The Department of Medical Education and the Argus Society are pleased to announce the 2021 Argus Awards nominations. Winners will be announced at the Argus Awards Ceremony at 5:30 p.m. on Friday, November 5, 2021.
Stefanie Krick, M.D., Ph.D., and Chad Petit, Ph.D., have been named the new assistant directors for research for the Medical Scientist Training Program in the UAB Heersink School of Medicine.
Mukesh Patel, MD, associate professor of Medicine in the Division of Infectious Diseases and section chief of Infectious Diseases at the Birmingham VA Medical Center, is the course co-director for two undergraduate medical courses: Fundamentals Block 5 (Microbiology) and Pulmonary Medicine and the director of the longitudinal microbiology curriculum. As he prepares to begin microbiology modules for the first-year students, Patel answers questions on how he engages students and ways he makes fundamental concepts relevant and interesting.

In this last deep dive episode of our Road to Accreditation series, hear from Elise Lovell, M.D., and Julie Story Byerley, M.D., MPH, leaders on the Coalition for Physician Accountability’s Undergraduate Medical Education-Graduate Medical Education Review Committee (UGRC) on ways to improve the transition from medical school into residency.

In partnership with HSF and the UAB Health System, the School of Medicine is pleased to announce UAB’s inaugural Momentum Executive Leadership Program pilot. Momentum’s Executive Leadership Program is a competitive nine month program for women that provides workshops, mentoring, and networking opportunities for senior leaders.

UAB School of Medicine student Hannah Cutshall honors grandfather with Tommy Trot 5K.
Medical Student Research Day celebrates the research accomplishments of medical students and provides them with the opportunity to present their projects to fellow students and faculty. Read more about MSRD and see the winners from this year's research competition.

On Monday, Sept. 20, Rachael Lee, M.D., MSPH, assistant professor in the Division of Infectious Diseases, and David Kimberlin, M.D., professor and co-director of the Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, gave an update of current pediatric COVID-19 news and answered questions live from the community.

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