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Despite a small sample size, this study builds upon results from the few other studies in the field and demonstrates that the Yale School of Medicine Master of Health Professions Education Program (MPHE) is an effective way for medical educators to enhance their careers, and develop skills, knowledge, and research in education. Furthermore, these results may demonstrate that other MPHEs may be an effective way for clinician educators to hone their skills and advance in their fields.
- March 31, 2025
On March 27, 2025, a large group of current and former colleagues and students of Michael Schwartz, PhD, gathered in the team-based learning room in the Cushing/Whitney Medical Library (CWML) to celebrate him on his retirement from his leadership roles in medical education at Yale School of Medicine. An art installation that four medical students created as a tribute to Schwartz was unveiled. The work is now permanently located in the CWML team-based learning classroom.
- March 21, 2025
On March 21, 2025—Match Day— 87 Yale School of Medicine (YSM) MD students learned where they will spend their residency, matching into exemplary training programs across the country.
- February 25, 2025
Yale School of Medicine now ranks third in the nation for NIH funding, according to the most recent report from the Blue Ridge Institute for Medical Research.
- January 15, 2025
The 31st annual Hunger & Homelessness Auction, held at Yale School of Medicine on January 9, 2025, raised funds for three local nonprofits.
- December 03, 2024
Katrina Dietsche and Jason Weinstein, second-year MD students at Yale School of Medicine, bonded during their first year over their shared passion for preventative health. Before starting medical school, Dietsche had witnessed the huge impact the food pharmacy at Children’s National Hospital in Washington, DC had on the lives and health of patients and their families, from a preventative health perspective. Therefore, when Dietsche and Weinstein learned that food insecurity was common in New Haven and at the HAVEN Free Clinic—the student-run primary care clinic that partners with Yale University to provide health care to uninsured adults in the New Haven community—they decided HAVEN could be a perfect setting for a food
... - November 08, 2024Source: Alzheimer Disease & Associated Disorders
Artificial intelligence has begun to transform the way neurologists take notes during appointments, draft responses to patient messages, and more, but that use has raised some ethical questions. Neuroethicists weigh in on the ethical implications of the AI tools currently available to the field and where it could go next.
- October 29, 2024
October 14 likely was the first time an egg scramble with onions, green bell peppers, and Calabrian chiles was cooked in a microwave in the Cushing Whitney Medical Library’s team-based learning room. Instructor of Medicine (General Medicine) and Chef Nate Wood, MD, MHS, demonstrated how to prepare this easy, healthy, inexpensive recipe to a roomful of Yale School of Medicine (YSM) MD and Physician Associate students during a lunchtime workshop—part of a three-session series focused on preparing healthy, simple, inexpensive meals.
- August 07, 2024
Yale School of Medicine (YSM) students, and other members of the YSM community, now have about 150 medical ethics-related books available to them. This is thanks to Susan V. Lewis (Duffy), MD, generously donating books to YSM’s Program for Biomedical Ethics (PBE) from the collection of her husband, the late Thomas P. Duffy, MD, professor emeritus of medicine (hematology).
- July 29, 2024
Yale School of Medicine's Master of Health Science Degree Program begins first year under its enhanced, centralized structure.