SIU Medicine partners with The Land of Lincoln Legal Assistance Foundation and SIU medical students to address the legal needs of low-income patients and social determinants of health. This program focuses on the unmet legal needs of patients and pairs them with a no-cost lawyer that can help to address upstream, a non-clinical factor that affects health. This program introduces medical students to the complicated web of social determinants of health. It allows them to participate in a clinical setting, practice good bedside manner, and become more aware of factors that affect a patient’s

SIU Medicine partners with The Land of Lincoln Legal Assistance Foundation and SIU medical students to address the legal needs of low-income patients and social determinants of health. This program focuses on the unmet legal needs of patients and pairs them with a no-cost lawyer that can help to address upstream, a non-clinical factor that affects health. This program introduces medical students to the complicated web of social determinants of health. It allows them to participate in a clinical setting, practice good bedside manner, and become more aware of factors that affect a patient’s

The 2017 SIU Medicine Annual Security Report is available. This report and posting of this report is required by federal law and contains policy statements and crime statistics for the Southern Illinois University School of Medicine in Springfield. This report addresses the University’s guidelines, policies, procedures, and programs concerning campus safety and security. It also contains the last three years (2014, 2015 and 2016) of crime statistics that were reported to have occurred on campus, inside of buildings located off campus, on property owned or occupied by the school located off

Surrounded by faculty, family and friends, five Southern Illinois University School of Medicine graduate students received their diplomas at a summer commencement ceremony on September 22 at the South Auditorium at SIU School of Medicine. The students were recognized by speakers Donald S. Torry, Ph.D., professor and chair of the Department of Medical Microbiology, Immunology and Cell Biology (MMICB), and Yueh-Ting Lee, Ph.D., professor and graduate school dean of SIU Carbondale. Rana Alfardan received a doctorate degree in Medical Microbiology, Immunology and Cell Biology. Mark Schroeder

Surrounded by faculty, family and friends, five Southern Illinois University School of Medicine graduate students received their diplomas at a summer commencement ceremony on September 22 at the South Auditorium at SIU School of Medicine. The students were recognized by speakers Donald S. Torry, Ph.D., professor and chair of the Department of Medical Microbiology, Immunology and Cell Biology (MMICB), and Yueh-Ting Lee, Ph.D., professor and graduate school dean of SIU Carbondale. Rana Alfardan received a doctorate degree in Medical Microbiology, Immunology and Cell Biology. Mark Schroeder

Surrounded by faculty, family and friends, five Southern Illinois University School of Medicine graduate students received their diplomas at a summer commencement ceremony on September 22 at the South Auditorium at SIU School of Medicine. The students were recognized by speakers Donald S. Torry, Ph.D., professor and chair of the Department of Medical Microbiology, Immunology and Cell Biology (MMICB), and Yueh-Ting Lee, Ph.D., professor and graduate school dean of SIU Carbondale. Rana Alfardan received a doctorate degree in Medical Microbiology, Immunology and Cell Biology. Mark Schroeder

SIU School of Medicine authors published 39 articles in the past month that were added to PubMed. See the list at https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/myncbi/carol.gordon.1/collections/53… .

Family physicians in eight Illinois communities are hosting students from Southern Illinois University School of Medicine September 25 – October 20. The students are participating in the school’s Family Medicine Preceptorship Program. [Editor: See the list below for the student or physician from your community.] The experience provides an opportunity for students to use their medical knowledge in an office setting under the supervision of an experienced physician. The students choose from more than 160 family practice physicians in Illinois for their preceptorship experience. They will

Family physicians in eight Illinois communities are hosting students from Southern Illinois University School of Medicine September 25 – October 20. The students are participating in the school’s Family Medicine Preceptorship Program. [Editor: See the list below for the student or physician from your community.] The experience provides an opportunity for students to use their medical knowledge in an office setting under the supervision of an experienced physician. The students choose from more than 160 family practice physicians in Illinois for their preceptorship experience. They will

Family physicians in eight Illinois communities are hosting students from Southern Illinois University School of Medicine September 25 – October 20. The students are participating in the school’s Family Medicine Preceptorship Program. [Editor: See the list below for the student or physician from your community.] The experience provides an opportunity for students to use their medical knowledge in an office setting under the supervision of an experienced physician. The students choose from more than 160 family practice physicians in Illinois for their preceptorship experience. They will