Center for Professionalism update
The Center for Professionalism in Medicine continues to offer lectures, recognition and other resources related to professionalism to Baylor faculty and students, with several new initiatives on the way.
Wah Chiu receives prestigious award at unique ceremony
With top hat and sword in hand, Dr. Wah Chiu, the Alvin Romansky Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at Baylor College of Medicine, marched through the streets of Finland last month, following the more than 300-year-old tradition of degree conferment carried out by the University of Helsinki.
Second annual resident research day symposium
Baylor’s Michael E. DeBakey Department of Surgery recently hosted its second annual Residents’ Research Day. This forum focuses on the collaborative research being done by Baylor’s surgery residents, and the importance of their work.
Grateful family advances research into rare disease at Baylor
Baylor College of Medicine’s genetics program continues to break barriers in diagnosing rare diseases through the use of advanced genome testing. Often the diagnosis is just the starting point for researchers, uncovering a rare disease where little is known and funding to study it is scarce or nonexistent.
Student Corner: Schweitzer Fellows
Student Corner: Schweitzer Fellows Four Baylor students have been named 2014-15 Houston-Galveston Schweitzer Fellows and will spend the next year on projects aimed at improving community health and developing their leadership skills.
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