Tag: Medical Education
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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.
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Transforming Medical Education as Translational Science
A recent seminar explored the topic of innovation in medical education and the role of mastery learning in training of the next generation of physicians.
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Student and Resident Receive AMA Excellence in Medicine Awards
Quentin Youmans, MD, a second-year resident in internal medicine, received the Leadership Award, and Elsy Compres, a second-year medical student, received the Minority Scholars Award from the American Medical Association Foundation.
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Medical Student Awarded Schweitzer Fellowship to Work With LGBT and Homeless Youth
Michael Musharbash, a second-year medical student, has received a Schweitzer Fellowship to implement educational services for LGBT and homeless youth at the Center on Halsted.
