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As a medical student, you spend a great deal of time learning to deliver care to an individual patient. You gather a history and perform a physical exam, then formulate a diagnosis and select the appropriate course of treatment to remedy the patient’s illness or complaint. Longitudinal therapeutic relationships are incredibly meaningful, and are a major reason why I plan to pursue a career as a Family Physician practicing in a primary care setting.  

Nearly 150,000 Americans annually are diagnosed with cancer that has metastasized, or traveled, to the brain. The number is projected to rise. Because of a larger aging population, combined with improvements in cancer screening and care, up to 30 percent of patients with solid tumor cancers (mainly lung cancer, breast cancer, melanoma, genitourinary cancers, and renal cell carcinoma) can expect their cancer to spread to the brain.

Drug appears to reverse structural and genetic brain changes that affect memory, learning   A drug used to slow cognitive decline in Alzheimer's disease could offer clues on how drugs might one day be able to reverse brain changes that affect learning and memory in teens and young adults who binge drink.

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Robert Gramer, MD’19, learned how much a skilled and compassionate physician can influence someone’s life after he suffered a series of catastrophic knee injuries and a juvenile form of macular degeneration during high school. Those setbacks crushed his lifelong dream of playing college basketball, but a pair of extraordinary doctors not only tended his medical challenges but also helped him defeat despair and redirect his dreams.

The Department of Medicine will present another staging of Voices of Medicine, a live show featuring true stories from our faculty, trainees, and staff, on February 28, 2018. Voices of Medicine is a collaboration between the Department of Medicine and The Monti, a local storytelling organization. We gather together to hear true stories from health care professionals sharing the experiences that inspired them to a life in medicine, or the interactions that give meaning to their careers in science and health.

When William Dawson took over the Performing Arts program at Duke Hospital, he became the first full-time staff Musician in Residence and Semans/Byrd Performing Arts Coordinator. As a teacher, band director and international performer, Dawson understood the effect music could have on one’s mood and emotions.

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Duke University News Office to host op-ed and commentary writing workshop School of Medicine faculty are invited to attend a campus-wide workshop hosted by the Duke University News Office on how to write powerful op-eds and commentary pieces. The workshop will take place from 9-11 a.m. on Friday, Feb. 16, in Room 217 of Perkins Library. Faculty who participate in the workshop will begin writing a commentary piece, with feedback provided by the instructor and the other attendees.

Annual Scholarly Writing Retreat May 21-24, 9am-4pm at the King’s Daughters Inn in Durham, NC.