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The Department of Internal Medicine is pleased to announce the 2025 fellows in the Department of Internal Medicine’s fellowship programs.

Nate Wood, MD, instructor of medicine (general medicine) and director of culinary medicine at Yale School of Medicine, comments on research examining the link between seed oil and cancer.

“Today, we celebrate 35 exceptional graduates who have dedicated the past 28 months to rigorous academic challenges, countless clinical encounters, and transformative personal and professional growth.” Director of the Physician Associate (PA) Program David Brissette, MMSc, PA-C, stated in opening remarks at the Yale School of Medicine PA Commencement ceremony on December 9, 2024.

Our outreach and recruitment efforts for this academic year are ending. Our academic recruitment season usually runs from March to February. Our three residency training programs within the Department of Medicine are currently conducting interviews for potential interns who will start in June 2025.

Ilana Richman, MD, MHS, assistant professor of medicine (general internal medicine) at Yale School of Medicine, discusses 3-D mammography.

“By the time we know the answer, this will already be the default technology,” said Dr. Ilana Richman, an assistant professor at the Yale School of Medicine and member o Yale Cancer Center who has studied adoption of the procedure across the United States. Almost half of all mammography units in the country are now tomosynthesis units, and more than 90 percent of all breast imaging facilities in the country offer the procedure, according to federal data.

Rather than failing, harm reduction strategies, as articulated by Fiellin and colleagues in the New England Journal of Medicine is generating real benefits to patients and society.

Fentanyl drives overdose deaths despite harm reduction—expert debate broader implications.

The SEICHE Center for Health and Justice received $1 million from The Tow Foundation and The Connecticut Project to create TC-HUB, a program aimed at building infrastructure and closing gaps to create a more seamless transition for people with chronic health issues leaving the prison system.