also welcome.
Students in the Program in Public Health service initiative spent six months as consultants on a host of client issues ranging from sexual education in the nation’s third-largest school district, to analyzing data for the city of Evanston.
The Feinberg Academy of Medical Educators (FAME) hosted its first-ever curriculum development symposium May 2-3. The event included workshops, brown-bag lectures, and personal consultations.
The Graduate Program in Genetic Counseling, offered through the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine Center for Genetic Medicine (CGM), is the only program of its kind in Illinois and the only program in the country that offers an option to pursue a combined Master of Science in Genetic Counseling and Master of Arts in Medical Humanities and Bioethics degree
This year’s Alumni Weekend was the first time Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine had an alumnus celebrating his 70th-year reunion in attendance. George Bulkley, MD’42, joined almost 600 other alumni, guests, faculty, and students on April 27-28 for two days of fun and education.
John “Jack” Kessler, MD, Ken and Ruth Davee Professor of Stem Cell Biology, has completed his administrative service as chair neurology at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine—an era that is full of accomplishment, and will return fulltime to his important laboratory research and academic life at the medical school.
Members of the student organization Nclude take part each month in Teen Night at the RIC, an event that brings together youths between the ages of 12 and 17, many of whom suffer from cerebral palsy.