Pritzker
The Beginnings of Big Ideas: Pritzker Scientific Session 2013
Fourth-year students from the Pritzker School of Medicine show off their research at the 67th annual Senior Scientific Session.
Need a Pen? Drug Companies Start Early When it Comes to Marketing to Med Students
Drug companies spend billions of dollars on advertising to consumers online, in print and TV. Their ads are such an everyday part of the media landscape that Saturday Night Live can run a skit mocking the hilarious and scary list of disclaimers about side effects and everyone is in on the joke. And that’s just […]
LabBook July 27, 2012
Welcome to LabBook, our weekly roundup of University of Chicago Medicine & Biological Sciences research news from around campus and the world wide web. Each Friday, LabBook will recap the week on the blog, link to news stories about our faculty and studies, and briefly summarize a handful of recent publications by our researchers. The […]
Teaching the Bedside/Desktop Manner
By Matt Wood Maybe you’ve had this experience at the doctor’s office: Your physician enters the exam room, and instead of asking “What brings you here?” and speaking face to face, he sits down at the computer and starts peppering you with questions, typing away furiously. With the introduction of electronic medical records into clinics, […]
LabBook June 8, 2012
Welcome to LabBook, our new weekly roundup of University of Chicago Medicine & Biological Sciences research news from around campus and the world wide web. Each Friday, LabBook will recap the week on the blog, link to news stories about our faculty and studies, and briefly summarize a handful of recent publications by our researchers. […]
LabBook: May 25, 2012
Welcome to LabBook, our new weekly roundup of University of Chicago Medicine & Biological Sciences research news from around campus and the world wide web. Each Friday, LabBook will recap the week on the blog, link to news stories about our faculty and studies, and briefly summarize a handful of recent publications by our researchers. […]
No Senioritis Here: Pritzker Senior Scientific Session 2012
By Rob Mitchum As the weather warms and the flowers bloom in Chicago, it’s a sign that convocation and various other end-of-the-year events are approaching. One springtime tradition for the Pritzker School of Medicine is the annual Senior Scientific Session, where students on the verge of receiving their medical degrees discuss the research project they […]
Poets in White Coats
By Rob Mitchum When a doctor pulls a notepad out of his or her white coat, you might expect them to be writing down a drug prescription. But a recently completed contest thrown by the Prizker School of Medicine suggests that physician might be scrawling down a few lines of verse as well. The first […]
When Art and Science Meet Halfway
by Rob Mitchum Too often, art and science are treated as intellectual adversaries. Educational systems typically route students toward one pole or the other, with the artistic and scientific spheres rarely intersecting by the time one reaches the undergraduate and graduate levels. But for the last two years, the University of Chicago has paved a […]
The Voice Inside Diabetes Photos
Almost everyone has experienced the boredom of sitting through someone’s vacation photos, forcing a wan smile as a friend hands you picture after picture of beaches, museums, and old buildings. But if you’ve been to the same destination as your friend, there’s an allure to seeing how their experience of a particular place compares to […]
