Catch up on awards and appointments, initiatives and opportunities, and other education-related announcements below.
Wong to Receive 2019 American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine Award
Alex Wong, PhD, DPhil, BSOT, will receive the 2019 American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine (ACRM) Deborah L. Wilkerson Early Career Award supported by CARF International. This award is for individuals whose careers reflect an energetic promotion of the spirit of interdisciplinary rehabilitation. Wong will receive the award at the 96th Annual ACRM Conference in Chicago […]
Edelson, White, Yau receive Goldstein awards (Links to an external site)
Honor recognizes outstanding teaching, commitment to medical education
University diversity team works to align ‘our values and our reality’ (Links to an external site)
Leaders to speak at Day of Discovery, Dialogue & Action
Washington People: Douglas Char (Links to an external site)
Emergency medicine physician is known for love of teaching and disaster medicine expertise
Med students launch ‘500 Women in Medicine’ initiative (Links to an external site)
Gender-equity research leads to effort to promote female leadership in medicine
University receives new grant to fund Amgen Scholars Program (Links to an external site)
Undergraduate research experience supports science education and innovation
Medical students honor their teachers at ceremony (Links to an external site)
Faculty, residents given Distinguished Service Teaching Awards
School of Medicine creates its own medical assistant apprenticeship (Links to an external site)
Program’s goal is to spark more interest in the field
Course teaches medical trainees how to provide care in developing countries (Links to an external site)
‘You have to think on your feet and out of the box’
Doctor of Physical Therapy Awards
Congratulations to Jake Raecker of PT20 on being selected as one of two finalists in the 2nd annual physical therapy essay contest, co-sponsored by the ACAPT Consortium for the Humanities, Ethics, and Professionalism (CHEP) and the Journal for Humanities in Rehabilitation (JHR). This writing competition aims to invite deep, critical reflection by physical therapy students. The evaluators […]