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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 pharmacy.
- 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.
- June 10, 2024
For the first time in five years, Medical Education Day at Yale —now in its 12th year— was fully in-person. Over 200 Yale School of Medicine faculty, staff, students, residents, fellows, and alumni gathered on June 6, along with colleagues from the Yale Schools of Nursing and Public Health, to share best practices and to celebrate trainees and educators and Yale’s excellence and innovation in medical education.
- June 07, 2024
Fifteen Yale School of Medicine (YSM) faculty have been accepted into the inaugural class of the Education Scholar Fellowship (ESF).
- May 15, 2024
Woolsey Hall was filled with family and friends to celebrate the graduation of the 73 members of Yale School of Medicine’s Physician Assistant Online Class of 2024.
- May 14, 2024
The winners of the annual Yale School of Medicine Program for Humanities in Medicine Health Professions Students' Creative Writing & Art Contest were celebrated on May 2, 2024.
- May 10, 2024
A small group of Yale medical and public health students collaborated with faculty mentors to develop a clinical skills-based simulation session on caring for transgender and gender-diverse patients, in which all MD students will participate in during their clinical year.