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Not an academic question
Yale School of Medicine students encountered a shifting curriculum and new ways of learning as the school made changes to blunt the impact of COVID-19.
30 Jun 2021
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A year-long homework assignment
The pandemic changed many aspects of people’s lives, including working at home for an indefinite period of time. Students, faculty, and staff described benefits from the change, while lamenting what had been lost.
30 Jun 2021
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Photo essay: Faces of the Pandemic
Faces of the Pandemic is an ongoing portrait photography project documenting the experiences of essential health care workers throughout the pandemic—an unprecedented time for Yale’s medical community, the nation, and the world. It is meant to show appreciation for these individuals and provide..
30 Jun 2021
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Upholding the white coat tradition
Two groups of new YSM students—the MD and the PA classes that entered in August 2020—started their medical studies by observing social distancing procedures for the traditional white coat ceremonies. The 100 MD candidates sat outside under a broad white tent six feet apart outside Harkness..
28 Sep 2020
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Beaumont Medical Club celebrates centennial
The fires of World War I and the revolutions it sparked were still burning across Europe when a group of leaders at Yale School of Medicine gathered one December day in 1920. Just two months after Soviet forces were turned back from Warsaw, the School of Medicine’s faculty, including Dean Milton..
28 Sep 2020
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A united effort
When Abigail Greene and Daniel Barson were children growing up just north of New York City, they had no idea how intertwined their lives would become. Given their shared interests, their related futures are not surprising.
28 Sep 2020
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History of the present
Kirsten Scharer, a first-year nursing student, is studying how family practitioners are adapting to telehealth technology during the coronavirus pandemic. Medical student Isaiah Thomas is looking for parallels to our times in post-apocalyptic episodes of the Cold War-era television show The..
5 Jul 2020
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Controversial grand jury action spurs gathering
Students, faculty, and staff gathered to participate in expressions of community in light of the justice system's response to Breonna Taylor's killing.
5 Jul 2020
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A demonstration of solidarity
Over 300 doctors, students, administrators, and staff gathered at Sterling Hall of Medicine, 333 Cedar Street, at 1 p. m.
5 Jul 2020
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Hacking solitude, one device at a time
After COVID-19 struck, elderly patients at the VA Connecticut Healthcare System in West Haven were making difficult decisions about accessing care and trying to stay infection-free at the same time. A group of Yale undergraduates decided to do something about it.
17 Apr 2020
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Paying it back: Kristina Brown’s quest
Chronic disability casts a shadow over the lives of people who live with it. One can never be sure when the condition or illness will flare up or be permanently exacerbated.
17 Apr 2020
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Balancing the curriculum
For most of its history, the School of Medicine was a place where young white men learned from older white men. Those days are gone.
6 Jan 2020
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Gaming the system
Most students hoping to enter medical school view organic chemistry, colloquially called “orgo,” with apprehension and fear; failure to excel in the course means risking one’s chances of admission to a good institution. Failure to pass the course means dooming one’s dreams of becoming a doctor..
6 Jan 2020
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Bringing it full circle
The UCLA School of Law faculty biography page for Julie D. Cantor, JD, MD ’05, describes her as “a national expert on issues that fall at the intersection of medicine and law.
6 Jan 2020
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Changing of the guard
From a diversity perspective, the future is now when it comes to the student body of the School of Medicine. At Yale’s White Coat Ceremony on August 12, it was impossible not to witness progress in a class that is anything but homogeneous as members of the Class of 2023 pulled on their symbolic..
6 Jan 2020
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A new chapter in student research
After 40 years at its helm, John Forrest, MD, director of the Office of Student Research at Yale, has stepped down. His successors, Erica Herzog, MD, and Sarwat Chaudhry, MD, are eager to continue his legacy of excellence.
6 Jan 2020
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Virtual Match Day 2020
On a Match Day interrupted by quarantine, enterprising fourth year students found a way to close the social distance keeping them apart from faculty, friends, and family.
6 Jan 2020
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Horstmann portrait headlines opening of Aperture 2
Faculty, students, and staff attended the unveiling of a portrait of the late Dorothy Horstmann, MD, which coincided with the opening of "Aperture 2: Portraits of Women Faculty in Medicine."
24 Sep 2019
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Bidding up donations for people in need
At the 2019 Hunger and Homelessness Auction, students, faculty, and staff bid on goods and services to raise over $13,000 for local charities.
24 Sep 2019
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A warrior, a writer, and a future physician
There are many ways to describe Melissa Thomas: Fourth-year medical student. Army veteran.
24 Sep 2019