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Topic: Yale School of Medicine


  
  Yale_University
Yale's 70 undergraduate majors are primarily focused on a liberal curriculum, and few of the undergraduate departments are pre-professional in nature (even the engineering departments encourage and require students to explore academic disciplines outside of engineering).
Yale traces its beginnings to "An Act for Liberty to Erect a Collegiate School" passed by the General Court of the Colony of Connecticut and dated October 9, 1701.
Yale, like other Ivy League schools, instituted policies in the early twentieth century designed to artificially increase the proportion of upper-class white Christians of notable families in the student body (see Numerus clausus), and was one of the last of the Ivies to eliminate such preferences, beginning with the class of 1970.[3]
www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/y/ya/yale_university.html   (5264 words)

  
 Residency Program - Internal Medicine
Yale New Haven Hospital, one of the oldest established hospitals in the United States, is a tertiary referral center and an urban community hospital with approximately 900 beds.
In addition, the School of Medicine is affiliated with the Yale School of Epidemiology and Public Health as well as the Yale Child Study Center.
Finally, Yale is one of four sites of the Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program, a graduate program designed to provide new skills in quantitative and qualitative sciences so that clinicians may improve health and medical care at the systems level and achieve leadership positions nationally and globally.
www.stmh.org /physician_info/residency_intmed_stmh.html   (1990 words)

  
 Yale School Of Medicine Helps Establish National Neuroscience Network
Yale School of Medicine is participating in a new collaboration with the National Institutes of Health to establish a comprehensive web-based Neuroscience Information Framework (NIF).
Among the assets Yale brings to the consortium are a website (senselab.med.yale.edu) with a suite of six databases for supporting research on the sense of smell and on neurons with microcircuits in the brain.
The Yale group was also instrumental in developing a database of neuroscience databases for the national Human Brain Project, and currently is involved in developing the Neuroscience Database Gateway for the Society for Neuroscience.
www.medicalnewstoday.com /medicalnews.php?newsid=34509   (618 words)

  
 About Yale CME
The mission of the Yale University School of Medicine’s Center for Continuing Medical Education is to advocate and support the continuing professional development of health care professionals.
In the tradition of the Yale University School of Medicine as a world-class institution, the target audience of Yale CME includes the broad range of the medical profession, from full-time practitioners to academic physicians with special interests in research and teaching as well as other allied health care professionals locally, nationally and internationally.
The Yale University School of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education as a provider of continuing medical education.
cmedev.med.yale.edu /about_us.html   (570 words)

  
 Yale SOM - MD/MBA Program at Yale   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
Yale’s program is unique in combining the innovative SOM curriculum with the world-renowned Yale system of medical education.
The Yale School of Medicine brings its innovative curriculum, emphasizing individual responsibility in a team atmosphere; the Yale School of Management brings strengths in management across the private, public, and nonprofit sectors.
The Yale University School of Medicine is known throughout the world as one of the leading centers for biomedical research, education, and advanced healthcare.
mba.yale.edu /mdmba/mdmbahome.shtml   (500 words)

  
 Medicine@Yale, March/April 2006
The Yale Scholars program, a new School of Medicine initiative to support and nurture promising young scientists, has received its first endowment in the form of a major gift from Donald S. McCluskey, M.Eng., an alumnus of Yale College and the Faculty of Engineering.
Also an alumnus of Yale College, Robert McCluskey is a prolific physician-scientist who has published more than 200 research articles on the role of the immune system in kidney disease during a career spanning more than 50 years.
Donald McCluskey, who graduated from Yale College in 1942 and the engineering school in 1959, has made several gifts to his alma mater, but the donation to the Yale Scholars Program in honor of his brother, a member of Yale’s class of 1944, is his first to the medical school.
www.medicineatyale.org   (816 words)

  
 Yale Nursing-News and Events Press Releases Distinguished Yale School of Nursing Alumna nominated for the Yale ...
New Haven, CT Yale School of Nursing, Yale University
Dean McBride received her bachelor's degree in nursing from Georgetown University, her master's degree in psychiatric-mental health nursing from Yale School of Nursing, and her PhD in developmental psychology from Purdue University.
She is Distinguished Professor and University Dean at Indiana University School of Nursing.
nursing.yale.edu /News/Press/55   (747 words)

