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To the vector go the spoils In search of medicine’s shifting frontiers Deconstructing education Eight decades of the Yale System

 

To the vector go the spoils
By Cathy Shufro

By breaking down the complex cycle that allows mosquitoes, tsetse flies, ticks and other arthropods to transmit fatal disease, Yale scientists are providing new ammunition in the fight against malaria and other vector-borne illnesses.


In search of medicine’s
shifting frontier

Interview by John Curtis

The forward edge of medical knowledge may be an elusive target for teachers, students and clinicians. That doesn’t bother Herb Chase, the school’s new deputy dean for education.

Deconstructing education
By John Curtis

The breathtaking discoveries of the last three decades and rapid change across all of medicine have called traditional models of education into question. At Yale, the debate is in full swing.

Eight decades of the Yale System

As the school takes an exceptionally thorough look at both how and what it teaches, we invited alumni to reminisce about the Yale System of their day.

 
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Chronicle
$500 million for medicine  |  Smoke signals  |  Medical school gears up for Yale’s 300th |  Harris Building opens its doors  |  YCC director will guide revision of National Cancer Act  |  Work of early cancer virologist celebrated   

Rounds
Malaria makes a comeback
  |  Ultrasound an alternative to amnio  |  Is it ever right to practice on the dying?  |  Breast cancer genes  |  Aspirin reduces heart-attack risk  |  Screen for ehrlichiosis  |  Much heralded medication for autism is ineffective  |  A new therapy for prostate cancer   
       

Findings
Mutated DNA reveals location, function of genes
  
|  Mitochondrial voltage and neural connections  |  Serotonin in long-term memory  |  A close-up view of the transcription process  |  Salmonella’s Trojan Horse  |  B Cells in gastrointestinal disease  

Et cetera
IOM honors two from Yale
  |  Farewell to YPI  |  A spinoff from the lab  |  Dr. Doe decision is reversed  |  Bring in the marine sponges  |  Dr. Mel’s doctors  | Informatics initiative 

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Yale Medicine, Spring 2000.
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