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Aspects of a Learner | Jennifer Becker
Jennifer Becker, MD, MPH, is a first-year resident in Emergency Medicine. She completed her dual degrees in May, just after she received a 2020 Excellence in Public Health Award from the U.S. Public
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Busy biochemistry lab is mapping virus
A biochemistry laboratory at SIU School of Medicine is sequencing the genomes of SARS-CoV-2 viruses that cause COVID-19 to determine if distinct variants exist in different Illinois communities and
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Institutional Memories
In the early ‘70s, Dean Richard Moy and recruiting officials had advertised for instructors at a new “medical school without walls.” The opportunity to create something original within the American
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First-year Resident in Family Medicine, Aspects of a Learner, Navpreet Badesha, MD
Tell me about your childhood, what’s your family like? Both of my parents are immigrants and hustlers. My parents grew up in India and immigrated to California and started their own business. I grew
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SIU Medicine enrolling patients for Parkinson’s disease clinical trial
SIU Medicine is recruiting patients with early-stage Parkinson’s disease to study a new drug that could become a potential treatment for the debilitating condition. Parkinson's disease (PD) is a
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Career Opportunities - Join Our Team
Southern Illinois University School of Medicine Department of Population Science and Policy (PSP) works to understand the health challenges of people in central and southern Illinois and provides
SIU Medicine Covid-19 Testing Locations in January
All SIU Medicine COVID-19 testing sites are closed December 23 – January 3 for the holidays. Testing resumes on January 4, 2021. SIU Medicine will continue COVID-19 testing for the Springfield
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The Imagineering Lab
In 2016, orthopedic surgery resident David Tapscott, MD, approached library instructor Karli White with an unusual request. He asked if the library’s 3D printer could adequately render a model of a
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Surgical Skills Center
The orthopedic surgery residents were crowded around tables of the J. Roland Folse, MD Surgical Skills Center on the fourth floor of the Memorial Center for Learning and Innovation. Surgical equipment