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Twice a year the Alpha Omega Alpha (AΩA​) Medical Honor Society elects a small number of new members.  The criteria include scholastic achievement, leadership capabilities, ethical standards, fairness in dealing with colleagues, demonstrated professionalism, achievement and/or potential for achievement in medicine, and a record of service to the school and community at large. Membership in AOA is a distinction that accompanies a physician throughout his or her career. In the fall the society elects a small number of faculty and alumni.

Duke is a big place – and when it comes to research, it may feel like you need a personal guide to help you navigate the resources and processes you need to be successful.  

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In small, community hospitals that don’t have resources for a dedicated staff to oversee the proper use of antibiotics, turning to staff pharmacists showed promise in a model study conducted by Duke Health.   The study, which included four community hospitals in North Carolina, demonstrated an approach that could be expanded to the nation’s wider network of small hospitals, where more than half of the U.S. population accesses care.   

HOW TO EMBED THE LINKS? Student Athletes - Duke’s Wallace Wade Scholarship (289) A new academic year is upon us, and we are happy to welcome two Duke scholar-athlete alumni, Christine Streisel and Anthony Nash. Both are current students in Duke’s physical therapy program and recipients of the Wallace Wade scholarship.  The Wallace Wade scholarship is awarded to Duke seniors or graduates that have earned varsity letters in either football, basketball, baseball, or track and field, and who have been accepted into a Duke graduate or professional program.

Ann Brown, MD, MHS, Vice Dean for Faculty was the featured speaker on this month's Faculty Factory podcast. On this episode Dr.

Investigators want to put their best foot forward in submitting high-quality, compliant applications to potential sponsors. Research teams often have a good sense of how they want to craft their aims and research strategy, but may spend a lot of time working on the “nuts and bolts” of their grant applications.

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A team of Duke researchers has discovered that cells lining the gut of zebrafish -- and probably humans too -- have a remarkable defense mechanism when faced with certain kinds of toxins: they hit the eject button. “The gut has the challenging job of handling all the chemicals that we consume or produce, and some of those chemicals can be damaging.  So the gut has evolved many interesting ways to defend against damage,” said Ted Espenschied, a Duke graduate student who led the effort as part of his dissertation research.

Beginning August 7, Clinical Research Units will complete a REDCap survey to order urine pregnancy kits from DOCR using the button below: Order Kits