March 2011 Archive - Penn Medicine News Blog

A genetic mistake that arose thousands of years ago spares rare HIV-infected individuals the ravages of AIDS. Researchers at Penn’s School of Medicine are in the midst of translating the language of ancient genetic mistakes into today’s cures.

In our final 2011 Penn Med Match Day post, Katie Baratz Dalke reveals she'll be staying right here at Penn for her residency in Psychiatry and she might even get a puppy out of the deal too! We are also pleased to note that Danielle Brown has matched at Penn for residency in General Surgery. To watch all of the excitement unfold, be sure to check out the entire Penn Med 2011 Match Day video!

In our first post-Match post, Renee Betancourt takes a moment to share her exciting residency placement news.

Katie Baratz Dalke writes: All those other days of same, however, have to led me to this one very different day: the day that I’ll learn where I’ll be doing my residency in Psychiatry. The words in the envelope that I’ll open surrounded by the people I love will determine who my coworkers, friends, teachers, and students will be for the next four years.

It's the morning of Match Day (and St. Patrick's Day!) and medical students across the country are on the edge of their seats waiting for 12 p.m. to finally come. In our latest blog post, Renee Betancourt shares her Match Day morning ruminations and her plan for the day.

In a new video blog clip added to our Match Day blog, Danielle Brown describes the match day process and her anticipation as she awaits her surgical residency placement.

In a new update to our Match Day blog, fourth-year medical student Renee Betancourt, hoping to match in Primary Care, shares her thoughts as she eagerly awaits her match results and a cross country move to continue her medical education.

In her first post to this blog (and on video), Penn fourth-year medical student Katie Baratz Dalke looks back on her path through medical school and shares her hopes for the future. At the stroke of noon on Thursday, March 17, Katie and 146 other University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine students will gather in an emotion-filled ceremony to open their “residency placement” envelopes and learn where they will spend the next few years receiving their advanced medical training.

HUP's Nursing Patient Safety Unit is a simulation set up to highlight common hospital safety issues and errors, sort of like the medical error version of the "What's Wrong?" pictures on the back of Highlights magazine for kids.

Medication safety is an important priority at Penn Medicine, and steps are taken throughout the hospital, from the pharmacy to the bedside, to make sure patients receive the proper medications.

Penn Medicine kicked off Patient Safety Awareness Week today, with a plethora of activities and training initiatives designed to get our staff members talking about and learning more about something that’s at the heart of our work here: Keeping patients safe while they’re in our hospitals.

Penn seems to be rife with accomplished researcher-families -- married couples and parent-child pairings doing innovative medical research together. To this group, we can now add the two Doctors Rook: Dr. Alain Rook is a professor of Dermatology at Penn Medicine, and his daughter, Dr. Katie Rook, a veterinary resident in dermatology at Penn Vet. Katie is starting a pilot study in her father's lab, investigating the immune system's signaling mechanisms in cutaneous lymphoma. Their story is profiled in the latest issue of Penn Medicine magazine.