Tag: Awards
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Students Teach Maternal-Child Health, Learn About Healthcare Challenges in Mexico
NU AID and Child Family Health International partnered to provide a global health immersion program for second- and fourth-year Feinberg students in Puerto Escondido, Mexico. During this year’s program, students focused on maternal-child health, partnering with local midwives to learn about the healthcare challenges that women in the community face.
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New Students Welcomed with Introduction to the Profession Week
Introduction to the Profession week, held August 10 through August 15, is meant to familiarize the new class of medical students with the practical aspects of Feinberg and to the themes of professionalism and professional identity they will encounter throughout their medical education and career as physicians.
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MPH Student Field Experiences in Chicago
This summer, Edson Carias, a first-year MD/MPH student at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, helped the Howard Brown Health Center develop a social marketing campaign for sexually transmitted infection prevention
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Doctor of Physical Therapy Program
The Doctor of Physical Therapy Program at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine is not only the oldest physical therapy school in the nation, it also continues to rank among its best, according to U.S. News & World Report rankings.
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Class of 2016 Student Profile
The 161 members of the Class of 2016 entered their first year of medical school in August 2012. Members of the class have a collective total of 78 undergraduate majors, ranging from biomedical engineering to political science, speak 26 different languages, and hail from 33 states and nine foreign countries.
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Summer Business Program for Doctoral STEM Students First of its Kind
Determined to get an edge in a difficult job market, 50 doctoral students in science and engineering at Northwestern University are honing their real-world management skills this summer in an eight-week leadership program drawing on coursework from the Kellogg School of Management core MBA curriculum.
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Frader Being Honored by AAP with Award for Ethical Excellence
Joel Frader, MD, professor in pediatrics and medical humanities and bioethics, is being honored this fall by the American Academy of Pediatrics with the 2012 William G. Bartholome Award for Ethical Excellence.
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Physician-Scientist Retreat Focuses on Student Research Projects
A two-day overnight retreat, August 4-5, involved a combination of scientific and social activities in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin. The retreat offers an opportunity for MSTP students to present their work, and hear presentations from MD/PhD graduates and outside physician-scientists.
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Feinberg Alumnus Dedicates Career to Helping to Eliminate Health Disparities
Charles Modlin, MD’87, MBA remembers spending time in the anatomy classroom as a freshman medical student and playing trumpet in the annual student comedy show IN VIVO, but it was his third-year clinical rotations in medical school that had the longest-lasting impact on his professional life, igniting his passion to help eliminate health disparities.
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Uncovering the Rules Governing Gene Transcription
A trio of groundbreaking publications from researchers in Northwestern University’s Physical Sciences-Oncology Center report important methodological advances that will enable a better understanding of how gene expression is regulated, both in normal cells and in cancer cells. This knowledge could lead to the development of more effective therapeutic agents to treat cancer patients.
