Tag: Education
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Annual Sketch Comedy Show Benefits Mobile Food Market
First- and second-year students put on the annual sketch comedy show In Vivo this past weekend. The money raised from ticket sales benefited Fresh Moves Mobile Produce Market, a nonprofit that serves neighborhoods with little access to fresh food.
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Honoring Martin Luther King Jr.
To commemorate the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday, members of the Chicago campus DREAM Committee hosted two panel discussions, a movie screening, and reception in an effort to connect the legacy of Dr. King to today’s social justice challenges through critical analysis and reflection.
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Training Students to Teach CPR, Raise Awareness in Communities
This week more than 25 medical and physician assistant students from across Chicago will complete training on how to teach hands-only CPR and use an AED through a new CCARES program. The ultimate goal of the program is to build community awareness of these lifesaving skills.
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Using Computational Models to Solve Problems in Neurology
Third-year MD/PhD student Pat Lawlor discusses why he is pursuing a career as a physician scientist, his role as MSTP student body president, and the beginnings of his graduate research.
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Fellow Leading Investigation of Cardiovascular Risk Assessment in Liver Transplantation
Lisa VanWagner, a fellow in gastroenterology and hepatology, will be working alongside mentors Anton Skaro, MD, PhD, assistant professor of organ transplantation, Michael Abecassis, MD, MBA, director of the Comprehensive Transplant Center, and Donald Lloyd-Jones, MD, ScM, director of the Northwestern University Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute, to study orthotopic liver transplantation and cardiovascular disease.
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Doctor of Physical Therapy and PhD in Engineering
The only degree of its kind in the country, the joint Doctor of Physical Therapy and PhD in Engineering program marries two disciplines for one clear benefit: improved rehabilitation therapies and technologies for patients with movement disorders.
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Innovation Lab Enhances Medical Training
The Innovation Lab, within the Simulation Technology and Immersive Learning Center, develops medical training devices using state-of-the-art materials and techniques, including modern polymers, 3-D printing, and Computer-Aided Design, with the goal of improving medical education.
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Students Work Together for a Healthy Chicago
Medical students and their peers joined the Chicago Department of Public Health’s Students for a Healthy Chicago committee, which develops community projects and programs and provides a student voice for healthcare policy.
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Remembering Former Dean and Professor Emeritus Harry Beaty
Harry Beaty, MD, a specialist in internal medicine and infectious diseases and dean of Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine from 1983 to 1997, passed away on December 8, 2012. He was 80 years old.
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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.
