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Indiana University School of Medicine - Northwest is one of eight regional medical centers in the statewide system of the Indiana University School of Medicine. Located on the Indiana University Northwest Campus in Gary, Indiana, it includes 15 full-time and several part-time faculty, more than 120 physician volunteers, a full-time medical librarian and nine research assistants. Currently, the IUSM-NW offers Indiana's only Problem-Based Learning medical curriculum, the Regional Center Alternative Pathway. Widely recognized as a highly innovative program, the Regional Center Alternative Pathway embraces a clinical approach to instruction of basic sciences to medicine by exposing freshman and sophomore students to medical cases which reflect the real-life situations and issues facing physicians. Admission to the medical school at the Indiana University School of Medicine - Northwest is through Indiana University School of Medicine and information about admission can be obtained through the admission office.
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MSII Students Win Awards
The following awards were presented at the Sophomore Farewell Reception: Anna Mary Carpenter Pathology Award - Dustin Norton, Donald D. Macchia Pharmacology Award - Dustin Norton, CQI Award - Emma Nordstrom, Panayotis G. Iatridis Chronic Patient Award - Marissa Vawter, and Jerald Smith History and Physical Diagnosis Award - Nicole Randall. Congratulations to these student on their achievements and best wishes to the entire IUSM-NW class of 2010.
IUSM-NW Presentation on 'Heart Day'
On February 22nd, eight MSI students from IUSM-NW visited Elliott Elementary School in Muster, Indiana to make a presentation to students on the heart. Both the medical student and elementary students reported that it was a very rewarding experience. Click here to download scenes from the visit to Elliott Elementary School in Adobe pdf format.
Cadaver Memorial Service
The Cadaver Memorial Service for 2007 was held on January 25, 2008. Faculty, students and donor family members met to honor six donors. The service included lighting of candles, readings, prayers, musical selections performed by Amy Hoffman and Veena Kelapatapu, letters to the donors families, reflections by students, and the IUN ROTC honoriing one of the donors with the draping of the cadaver case with the American Flag, followed by a flag folding ceremony and presentation of the flag to one of the medical students representing the donor's family. This is the ninth annual Cadaver Memorial Ceremony at IUSM-NW. This memorial service was started by Dr. Ernest Talarico, Assistant Professor of Cell Biology and Anatomy and course director of Gross Anatomy. The ceremony was publicised in local newspapers, IUN, and portions of the ceremony were taped by Channel 56. See http://www.post-trib.com/760508,cadavers.article, http://www.nwi.com/articles/2008/01/26/news/lake_county/doc1480bd8d04fc76c4862573dc00087d2b.txt, and http://www.iun.edu/~newsn2/news/2008/080125_donor_service.shtml for press coverage.
Chronic Patient program enters new phase (formation of medical teams)
The chronic patient program was begun shortly after the PBL curriculum in 1990. In 2007 a pilot program was begun to form a medical team with a medical student, fourth year nursing student, and graduate social work student. Two teams were formed and their reports on their chronic patient were well received. With the formation of the College of Health and Human Services at Indiana University Northwest, this program will be expanded beginning in the spring semester of 2008.
IUSM-NW Faculty featured in IU Home Pages
Dr. Dipka Gupta, Assistant Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology has been featured in IU Home Pages Volume 11, Issue 16 (http://www.homepages.indiana.edu) for her work on elucidating innate immunity in Zebrafish. Her work was published in the September 21, 2007 issue of the Journal Immunity, which is viewed as a top tier scientific journal. Previously Dr. Gupta's lab, in collaboration with the laboratory of Dr. Roman Dziarski, Professor of Microbiology and Immunology, had shown that humans express four different proteins (peptidoglycan recognition proteins) that help confer innate immunity to
bacterial infection. The current work demonstates that these four proteins are also expressed in Zebrafish, and that they actually function at a higher level than those in humans. The article on Dr. Gupta's discovery may be read online at http://www.immunity.com/
Application Forms for Cadaver Prosection Program
Application forms for the NATIONAL Cadaver Prosection program scheduled for August 2008 are now available. Go to Cadaver Prosection to download the application form.
Cub Scouts Visits IUSM-NW
Cub Scout Pack 204, Den 1 from St. John the Baptist Church in Whiting, Indiana visited IUSM-NW where they learned first-aid for a healty life, how to clean and care for a wound, how to prevent the spread of infection, nutrition, using diagnostic tools to listen and view the body and went 'one-on-one' with a student doctor.
Virtual Tour of IUSM-NW Facilities
Take a virtual tour of our facilites and also view the reception held for our new facilities.
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