Experiences in the clinic during the third year of medical school spur a remarkable transformation. For the first time, future MDs begin to feel like doctors.
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Experiences in the clinic during the third year of medical school spur a remarkable transformation. For the first time, future MDs begin to feel like doctors.
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Twenty years ago, the Family Van hit the road. Last month, the wellness services center on wheels celebrated two decades of providing free curbside health education, screenings and referrals to more than 40,000 people in Boston neighborhoods. “It’s fascinating to think about what’s the same and what’s changed over 20 years,” said Jennifer Bennet,...
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Jeffrey S. Flier, dean of the Faculty of Medicine called the meeting to order, announcing that the agenda for the January meeting would include a remarkable, 50 year-old film about Harvard Medical School would be shown, followed by a discussion of the major issues raised by the half-century look at HMS. Flier then introduced...
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Harvard University’s Office for Sustainability is accepting nominations for the 2012 Green Carpet Awards. The awards honor staff, students and faculty across the University for significant contributions to sustainability. The deadline for nominations is March 9, 2012. Winners will be announced April 12th in Sanders Theatre in Cambridge. Learn more at green.harvard.edu.
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Is the mommy track vanquished? Or is it still a derailer of medical careers? The question loomed large as champions of women’s careers at HMS explored the challenges of flexible career paths during a panel discussion convened Feb. 6 by the HMS/HSDM Joint Committee on the Status of Women (JCSW). The panel, titled “Lessons...
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The Eli and Edythe L. Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT has been awarded a $32.5 million grant from the Klarman Family Foundation to support a new collaborative effort focused on deciphering how human cells are wired. The grant will allow the scientific community to expand its understanding of how biological decisions are made...
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Change Your Gambling, Change Your Life: Strategies for Managing Your Gambling and Improving Your Finances, Relationships, and Health by Howard Shaffer, Ryan Martin and John Kleschinsky Jossey-Bass From Howard Shaffer, HMS associate professor of psychology and a noted expert on gambling addiction, comes Change Your Gambling, Change your Life, a new book which explains...
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Curtis Prout, former assistant dean for student affairs at Harvard Medical School, died peacefully at home in Manchester, MA on December 2, 2011. Prout practiced primary care medicine for almost 70 years. He joined the faculty of HMS in 1949 and later served as assistant dean for student affairs for seven years. Prout was...
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David Williams, chief of the Division of Hematology/Oncology and director of Translational Research at Children’s, and associate chair of Pediatric Oncology at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, has been selected by the American Society of Gene & Cell Therapy (ASGCT) as the recipient of the 2012 Outstanding Achievement Award. The ASGCT’s highest honor, the Outstanding Achievement...
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The Nancy Lurie Marks Family Foundation is seeking applications for two fellowships with application deadlines of March 16, 2012: The Junior Faculty MeRIT Fellowship is intended to support junior faculty member develop an autism-related independent research program. Each applicant must hold an MD or MD/PhD, be a faculty member within the first five years...
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