September Medical Student Grand Rounds at DHMC featured a Geisel School of Medicine student who shared a study examining whether social deprivation that has been linked to worse outcomes across multiple levels of medicine, also affects a more concrete outcome—how bones heal after injury and which patients may benefit from additional clinical support following surgery.
Driven by a strong commitment to health equity while pursuing their own passions, Geisel School of Medicine’s 2026 – 2027 Schweitzer Fellows are collaborating with local partners to develop sustainable, evidence-based projects that address health disparities in Upper Valley communities.
Dartmouth’s Geisel School of Medicine and Dartmouth Health both rose in the recently released 2025 Blue Ridge Institute for Medical Research (BRIMR) rankings, which assesses National Institutes of Health (NIH) funding across 145 medical schools and their departments, as well as independent hospitals across the United States.
The Geisel School of Medicine celebrated the 2026 Match Day, a pivotal event when graduating medical students learn their residency placements.
“One of the most important updates we’ve made to the existing Patients and Populations course is a shift to a longitudinal research and health sciences curriculum connecting across all four years of medical school,” says Julie Taylor, MD, MSc, associate dean for medical education, and interim chair of the Department of Community and Family Medicine at Geisel School of Medicine.
Congratulations to the MD Class of ’28! On February 13, the Geisel School of Medicine held its annual Transition Ceremony for the Class of ’28 at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center. The ceremony marks major milestone in medical education: the transition of second-year medical students from the pre-clinical to clinical curriculum.
Geisel School of Medicine’s annual Medical Student Research Poster Night, held on October 22 at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, highlighted the outstanding research efforts of the medical school’s second-year MD students—who shared their findings with faculty, staff, and peers in an engaging evening of scholarship and collaboration.
Geisel School of Medicine has received a 2025 Health Professions Higher Education Excellence and Distinction (HEED) Award from Insight Into Academia Magazine, an influential magazine that covers issues and trends in American higher education.
A day of dynamic Interprofessional Education (IPE) at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center brought together 175 medical, nursing, and physician assistant students, staff, and faculty from Geisel School of Medicine, Franklin Pierce University, and Colby-Sawyer College for a shared learning experience focused on enhancing collaborative, team-based patient care.
Emma Jacobs MED ’28 and Gabriela Sanders MED ‘28—student co-leaders of the Rural Health Scholars—share what has changed and what lies ahead.
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