A Summer School Experiment: Faculty and Student Satisfaction

Impact of a teaching attending physician on medical student, resident, and faculty perceptions and satisfaction.

OBJECTIVES To determine if a dedicated teaching attending for medical student education improves medical student, attending physician, and resident perceptions and satisfaction. METHODS Two dedicated teaching attending physician shifts were added to the clinical schedule each week. A before-after trial compared medical student evaluations from 2000 to 2004 (preteaching attending physician) to...

Developing a Medical School Curriculum for Psychological, Moral, and Spiritual Wellness: Student and Faculty Perspectives.

CONTEXT Although many studies have addressed the integration of a religion and/or spirituality curriculum into medical school training, few describe the process of curriculum development based on qualitative data from students and faculty. OBJECTIVES The aim of this study is to explore the perspectives of medical students and chaplaincy trainees regarding the development of a curriculum to fa...

Student Summer Projects

at Spelman College, worked with Pankaj Agarwal and Yusu Wang, who just completed her PhD, at Duke. Hillary’s summer project was about analyzing the performance of the algorithm developed at Duke to generate features on a molecular surface. The features are then used to predict good configurations for protein docking. For efficiency reasons, we would like to use as few features as possible. The ...

Cover and information for Summer School

Student-Faculty Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship Research Synopsis: Complement Resistance in <i>Bartonella</i> Species

Of the 31 validated species in the genus Bartonella, 11 are agents of serious infectious diseases of humans, among them Carrión’s disease, trench fever, cat-scratch disease, and bacillary angiomatosis. Bartonella are extremely widespread, having been found in virtually every type of mammal surveyed. As facultative intracellular parasites employing hemotrophy (infection of red blood cells), the ...