MIT Hacking Medicine – San Francisco Grand Hack 2019
MIT News: Yearlong hackathon engages nano community around health issues Hacking Nanomedicine kicks off a series of events to develop an idea over time.
MIT News – MIT.nano – August 9, 2019
A traditional hackathon focuses on computer science and programming, attracts coders in droves, and spans an entire weekend with three stages: problem definition, solution development, and business formation.
Hacking Nanomedicine, however, recently brought together graduate and postgraduate students for a single morning of hands-on problem solving and innovation in health care while offering networking opportunities across departments and research interests. Moreover, the July hackathon was the first in a series of three half-day events structured to allow ideas to develop over time.
MIT Hacking Medicine – DC Grand Hack 2019
MIT Hong Kong Innovation Node – HealthHACK 2019
MIT Hacking Medicine – Boston Grand Hack 2019
MIT Hacking Medicine – Post-Hack 2019
MIT Hacking Medicine – New York City Grand Hack 2018
MIT Hacking Medicine – Post-Hack 2018
A Conversation on Physician-Scientist Training in the Social Sciences and Humanities
At the 2017 National Conference for Physician Scholars in the Social Sciences and Humanities in Boston, MA, APSA Founder Freddy Nguyen, MD, PhD moderated a discussion on physician-scientist training in the social sciences and humanities (SSH) with Jeremy Greene, MD, PhD; Helena Hansen, MD, PhD; Seth Holmes, MD, PhD; and Scott Stonington, MD, PhD.
Chronicle of Higher Education: The Need for More M.D.-Ph.D. Hybrids, and What Colleges Are Doing About It
Chronicle of Higher Education – Paul Basken – January 16, 2017
Physician-scientists are uniquely adept at translating basic discoveries into cures. But graduate programs aren’t producing many such scholars.
Back in 1979, The New England Journal of Medicine warned of a crisis: The ranks of physician-scientists — typically, holders of both an M.D. and a Ph.D. — were fast shrinking, threatening science’s ability to translate basic discoveries into actual cures.
Some 37 years later, the warnings are still coming. They might have even intensified.
JCI: Challenges and opportunities for reinvigorating the physician-scientist pipeline
Physician-scientists, with in-depth training in both medicine and research, are uniquely poised to address pressing challenges at the forefront of biomedicine. In recent years, a number of organizations have outlined obstacles to maintaining the pipeline of physician-scientists, classifying them as an endangered species. As in-training and early-career physician-scientists across the spectrum of the pipeline, we share here our perspective on the current challenges and available opportunities that might aid our generation in becoming independent physician-scientists. These challenges revolve around the difficulties in recruitment and retention of trainees, the length of training and lack of support at key training transition points, and the rapidly and independently changing worlds of medical and scientific training. In an era of health care reform and an environment of increasingly sparse NIH funding, these challenges are likely to become more pronounced and complex. As stakeholders, we need to coalesce behind core strategic points and regularly assess the impact and progress of our efforts with appropriate metrics. Here, we expand on the challenges that we foresee and offer potential opportunities to ensure a more sustainable physician-scientist workforce.
American Physician Scientists Association Directors’ Award 2014
American Physician Scientists Association – April 15, 2014
The Directors’ Award was given to Freddy Nguyen, founder of the American Physician Scientists Association, in recognition of his innumerable contributions to APSA since the organization’s initiation. To honor Freddy’s legacy, the Board of Directors will present the Founder’s Award (successor to the Directors’ Award) to recognize extraordinary and dedicated service to APSA. Freddy will play a role in selecting the recipient of that honor. Read below for Freddy’s reflections on a decade of APSA.