THE COM CAREER ADVISING AND PLANNING TEAM IS LAUNCHING ITS SPECIALTY WEBINAR FEATURING: ORTHOPAEDIC SURGERY Would you like to know more about what it takes to be an Orthopaedic Specialist? Learn about a day in the life of an orthopaedic specialist, residency and fellowship options, and more. Dr.MarkGonzalez, Professor and Surgeon in the Department [...]
It wasn’t too long ago that a popular mantra for learning in health care was “see one, do one, teach one,” and usually the learning was on a real patient. Today, clinicians don’t learn skills on real patients. So, how do they learn? The answer lies in simulation — mannequins, trained actors and [...]
It is well-recognized that women are at increased risk of depression during the postpartum period when hormone levels are changing, but the risk of depression associated with perimenopause — the time right before menopause when female hormones are in decline — remains under-recognized and clinical recommendations on how to diagnose and treat this kind [...]
Graduate students Elena Boselli and Zhishen Wu with UIC researcher Ian Papautsky. (Photo: Sharon Parmet) A three-year, $1.8 million grant from the National Institutes of Health will enable researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago to develop portable, easy- to-use sensors that can detect toxic metals in a single drop of [...]
Alan Diamond (Photo: Courtney Colvin) A new three-year grant totaling nearly $1 million from the U.S. Department of Defense will fund University of Illinois at Chicago research on the gene SELENOF and its role in the development of prostate cancer among black men. White men accounted for about 106 new cases of [...]
