Tag: Medical Education

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.

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.

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[…]

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.

While an intern at the Chicago Department of Public Health, fourth-year medical student Azmina Lakhani helped launch the PlayStreets program, which closes city streets in six communities to provide a safe, supervised space with organized outdoor activities for children.