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As the School of Medicine revamps its entire curriculum to make training more relevant to modern health care, the changes to the second year focus on preparing students for the actual experience of being a physician.
The School of Medicine is plowing forward with planning for the integration of basic science classes in the first year of its curriculum.
The School of Medicine has developed a concrete schedule for the overhaul of its entire curriculum to be implemented in fall 2004, despite the uncertainty of specifically how and what aspects of the curriculum will change.
Hundreds of teddy bears have been camping out in the office of Dr. William Fulkerson, CEO of Duke University Hospital, for the past few weeks. The furry creatures are artfully arranged into scenes too intricate to invite snuggling.
Officials confirmed Wednesday that the Private Diagnostic Clinic at Duke University Medical Center and CIGNA Health Care of North Carolina have successfully re-negotiated their service contract. The news nullifies an August announcement that patients in the CIGNA network would be cut off from PDC physicians at the end of 2004 because an agreement could not be ironed out.
John Stossel doesn't like lawyers. Or the drug war. Or the Food and Drug Administration.
Raleigh Community Hospital has begun construction on a new $7.2 million outpatient cancer center designed to expand the hospital's services and reputation in the Wake County area.
David McQuaid gets called "Dennis" all the time.
Officials of Duke University Health System announced Wednesday David McQuaid as the next chief executive officer of Durham Regional Hospital, one of two community hospitals under DUHS.
Jessica Ward has spent the last two years teaching monkeys to count.
Durham Regional Hospital is officially turning a profit this year for the first time in five years.
The Private Diagnostic Clinic at the Medical Center announced Friday it will no longer accept CIGNA Healthcare as of Jan. 1, 2005.
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>Maya Angelou started her annual speech Sunday afternoon the same way she has for years, singing a medley of spirituals in four different languages. It was the Class of 2007 that varied from standard protocol. "In fourteen years, this is the first time I walked out and everybody hasn't stood up," Angelou said. "Maybe you've grown tired of me."
The United Network for Organ Sharing issued procedural changes in late June for matching and distributing organs-changes they hope will reduce the potential for mismatching organs and patients. However, some doctors are worried that UNOS's new guidelines are actually prohibiting some organ transplants and allowing deaths that could otherwise be prevented.
People at Duke have been talking about pickles for a long time. Activists have chanted, "Don't eat pickles," while carrying signs featuring large crossed-out cucumbers. But despite the hoopla about the Mt. Olive Pickle Company, pickles have never been the real issue. In back rooms where Duke University officials decide what brand of pickles to buy, the issues have always been unionization, worker rights and social responsibility.
For the first time in half a decade, Durham Regional Hospital will see black instead of red on its annual accounting sheets.
As the physics department continues its investigation of sexual harassment, faculty members said any hostility is not exclusively a gender issue but an expression of a climate problem throughout all of physics.
Fourteen years ago, Ruth Grant sat in her hospital bed in the Duke University Medical Center maternity ward, waiting for a teaching assistant to bring her class' grades to her. While Grant's three-year-old twins stayed at home with their father and her less-than-three-day-old daughter, Anna, slept in the neonatal unit down the hall, she evaluated essays, tests and homework performance, compiling final semester grades for the dozens of students in Contemporary Political Ideologies.
As the University pushes toward its third year of heavily investing in faculty and infrastructure in the sciences, it's difficult not to see the direction natural sciences are slanting - both at Duke and nationally.
Alex Pratt finally became Mr. Pratt Friday.
