The Class of 2012 earned their long white coats at the 153rd graduation on May 24. Excited to embark on their new journey as doctors, students gathered with faculty, friends, and family for the commencement ceremony at Chicago’s Navy Pier Grand Ballroom.
Fourteen women donated hair at the second annual Cuts for Cancer event hosted by the American Medical Women’s Association on May 24. Donations were sent to the Pantene Beautiful Lengths program, which supplies free wigs to women who have lost their hair due to cancer treatment.
In response to the jargon that often emanates in healthcare, the Center for Reproductive Research created Repropedia, an online reproductive lexicon developed as a verified source of medical terminology for the average person.
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.”
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…