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How to Do History as a Clinician: A Panel Featuring Current Medical Students and Early Career Clinicians
Friday, October 20, 2023 12:00 - 1:30 PM EDT Via Zoom
13 Oct 2023
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Retrospective
Over the last century, the Department of Pediatrics has been at the forefront of major clinical and research advances.
22 May 2023
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Department of Pediatrics Leadership
Pediatrics' leaders since 1921.
22 May 2023
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A century of innovation
Many of the people and significant achievements that have marked the history of the Department of Pediatrics were brought to life in a wide-ranging exhibit of captivating black-and-white photos and unusual artifacts hosted by the Yale Medical Historical Library. The exhibit, on display last summer, told the story of how a once-tiny department grew into a global leader in the pediatric community.
22 May 2023
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A historian of medical futures looks back
Joanna Radin, a professor of the history of medicine, has written about how people in the past imagined medicine’s life-changing potential.
30 Jun 2021
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The return of the Yellow Berets
When one contemplates service during the Vietnam War, many different images likely come to mind. Infantrymen patrolling in a thick jungle or carrying their rifles above their heads through rice paddies; helicopters flying overhead, like in Apocalypse Now.
24 Mar 2021
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Rethinking Medical Training in China: Yale-China Association Collaborates on New Residency Program
Many medical training programs in China evolved from a Yale-China collaboration that instituted a residency program at Xiangya School of Medicine.
28 Sep 2020
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Beaumont Medical Club celebrates centennial
The fires of World War I and the revolutions it sparked were still burning across Europe when a group of leaders at Yale School of Medicine gathered one December day in 1920. Just two months after Soviet forces were turned back from Warsaw, the School of Medicine’s faculty, including Dean Milton..
28 Sep 2020
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History of the present
Kirsten Scharer, a first-year nursing student, is studying how family practitioners are adapting to telehealth technology during the coronavirus pandemic. Medical student Isaiah Thomas is looking for parallels to our times in post-apocalyptic episodes of the Cold War-era television show The..
5 Jul 2020
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The intricate history of a long-familiar companion of tissue injury
Rubor, calor, tumor, dolor: Dating from the early first century CE, these Latin words form an incantation that medical students recite to this day. They come from the Western world’s first known description of inflammation, authored by one Aulus Cornelius Celsus, a Roman who observed that the..
17 Apr 2020
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A complex but enduring partnership
Yale School of Medicine (YSM) in the 21st century is rightly considered a world-class institution, while the city that surrounds it is equally renowned for the excellence of its hospitals and biotechnology companies. Today, the relationship between YSM and New Haven is strong, but it wasn’t..
6 Jan 2020
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A legacy of leadership in hepatology
Among the many reasons the VA Connecticut Healthcare System in West Haven is regarded as one of the best in the country is its expertise in treating liver disease. This legacy extends back over decades and is the result of many illustrious physicians and researchers building on the work of their..
6 Jan 2020
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A bottle for baby
Wander the maze of interconnected Yale New Haven Hospital (YNHH) and Yale School of Medicine buildings between Cedar Street and Howard Avenue, and you will eventually come across a pair of facing display cases. They hold one of Yale’s most unusual collections: antique baby bottles.
6 Jan 2020
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A warrior, a writer, and a future physician
There are many ways to describe Melissa Thomas: Fourth-year medical student. Army veteran.
24 Sep 2019
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Medical devices and technology across the years
6000 BCEDuring the Upper Paleolithic and Mesolithic times, knives, saws, and drills made of stones such as flint are used for surgery, amputation, and trepanation. 950 BCEThe world’s oldest prosthetic devices are toes for amputees, made in ancient Egypt of wood and leather.
1 Jul 2019
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A friendship forged in Vietnam: George Cadwalader and Kristaps Keggi
When a land mine landed George Cadwalader in a steamy tent of the Third Surgical Mobile Hospital ("MASH") in Vietnam in 1965, little did he suspect that his surgeon, Kristaps Keggi, was another son of Eli. Keggi's actions would save Cadwalader's legs, and the two became friends.
24 Apr 2019
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Yale and the VA: Joined at the hip
On the first day of her residency rotation at the VA hospital in West Haven, Susan Kashaf, MD, MPH, treated Kevin Barbour, a Vietnam War veteran. Barbour was exasperated by lingering pain from earlier knee surgery—and he let her know about it.
31 Oct 2018
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A heroic contribution to medicine
Because Joseph Marshall Flint, MD, was trained as a research anatomist, many at Yale did not see him as their top choice for professor of surgery at the School of Medicine. When the administration offered Flint the position, other faculty and physicians complained: the doctor’s only former..
31 Oct 2018
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Healing Veterans Through Art
Recently, veterans were offered the opportunity to take part in "The Veterans Fellowship Program that connected them with art, creative spaces, and different modes of representation. Inspired by Artspace New Haven's City-Wide Open Studios festival for 2018, Deborah Lehman Di Capua created the program in order to help local veterans express themselves.
31 Oct 2018
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Holly Grossetta Nardini Receives Estelle Brodman Academic Medical Librarian of the Year Award
Estelle Brodman may not be a familiar name to most, but a tribute article published in the Journal of the Medical Library Association remarked that academic medical librarianship lost “a towering figure of the profession” after her death in 2007. Brodman brought “a great intellect” to the field of medical librarianship, as well as a “personal drive and ambition to enhance the delivery of medical information to the practitioner in the field.”
30 Jul 2018