Blog Topic: Education

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  Milestone Moments: 2011 School of Medicine Graduation

  May 11, 2011

  On May 15, 2011, 147 students will embark on their careers as doctors as they graduate from the School of Medicine. Not only will it be a memorable milestone for the students, but also for the School of Medicine itself. This year’s graduation ceremony will serve as the final commencement...

  Education In the News
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  Behind the Scenes at Penn's Neuro-Intensive Care Unit

  April 14, 2011

  Part of the group from the Association of Health Care Journalists meeting being held on Philly this week continued their tour of Penn Medicine at the new state-of-the-art Neuro-Intensive Care Unit (Neuro-ICU). The Neuro-ICU experts worked as a team to describe this burgeoning sub-specialty and walk the reporters through the...

  Brain and Behavior Education
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  Home Sweet Home at Penn

  March 22, 2011

  In our final 2011 Penn Med Match Day post, Katie Baratz Dalke reveals she'll be staying right here at Penn for her residency in Psychiatry and she might even get a puppy out of the deal too! We are also pleased to note that Danielle Brown has matched at Penn for residency in General Surgery. To watch all of the excitement unfold, be sure to check out the entire Penn Med 2011 Match Day video!

  Education Match Day
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  St. Patrick's Day Luck for Matching Medical Students

  March 18, 2011

  In our first post-Match post, Renee Betancourt takes a moment to share her exciting residency placement news.

  Education Match Day
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  The Hour of the Match Approaches: One Very Different Day

  March 17, 2011

  Katie Baratz Dalke writes: All those other days of same, however, have to led me to this one very different day: the day that I’ll learn where I’ll be doing my residency in Psychiatry. The words in the envelope that I’ll open surrounded by the people I love will determine who my coworkers, friends, teachers, and students will be for the next four years.

  Education Match Day
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  Staying Busy on Match Day Morning...

  March 17, 2011

  It's the morning of Match Day (and St. Patrick's Day!) and medical students across the country are on the edge of their seats waiting for 12 p.m. to finally come. In our latest blog post, Renee Betancourt shares her Match Day morning ruminations and her plan for the day.

  Education Match Day

• The Culmination of Medical School

  March 16, 2011

  In a new video blog clip added to our Match Day blog, Danielle Brown describes the match day process and her anticipation as she awaits her surgical residency placement.

  Education Match Day
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  The Future Is Right Around the Corner

  March 16, 2011

  In a new update to our Match Day blog, fourth-year medical student Renee Betancourt, hoping to match in Primary Care, shares her thoughts as she eagerly awaits her match results and a cross country move to continue her medical education.

  Education Match Day
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  The Journey to Match Day

  March 15, 2011

  In her first post to this blog (and on video), Penn fourth-year medical student Katie Baratz Dalke looks back on her path through medical school and shares her hopes for the future. At the stroke of noon on Thursday, March 17, Katie and 146 other University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine students will gather in an emotion-filled ceremony to open their “residency placement” envelopes and learn where they will spend the next few years receiving their advanced medical training.

  Education Match Day
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  What's Wrong With This Picture?

  March 11, 2011

  HUP's Nursing Patient Safety Unit is a simulation set up to highlight common hospital safety issues and errors, sort of like the medical error version of the "What's Wrong?" pictures on the back of Highlights magazine for kids.

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