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  Duke University School of Nursing ::
Duke University » Medical Center and Health System Architect
Duke University School of Nursing leaps to #15 among the nation's leading nursing schools.
Duke University School of Nursing ranks 14th in National Institutes of Health funding for 2006; up five spots from 2005.
www.nursing.duke.edu   (176 words)

  
  Duke University, School of Medicine
Duke University is a rather large, private institution located in the town of Durham, North Carolina, and has a combined graduate and undergraduate population of over 22,000 students.
Admission to Duke University's School of Medicine is extremely competitive among the many students who apply; last year, over 2,565 students applied for admission to the school, and approximately 180 of those students were accepted.
Students at the School of Medicine are required to complete an extensive clinical training, beginning as early as their first year with the Introduction to Critical Care course, which provides them with extensive clinical experience throughout the year.
www.college-admission-essay.com /med_dukeuniversity.html   (751 words)

  
 University Bulletin of the Duke School of Medicine
University Bulletin of the Duke School of Medicine
Duke University does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national and ethnic origin, disability, sexual orientation or preference, gender, or age in the administration of educational policies, admission policies, financial aid, employment, or any other university program or activity.
Duke University is accredited by the Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (1866 Southern Lane, Decatur, Georgia 30033-4097; telephone number 404-679-4501) to award baccalaureates, masters, doctorates, and professional degrees.
www.registrar.duke.edu /bulletins/Medicine   (355 words)

  
 Nursing Opportunities in the Duke University Health System
Duke University Health System is a world-class health care network dedicated to providing outstanding patient care, educating tomorrow's health care leaders, and discovering new and better ways to treat disease through biomedical research.
Duke University Hospital – the hub of the health system – is consistently ranked among the top ten hospitals in the country.
Duke Hospital was the cover subject of a special edition of TIME Magazine that explored the current state of American academic medicine by examining "a day in the life" at Duke.
www.dukenursing.org /YDuke.htm   (500 words)

  
 Duke Institute on Care at the End of Life   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Her work that was supported by the Duke Institute on Care at the End of Life used NLCS data from the broader dementia trajectory to identify the distinct caregiving challenges that occur in the final three months of life.
Foley was elected to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Science for her national and international efforts in the treatment of patients with cancer pain.
She is Duke PI of a multi-site NIH-funded study investigating the efficacy of a couple-based cognitive-behavioral intervention for women with breast cancer.
www.iceol.duke.edu /symposia/Res.SympBIOS.htm   (4429 words)

  
 Duke University Medical Center -- Medical Alumni News
The Duke University School of Medicine will receive $2.4 million from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute to recruit promising young investigators and to establish new laboratories in the newly emerging fields of genetics and genomics.
At Duke, there are 12 HHMI investigators involved in such diverse areas as neurobiology, biochemistry, genetics, and microbiology.
He received a Ph.D. in immunology from the University of South Carolina School of Medicine in 1988 and then was awarded an NIH-Fogarty International Fellowship that allowed him to study at Uppsala university in Uppsala, Sweden.
www2.mc.duke.edu /depts/daa/medAlum/man/sp00/man10.html   (865 words)

  
 Duke University School of Medicine, "Cross-sectional Anatomy Tutor"
Duke University School of Medicine, "Cross-sectional Anatomy Tutor"
Duke University Medical School has one of the shortest gross anatomy courses in the United States, and we faced the challenge of adding a formal study of cross-sectional anatomy to an already over-crowded schedule.
With support from the School of Medicine and in conjunction with the Division of Audiovisual Education at Duke, we developed a prototype of a cross-sectional anatomy computer tutorial.
www.nlm.nih.gov /research/visible/vhp_conf/bushyhea/mari.htm   (569 words)

  
 Duke University Medical Center Library Online - Overview of Dual-Degree Program
Duke University's School of Medicine (SOM) is one of the top ranked medical schools in the United States.
The School of Medicine offers a unique curriculum that supports the pursuit of scholarly research experiences and the attainment of other degrees during its third year.
Duke University, through its medical center and health systems, offers students a unique opportunity to work in a fast-paced clinical environment where the access to and the retrieval and analysis of patient data and knowledge-based information are crucial.
www.mclibrary.duke.edu /about/dualdegree/overviewdd.html   (1513 words)

  
 Duke University School of Medicine Announces Eight New Merit-Based Scholarships - Dukehealth.org
In announcing the new scholarship program, Dr. Edward Holmes, dean of the school of medicine and vice chancellor for academic affairs, said, "Duke's school of medicine has long attracted students with impressive academic credentials and demonstrated leadership abilities outside of the classroom.
Nanaline Duke, who died in 1962, had a strong interest in medical research and education, and a medical research building on the Duke campus is named for her.
While U.S. medical schools have for the past few years seen their applicant pool decrease by as much as 10 to 20 percent, Duke's pool has remained relatively constant at 6,000 per year, according to Armstrong.
www.dukehealth.org /news/437   (613 words)

