Jun 28, 2017
Jesica James, a student in the Biomedical Sciences PhD Program at Penn State College of Medicine, has been named as a Gina M. Finzi Fellow from the Lupus Federation of America.
Jun 16, 2017
Dr. Jeffrey Wong, associate dean for medical education for the University Park MD program of Penn State College of Medicine, and Morgan Decker, medical student design partner, recently discussed an innovative approach to medical education at Penn State as part of an "Ask the Experts" video interview.
Jun 7, 2017
Penn State College of Medicine welcomed 30 new students into its Physician Assistant Program recently at the program's annual White Coat Ceremony.
May 17, 2017
A new $2.4 million program for graduate students seeking to contribute to breakthrough discoveries in medicine and biology by using "big data" has been established at Penn State, with nearly $1.4 million in funding from the National Library of Medicine of the U.S. National Institutes of Health and more than $1 million from the University.
Sometimes referred to as "the flipped classroom," team-based learning encourages the student to develop deep thinking and teamwork skills that are especially important in an increasingly team-based approach to medicine. The approach is used extensively in Penn State College of Medicine's physician assistant program.
May 10, 2017
Cynthia H. Chuang, MD, MSc, professor of medicine and public health sciences at Penn State College of Medicine, discussed contraceptive use before, during and after the Affordable Care Act during the 2017 Spring Dean's Lecture held May 9, 2017.
Apr 5, 2017
Penn State College of Medicine MD/PhD student Sarah Jefferson is the recipient of a National Institute of Mental Health F30 award for her study of depression.
Mar 17, 2017
There were cheers, hugs and tears as 134 members of the Penn State College of Medicine graduating class of 2017 ripped open envelopes. Printed on letters within those envelopes were their residency destinations.
Mar 14, 2017
Fourth-year medical students at Penn State College of Medicine now have an opportunity to participate in a Culinary Medicine course to learn cooking and nutrition basics, which they can then pass on to patients.
Jan 23, 2017
Eunice Chen, an MD/PhD student at Penn State College of Medicine, recently received a National Cancer Institute F30 award for her project titled "Mechanistic studies of genomic RNA dimerization in an oncoretrovirus."
