Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine at UNLV News
The Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine at UNLV is becoming a world-class center for medical education, patient care, and research. We aim to prepare Nevada's doctors with the most innovative and technologically advanced forms of medical training while also forming community partnerships to serve the healthcare needs of our diverse and urban population.
Current Medicine News
Faculty and staff joined the dean of the Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine at his fourth State of the School Address, the second one to be hosted at the Medical Education Building.
UNLV study uses wastewater surveillance model to detect, manage emerging viruses and offer clues on public health challenges of vulnerable populations.
Dedicated to helping underserved communities in Nevada, UNLV Health is leading transformative health care while educating and training Nevada’s future health care practitioners.
Faculty respond to the mental health crisis with multiple programs focused on addressing the shortages and challenges in Nevada on April 5.
The medical school celebrated the class of 2024 matches and welcomed 87 residents to their graduate medical education programs.
The development of a UNLV Academic Health Center will provide high-value quality care for the community, a source of economic diversity for our economy, and cutting-edge research.
Medicine In The News
You are likely well aware of how to maintain a healthy body and functional mind – with a daily dose of exercise, a good nights’ sleep, and a balanced diet, right? – but what about the one topic you’ve been avoiding? The one that keeps resurfacing under the sheets that can hold you back from being intimate with yourself and others? When your sex drive is dwindling and you are unable to rise to the occasion, it can feel embarrassing and isolating, but you are not alone.
All 12 Women's National Basketball Association teams have a team of trained orthopedic surgeons and physicians providing care for them.
If you haven't heard the terms autosexual or autoeroticism, you're not alone. These two sexual identities and their meanings are still relatively unknown and rarely discussed. But in recent years, there's been more representation of autosexuals who experience autoeroticism in mainstream media.
We're committed to digging deeper into the health care issues affecting our community. Here in southern Nevada, we face a major physician shortage. However, there's good news. The Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine at UNLV is taking major steps toward bringing new doctors into the valley.
Increasing manmade and natural disasters require new thinking about the role of health care staff, effective triaging, community partnerships, and security.
Making health care more accessible for our under-served communities is the goal of a collaboration between the Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine at UNLV and Volunteers in Medicine of Southern Nevada.
