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UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH
SCHOOL OF MEDICINE MAGAZINE | NOVEMBER 2004, VOL. 6, ISSUE 4
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DEPARTMENTS

OF NOTE [734 KB]
Introducing the new Pitt med curriculum.
A year wasted with Mark Perlmutter.
Sound medicine for singers.

INVESTIGATIONS [384 KB]
Preserving male fertility in cancer patients.
Hoping to up the number of African American
cancer researchers, a Pitt prof gives college students a taste of UPCI lab life.
Stem cells on demand?

ATTENDING [108 KB]
Lili Penkower showed students that
their problems had solutions.

98.6 [86 KB]
A shoe shiner demonstrates that you needn’t
have a lot to give a lot.

ALUMNI NEWS [1072 KB]
“What does it mean to be a doctor?”
Randall Kolb asks.
Remembering Robert Kisner, who refused
to give in to a climate of fear.

LAST CALL [50 KB]
Medieval medicine.

COVER STORY


We surveyed top teachers among our faculty and alumni and found that there's a method to their magic. (Cover illustration: Michael Lotenero. Oath: Hippocrates.)

FEATURES

What It Takes to Be a Top Teacher [493 KB]
Award-winning profs fess up.
COVER STORY BY PITT MED STAFF
AND CONTRIBUTORS

When Proteins Can’t Get It Right [132 KB]
Our bodies need good chaperones (at the molecular level, that is). Their effectiveness comes into play in diseases as wide-ranging as Huntington’s, stroke, breast cancer, and cystic fibrosis.
BY DOTTIE HORN

At the Boundaries of Hope [388 KB]
What treatment strategies lie ahead for premature infants?
BY CHUCK STARESINIC

What Keeps MD/PhDs
Humming Through Eight Years
Of Grad and Med School?
[251 KB]
Found, in translation.
BY MEGHAN HOLOHAN

 

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