Starting with the Yale School of Medicine (YSM) graduating class of 2002, the Cushing/Whitney Medical Library and YSM Office of Student Research have collaborated on the Yale Medicine Thesis Digital Library (YMTDL) project, publishing the digitized full text of medical student theses on the web as a valuable byproduct of Yale student research efforts. The digital thesis deposit has been a graduation requirement since 2006. Starting in 2012, alumni of the Yale School of Medicine were invited to participate in the YMTDL project by granting scanning and hosting permission to the Cushing/Whitney Medical Library, which digitized the Library’s print copy of their thesis or dissertation. A grant from the Arcadia Fund in 2017 provided the means for digitizing over 1,000 additional theses. IF YOU ARE A MEMBER OF THE YALE COMMUNITY AND NEED ACCESS TO A THESIS RESTRICTED TO THE YALE NETWORK, PLEASE MAKE SURE YOUR VPN (VIRTUAL PRIVATE NETWORK) IS ON.
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Theses/Dissertations from 2000
Childhood Pneumonia in Nuwakot District, Nepal: perceptions, management, and the impact of a community intervention, Amy B. Levin
Quality of life and facial trama psychological and body image effects, Elie Levine
Management of acute myocardial infarction in veterans : a study according to hospital sophistication, Jody Alpert Levine
Localization of GFP-Rad52 in stable human cell lines, Rachel Lovins
A novel kunitz-type serine protease inhibitor from the hookworm, Ancylostoma Ceylanicum, Aaron Michael Milstone
Characterizing binge eating disorder with a focus on age of onset, Jessica Catherine Morgan
Clinical decision-making in the investigation of anemias in hospitalized patients, Amy Marie Nuernberg
Physical forces enhance colon cancer cell adhesion through a mechanism involving Src kinase, Ashish Ramesh Patel
Lesbian, bisexual, and gay graduates of the Yale School of Medicine and their heterosexual peers : attitudes and experiences, 1969-1998, Angela Joan Rubineau
The effects of chronic hypoxia on the developing rat brain, Carl John Seashore
Prognostic significance of histologic regression in thin cutaneous malignant melanoma / by Jason C. Sluzevich., Jason C. Sluezevich
Prognostic significance of histologic regression in thin cutaneous malignant melanoma, Jason C. Sluzevich
Severity of Illness and Prognosis of Liver Transplant Candidates at Yale, Arvind Venkat
Risk factors associated with the development of preeclampsia in adolescents, Amy Link Winkelstein
Theses/Dissertations from 1999
Shifting attitudes toward alcohol's effect on the fetus, Deena Berkowitz
Predicting child maltreatment using a structured clinical rating scale in the portpartum period, Clovene Hanchard Campbell
Developmental expression of the rat rod photoreceptor cGMP-gated cation channel, Robert Kent Chiang
Complications in previously irradiated salvage mastectomy patients, Jennifer Chiu
Identifying the autoantigen of a diabetogenic CD8 T cell clone isolated from young NOD mice, Caroline R. Dumont
Transient Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy in Premature Infants, Elly (Eloisa) V. Falzarano
Characterization of components of the toll/NF-kB signal transduction pathway : implications for host defense, Jesse A. Flaxenburg
Stole and stethoscope : a survey of physician clergy ordained in the Episcopal church, Daniel Emerson Hall
Nuclear magnetic resonance studies of free fatty acid induced insulin resistance in vivo, Dennis Lee
Cortical development in fibroblast growth factor 2 knockout mice, Richard X. Lyn-Cook
Differential distribution of ionotropic glutamate receptor subunits in the rat olfactory bulb, Artis Ann Montague
Medicine and motherhood: shifting trends among female physicians from 1922-1999 at Yale University, Ruth A. Potee
In the eye of the patentholder : Dr. Samuel Pallin and the Chevron Incision, Badrinath Rengarajan
Reduction ventriculoplasty for dilated cardiomyopathy : the Batista procedure, Shahram Salemy
The impact of Medicaid managed care on the lives of the chronically mentally ill in San Francisco, Deborah Paige Steinbaum
Does C-kit blockade induce adoptosis in mouse ovaries in vivo?, Alison E. Zimon
Theses/Dissertations from 1998
Psychosocial factors associated with condom use among urban adolescents, Makunda Abdul
Natural progression of aortic stenosis in a veteran population, Marjory Alabre
A critical analysis of the spectral filtered, signal-averaged electrocardiogram, Naomi Freya Botkin
An analysis of issues surrounding disclosure of the diagnosis of human immunodeficiency virus infection to children, Reshma Ravi Chugani
Discussions of advance directives in the outpatient setting : why do they happen so rarely?, Daniel T. Coghlin
An innovative curriculum of literature and medicine during residency education : poetry on the wards, Pieter Aaron Cohen
Anterior glenohumeral dislocations in the emergency department ; do prereduction radiographic findings influence patient management?, Kevin P. Daly
Power and mysticism in the introduction of anesthesia in nineteenth century America, Naomi Strachan Donnelley
Urinary catecholamines and cortisol in attention deficity/hyperactivity disorder, Marcia Dover
Nudel, an unusual mosaic protease involved in defining the embryonic dorsal-ventral axis of Drosophila Melanogaster, Charles Chansik Hong
Nudel, an unusual mosaic protease involved in defining the embryonic dorsal-ventral axis of Drosophila melanogaster, Charles Chansik Hong
Postnatal development of olfactory receptor cell axonal arbors, Jason R. Klenoff
