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Ever wonder what the results were for the “living portion” of the Cost of Attendance (COA) Survey sent to several SOM students?? Here are the results!!

Incoming students of the Duke Physician Assistant (PA) Program class of 2025 gathered together for the first time over St. Patrick's Day weekend. For many, this was their first visit to Durham. Prior to 2020, applicants who earned an interview traveled to each school, where they met other applicants, got tours of buildings, and explored new towns. Then came COVID-19 and a sudden shake up of the status quo.   

Duke alumnus, former member of the Gersbach lab, and Rhodes Scholar Ariel Kantor was selected for Forbes Europe's latest "30 under 30" — an annual listing of top young innovators, entrepreneurs and world changers.

 

An $11M gift from a mysterious benefactor is being used to create a new children’s health research project, co-led by Sarah Armstrong and Chris Newgard.

Friday, March 31, 2023 @ 2:00 PM ET

Suzanne Hallquist, MSPH, MHS, PA-C joined the faculty of the Duke Physician Assistant Program on March 1st, 2023. She earned her Master of Science in Public Health in Epidemiology from Emory University in 2001 and her Master of Health Sciences in Physician Assistant Studies from Duke University in 2019. She also completed a post-graduate fellowship in primary care with Duke Primary Care in 2020.

Research from Craig Lowe, PhD, assistant professor molecular genetics and microbiology, Debby Silver, PhD, associate professor of molecular genetics and microbiology, Tim Reddy, PhD, associate professor of biostatistics and bioinformatics, and team was featured in an episode of "Eons" on PBS. Their work has identified a group of human DNA sequences that drive changes in brain development, digestion, and immunity that seem to have evolved rapidly after the human line split from that of chimpanzees but before the split with Neanderthals.

Near-peer teaching, in which senior students provide instruction to students in the classes below them, has received growing recognition for its utility and efficacy in medical education. At the Duke Physician Assistant (PA) Program, three new student organizations are implementing near-peer teaching as a way to build student-learning opportunities: the Semi-Pro Seminars, the Duke Point-of-Care Ultrasound (POCUS) Society, and the Wilderness Medicine Student Interest Group (SIG).

The Precision Genomics Collaboratory held its second annual Genomics Scientific Retreat on February 23 in the Trent Semans Center Great Hall.