COVID-19, suicide and substandard medical care driving high rate of death among ICE detainees
The death rate of 10.833 per 100,000 detainees is the highest since ICE implemented new performance-based standards in 2008.
Keck School faculty make Business Journal’s ‘Top Docs in L.A.’ list
Keck School of Medicine of USC, Los Angeles | Photo credit: Ricardo Carrasco III Eighteen members of the faculty at Keck School of Medicine of USC ... Read More »
Students learn to stop the bleeding
On March 30, the Keck School of Medicine of USC held a Stop the Bleed Train-the-Trainer event for nearly 70 current medical students. Stop the Bleed is a national campaign to encourage bystanders to become trained to help in an emergency before professional help arrives.
Professor fights opioid epidemic with award-winning app
Talib Omer, MD, assistant professor of clinical emergency medicine and director of emergency ultrasound medical student elective at the Keck School of Medicine of USC, was part of ... Read More »
Keck School program receives national honor for health services
USC Correctional Health, a Keck School of Medicine of USC program, won the 2016 Best in Category Achievement Award for Health from the National Association of Counties (NaCo). This ... Read More »
New technology revolutionizes educational experience for both faculty and students
Sean Nordt demonstrates the Lightboard. Lessons at the Keck School of Medicine just got more engaging. Using open-source plans from Northwestern University, a team of Keck School ... Read More »
Emergency medicine leader is recruited to the Keck School
Carl R. Chudnofsky, MD Carl R. Chudnofsky, MD, has been recruited from the Albert Einstein Medical Center to lead the Keck School of Medicine of USC’s Department ... Read More »