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Student News

Feinberg students are doing some extraordinary things in the clinical spaces, research labs and out in the community. Here we share internal and external recognition they have received. For all the news on Feinberg discoveries and campus activity, visit our News Center.

Wed, 25 Sep 2024
Medical Students Provide Heart Disease Prevention to Underserved Chicago Communities

Since 2013, Feinberg medical students have provided cardiovascular disease risk assessments and health counseling to underserved community members across Chicago through the Keep Your Heart Healthy program.

Mon, 16 Sep 2024
Research Day 2024 Celebrates Scientific Discovery and Advances

Feinberg students, staff, trainees and faculty gathered to celebrate scientific discovery and presented research posters and abstracts at Feinberg’s 18th annual Lewis Landsberg Research Day on Thursday, Sept. 12.

Tue, 06 Aug 2024
Building Strong Student Communities at Feinberg

Catch up with Eli Zimmerman, MD, the new associate dean for student affairs, who has settled into his role since joining Feinberg at the start of this year.

Mon, 05 Aug 2024
First-Year Medical Students Celebrate New Academic Year at Founders’ Day

First-year medical students donned their white coats for the first time and marked the official start to the academic year at Founders’ Day on August 2 at Fourth Presbyterian Church in Chicago.

Fri, 02 Aug 2024
Summer Research Program Trains Future Clinician-Scientists

Eight Feinberg medical students recently participated in a summerlong research program designed to equip them with the skills to become successful clinician-scientists.

Wed, 24 Jul 2024
Three Medical Students Named Chicago Area Schweitzer Fellows

Three Feinberg medical students have been named 2024-2025 Chicago Area Schweitzer Fellows, a program to support fellows’ design and implementation of innovative projects to address the health needs of underserved Chicago communities.

Tue, 23 Jul 2024
Feinberg Ranks Among Top Medical Schools in the Nation

Feinberg has again been recognized among the best medical schools in the nation, ranking in tier one of research-oriented institutions, according to the latest U.S. News & World Report rankings.

Tue, 16 Jul 2024
Incoming PA Program Students Participate in White Coat Ceremony

The Feinberg Physician Assistant Program’s Class of 2026 recently celebrated the beginning of their medical journey with a white coat ceremony.

Tue, 02 Jul 2024
Medical Student Investigates Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Medicaid Disenrollment

Kranti Rumalla, a second-year medical student at Feinberg, was the lead author of a study that found racial disparities among patients who were disenrolled from Medicaid coverage after the end of the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency.

Fri, 31 May 2024
First-Year Student Awarded for Human Brain-Computer Interface Research

Dillan Prasad, a first-year medical student at Feinberg, was recently recognized for outstanding research by the American Association of Neurological Surgeons.

Tue, 14 May 2024
Celebrating the MD Class of 2024

Feinberg honored the MD Class of 2024 during the medical school’s 165th commencement ceremony held in the Aon Grand Ballroom at Navy Pier on May 13.

Mon, 13 May 2024
Honors Day Recognizes Student and Faculty Excellence

Faculty members and fourth-year medical students were recognized for academic and clinical excellence during Feinberg’s Honors Day, held on May 10 in the Hughes auditorium.

Fri, 26 Apr 2024
Recent Prosthetics and Orthotics Student Receives AAOP Women in Research Award

Abby Citterman, ’24 MPO, a recent graduate of Northwestern’s Master of Prosthetics & Orthotics program, was awarded the American Academy of Orthotists and Prosthetists Women in O&P Research Award at their 50th annual meeting in Chicago.

Fri, 19 Apr 2024
Prospective Medical Students Visit Northwestern for Second Look

Feinberg recently hosted a “Second Look” event, providing 150 accepted students with an opportunity to learn more about the medical school’s campus, health equity and inclusion efforts, curriculum and community.

Tue, 02 Apr 2024
A Day in the Life: MSTP Student Juliana Feng

Meet Juliana Feng, a student at Feinberg School of Medicine in the first year of her PhD program. She’s a student in the Medical Scientist Training Program (MSTP). She has completed two years of medical school and is now in the graduate school portion of her program.

Fri, 29 Mar 2024
NUDOCS Program Immerses College Students in Medicine

Feinberg School of Medicine’s Office of Diversity and Inclusion recently welcomed its largest cohort yet – a group of 21 Northwestern undergraduate students from diverse backgrounds – to participate in NUDOCS, an immersive week-long introduction to careers in medicine.

Tue, 19 Mar 2024
Medical Honor Society Inducts New Feinberg Members

Feinberg’s chapter of the Alpha Omega Alpha medical honor society welcomed 40 new members during a ceremony on March 12, recognizing the inductees’ outstanding educational achievement and significant contributions to medicine.

Fri, 15 Mar 2024
Celebrating Match Day 2024 

Fourth-year Feinberg students excitedly tore open envelopes to reveal their residency matches at this year’s Match Day celebration on March 15. 

Fri, 15 Mar 2024
SQE Inspire Program Hosts Shadow Day for High School Girls

High school juniors from Our Lady of Tepeyac High School in Little Village had the chance to shadow and learn from Feinberg scientists as part of an event hosted by the Simpson Querrey Institute for Epigenetics’ (SQE) Inspire program on March 5.

Wed, 28 Feb 2024
First-year PA Student Awarded National Health Service Corps Scholarship

Lisa Namatame, a first-year Physician Assistant (PA) student, was recently awarded a scholarship from the National Health Service Corps Scholarship Program supported by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Health Resources and Services Administration.

Wed, 17 Jan 2024
Northwestern Medical Orchestra Sees Strong Growth, Unites Feinberg and Bienen

The Northwestern Medical Orchestra entered its seventh year with growth in participants and audience alike, and a performance of a composition by Bienen School of Music’s new dean, Jonathan Bailey Holland.

Tue, 26 Dec 2023
2023 Year in Review

Feinberg experienced a year of outstanding growth, scientific achievement, and collaboration in 2023, from honors and awards to unprecedented research discoveries.

Wed, 13 Dec 2023
Medical Student Variety Show Supports Chicago Street Medicine

Medical students shared laughs and poked fun at the medical school experience during the annual performance of In Vivo, Feinberg’s sketch comedy and variety show, held on December 8.

Fri, 08 Dec 2023
Global Health Day Highlights Pandemic, HIV Research

Northwestern investigators, faculty, students and community partners came together to share and celebrate global health research, education and outreach as part of the Robert J. Havey, MD Institute for Global Health’s 12th annual Global Health Day.

Tue, 14 Nov 2023
Student Investigates AI Solutions to Medical ‘Loose Ends’ 

Roger Smith, an eighth-year student in Feinberg’s Medical Scientist Training Program, is developing an artificial intelligence tool to tie up medical loose ends identified in electronic health records.

Fri, 03 Nov 2023
Developing Custom AI Language Models to Interpret Chest X-Rays

Northwestern Medicine scientists have developed an artificial intelligence (AI) tool able to interpret chest X-rays with accuracy rivalling that of a human radiologist, according to findings published in JAMA Network Open.