Body size mismatch between donor and recipient in cadaveric kidney transplantation, Linda Shin Lee
Neurochemical and behavioral tolerance to cocaine following treatment with cocaine analogs, Tobias Tong-Po Lee
The longterm neuropsychological effects of single-suture craniosynostosis on child development, Sheela Natesh Magge
A prospective study of neonatal withdrawal in infants exposed to cocaine and methadone, Barbara A. McGee
Abnormalities in hepatocyte endocytosis in chronic pancreatitis, Jaimie David Nathan
Detection of the factor V Leiden mutation in a nonselected Black population, Paul Stuart Pottinger
Bedside doppler identification of lower-extremity deep-vein thrombosis, Gregory Stephen Raskin
Superior mesenteric artery flow velocity waveforms in small for gestational age fetuses, Eleanor Hoon Joo Rhee
A five year retrospective study of tuberculosis at a public hospital in the Ecuadorian Highlands, Eric Gary Shmookler
Smoking behavior and health beliefs in adolescents with asthma, Amy Elizabeth Taylor
Theses/Dissertations from 1997
Altered expression of P53 and MDM2 in superficial bladder cancer, Julian Neville Anthony
Effects of ambient air quality on children's lung function in urban and rural Iran, Maryam Mandana Asgari
Relationship between modulation of Glomus Cell K+ current and hypoxia transduction in the rat carotid body, Phillip Ming-Da Cheng
Managed care enterprise liability: toward a new paradigm of medical malpractice, Willis Chou
Effects of Tamoxifen on Prostaglandin E2 induced insulin-like growth factor I expression in fetal rat osteoblasts, Kristina A. Crothers
Detection of the mutated K-Ras biomarker in colorectal carcinoma, Benjamin R. Doolittle
Excess sample size and the 'Delta Wobble' in randomized controlled trials, Michael Adam Fischer
A comparison of patients with familial and sporadic cutaneous melanoma, Nina Jennifer Fisher
Alterations in expression of the motility-related proteins thymosin BETA 15 and P120CAS in human cancer, Jason S. Gold
The effect of vasoactive intestinal peptide on chloride conductance in airway epithelial cells, Shelagh Anne Houghton
Long-term outcomes following closed head injury in the elderly, Stephen Michael Kavic
The epidemiology of Necator americanus Infection in Rural Thailand, Karen Minnie Kiang
Changes in cellular retinoic acid binding proteins and nuclear retinoic acid receptors in murine melanoma cell lines following retinoic acid exposure, Raburn M. Mallory
Homebox genes in mouse fetal thymocyte development, Christiana Muntzel
Modulation of the rat potassium channel Kv1.5, Daniel Benjamin Saal
Modulation of the rat potassium channel Kv1.5, Daniel Benjamin Saal
Expression of angiogenesis factors and selected vascular wall matrix proteins in intracranial saccular aneurysms, Mark Skirgaudas
Effect of phenobarbital on extracellular matrix production, cell replication, transforming growth factor-��1 binding, and TGF-�� receptor profile in rat dermal fibroblast cultures, Rani Karina Spudich
Statistical parametric mapping analysis of positron emission tomography images for the detection of seizure foci: results in temporal lobe epilepsy, Jeffrey R. Tseng
"Chicken pot pie?" : a phenomenology of questions asked by patients during primary care visits, David Elliott Walker
Theses/Dissertations from 1996
Ethics or etiquette: the history and epidemiology of professional courtesy in medicine, Jeffrey Ian Algazy
Pilot study to evaluate the impact of an educational video about melanoma on knowledge and behavior, Sepideh Bagheri
Effect of transforming growth factor-β1, fibronectin and plasminogen activator inhibitor on migration of bovine aortic endothelial cells, Christine E. Brozowski
Assisted reproductive technologies : legal issues in procreation, Roger J. Chin
Magnetic resonance imaging of the ovary : can it predict low response to empiric superovulation?, Rebecca Jane Crichton
Ouabain potentiates kainate neurotoxicity ; a new rat model of human temporal lobe epilepsy, Amos O. Dare
The topological distribution of olfactory receptor neuron axons in the olfactory bulb glomeruli of the rat : a confocal microscopic study with DiI staining, Jeffrey Marc Dembner
ATP threshold for loss of epithelial cell polarity and elaboration of fodrin cleavage products following in vivo ischemic renal injury, Cynthia Jean Holcroft
The Ming Dynasty : a renaissance in medical thought, Shin-Yin Ho
Prenatal ultrasound biometry combined with umbilical and middle cerebral artery doppler velocimetry for the detection of intrauterine growth restriction, Andrea Toulson Jeffress
Development of an in-vitro technique to study vibration-induced spinal injury, Timothy S. Johnson
Targeting of calcitonin gene-related peptide expression to the pancreatic beta cells prevents insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus in non-obese diabetic mice, Armen Khachatryan
Effect of manipulating intraamygdala levels of cGMP on fear conditioning, Judd Warren Landsberg
Photochemotherapy of vascular cells with 8-methoxypsoralen and visible light: a novel approach to the prevention of post-angioplasty restenosis, David Marshall Lee
Perceptions of vulnerability and fears of AIDS: a survey of elementary school children, John S. Maypole
The value of lateral chest radiographs in the assessment of bone density and detection of osteopenia, Monica Anna Medynski
The cloning and characterization of TOAD-64, Jane Elizabeth Minturn
The cloning and characterization of TOAD-64: a gene expressed transiently during neuronal differentiation in the mammalian nervous system, Jane Elizabeth Minturn
Analysis of in vivo tissue expander fluid composition, Richard A. Nahouraii