  
 Duke Medical School | Admission and Application Information
The School was founded in 1930, at a time when there was especially keen awareness of the vital role that medicine plays in sustaining communities and society.
Duke continues to honor that heritage by striving to meet the health care needs of the people its hospital serves, by improving community health, and by fostering the very best medical education and biomedical research.
Duke is widely recognized as one of the best places in the US to study for an MD degree.
www.medicalschooladmission.com /duke   (400 words)

  
 News Releases-Duke University Development   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
The Duke Endowment of Charlotte is giving $75 million for student financial aid at Duke University -- the largest single gift made by the endowment in its 81-year history and the largest single gift ever received by the university.
Duke University Medical Center has received a $10 million gift from the Preston Robert Tisch family of New York, N.Y., to support cancer research at the Brain Tumor Center at Duke and the Duke Comprehensive Cancer Center.
Duke University’s new student plaza and divinity school chapel are among university priorities that will benefit from a $6 million gift by alumni Aubrey and Katie McClendon.
www.dukecomm.duke.edu /development/news   (1376 words)

  
 Duke Integrative Medicine
Duke Integrative Medicine offers a team of board-certified physicians and health care providers with expertise in fields such as internal medicine, obstetrics and gynecology, occupational medicine and pain management.
Gaudet attended the Duke University School of Medicine and earned her M.D. degree with honors before completing her residency in Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Texas, San Antonio.
She holds a degree in Medicine from the University of Vermont and completed a medical residency at Maine Medical Center in Portland, ME. She holds a pre-med degree in pharmacy from the University of Rhode Island College of Pharmacy.
www.dcim.org /about/doctors.aspx   (2679 words)

  
 Honors & Awards - Duke Medicine
Duke University Hospital has been designated by the American Nurses Association as a "Magnet Hospital" for providing the highest levels of nursing care.
Duke University Health System named one of the 100 Most Wired hospitals and health systems in the country, according to...
Duke University School of Medicine finished in sixth place among the nation's top National Institutes of Health (NIH) funded medical...
www.dukemedicine.org /AboutUs/HonorsAwards   (317 words)

  
 Duke University School of Medicine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Duke University School of Medicine is part of the Duke University Medical Center in Durham, North Carolina.
Duke recently announced plans to open a medical school in collaboration with the National University of Singapore.
The school, called the Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School Singapore, is expected to enroll its first class for the Fall of 2007.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Duke_University_School_of_Medicine   (341 words)

  
 Duke Clinical Medicine Series: About   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
The Duke Clinical Medicine Series originated at the DCRI and is managed by the Communications Group.
Each of the Conferences in the Duke Clinical Medicine Series is supported by unrestricted educational grants from pharmaceutical and device companies.
Division of Cardiology Duke University School of Medicine
dukeclinmedseries.dcri.duke.edu /about.html   (635 words)

  
 As top staff depart, Med School moves on - News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Duke University School of Medicine has long taken pride in being among the best-from its level of international notoriety to the caliber of its research.
Although the school has seen its share of departures among leaders in recent months, the School of Medicine has stayed the course of change, Duke University Medical Center administrators said.
Williams added that he remains confident in the school's ability to remain one of the strongest programs in the nation in the areas of human genetics and genomics research.
www.dukechronicle.com /news/2006/11/14/News/As.Top.Staff.Depart.Med.School.Moves.On-2458232.shtml   (514 words)

  
 University Bulletin of the Duke School of Medicine and College of Allied Health 1999-2000
University Bulletin of the Duke School of Medicine and College of Allied Health 1999-2000
The information in this bulletin applies to the Duke School of Medicine and the College of Allied Health and is accurate and current, to the extent possible, as of March, 1999.
Duke University does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, handicap, sexual orientation or preference, gender, or age in the administration of educational policies, admission policies, financial aid, employment, or any other university program or activity.
registrar.duke.edu /bulletins/Medicine/1999   (304 words)

  
 Kraft Foods - Obesity Initiatives
James R. Gavin III, M.D., Ph.D., President, Morehouse School of Medicine, graduated from Livingstone College in Salisbury, N.C., in 1966 with a degree in chemistry.
Before joining the senior staff of HHMI, he was on faculty at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center as a professor and as chief of the Diabetes Section, acting chief of the Section on Endocrinology, Metabolism and Hypertension, and William K. Warren Professor for Diabetes Studies.
He is on the board of trustees for Duke University, MicroIslet, Inc., the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and is Chairman of the Board of the Equidyne Corporation.
www.kraft.com /obesity/biosgavin.html   (388 words)

  
 INSIDE : inside.mc.duke.edu
To optimize the continued growth opportunities and maximize the academic success of Duke Medicine, R. Sanders Williams, M.D., the current dean for the Duke University School of Medicine, has been appointed to the newly created position of senior vice chancellor for academic affairs.
Duke Provost Peter Lange said Williams “has been a superb strategic leader for the School of Medicine, building interdisciplinary and international initiatives, making strong faculty leadership hires and developing and strengthening medicine’s ties across the campus.
The position of dean for the Duke School of Medicine was first created in 1999 when the need was recognized to split off this responsibility from the chancellor for health affairs.
inside.duke.edu /article.php?IssueID=166&ParentID=15716   (628 words)

