Interested in clerkship opportunities and/or residency at Northwestern? You’re invited to the 2008 Residency Program Showcase!

Northwestern McGaw Center for Graduate Medical Education offers residency training in 24 specialties. Our highly distinguished programs are renowned for world class training, instruction and facilities. We have four different training locations serving a diverse population in Chicago and surrounding suburbs. This program is open to all students, and we strongly encourage students with diverse backgrounds and skill sets to attend. McGaw is committed to diversifying its residency programs, so we hope you’ll take this opportunity to explore what we have to offer!

Friday, May 9, 2008, 4-8 pm

Northwestern Chicago Campus
Prentice Women’s Hospital
Conference Center
250 E. Superior Street
Chicago, IL 60611

Register for free by May 5th!  Click here!
Check out the website for more information

This Month's Features:

Feinberg Faculty In the Community

Dr. Carla Pugh, Assistant Professor of Surgery and Director of the Center for Advanced Surgical Education at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, was the keynote speaker for students at the Chicago High School for Agricultural Sciences for the annual Groundhog Job Shadow Day.  In addition to visiting their campus and spending time with students, Dr. Pugh also hosted five students on campus to shadow her for a day.  The students engaged in several hands-on activities including learning to suture and performing several procedures with medical simulation equipment.  Dr. Pugh demonstrated her patented simulation sensor technology as the students delivered babies and performed intubation on the medical models.

To see a PDF brochure with photos, click here. You can see the story about Groundhog Day with Dr. Pugh featured on the CPS Right Now! show on cable channel 49, the Chicago Works Station.  It airs at 5:30 pm this week through March 14, 2008.

NSU Mascot Name Change Will Build Bonds of Trust
Talequah Daily Press
August 21, 2006

By Dr. Larry Williams, president of Northeastern State University

"I believe the time has now come for our university to end the use of our Native American nickname. As an institution sharing a community with the Cherokee Nation and with a student population that is nearly 30 percent American Indian, we know all too well the economic, health care, and educational challenges that face many American Indians, and we must be committed to the dialogue and education that will end these inequities. We should no longer be using names and symbols that encourage biases and prejudices..."

Diversity Resources & Links

Current Feinberg Students:
To apply for funding for your group, meeting or initiative please fill out the appropriate form and submit to our office at least two weeks in advance.
Student funds request form
Student group funds request form

Diversity Data Links:
Association of American Medical Colleges Facts and Figures
(enrollment demographic information for all US Medical Schools)Association of American Medical Colleges Data Site
(faculty diversity, survey results, annual reports)

Examining the Health of Chicago Communities

Articles & References:
AAMC Reporter: December 2004 - Jordan Cohen, MD
A Word from the President: "Meeting the Diversity Challenge"

Association of Professors of Medicine:
Achieving Diversity in Academic Internal Medicine: Recommendations for Leaders
Donald E. Wesson, MD,a Talmadge E. King Jr, MD,b Robert F. Todd, MD, PhD,c Esther A. Torres, MD,d, David B. Hellmann, MD,e John M. Flack, MD,f Thomas D. Dubose Jr, MD,g Victor L. Schuster, MDh

Association of Professors of Medicine:
The Case for Diversity in Academic Internal Medicine

Diversity Links on the Chicago Campus:

Department of Medicine Diversity & Cultural Affairs Council

Diversity at Northwestern Memorial Hospital

NU Chicago Campus Women's Center