MD Program News

HPREP, provides professional development and mentoring to historically underrepresented in medicine high school students interested in pursuing a career in health care.  

106 fourth-year medical students at Duke opened their envelopes and learned where in the country they will complete residency training.

Third-year Duke medical student Alexa Campbell is working with Drs. Jeff Federspiel and Sarahn Wheeler in the Department of Ob/Gyn to better understand how racial disparities can lead to negative outcomes in preeclampsia patients.

Meet the man behind the single largest commitment for financial aid ever made to the School of Medicine — $30 million to establish an endowment for need-based financial aid for medical students.

Andrea Deyrup, MD, PhD, a professor in the Department of Pathology, challenges a long history of race-based medicine that she says is often based on questionable assumptions and flawed science yet deeply embedded in clinical decision-making.

Duke University School of Medicine is withdrawing from the annual U.S. News & World Report rankings of medical schools, Dean Mary E. Klotman, MD, and Vice Dean for Education Edward Buckley, MD, said Friday.

At 28, Shree Bose’s resume has already acquired some impressive accolades, and has now another feather for her cap: being named to the 2023 Forbes 30 Under 30 List in science. 

Health challenges across the globe — everything from climate change to infectious disease and better treatment options for patients — precipitate the need for skilled physician-scientists: physicians who see patients in the clinic and who also devote time to scientific research. Duke programs including the Office of Physician-Scientist Development and the Medical Scientist Training Program are helping to meet that need.

Makenzie Beaman, a pediatric scientist in training in the Medical Science Training Program (MSTP), was selected for the best fellow platform presentation award at the 43rd Annual David W. Smith Workshop on Malformations and Morphogenesis on August 23. 

Out of the 64 fellows and medical genetics residents and fellows in the workshop, 13 were selected to give platform presentations. Beaman and one other were selected as the co-best presentation. 

The Duke University School of Medicine welcomes incoming students from across the country and around the world as they start their health professions careers at the School of Medicine this month.