When medical students lead grand rounds, they not only have a formal venue to talk about their research and accomplishments, they gain valuable experience in an essential time-honored tradition in the medical profession.
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Caring for Patients with Disabilities
Four Geisel students are working with faculty to integrate content around caring for patients with disabilities into the school’s curriculum.
Luis Rosa: Supporting Medical Students’ Wellbeing
An advocate for underrepresented students, Luis Rosa, MEd, LCMHC, has spent the better part of his career focusing on their mental health needs. He now works with Geisel’s Counseling Services team where he continues his dedication to the wellbeing of Black, LGBTQ, and multi-racial students.
Geisel’s Class of 2024 Receive Their White Coats
On October 14, Geisel’s first-year medical students received their white coats, marking an important symbolic step in their medical careers.
Geisel’s Class of 2024 Receive Their White Coats
On October 14, Geisel’s first-year medical students received their white coats, marking an important symbolic step in their medical careers.
Gift Supports Launch of Healthy Students, Healthy Physicians Program at Geisel
A new program at Geisel aims to address medical students’ mental health needs and spur cultural change within the field of medicine.
Team Effort: Restarting Safely
Both first- and second-year Geisel medical students completed their required 14-day quarantines and screening PCR testing per Dartmouth policy. As of this week, we are happy to report that there are no positive tests among our medical or graduate students. Thanks to everyone for their continued commitment to the safety of our community.
New Geisel Faculty Member Receives National Award for Excellence in Cell Biology
Prachee Avasthi, PhD, an associate professor of biochemistry and cell biology at Dartmouth’s Geisel School of Medicine and one of the medical school’s newest faculty members, has received the 2020 Women in Cell Biology Junior Award for Excellence in Research from the American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB).
Geisel Welcomes the Class of 2024
Dartmouth’s Geisel School of Medicine welcomed 92 first-year medical students to the Upper Valley while observing COVID-19 safety protocols and new students got to know each other during a variety of virtual orientation sessions that included an orienteering activity.
Shaping Geisel’s Coaching Program
To better help students navigate the challenges of medical school and support their professional development, the Geisel School of Medicine began replacing its longstanding advising system with a new longitudinal coaching program for incoming first-year students at the start of the 2019 academic year with small group and individual coaching sessions.