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Sarwat Chaudhry, MD, associate dean for student research, welcomed attendees to the 38th annual Student Research Day on May 6. The annual tradition celebrates the research accomplishments of Yale School of Medicine (YSM) students.

More than twenty years ago, the family of Marguerite Rush Lerner, MD, established and endowed the first Program for Humanities in Medicine contest. On May 7, faculty, friends, and families gathered to celebrate this year’s award-winning artists and writers.

A new Yale School of Medicine study seeks to understand where the physician-scientist pipeline begins and where it may be faltering.

A new study published in JAMA Network Open on May 7, 2026, engaged 42 national experts in hospital-based addiction treatment in a consensus-building process to develop best practices for hospital-initiated medications for opioid use disorder.

In a Q&A, Yale’s Katherine McKenzie explains the work of the Center for Asylum Medicine, which offers forensic medical evaluations to those who may have experienced physical and psychological scars in their home country.

The Yale Department of Internal Medicine presented two staff members with the 2026 Department of Internal Medicine Service Excellence Award. Michelle Colon, senior administrative assistant, and June Weiss, research manager, both from the Section of General Internal Medicine, were presented with the awards at the Internal Medicine Staff Town Hall on April 21, 2026.

Starting in 2026, the MD program will launch a longitudinal thread that enhances nutrition content in the curriculum and emphasizes the role physicians play in promoting health and treating disease with dietary interventions.

The second Ideathon kicked off Monday afternoon in the Cushing/Whitney Medical Library’s team-based learning classroom. The April 20th event brought together faculty, staff, students, and residents to collaboratively tackle challenges in medical education using artificial intelligence (AI) and extended reality.

Recorded at the Consortium of Universities for Global Health annual meeting in Washington, D.C., this special episode of Explore Global Health features Tracy Rabin, MD (Yale University) and James Hudspeth, MD (Boston University) about the future of global health education. They explore the importance of truly bidirectional partnerships, the policy barriers that limit international clinicians from training in the U.S., and what institutions can do now to create more equitable, impactful collaborations.