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Yale School of Medicine's chapter of the American Medical Student Association (AMSA) has been awarded the prestigious AMSA 2024 Paul Wright Chapter Success Award.

On February 9, high school students from New Haven (Wilbur L. Cross and James Hillhouse High Schools), Bridgeport (Great Oaks Charter School), and the Guilford A Better Chance Program visited Yale School of Medicine (YSM). The visit was organized by the medical school’s Office of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion.

Check out which of our faculty will be presenting posters at the 2024 Pediatric Academic Societies Meeting in Toronto, Canada.

Immigrant rights groups are pushing to expand Connecticut’s HUSKY Medicaid program. Over the past few years, children up to 15 years have been included in the health care plan. Advocates are now pushing for more in the current legislative session.

Members of the YSM community opened their hearts and their wallets at the 30th Annual Hunger & Homelessness Charity Auction on Dec. 6, bidding generously on everything from VIP baseball tickets to a very in-demand bowtie.

At Yale School of Medicine, the Yale Biological and Biomedical Sciences Diversity and Inclusion Collective (YBDIC) has emerged as a catalyst for change, dedicated to fostering the intellectual and personal growth of underrepresented minority (URM) students in the biological and biomedical sciences (BBS). Grounded in a mission driven by engagement, empowerment, outreach, and advancement, YBDIC is reshaping the landscape of inclusivity within the academic community.

In a trending study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), Michael O. Mensah, MD, MHS, MPH, a postdoctoral fellow from the Department of Psychiatry at Yale University's School of Medicine, sheds light on the racial, ethnic, and gender disparities within the US postgraduate trainee workforce and their correlation with compensation among different clinical specialties.

YFJF&F was founded in 2022 with a 3-year grant from the Academic Engagement Network to Professor of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging Evan Morris, PhD. The goal of the group has been to foster education about anti-Semitism on campus.

First-year Yale School of Medicine MD student Sydney Aquilina, a tribal member of the Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians, accepted a proclamation issued by her hometown, Leesburg, Virginia. The proclamation “recognize(d) November as the National American Indian Heritage Month” and urged the town’s citizens “to observe this month with appropriate programs, ceremonies, and activities.”