  
 Yale School of Medicine
Yale University announced plans today to construct a major medical research complex in New Haven's Hill neighborhood to meet a growing need for more space at the top-ranked Yale School of Medicine.
Yale and Cornell University biochemists have unveiled the three-dimensional chemical structure of a key protein that is the target of TNP-470, an experimental drug that shows promise for starving cancerous tumors.
A Yale University study appearing in the October issue of The Journal of Reproductive Medicine reported that estrogen-androgen therapy improved sexual sensation and desire in post-menopausal women who were dissatisfied with estrogen alone.
www.charitywire.com /charity285/news-9.html   (1032 words)

  
 Surgery at Yale School of Medicine
We, the faculty surgeons of Yale University, are committed to world-class patient care, education and research.
Profiles of Yale Surgeons Our surgeons perform a wide variety of operations, including heart and lung, endocrine, breast, cancer, bariatric (morbid obesity), gastrointestinal, craniofacial and reconstructive, urologic, colorectal, abdominal organ transplant, trauma, vascular and endovascular.
Yale Surgery's mission is to provide surgery for children and adults with the least pain, trauma, scarring and recovery time.
yalesurgery.med.yale.edu   (280 words)

  
 Yale School of Medicine
The Yale University School of Medicine is one of the nation's premier research institutions.
Yale researchers and collaborators have identified molecules that underlie nerve fiber degeneration in patients with secondary progressive multiple sclerosis (MS), a disease that cripples nearly three million people worldwide.
Yale researcher Eugene D. Shapiro, M.D. says that although antibiotic treatment is effective in preventing Lyme disease, the overall risk of Lyme disease in any individual is a very low 3.2%, even in the most highly endemic areas.
www.charitywire.com /charity285   (1327 words)

  
 Medicine@Yale: Ovarian cancer test
The test is now being used experimentally in the Yale Early Detection Program for Ovarian Cancer, where it has delivered promising results under the direction of Thomas J. Rutherford, Ph.D., M.D., associate professor of obstetrics, gynecology and reproductive sciences, and Discovery to Cure’s clinical director.
For example, one young high-risk patient who had been previously treated for breast cancer elected to have her ovaries removed because she was concerned about the possibility of ovarian cancer.
Now Mor is working on a personalized medicine approach that uses tumor samples from patients and laboratory tests to select the best course of chemotherapy for each individual woman.
www.medicineatyale.org /v1i2_august2005/ovarian_cancer.html   (811 words)

  
 Nephrology, Internal Medicine, Yale School of Medicine
Indeed, members of our faculty have earned many departmental and school awards for teaching, and multiple awards from the American Society of Nephrology for research.
Current research areas include studies of renal tubular electrolyte transport, renal epithelial cell biology and morphogenesis, molecular genetics of hypertension, polycystic kidney disease, transplant immunology, and complications of Chronic Kidney Disease, ESRD and dialysis.
In addition to a large spectrum of research projects supported by individual NIH research grants, Yale is home to a Hypertension Research Center and a Polycystic Kidney Disease Research Center.
kidney.yale.edu   (304 words)

  
 Yale Medical Group: The Physicians of Yale University Home Page
YMG is comprised of the practicing physicians of the Yale School of Medicine, and is affiliated with Yale-New Haven Hospital, its primary teaching hospital.
Yale's Geralyn Spollett was named Diabetes Educator of the Year at the 2006 annual meeting of the American Diabetes Association.
Three Yale School of Medicine researchers investigating schizophrenia, depression and Tourette's syndrome recently were awarded grants from the National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression.
www.yalemedicalgroup.org   (370 words)

