Year Two, Step One

As they reach the midpoint of their Michigan medical education, our four students — Fasika Aberra, Lindsay Brown, Shaun Patel and Ron Romero — come closer to the clinicians they will one day be.

BY RICK KRUPINSKI

Demand and Supply

While an average of 30 patients receive transplanted organs in the U.S. every day, another 12 die waiting. U-M physicians believe that just changing allocation protocols could generate an additional 100,000 years of life per decade.

BY JEFF MORTIMER

The Wages of Sun (and Genes)

The bill for sun obsession in our youth comes due as we get older, but it’s only one factor behind the skin cancer epidemic. The rest of the story is in our genes.

BY SALLY POBOJEWSKI

Commencement 2010
Match Day 2010
Photo Gallery: Medical Campus Landmark Becomes a Memory

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