The Bucksbaum Interest Group (BIG) is focused on creating opportunities for students to participate in Bucksbaum-Siegler Institute programs in order to foster greater understanding of the doctor-patient relationship. BIG will bring medical students in closer contact with the hundreds of Junior and Senior Bucksbaum-Siegler Institute Faculty Scholars for mentoring, research and educational opportunities that elevate interest and promote improvements in the relationship patients have with their physician.
The Bucksbaum-Siegler Institute for Clinical Excellence was created to improve patient care, to strengthen the doctor-patient relationship, to enhance communication and decision-making through research and education programs for medical students, junior faculty and master clinicians, and to reduce healthcare disparities.
Recognizing broader student interest in the Bucksbaum-Siegler Institute, outside of the Bucksbaum-Siegler medical student scholars, BIG will provide a forum for the Bucksbaum-Siegler Institute Student Scholars to engage the Pritzker student body in the Bucksbaum-Siegler Institute mission.
Contact: Khari Derrick, Andy Travis, Jai Daniels, and Keianna Moyer
Faculty Advisor: Mark Siegler, MD, Department of Medicine