Bicentennial Voices Yale School of Medicine
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- Gesundheit und Fitness
In October 2010, Yale School of Medicine turned 200 years old.
The school, now one of the world’s leading institutions for biomedical research, education, and advanced clinical care, was established at a time when most physicians received little if any institutional education but gained their knowledge and skills through apprenticeship. Medicine was not the scientific endeavor it is today, and a physician’s tools for treating illnesses were few.
To celebrate its first 200 years, Yale School of Medicine has produced a series of short videos focusing on pivotal events and personalities in the school's history.
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Research Ethics
As Tuskegee and Nuremburg focused attention on research ethics, Yale School of Medicine Professor Robert Levine helped craft guidelines that are still used to protect human subjects.
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Dorothy Horstmann: Polio Pioneer
Yale researcher Dorothy Horstmann made seminal discoveries about the course of polio that supported the ultimate development of a vaccine. Her former mentee, George Miller reflects on Horstmann’s science and life. Deputy Dean Carolyn Slayman talks about Horstmann’s groundbreaking role as a woman in medicine.
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Yale and China
Stem cell researcher Haifan Lin talks about two centuries of cooperation between the Yale School of Medicine and China. Exchanges have helped to educate leaders in the world’s most populous nation and also infused Yale’s campus with brilliant young Chinese researchers.
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Crossing the Color and Gender Divide
Beatrix McCleary Hamburg, M.D., was the first African American women to attend Yale School of Medicine. After graduation in 1948 and training in child psychiatry, her research and clinical practice focused on behavioral and developmental issues among adolescents, especially minority children. In her early research, she was drawn to problems of teenage violence and bullying. Her insights led to the development of novel, school-based peer counseling programs that proved to be effective interventions and since have been widely applied in conflict resolution work. In 1992 she began a six-year term as president of the William T. Grant Foundation, where she supported funding promoting research to foster healthy lives and reduce violence among children. She was elected to the Institute of Medicine in 1979 and is the mother of the current commissioner of the Food & Drug Administration, Margaret A. Hamburg, M.D.
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Dean Winternitz and the Yale System
Dr. Michael Kashgarian reflects on Dean Milton Winternitz’s reforms at the Yale School of Medicine. Winternitz gave students unprecedented freedom to follow their own interests, a system that still distinguishes medical education at Yale.
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Second Year Show
The Second Year Show is a beloved tradition at the Yale School of Medicine, a chance for students to – lovingly – poke fun at the faculty. Class of 2013’s Charisse Mandimika talks about the latest incarnation of the show.