School of Medicine

First-year medical students at Case Western Reserve now remotely using Microsoft HoloLens and HoloAnatomy® software from 185 locations in U.S. and Canada Remote learning at one of the nation’s premier research institutions and medical schools has taken on a new dimension. For the first time,…

Universities get creative with technology due to coronavirus closures The Wall Street Journal: Sue Workman, chief information officer and VP of University Technology, and Mark Griswold, radiology professor and director of Interactive Commons, discussed how the university distributed nearly 200…

As the COVID-19 pandemic overwhelms health care systems and disrupts industries worldwide, daily life may feel like uncharted territory. But the truth is, we’ve been here before: More than a century ago, the Spanish flu of 1918 worked its way across the globe, prompting many of the same public…

The nation was already clinically anxious enough. According to the National Institute of Mental Health, 19% of American adults experience at least one anxiety disorder over any 12-month period. And that was before the coronavirus outbreak. “In a matter of just a few weeks, most Americans had…

Rohit Anand, a second-year student in the School of Medicine, wrote for cleveland.com about the coronavirus crisis from the perspective of a future doctor: “The health of those around us impacts our health, the economy, and the community at large, as we are seeing. This national emergency is an…

First-year med student talks about volunteering to help out against COVID-19 Kevin Zhai, 29, a first-year medical student at the Case Western Reserve School of Medicine, has been volunteering at a Cleveland medical clinic and talked about how he and others have helped by volunteering.

Isaac Levine, a third-year medical student who was pulled off his clinical rotation when COVID-19 restrictions were put in place, found himself with free time and wanted to do something to help those on the front lines. He joined forces with fellow students Abby Gross and Daniel Li to address the…

When the COVID-19 outbreak started to become increasingly prevalent in Northeast Ohio, Mitchell Thom, a first-year medical student at Case Western Reserve University, and his friends were looking for ways to help. The group started discussing how much physicians and health care employees on the…

The coronavirus test isn't as scary as it looks Mashable: Mark Cameron, an associate professor in the Department of Population and Quantitative Health Sciences, described the swabbing test required to determine if a person has COVID-19, which requires a health professional to insert what is…

More Than 1,000 Coronavirus Cases Among New York Nursing Homes Wall Street Journal: Robin Jump, associate professor of medicine, spoke about the growing number of coronavirus cases in nursing homes: “[It] speaks to … how difficult infection protection and control is,” she said, adding that nursing…