AMA
American Medical Association
AMSA
American Medical Student Association
AWOME
Augusta Webster Office of Medical Education
: home of the medical school deans, located on the ground floor of the Ward Building (1-003)
CCF
College Curriculum Focus
: one component of PPS
CDM
Cultural Dynamics in Medicine
: one component of PPS
CEC
Clinical Education Center
: located on the ground level of the McGaw Building, where COM and PEX are held
CMH
Children's Memorial Hospital
Currently located in Lincoln Park, the pediatric healthcare center will find a new home at the Northwestern Chicago Campus slated for 2012 opening.
College
Medical Class College
Each MD Candidate class is Sorted into four Houses—we mean colleges—named after and headed by an advisor. Unfortunately, there are no points to be scored for your House College.
COM
Communications
: one component of PPS
CTA
Chicago Transit Authority
: Chicago's public transportation system
CVRR
Cardiovascular, Renal & Respiratory
: Unit IV of Structure-Function
DHW
Daniel Hale Williams Auditorium
: found in McGaw Pavilion, 2nd Floor, which is home to S-F lectures for the Class of 2012
EHV
Ethics and Human Values
: one component of PPS
ENH
Evanston Northwestern Healthcare
: the healthcare system based in the northern suburbs (Evanston, Glenbrook, Highland Park), which until recently was associated with FSOM and the McGaw Medical Center of Northwestern University
Feinberg
Feinberg Pavilion
The inpatient tower of NMH, located at 251 E Huron Street
Feinberg School of Medicine
If this needs explanation, we'd hate to say that there's something you might reconsider...
FSOM
Feinberg School of Medicine
Good choice! —one of NU's 11 colleges
Galter
Galter Pavilion
: the outpatient tower of NMH, located at 675 N St Clair Street, and one of the tallest hospitals in the world
Galter Health Sciences Library
: the medical school library located at ground level in the Ward Building
HIPAA
Health Insurance Portability & Accountability Act of 1996
: the standard in healthcare, required of all healthcare workers, for maintaining patient health, administrative and financial data
HPME
Honors Program in Medical Education
: the seven-year combined Bachelor's/MD program at NU
Kellogg
Kellogg School of Management
: one of NU's 11 colleges, top-rated in business management; campuses are located in Chicago and Evanston
LI
Learning Issue
: the biweekly task of MDM, consisting of a question and its researched answer and presentation
LRC
Barnes Learning Resource Center
: one wing on the ground floor of Galter Library
M1
Medical Student, First-year
: freshman year of medical school
MDM
Medical Decision Making
: one competency split into 3 units across the M1 and M2 years
MPH
Master's in Public Health
: the degree program in public health
NMFF
Northwestern Medical Faculty Foundation
NMH
Northwestern Memorial Hospital
NMPH
Northwestern Memorial Physicians Group
: private group of faculty/doctors at NMH
NU
Northwestern University
"Quaecumque Sunt Vera" (Whatsoever Things Are True) — motto
NUMS
Northwestern University Medical School
: the medical school before its name change to FSOM in 2002
OMCA
Office of Minority and Cultural Affairs
PBL
Problem-Based Learning
: one course split into a few blocks throughout the year
PEX
Physical Examination Skills
: one component of PPS, and split across three years of the medical program, each year building upon the last
PHM
Public Health and Medicine
: one component of PPS
PI
Patient Instructor
: the patient actors that help medical students during PEX
Principal Investigator
: head researcher
PIC
Patients in Context
: one of the first components of PPS
PPS
Patient, Physician & Society
: a cluster of professionalism courses that make up the afternoon curriculum
RIC
Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago
: the top-rated physical rehab center located at 345 E Superior Street
SEGUE
Set the Stage, Elicit Information, Give Information, Understand the Patient's Perspective, End the Encounter
: a framework for learning and engaging a good patient encounter, as approached in COM
S-F
Structure-Function
: the core physiology course during M1 year, divided into 6 units
SMH
Seminars in Medical Humanities
: one component of PPS
Society
Cooper, Lawless, Ricketts, or Thompson Societies
: vertical stratification of the college system; each college in a given medical class belongs to a different society, and each society includes one college from each medical class
SP
Standardized Patient
: he/she is a patient instructor who will talk to you about his/her chief complaint during your clinical skills training
Stone
Stone Pavilion
: currently houses only the inpatient psych ward
: was the former home of the Prentice Women's Hospital
: looks like a spaceship with oval windows
VA
Veterans Affair Medical Center
: now refers to the Jesse Brown VA Medical Center (820 S Damen Ave)
: formerly referred mostly to the Lakeside VA, which is now a flat piece of land