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USMLE program plans change in Step 1 score reporting
Excerpted from the United State Medical Licensing Examination The USMLE program will change score reporting for Step 1 from a three-digit numeric score to reporting only a pass/fail outcome. A numeric
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SIU School of Medicine Hosts Leadership Springfield
On Nov. 21, SIU School of Medicine hosted the 2019 Leadership Springfield class for a morning of education and leadership in health care. Thirty-two guests from business, government, nonprofit
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Medical Students Learning from Local Physicians
SPRINGFIELD, IL - Family physicians in three Illinois communities are hosting students from Southern Illinois University School of Medicine April 22–May 17. The students are participating in the
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SIU physician prepared for an Olympic task
David Jeong, MD, has achieved an impressive goal this month: He’s made it to the Olympics. The director of sports medicine and geriatric musculoskeletal medicine at SIU Center for Family and Community
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Radical Change: Y3T a Success
Summer 2017 marked the end of the first year of the new third year curriculum. Dubbed the Year 3 Transformation, (Y3T), it was the first update to the SIU School of Medicine curriculum in more than a dozen years, developed through a $577,000 Macy Foundation grant awarded in 2014.
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SIU School of Medicine Employees Honored for Service
Southern Illinois University School of Medicine honored 56 of its employees for their years of service at campus facilities in Springfield, Decatur and Quincy. The following employees included: 45
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Health Care Providers Invited to Learn About Immune Cancer Therapy, HPV
Simmons Cancer Institute to Host 16th Annual Symposium
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SIU Medicine Holds 43rd Commencement
Sixty-three physicians and four graduate students at Southern Illinois University School of Medicine received their diplomas on Saturday, May 20, in the Sangamon Auditorium at University of Illinois
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'Go Forth and Matter' -- Commencement 2017
"Go forth and matter." That was the final charge of Camara Phyllis Jones, MD, MPH, PhD, immediate past president of the American Public Health Association, to the SIU School of Medicine graduating