Saturday, June 1

Since the Strategic Planning Committee for Medical Education released their recommendations in 2010, many faculty, staff, students and alumni have been meeting to decide how to implement the recommendations to “rebuild the curriculum from the ground up” and “elevate the status of teaching. A design for the new curriculum has been created and the building of the various curricular components is underway. In addition, the Teaching and Learning Center was launched in 2012.  Join Richard Belitsky, M.D., Deputy Dean for Education and Harold W. Jockers Associate Professor of Medical Education, for an update on the progress to date and look into what medical education at Yale will look like for our future students. The 2010 and 2011 reports are available online at: http://medicine.yale.edu/education/strategicplan

Nancy Angoff, M.P.H. ’81, M.D. ’90, Associate Professor of Medicine and Associate Dean for Student Affairs, will lead a conversation with several YSM students who represent some of the experiences integral to medical education inside and outside the classroom at Yale today. Students who have taken leadership roles in health policy development, global health initiatives, LGBTQ awareness, involvement in the New Haven community, and advancing scientific research will join Dr. Angoff to share their personal experiences. For a list of students scheduled to appear, click here.

Tiny mouse skeletons and very little books.  Children ages 5 – 12 are invited for a guided hunt of some of the Library’s extraordinary and intriguing child-sized treasures. Parents welcome (and encouraged) too.

Robert J. Alpern, M.D., Dean and Ensign Professor of Medicine, shares the latest news from the Medical School and his vision for the future. The AYAM will present the 2013 Distinguished Alumni Service Awards.

Tucked away downstairs in the library is the Cushing Center: visit this one-of-a-kind center including the unique Brain Tumor Registry and the drawings, photographs and rare book collection of Dr. Harvey Cushing. As part of the tour, see the current exhibit on digitization of historical books. YSM’s own Cushing/Whitney Medical Library has been contributing to the Medical Heritage Library, an online resource of free and open historical resources in medicine, to inform the practice of contemporary medicine and strengthen our understanding of where these practices have come from. On display in the library will be selections from the several century-old items that are also now available online. Learn from Melissa J. Grafe, Ph.D., the John R. Bumstead Librarian for Medical History, about the process and practices of digitizing these works for the world to see. To take a sneak peek, visit: http://digital.medicine.yale.edu/ This tour will be repeated at 3 pm.

Each year, Yale School of Medicine admits 100 new students who have the maturity, intelligence, energy, and compassion to grow into the next generation of physician-leaders. As alumni, they have demonstrated that leadership and it is manifested in diverse ways. Come here several of our alumni talk about their personal paths into medicine and beyond. 

Tucked away downstairs in the library is the Cushing Center: visit this one-of-a-kind center including the unique Brain Tumor Registry and the drawings, photographs and rare book collection of Dr. Harvey Cushing. As part of the tour, see the current exhibit on digitization of historical books. YSM’s own Cushing/Whitney Medical Library has been contributing to the Medical Heritage Library, an online resource of free and open historical resources in medicine, to inform the practice of contemporary medicine and strengthen our understanding of where these practices have come from. On display in the library will be selections from the several century-old items that are also now available online. Learn from Melissa J. Grafe, Ph.D., the John R. Bumstead Librarian for Medical History, about the process and practices of digitizing these works for the world to see. To take a sneak peek, visit: http://digital.medicine.yale.edu/.