News and Announcements
Catch up on the latest news from the Department of Medical Education.
12.13.2024Feinberg medical students will undergo intensive leadership coaching as part of their education under the new Leadership Identity Formation and Training initiative, or LIFT.
12.11.2024Northwestern investigators, faculty, students and community partners shared and celebrated global health research, education and outreach during the 13th annual Global Health Day organized by the Robert J. Havey, MD Institute for Global Health, held on December 6.
11.12.2024Two students in Feinberg’s Physician Assistant Program and two MD students have been awarded scholarships from the National Health Service Corps Scholarship Program.
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.
05.14.2024Feinberg honored the MD Class of 2024 during the medical school’s 165th commencement ceremony held in the Aon Grand Ballroom at Navy Pier on May 13.
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.
04.19.2024Feinberg recently hosted a “Second Look” event, providing 150 accepted students with an opportunity to learn more about the medical school’s campus, health equity and inclusion efforts, curriculum and community.
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.
03.19.2024Feinberg’s chapter of the Alpha Omega Alpha medical honor society welcomed 40 new members during a ceremony on March 12, recognizing the inductees’ outstanding educational achievement and significant contributions to medicine.
03.15.2024Fourth-year Feinberg students excitedly tore open envelopes to reveal their residency matches at this year’s Match Day celebration on March 15.
03.15.2024High school juniors from Our Lady of Tepeyac High School in Little Village had the chance to shadow and learn from Feinberg scientists as part of an event hosted by the Simpson Querrey Institute for Epigenetics’ (SQE) Inspire program on March 5.
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.