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By the numbers

Yale Medicine Magazine, 2014 - Spring

Contents

36

Number of years between when Yale medical school graduate A.C. Gilbert first marketed the Erector Set and when an early heart pump was developed at Yale in 1949 using $24.80 in Erector Set parts.

1958

Year of the invention of continuous electronic fetal monitoring at Yale.

58

Number of Yale-affiliated biotech startups.

19

Number of students majoring in biomedical engineering in 1999, the first year of the program.

59

Number of students currently majoring in biomedical engineering.

1896

Year of the first X-ray image taken at Yale.

99

Percentage of Yale third-year med students who use an iPad on rounds.

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