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.
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.
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.
For the first time, students in the Department of Physical Therapy and Human Movement Sciences will be participating in an international learning experience. The students will be in Belize from December 3-21, with the expectation that more will study there in May, November, and December 2013.
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.
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.
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.