Outlook issue: Winter 2020-21
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‘It’s why we got into medicine’
Fierce sense of mission drives front-line workers as they treat COVID-19
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A crisis unfolds
COVID-19 surge gives way to unprecedented collaboration, innovation
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Significant firsts
Entering class of 2020 undertakes new Gateway Curriculum in pandemic
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Mobilizing in a public health crisis
Students make face shields, summarize COVID-19 research, deliver food to those at risk and speak up for racial equity
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Combating COVID-19
Medical school labs pivot to fight a common enemy
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Advancing medicine 2020
From the office of the dean: "2020 has been a year of truly living up to our missions. It is in times like these that the role of an academic medical center is tested and fully revealed."
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Bringing life-saving therapy to the poor
WashU Medicine spearheads collaboration to install radiation machine in Guatemala
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Sequencing the future
Generous pledge from James and Elizabeth McDonnell accelerates the expansion of their namesake genome institute
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Bill Danforth: A tribute
Current dean of the medical school remembers his predecessor