Tag: Education
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Tackling Gender and Sex Issues in Medical Education
Feinberg faculty members helped create new guidelines from the Association of American Medical Colleges for medical schools and academic medical centers to improve health care for people who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or who are born with differences of sex development.
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Physician Assistant Students Explore Day of the Dead Traditions
First-year physician assistant students visited Chicago’s Pilsen neighborhood to learn about Mexican culture and Day of the Dead traditions.
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Alzheimer’s “Buddies” Share their Experience
Jared Worthington, second-year medical student, Jean Schmidt Winship, program manager in the Physician Assistant Program and her husband presented on The Cognitive Neurology and Alzheimer’s Disease Center’s Buddy Program at the Canadian Health Summit in Toronto.
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At AMSA Conference, Students Prepare to Lead a Changing Healthcare Culture
Medical students attended the American Medical Student Association (AMSA) Training Ground conference, hosted at Feinberg on November 22 and 23, with events united under the theme of “Lead the Change in the Culture of Medicine.”
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Poster Presentations Showcase Student Research
Medical students presented their Area of Scholarly Concentration projects at a poster session on November 21.
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Student Sketch Comedy Show Honors a Former Classmate
The medical school’s 36th annual student sketch comedy show In Vivo parodied the characters and plot of the film Freaky Friday with “Freaky Feinberg,” benefitting the Stay Out of the Sun Foundation in honor of their former classmate Claire Richards.
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AAMC President Discusses Challenges Facing Academic Medicine
Darrell Kirch, MD, president and chief executive officer of the Association of American Medical Colleges addressed staff and faculty members on the issues facing academic medical centers.
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Using Sound to Improve Deep Sleep, Memory
Nelly Papalambros, a third-year graduate student, studies how sound could be used as a non-invasive way to improve deep sleep and memory.
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Lectures on Campus: How Diverse Themes Can Improve Patient Care
Students and faculty learned how practicing mindfulness, incorporating patient spirituality and advocating for scientific research in public policy can improve patient care – and their own wellbeing as healthcare providers – during three special lecture events.
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Students Screen Chicago Residents for Cardiovascular Health Risks
Medical students conduct cardiovascular health risks screenings and counsel participants on exercise, nutrition and other lifestyle changes in the Keep Your Heart Heathy program.
