Peoria med students test ’99 Differentials’ but can’t pick 1
A study break could be dinner or a movie, but second-year medical students Sakina Karimjee and Sabirah Kasule entered a music video contest. With their classmates at the College of Medicine at...
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Plan presented for phasing out UIUC regional medical site
A university-appointed task force made recommendations for phasing out the College of Medicine regional site on the Urbana-Champaign campus as a new engineering-based medical school is established...
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University grapples with state budget uncertainties
University administrators continue to prepare for budget cuts for fiscal year 2016, which began July 1, but the size of those cuts remains uncertain, vice president Walter Knorr told the University...
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Health sciences library renovation brings Don Quixote downstairs
A sculpture of Don Quixote by ’38 medical alumnus Maurice Pearlman will move to the first floor when the Library of the Health Sciences renovation is completed. Photo: Roberta Dupuis-Devlin/UIC Photo...
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$2.5 million federal grant will improve care of older adults
University of Illinois at Chicago faculty nurses, physicians, dentists, pharmacists, occupational and physical therapists and social workers will collaborate to develop a web-based training program for...
View ArticleWhite coat ceremony a rite of passage to health care professions
[View the story “White coat ceremony” on Storify] The white coat ceremony welcomes first-year students to the traditions of patient care exemplified by their new professions. For students in the...
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Medical students bring healthy learning to North Lawndale kids
In the Young Doctors Club, UIC medical students teach North Lawndale elementary, middle and high school students about health sciences and careers in the health professions. Medical students from...
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$17 million federal grant to tackle cancer in Chicago’s low-income, minority...
According to the Illinois Department of Public Health, Chicago communities that are low-income or predominantly African-American or Latino have cancer death rates up to twice the national average. A...
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$11.4M HHS grant supports regional HIV/AIDS training center at UIC
The University of Illinois at Chicago has received a four-year, $11.4 million grant from the Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program to support the Midwest AIDS Training + Education Center, one of eight regional...
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UIC expands HIV/AIDS training for health providers
A new grant to MATEC, the Midwest AIDS Training + Education Center, will fund new projects that teach best practices in HIV/AIDS care to primary caregivers. UIC received a four-year, $11.4 million...
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Medical classroom renovations link past, present, future
An old operating theater in the Neuropsychiatric Institute was modernized to host seminars, courses and clerkships. Photo: Roberta Dupuis-Devlin An old surgical lighting fixture hangs above a newly...
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UIC medical education leader receives Ellis Island Award
Ara Tekian, professor and associate dean of international education at the UIC College of Medicine. Photo: Jenny Fontaine. Ara Tekian, professor and associate dean of international education at the...
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East Meets West: Global impact
Dr. Gelila Goba (center) teaches a group of Mekelle University OB/GYN residents how to perform a hysteroscopy, a procedure for the diagnosis and treatment of abnormal bleeding. (Photo: Juhri Selamet)...
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Fulbright scholar to study plant use in Colombia
Joanna Michel will travel to Colombia to study how women use medicinal and nutritional plants. (Photo: Roberta Dupuis-Devlin) Joanna Michel, instructor of medical education and associate director of...
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HIV/AIDS training center at UIC receives $4.4 million in new federal funding
The Midwest AIDS Training and Education Center (MATEC) at the University of Illinois at Chicago has received $4.4 million in funding from the federal government to advance its work improving HIV/AIDS...
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