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A live orchestra, inventive choreography, and hits like ‘Look at me, I’m Nancy B’ had audiences laughing and cheering throughout this year's performances of the Fourth Year Show. The Yale School of Medicine (YSM) student-run production was inspired by the 2006 film High School Musical.

Starting in 2026, the MD program will launch a longitudinal thread that enhances nutrition content in the curriculum and emphasizes the role physicians play in promoting health and treating disease with dietary interventions.

This year’s Lindenthal Lecture on Holocaust and Genocide was given by David Goldman, JD, founder and chairman of the Fellowships at Auschwitz for the Study of Professional Ethics (FASPE). Goldman’s lecture, “Nazi Doctors: Learning from Complicity” explored ethics, power, and the commercialization of medicine.

Yale School of Medicine is launching a redesigned MD curriculum this summer. The new curriculum will support a learner-centered and flexible teaching model composed of well-organized, integrated, and engaging learning activities with ample opportunities for students to measure their progress in attaining the nine YSM MD program competencies.

Hundreds of students, faculty, staff, and family members gathered in Harkness Ballroom on Friday, March 20 to celebrate Match Day. The air was thick with excitement as graduating medical students crowded around their Advisory House tables to retrieve the sealed envelopes containing the sites where they will begin the next phase of their medical career in residency training programs across the country.

Dr. Fumiko Chino welcomes Dr. Jennifer Miller and breast cancer survivor Megan-Claire Chase to discuss Dr. Miller's recent article, "Representation of Women, Older Adults, and Racial and Ethnic Minoritized Patients in Pivotal Trials for U.S. Food and Drug Administration Novel Oncology Therapeutic Approvals, 2012-2021: Bright Spot Trials and Trends Over Time," highlighting new research about how we are doing with diversity in key cancer clinical trials.

The 32nd annual Hunger and Homelessness Auction on Feb. 20 in Yale School of Medicine’s (YSM) Med Café raised funds for nonprofits working to alleviate issues of food and housing insecurity in the community.

Yale School of Medicine MD Class of 2026 has selected Andrew Berg, MD, co-founder of Sketchy, as its graduation speaker. The ceremony takes place on Monday, May 18.

The December 2025 issue of the Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine (YJBM), on Neglected Tropical Diseases and Parasites has been published on PubMed Central (PMC). This issue features articles on the wide variety of understudied infections that primarily impact people in low-income countries.