  
 New Haven Register - Dean of Yale medical school has lofty goals
NEW HAVEN — Dr. Robert J. Alpern, dean of the Yale School of Medicine, came to New Haven a year ago with an ambitious set of goals.
Alpern was dean of the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center when then-Yale medical school dean, Dr. David A. Kessler, left to become dean of the University of California at San Francisco School of Medicine.
Yale’s publication is just one of the measures designed by Alpern to improve the medical school’s reputation.
www.nhregister.com /site/news.cfm?newsid=14566112&BRD=1281&PAG=461&dept_id=517515&rfi=8   (694 words)

  
 News and Information archive - Yale Medical Group
Researchers at Yale School of Medicine have discovered in the placenta what may be the earliest marker for autism, possibly helping physicians diagnose the condition at birth.
Yale School of Medicine researchers are recruiting patients nationally for a clinical trial using transcranial magnetic stimulation to help still the voices that are so troubling to some persons with schizophrenia.
[July 2005] Yale School of Medicine is recruiting patients with Alzheimer's disease to test a vaccine that appears to slow the accumulation of beta amyloid plaque in the brain.
www.yalemedicalgroup.org /news/ymg_archive.html   (5509 words)

  
 Yale University School of Medicine
Genetics may be a risk factor in premature infants who develop problems in their lungs as a result of not reaching normal gestational age, according to a study at Yale School of Medicine.
Yale Cancer Center (YCC) is broadcasting "Healthline," a weekly radio program that airs from 8:30-9:00 a.m.
Yale scientists want to know why—and are hot on the trail of new vaccines and therapies to treat the virus behind the cancer.
info.med.yale.edu /ysm   (342 words)

  
 Residency Training Program: Therapeutic Radiology
Yale will be accepting 3 applicants through the NRMP in the 2007 match.
The Yale Children's Hospital is part of the Yale-New Haven Hospital, which provides a broad experience in all adult and pediatric malignancies.
All Yale University attending staff members either see patients on a regular basis or provide coverage at these hospital-based departments and hence, the resident has a unique opportunity to work with a variety of different attending physicians during these respective rotations.
radonc.yale.edu /training/resident.html   (1062 words)

  
 Digital Library Collections (Cushing/Whitney Medical Library, Yale University)
He was a member of the faculty of that school until 1945 when he came to the United States for postdoctoral studies.
Farquhar was Professor of Cell Biology at the Yale University School of Medicine from 1973 - 1990 when she moved to UCSD where she is Professor and Chair, Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine.
While at Yale, George Palade and Marilyn Farquhar were dedicated to teaching and made the cell biology course for medical students the outstanding course in the basic sciences at the medical school and probably in the country, a reputation it continues to enjoy.
cwmldl.med.yale.edu /gsdl/cgi-bin/library?p=about&c=palade   (671 words)

  
 Yale University School of Medicine | Facts and Figures 2006
The Yale University School of Medicine is one of the world’s leading centers for biomedical research, advanced clinical care and medical education.
The Yale System of medical education, with its emphasis on critical thinking and independent inquiry, has produced leaders in every field of academic medicine.
The sixth-oldest medical school in the United States, the school was established by the Connecticut General Assembly in 1810 when it chartered the Medical Institution of Yale College, located first on Grove Street, then at 150 York Street.
facts.med.yale.edu   (260 words)

  
 Nephrology Fellowship Research Training, Internal Medicine
Fellows are encouraged to audit additional courses offered by various departments in the School of Medicine including Biology, Cell Biology, Cellular and Molecular Physiology, Genetics, and Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry.
Fellows seeking rigorous training in patient-based clinical research are encouraged to participate in the Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program at Yale.
In addition, fellows discuss their recent experimental aims, methods, and results in weekly research seminars conducted at both Yale and the VA Medical Center.
kidney.yale.edu /fellowship_research.html   (401 words)

  
 Yale School of Public Health
Annette Molinaro, Ph.D., first-year assistant professor in the Division of Biostatistics at the Yale School of Public Health, has received a three-year, $500,000 grant from the National Cancer Institute to study cancer prediction based on genetic profiles.
Yale founded one of the country's oldest programs in public health in 1915.
Through innovative research, policy analysis, and education that draws upon multidisciplinary scholarship from across the graduate and professional programs at Yale, the school serves local, national, and international communities with its knowledge and expertise.
publichealth.yale.edu   (239 words)