  
 Duke University Medical Center - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Formerly known as the Duke University Hospital and Medical School, it was established in 1930 with a bequest from James B. Duke.
In 1925, James B. Duke made a $4 million bequest to establish the Duke University School of Medicine, Duke University School of Nursing, and Duke University Hospital to improve health care in the Carolinas and the United States.
Duke's first lung transplant and heart/lung transplant were conducted in 1992.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Duke_University_Medical_Center   (538 words)

  
 Undergraduate Catalog 2001-2002
M.D., 1983, University of Rochester School of Medicine.
M.D., 1978, University of Virginia School of Medicine.
M.D., 1980, University of Virginia School of Medicine.
www.etsu.edu /reg/cat-ugrad2001/facultyMedSchool.htm   (688 words)

  
 Dr. R. Sanders “Sandy” Williams Named Dean of Duke University School of Medicine - Dukehealth.org
Williams, who received his medical degree from Duke in 1974, currently serves as chief of the division of cardiology and director of the Ryburn Center for Molecular Cardiology at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas.
Williams joined the Duke faculty in 1980 as an assistant professor of medicine, physiology and cell biology.
In 1990, Williams took a position as professor of internal medicine, biochemistry and molecular biology and chief of cardiology at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center.
www.dukehealth.org /news/2099   (834 words)

  
 Errata:
Duke is notifying about 14,000 people, roughly 10,000 of whom are medical center employees, that their information may have been compromised and is advising people to change passwords if they use the same one for multiple purposes.
Other individuals affected include alumni of the Duke University School of Medicine, physicians and other clinicians who registered online for some types of continuing medical education at Duke and others who accessed certain Web pages maintained by the medical school.
Duke sites affected include training Web pages, which clinical research staff might have used to brush up on safety protocols, educational sites that clinicians participating in Web conferences would have signed into and internal pages employees might have visited to sign up as a volunteer for a Duke event or alumni function.
www.attrition.org /dataloss/2005/06/duke01.html   (577 words)

  
 Physician Assistant Program at Duke University: Faculty / Staff
She serves as a physician assistant at the Duke University Student Health Center.
Her areas of clinical and educational interest are adolescent medicine, preventive medicine, use of standardized patients in PA education and transition from PA training to professional practice.
Hills serves on the PAEA’s Education Committee and the Duke University School of Medicine’s Capstone Committee.
pa.mc.duke.edu /m_facKHills.asp   (181 words)

  
 Duke University Fuqua Physician Executive MBA Medical Degree Programs for Doctors Seeking a Masters in Business ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Schulman has a joint faculty appointment in The Fuqua School of Business and the Duke University School of Medicine where he is a professor of medicine and business administration, and the Vice-Chair for Business Affairs in the Department of Medicine.
In addition, he is director of the Center for Clinical and Genetic Economics at the Duke Clinical Research Institute, where he contributes to a decade-long, University-wide project to assess the potential impact of advances in molecular biology on the practice of medicine from economic and policy perspectives.
Daniel B. Mark, M.D., M.P.H. Daniel B. Mark, M.D., M.P.H., is professor of medicine at Duke University Medical Center and director of the Outcomes Research and Assessment Group at the Duke Clinical Research Institute.
www.fuqua.duke.edu /programs/health/daytime/faculty.html   (2219 words)

  
 Tina Tyson Named Chief Compliance Officer for Duke University School of Medicine - Dukehealth.org
In her new role, Tyson will be responsible for developing and implementing programs and processes to ensure that the school of medicine complies with external laws and regulations as well as rules set forth by Duke's own code of conduct.
She will collaborate with health system and Duke University personnel in areas including risk management, internal audit, human resources and the office of institutional equity to direct compliance issues to appropriate channels for investigation and resolution.
Tyson comes to Duke from Washington University in St. Louis where she served as associate general counsel for university compliance for the past three years.
www.dukehealth.org /news/9950   (357 words)

  
 Department of Medicine - Staff - Richard I. Kopelman
Richard I. Kopelman is Vice-Chairman for Education in the Department of Medicine at Tufts-New England Medical Center.
Kopelman is a Professor of Medicine at Tufts University School of Medicine.
Kopelman is an active member of the Association of Program Directors in Internal Medicine and is currently the chairman of the University Program Directors Group in that organization.
www.nemc.org /medicine/kopelman.htm   (232 words)

  
 PCRM >> Research >> Animal Experimentation Issues >> Action Alert to End Duke's Live Animal Labs   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Please contact the Dean of Duke University's School of Medicine and demand an immediate end to live animal training exercises at the Duke medical school.
Duke is the ONLY top ten medical school in the United States where students still train with and kill live animals-even though cheaper, more useful, and more humane alternatives exist.
Medical students at Duke use live pigs as part of a surgery clerkship.
www.pcrm.org /resch/anexp/duke.html   (234 words)

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