Tag: Medical Education
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TIME Lectures Highlight New Ideas and Innovations in Medical Education
The school year’s first TIME talk, a monthly lecture series at Feinberg on innovations in medical education, was dedicated to reducing gender disparities in the field of surgery.
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New Leadership Named for Medical Scientist Training Program
Hossein Ardehali, MD, PhD, has been named the new director of Feinberg’s Medical Scientist Training Program; Melissa Brown, PhD, has been named associate director of advising and Xunrong Luo, MD, PhD, the associate director of admissions for the program.
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Medical Student Deepens Global Perspective With Internship in Cuba
Wenyuan Zhou, a second-year MD and MPH student, recently completed a summer internship in Havana, Cuba, where she learned about prevention in the Cuban healthcare system.
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Northwestern Medicine Caregivers Practice Having Difficult Conversations
Frontline caregivers practiced breaking bad news to simulated patients in an interactive workshop broadcast from Feinberg’s Simulation Lab to four other Northwestern Medicine locations.
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Medical Students Get First Taste of Patient Care
First-year medical students shadowed a wide variety of medical professionals, part of Introduction to the Profession week.
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Incoming Medical Students Celebrate Founders’ Day
Founders’ Day, an annual Feinberg tradition, welcomed the incoming class of first-year medical students and marked the official beginning of the school year.
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Med School Curriculum Kicks Off With a Patient’s Story
As part of medical students’ Introduction to the Profession week, rapper and motivational speaker David Rush opened up to first-year medical students about his experiences during treatment for kidney disease.
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Surgical Residents Adapting to Flexible Shift Hours
Karl Bilimoria, MD, MS, associate professor of Surgery, found growing acceptance of new flexible shift lengths in a national survey of surgical residents.
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Medical Student Heads to India to Assess Management and Cardiac Care
Fourth-year medical student Kyle Yoo has been selected as a Fogarty Global Health Fellow and will travel to Kerala, India to study the interplay between management practices and acute cardiac care.
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Investigating Relevance of Internal Medicine Recertification Exam
Almost 70 percent of questions on the American Board of Internal Medicine’s Maintenance of Certification exam concurred with the frequency of conditions seen in general internal medicine practice, according to a JAMA study.
