Educational Services Providing needs assessment data to the course director Helping course directors determine course objectives Submitting course outline to Committee and others, as appropriate ACCME credit designation Serving as registrar Designing and summarizing conference evaluations Keeping course attendance records in perpetuity, and providing those records to physicians as requested Keeping course files for seven years Ensuring that each course meets the ACCME Essentials and Standards for Commercial Support Conference Planning Services Overall management of the course Identifying date

SIU School of Medicine was founded in 1970 with four areas of excellence: medical education, patient care, research and community service. Caring for the communities of central and southern Illinois is SIU Medicine’s mission, and the SIU School of Medicine aims to improve the health of residents across its 66-county service region. In 2016, SIU School of Medicine launched the Office of Population Science and Policy (PSP) to advance its social mission and find innovative solutions to improve health beyond the confines of the hospital and clinical walls. Led by a group of pioneering changemakers

Recent Publications Jenkins WD , Lipka AE, Fogleman AJ , Delfino KR, Malhi RS, Hendricks B. Variance in disease risk: rural populations and genetic diversity. Genome. 2016 Jul;59(7):519-25. doi: 10.1139/gen-2016-0077. Epub 2016 May 24. PMID: 27334395 Clemons J, Zahnd WE , Nutt M, Sadowski D, Dynda D, Alanee S. Impact of Urologist Density and County Rurality on the Practice of Retroperitoneal Lymph Node Dissection and Cancer-Specific Death in Patients with Nonseminomatous Germ Cell Tumors. J Adolesc Young Adult Oncol. 2016 Jul 13. [Epub ahead of print] PMID: 27409991 Jenkins WD , Botchway A

TRAINING A ROBOTIC SURGERY GENERATION Aspects Volume 39 No.1 Written by Lauren Murphy • Photography by Jason Johnson It looks like something out of a science fiction film: a three-armed, six-foot tall, 1,400 pound robot with three-dimensional vision, forceps, needle drivers and cautery instruments that act as hands. Capable of performing delicate, extraordinarily precise procedures deep within the body using miniature instruments and 10 times magnification, the da Vinci ® Surgical System is the next generation of minimally invasive surgery. The robotic surgery platform is where imagination

TRAINING A ROBOTIC SURGERY GENERATION Aspects Volume 39 No.1 Written by Lauren Murphy • Photography by Jason Johnson It looks like something out of a science fiction film: a three-armed, six-foot tall, 1,400 pound robot with three-dimensional vision, forceps, needle drivers and cautery instruments that act as hands. Capable of performing delicate, extraordinarily precise procedures deep within the body using miniature instruments and 10 times magnification, the da Vinci ® Surgical System is the next generation of minimally invasive surgery. The robotic surgery platform is where imagination

TRAINING A ROBOTIC SURGERY GENERATION Aspects Volume 39 No.1 Written by Lauren Murphy • Photography by Jason Johnson It looks like something out of a science fiction film: a three-armed, six-foot tall, 1,400 pound robot with three-dimensional vision, forceps, needle drivers and cautery instruments that act as hands. Capable of performing delicate, extraordinarily precise procedures deep within the body using miniature instruments and 10 times magnification, the da Vinci ® Surgical System is the next generation of minimally invasive surgery. The robotic surgery platform is where imagination

"This annual lecture will shed light on the history of health disparities, suggesting solutions to this resistant problem that negatively affects the lives of so many in the United States." - Dr. McNeese A newly endowed lecture event will commemorate the life of a groundbreaking central Illinois physician. The Alonzo Homer Kenniebrew Lecture on Health Disparities will be an annual discussion of health disparities and other factors that impact population health. HSHS St. John’s Hospital and Memorial Health System are underwriting the cost of the lecture. “Dr. Kenniebrew was a prominent, well

"This annual lecture will shed light on the history of health disparities, suggesting solutions to this resistant problem that negatively affects the lives of so many in the United States." - Dr. McNeese A newly endowed lecture event will commemorate the life of a groundbreaking central Illinois physician. The Alonzo Homer Kenniebrew Lecture on Health Disparities will be an annual discussion of health disparities and other factors that impact population health. HSHS St. John’s Hospital and Memorial Health System are underwriting the cost of the lecture. “Dr. Kenniebrew was a prominent, well

Aspects Volume 39 No. 2 Sixty-seven fourth-year medical students received their residency matches on Friday, March 18. Matches by specialties are shown on the chart below. Twenty-nine SIU medical students will train in the primary care special- ties of family medicine, internal medicine and pediatrics. Eleven students will begin their residency training in SIU programs. An additional nine students will be training in other programs located in Illinois and 30 others elsewhere in the Midwest. “Our students matched into a diversity of excellent training programs across the United States. We’re