Tag: Medical Education

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.

Andrew Alvarez, a first-year student, participated in clinical research in plastic surgery over the summer.

Anna Whelan, a first-year medical student, was running along Lake Michigan on Aug. 21 when she noticed two people kneeling over a man lying on the ground. The man had no pulse, and Whelan performed CPR and coached others on how to help, applying what she learned during her first weeks in medical school.

Global Health Day, which included a panel discussion and poster session, is designed to provide students, faculty, and McGaw Medical Center residents the opportunity to share recent global health projects with the Northwestern community and create networking opportunities among mentors and trainees.

A third-year resident, Antonio Alvarado, MD, has a drive to increase access to transplantation for dialysis patients, especially in underserved communities.