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  • Sarah Yentz, Chetan Huded, Jeremy Wasserlauf, and Julie Vermylen have been named 2014-2015 Chief Medical Residents.
     
  • Read our Winter 2013 Newsletter! 
     
  • The Department of Medicine's Intern Boot camp received a 2012 Readiness for Reform Challenge Award from the American Association of Medical Colleges in November. Boot camp started in 2011 for internal medicine and neurology interns and with NMH support was expanded to include emergency medicine and anesthesiology interns in 2012. Boot camp includes training in paracentesis, lumbar puncture, bedside emergencies, handoffs, difficult conversations, mechanical ventilation, and cardiac auscultation. The initiative was led by Diane Wayne, MD, Vice Chair for Education and Professor of Medicine and Jeffrey Barsuk, MD, Associate Professor in Hospital Medicine. The Department of Medicine received $5,000, and a paper on the project appears in the February issue of Academic Medicine. Click here to read the paper.
     
  • Andrew Read is mentioned in multiple media outlets including Reuters and Yahoo! Finance regarding studies highlighting diverse applications of ManoScan high resolution manometry, which assesses esophageal and anorectal muscle function. Reuters
     
  • Allison Lyons et al submission to the 2012 Midwest Society of General Internal Medicine Meeting entitled "Progress Toward Ensuring Clinical Competence of Medical School Graduates via a Boot Camp Curriculum" was selected as Best Research Abstract.
     
  • Congratulations, 13 West! The Feinberg 13 West Medicine Unit again won the Patient Satisfaction Traveling Trophy for surveys returned by patients. They have now won the award so many times that they've been retired to the Hall of Fame. Props to all the residents and attendings and the entire 13 East staff!
     
  • Northwestern Memorial Hospital was ranked #12 in the US on the US News and World Report Honor Roll listing of the best hospitals. Read more here.
     
  • Thank you to 2011-2012 Chief Residents! The Department gratefully acknowledges the superior leadership and teamwork of Yusra Cheema, Nick Furiasse, Michael Kriss, and Farzad Moazed and wishes them the best of luck in fellowship.

 
 

  • Thank you and good luck to our 2011-2012 prelims: Elisheva Coleman, Natalie Cornay, Rober Eilers, Ibrahim Idakoji, Evelyn Lilly, William Nobis, Kapil Sachdeva, and Meghan Ward
     
  • Yana Svetlichnaya and Ike Okwuosa covered the American College of Cardiology meeting for ABC News. Click here to read some of their stories.
     
  • Northwestern residents again had impressive showings at Digestive Diseases Week and the American Thoracic Society 2012 international Conference. Congratulations to all presenters, and thank you to our dedicated faculty mentors!
    • ATS: Brett Collander, David DiBardino, Jason Rho, and Nina Sung
    • DDW: Kiran Bidari, Dusty Carlson, Rachel Issaka, Leila Kia and Karlyn Martin
       
  • The future of translational research in pulmonary medicine: an interview with James Kiley, PhD conducted by Benjamin Singer, MD
     
  • Northwestern received a full 10 year accreditation cycle - the longest that is offered - for all of our programs from the Internal Medicine Residency Review Committee of the ACGME. ... read more

  • NMH has been redesignated as a Magnet organization for another four years by the American Nurses Credentialing Center! This exciting news is a validation of our ongoing commitment to excellence. The hospital was praised for the organizational strengths of interdisciplinary collaboration, teamwork, transparency and quality as well as continuing focus on the Patients First mission.
     
  • Northwestern Memorial Hospital wins Consumer Choice Award for 13th Consecutive Year. Read about more NMH Awards and Recognitions here.