Tag: Students
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Annual Student Showcase Celebrates Diversity, Raises Funds for Local Organizations
Student groups came together to showcase diversity at Feinberg and to raise money for the free community clinics coordinated and staffed in part by medical students and faculty.
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New Intensive One-Year MPH Starts Summer 2014
This summer, Northwestern University will launch a one-year Master’s in Public Health degree, expanding the existing program’s availability to those who prefer a shorter time-frame.
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Emergency Medicine Residencies in Chicago Implement Simulation Assessments
Six Chicagoland emergency residency programs implemented new simulation-based assessments for second-year residents.
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Proteins Linked to Sudden Cardiac Death
Dipal Patel, a sixth-year Medial Scientist Training Program student, studies a protein called desmoplakin to better understand the causes of diseases associated with sudden cardiac death during athletic events.
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Neonatologist honors the past, provides for the future
Dr. Roger E. Sheldon, MD ’68, and his wife, Carol V. Sheldon, MD, have provided an endowment to the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine for the McNicol Flair Sheldon Scholarship.
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New Cardiovascular System App Engages Learners
First-year medical students used a first-of-its-kind iPad app, an interactive simulation-based textbook of cardiovascular physiology and hemodynamics, as part of their Cardiovascular Blood Module.
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Creating Algorithms for Partial Hand Prostheses
Adenike Adewuyi, a third-year MD/PhD student, uses computational models to improve control of artificial limbs of partial hand amputees.
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Identifying Signaling Pathways in Breast Cancer
Second-year medical student Chaitanya Medicherla explores the effects of immune cells on cancer development as part of his Area of Scholarly Concentration research project.
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Nanodiamonds Used to Improve Bone Growth
Paper published in the Journal of Dental Research shows that nanodiamonds could serve as non-invasive delivery vehicles of growth factors to bone.
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NUAID Establishes New Site in India
A group of medical students spent a month volunteering in urban and rural clinics and learning about public health in India.
