News and Announcements
Catch up on the latest news from the Department of Medical Education.
10.18.2024Faculty, staff, trainees and students came together to share educational research and best teaching practices during Feinberg’s 14th annual Medical Education Day on October 15.
10.15.2024Stephen Freeman, a fourth-year MD/MPH student at Feinberg, has been selected to participate in the Pisacano Scholars Leadership Program, a highly competitive professional development and scholarship opportunity given to exceptional future leaders in family medicine.
10.11.2024Feinberg students, faculty, trainees and staff gathered in a packed Hughes Auditorium for the Office of Diversity and Inclusion’s annual Fall Lyceum on October 8.
09.25.2024Since 2013, Feinberg medical students have provided cardiovascular disease risk assessments and health counseling to underserved community members across Chicago through the Keep Your Heart Healthy program.
09.16.2024Feinberg students, staff, trainees and faculty gathered to celebrate scientific discovery and presented research posters and abstracts at Feinberg’s 18th annual Lewis Landsberg Research Day on Thursday, Sept. 12.
08.05.2024First-year medical students donned their white coats for the first time and marked the official start to the academic year at Founders’ Day on August 2 at Fourth Presbyterian Church in Chicago.
08.02.2024Eight Feinberg medical students recently participated in a summerlong research program designed to equip them with the skills to become successful clinician-scientists.
07.24.2024Three Feinberg medical students have been named 2024-2025 Chicago Area Schweitzer Fellows, a program to support fellows’ design and implementation of innovative projects to address the health needs of underserved Chicago communities.
07.16.2024The Feinberg Physician Assistant Program’s Class of 2026 recently celebrated the beginning of their medical journey with a white coat ceremony.
07.02.2024Kranti Rumalla, a second-year medical student at Feinberg, was the lead author of a study that found racial disparities among patients who were disenrolled from Medicaid coverage after the end of the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency.
05.31.2024Dillan Prasad, a first-year medical student at Feinberg, was recently recognized for outstanding research by the American Association of Neurological Surgeons.
05.13.2024Faculty members and fourth-year medical students were recognized for academic and clinical excellence during Feinberg’s Honors Day, held on May 10 in the Hughes auditorium.
04.26.2024Abby Citterman, ’24 MPO, a recent graduate of Northwestern’s Master of Prosthetics & Orthotics program, was awarded the American Academy of Orthotists and Prosthetists Women in O&P Research Award at their 50th annual meeting in Chicago.
04.02.2024Meet Juliana Feng, a student at Feinberg School of Medicine in the first year of her PhD program. She’s a student in the Medical Scientist Training Program (MSTP). She has completed two years of medical school and is now in the graduate school portion of her program.
03.29.2024Feinberg School of Medicine’s Office of Diversity and Inclusion recently welcomed its largest cohort yet – a group of 21 Northwestern undergraduate students from diverse backgrounds – to participate in NUDOCS, an immersive week-long introduction to careers in medicine.
02.28.2024Lisa Namatame, a first-year Physician Assistant (PA) student, was recently awarded a scholarship from the National Health Service Corps Scholarship Program supported by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Health Resources and Services Administration.
11.14.2023Roger Smith, an eighth-year student in Feinberg’s Medical Scientist Training Program, is developing an artificial intelligence tool to tie up medical loose ends identified in electronic health records.