Tag: Education
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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.
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Physician-Scientist Training Program Fast Tracks Trainees
The Department of Medicine’s Physician-Scientist Training Program (PSTP) at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine is designed for students entering an internship with a combined MD/PhD or an MD degree with a record of intensive research experience. Third-year Resident Whitney Stevens, MD, PhD, shares her experiences in the program.
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Feinberg Professor turns iPad into Virtual Larynx for Intubation Training
Raymond Glassenberg, MD, associate professor in anesthesiology, has developed iLarynx, an iPad app that uses a three-dimensional representation of the human airway to teach intubation.
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Feinberg Faculty Members Awarded Teaching Fellowships
Six Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine faculty members were accepted into the 2012-13 Searle Fellows Program, a year-long faculty development program for early career faculty.
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Shadowing Opportunities Give Students an Early Taste of Clinical Medicine
Medical students extend their classroom education by interacting with patients, residents, and physcians during shadowing experiences.
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New PT Program for Undergraduates Accepts First Student
To encourage interest in the study of physical therapy, The Department of Physical Therapy and Human Movement Sciences created the Northwestern University Pre-Physical Therapy Scholars Program, an early Doctor of Physical Therapy acceptance program for high-achieving Northwestern students with a demonstrated commitment to a career in the field.
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NUPOC Graduates Restoring Lives, Teaching Future Doctors at Clinic in Guatemala
Founded in 2005 by Northwestern University Prosthetics-Orthotics Center graduates David Krupa, CP, and Eric Neufeld, CPO, the Range of Motion Project has provided prostheses and orthoses to thousands of Guatemalans.
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Northwestern Start-Up Wins TechWeek Competition
The medical device start-up company, BriteSeed developed by a team of four Northwestern University graduate students, won first place at the second annual 2012 TechWeek LAUNCH competition, earning the company more than $100,000 in cash and prizes.
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Third-Year Medical Students Receive New White Coats
Third-year medical students received their white coats on July 3 to symbolize their transition from the classroom to the clinic.
