The Geisel School of Medicine launched its new Learning Collaboratives for Flourishing in Medical Education at the beginning of this academic year. The learning collaboratives encompass academic success, practical wisdom, leadership skills, and career development—emphasizing support for the development of foundational skills that can help future physicians build a balanced and fulfilling life in medicine.
Thirty-five Dartmouth teams have participated in the accelerator over the past two years. Their research could save and prolong patients’ lives, and may even cure cancer.
Geisel professor and surgeon Richard Barth, MD, teamed up with two Thayer engineers to dramatically improve the accuracy of breast cancer surgery.
Meeting for the first time at a Harvard Macy Institute course in early fall, two Geisel faculty with a shared interest in learning how to leverage the Web and social media to create learning networks, came together as part of a collegial think tank dedicated to harnessing new perspectives in practicing medicine and educating medical students.
Professors Lisa Schwartz and Steve Woloshin aim to provide people with information about the benefits and harms of prescription drugs through use of a formulary, or drug database.
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