  
 YaleMED Conference Services, Yale School of Medicine
As part of our mission, and that of the Medical School, the Yale MED Conference Center supports the continuing professional development of health care professionals by planning educational conferences and scientific symposia.
The Yale School of Medicine was the site for this international summit hosted by The Global Health Division of the Yale School of Public Health on October 30 - November 1, 2005.
The three-day conference was interspersed with receptions at Yale University landmarks, ending with a formal dinner in the President's Room of Woolsey Hall.
conferences.med.yale.edu   (258 words)

  
 Yale University Affiliation
The Pierce Laboratory has maintained close ties to Yale University since the Laboratory's founding in 1933, when C-E-A Winslow, Chair of Yale's Department of Public Health, became the first director.
These ties were formalized in 1966 with an agreement of affiliation between the Laboratory and Yale that encourages shared facilities and joint appointments.
Scientists at the Laboratory now hold appointments in several departments of the university, mainly its School of Medicine, and several faculty of the university hold joint appointments in the Laboratory.
www.jbpierce.org /YaleUniversity.html   (83 words)

  
 ITS Computing Services   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
Recently, a member of the Yale community responded to an email that appeared to be a legitimate request from People's Bank asking for confidential information.
We are investigating ways for the Yale community to be able to check the validity of internal messages.
Individuals at Yale are obliged to adhere to specific HIPAA information security practices and to take training in those practices.
its.med.yale.edu /computing_services.html   (519 words)

  
 Yale Pathology Department Fellowship program   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
Gynecologic pathology at Yale serves in a consultative fashion to neighboring hospitals in New Haven, as well as to national and international institutions.
This position is an integral part of a multidisciplinary hematology-oncology patient-care team at the Yale Comprehensive Cancer Center.
Research is performed under the aegis of mentors primarily from the Departments of Pathology, Laboratory Medicine, and the Yale Cancer Center, as well as from basic science and clinical departments at the Yale School of Medicine and the Boyer Center for Molecular Medicine.
www.yalepath.org /DEPT/edu/resident_3.htm   (1024 words)

  
 Yale: Cardiovascular Medicine: Nuclear Imaging
The Cardiovascular Nuclear Imaging and Exercise Laboratories at Yale comprise a comprehensive exercise and imaging center that is fully accredited by the Intersocietal Commission for Accreditation of Nuclear laboratories (ICANL).
The laboratories at Yale and the VA perform over 7,000 clinically requested studies in out-patients and in-patients.
The Yale laboratory has served as the Core Laboratory for many multicenter clinical trials, including the TIMI trials, the recently completed Acute Chest Pain Tetrofosmin Trial, and the ongoing Detection of Ischemia in Asymptomatic Diabetics (DIAD) trial, for which Dr. Wackers is the principal investigator.
cardio.med.yale.edu /nuclear   (774 words)

  
 EMF: Awards at Yale University School of Medicine
Aging is often depicted as an inevitable grinding down of the bodily machine, but there is much evidence to suggest it is a biological process under some genetic control.
The rapid spreading of Plasmodium falciparum strains that are resistant to current antimalarial therapy has focused the attention of the research community on the urgent need to identify new therapeutic targets, leading to novel therapies.
We propose structural studies of the complex of these protein components aiming at understanding the mechanism of intramembrane proteolysis and the effects of mutations that cause the disease.
www.ellisonfoundation.org /emf_inst.jsp?institution_id=26   (671 words)

  
 Yale: Cardiovascular Medicine: Home
The Section of Cardiovascular Medicine of the Yale University School of Medicine shares in the academic mission of one of the world’s leading centers in biomedical research.
The center encompasses the diverse research and clinical activities of the Yale University School of Medicine, Yale-New Haven Hospital, Yale Medical Group, Yale School of Public Health and other allied programs.
The nearby West Haven Veterans Affairs Medical Center is the second teaching hospital and offers a wealth of clinical and research opportunities and is totally integrated with other parts of the school.
cardio.med.yale.edu   (116 words)

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