Med Ed Day Recognition

During this year’s Medical Education Day, winners of the John X. Thomas, Jr. Best Teachers of Feinberg Awards were announced, and faculty and staff were recognized for their efforts creating new virtual electives during the transition to remote learning in the spring. Feinberg students were also recognized for developing innovative curriculum. See full list of awardees here. Read the news story about Medical Education Day here. 

Feinberg celebrated the MD Class of 2020 at the school’s 161st commencement ceremony, which was held virtually this year through Zoom on May 18.

Fourth-year students celebrated their residency matches and reflected on their time at Feinberg during an unconventional Match Day.

Faculty Recognition

Faculty mentoring and role modeling is a critical part of medical education. During the clerkship years, Feinberg students are asked to name faculty members that they believe have demonstrated exemplary professionalism and should be recognized. During the 2019-20 academic year, 166 faculty members received at least one nomination and 8 received four or more. See the full list of teaching opportunities to learn more about how to get involved.

Professor William McGaghie is the 2019 winner of the John P. Hubbard national award recognizing his significant and sustained contribution to the pursuit of excellence in the field of evaluation in medicine. We are grateful for Bill’s mentorship and guidance throughout the years!

Faculty Recognition

Congratulations to Josh Goldstein, MD, Associate Dean for Graduate Medical Education, who has been appointed to the Group on Resident Affairs Steering Committee of the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC). The committee promotes exemplary leadership for high-quality graduate medical education and is the authoritative source on graduate medical education principles and practices in the medical education continuum within the AAMC and nationally.

Care Across Communities

Feinberg’s Education-Centered Medical Home (ECMH) program is featured in a Northwestern Medicine Magazine article.

Feinberg School of Medicine alum and incoming Internal Medicine chief resident Quentin Youmans, '15 MD, delivers a clinicopathologic conference on a complex patient with encephalitis. Part of the curriculum for Feinberg students includes a teaching selective. Learn more about how we’re preparing students to practice medicine and what defines our curriculum.

Feinberg students and faculty open up about LGBTQ acceptance. Julie Barton, ’88 MD, ’92 GME, clinical assistant professor of Obstetrics & Gynecology shares her experiences as a medical student, resident and physician at Northwestern. “I came here in the 80s as a student. I think back then it was very, very different. We felt as if we had to be very careful sometimes—that it might affect our careers. But over time that’s really changed.