Tag: Education
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New Guidelines Aim to Help Researchers Become More Effective Mentors
A major four-year review of academic literature led by Northwestern Medicine researcher Michael Fleming, MD, MPH, offers a thorough understanding of what actually works and what doesn’t when it comes to mentoring and how institutions should approach research trainee mentorships.
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Rotation in Montana Offers Insight into Rural Healthcare
Fourth-year medical student Amy Chen piloted a new rural health rotation in Montana. She spent four weeks this fall in small towns observing the similarities and differences between primary care in urban versus rural environments.
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Montgomery Receives ASBH Lifetime Achievement Award
Kathryn Montgomery, PhD, Julia and David Uihlein Professor of Medical Humanities and Bioethics, is being honored with the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities (ASBH) Lifetime Achievement Award.
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Assessing the Health of Chicago Communities
As part of the new curriculum, first-year medical students compiled information regarding health resources in 21 Chicago communities. Over the next few years, this project aims to have health data from all 77 Chicago communities, which they will make available to Northwestern physicians, who can use it to better understand their patients.
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Medical Simulation Brings New Training Tool to Urology
Simulators in use since June are helping residents and physicians in the Department of Urology learn and perfect their surgical skills. The state of the art technology is being tested as a means to improve real time skills by training doctors to perform minimally-invasive laser prostate procedures.
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Faculty Receive Fellowships for Educational Innovation
Augusta Webster Faculty Grants were awarded last week to four faculty members to fund projects related to medical education research. Past fellows have produced new courses, new teaching strategies, and a number of advances in educational assessment.
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Deputy Surgeon General Shares His Experience in the U.S. Public Health Service
Rear Admiral Boris Lushniak, MD’83, MPH, deputy surgeon general of the United States, discussed public health and its challenges at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine on Friday, October 19. He spoke about his own path, shared advice, and encouraged students to pursue careers that help the underserved.
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Faculty Mentor Students at Annual Fall Afternoon Tea
The American Medical Women’s Association student chapter at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and the Women’s Faculty Organization co-hosted an afternoon tea, a networking event for students to connect with female faculty members.
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Training Volunteers for the Chicago Marathon
Arriving at the main medical tent of the Bank of America Chicago Marathon at 4 a.m. might not sound like an ideal Sunday, but for Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine students Pietro Bortoletto and Anita Goyal, it was an incredible privilege. Bortoletto and Goyal had spent the summer helping to train more than 540[…]
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International Exchange in Chile Takes Shape for DPT Students
A September visit by the dean of health sciences at the Universidad San Sebastian in Concepcion, Chile, finalized a formal agreement that will result in the Department of Physical Therapy and Human Movement Sciences participating in a student exchange program.
