Word: meds
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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While most aspiring pre-med first-year students are laboring over Chemistry 5 problem sets, Rebecca L. Torres '02 is already celebrating the fact that her clinical pediatric neurologic research will soon be published in a medical journal...
Torres now plans to get involved in Radcliffe research programs. This semester, she has started to fulfill several pre-med requirements, is comping the photography board at the Harvard Year-book and the Independent and is already volunteering for the Science Girls' Club at The King School. The after-school program for elementary school girls will allow her to serve as a role model for younger students...
...Duke Med is grateful too. It is affiliated with the center, which is only a few miles from its main hospital, and much prefers to handle such routine checkups here rather than in its own high-priced facilities. Lincoln Community is one of dozens of affiliations and joint ventures that Duke has with local medical facilities spread throughout the 27-county region targeted as its turf. Serving 29,000 registered patients, who made 102,000 visits last year, Lincoln is a gleaming example of Duke's community outreach at work...
...Robert Califf, arguably one of the most important people at Duke Med, is on a flight to Washington, where he is scheduled to lead an international strategy session on how heart-failure drugs should be studied. As director of the Duke Clinical Research Institute, he is charged with doing whatever he can to take the guesswork out of medical care, and he has a specific statistic he wants to change. "Only 15% of the decisions a doctor makes every day are based on evidence," he recites...
...certainly something that should be included in the pre-med track," he says. "There's only a handful of physicians who have a health policy background...