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Vol. I, Issue 8 Published 05.03.04
Topical
March for Women’s Lives
Anna Chodos
“I ‘Heart’ Pro-choice Docs”. This button adorned many lapels in the health care contingent marching on Sunday, April 25, at the March for Women’s Lives in Washington D.C. Over one million people, including ten HMS students and two faculty members, one with her daughter, marched down the National Mall, past the White House, and settled in a huge mass to hear speakers and show their support for the right to safe, affordable, and accessible family planning services...

Opinion
Entitled to a Free Lunch?
Ji Yeon Kim
As medical students, we have no power to prescribe anything, not even an aspirin. In fact, we barely know how to pronounce the names of the drugs we’re forced to learn for the Boards Part I. It is hard to see how these gifts make any different for us...

Feedback & Assessment
Faculty Evaluation
Marty Schoen
It seems as though students are constantly being asked for feedback about their courses. Every lecturer, tutor, conference leader and course wants to know if they were effective in teaching and how they could improve upon their pedagogical skills. This request is completely appropriate and always warranted because everyone can become a better teacher. Yet as all course managers know, students do not complete the surveys...


HMStyle Extreme Makeover ... FABRIC style
Tiffany McNair
When Walter Bradford Cannon and friends first came to HMStyle desperately seeking fashion consultation, our staff was uncharacteristically overwhelmed with what initially appeared to be a Herculean feat. Honestly, is that mustache for real?...

Topical
Random Thoughts (Part I)
Ankit Mehta
i) Everybody is complaining about how finding a place around the medical school is expensive, and how tuition is going up. My solution is to just live inside the MEC...

Survey Says
“What does every prospective student need to know about being a medical or dental student at HMS?”
Annalise Keen


Today's Talks 05.03.04
Wednesday, May 5
"Cinco de Mayo BBQ Celebration!”
MeSLA, MGH Minority Affairs
Come grab some good food and enjoy the sunny weather as we celebrate Mexican culture and commemorate Mexico’s victory over the French army in 1862.
5:30 pm, Vanderbilt Hall Deanery
Free food.

“The Tormented President: Calvin Coolidge, Death, and Clinical Depression”
Countway Library
Lecture and booksigning by Robert Gilbert, author, Northeastern University.
4:00pm, 5th floor, Minot Room, Countway Library of Medicine

Thursday, May 6
"Public Policies for HIV/AIDS with Special Reference to China”
Asia Public Policy Workshop and WHR Rivers Symposium
Debrework Zewdie, World Bank; Jim Kim, WHO; Shen Jie, China Center for Disease Control and National Center for HIV/AIDS Prevention and Control; Anthony Saich, KSG.
6:00pm, Starr Auditorium, Belfer Building, KSG

Friday, May 7
“2nd Annual Symposium on Racial/ Ethnic Health Disparities Research in the U.S.: From Research to Practice”
Harvard Interfaculty Program
Faculty discus basic physiology, state-of-the-art treatments, research, and future directions.
Speakers: Reginald Stuart, HSPH; Suzette Oyeku, HSPH; Debra Joy Pérez, GSAS.
8:00am – 4:30pm. Room G-1, Kresge Building, HSPH
Register www.healthpolicy.harvard.edu/ disparity.php, under “Disparities Symposium 2004.” More information, email retucker@disparitiessymposium.com

Saturday, May 8 2004
"Collateral Benefits: Complex Health Interventions Among the Poor”
DRCLAS, Division of Social Medicine Health Inequalities, BWH
Paul Farmer, PIH; Fernet Léandre, Zanmi Lasante, Haiti; Askar Yedilbayev, PIH, Russia; Jaime Bayona, Socios en Salud, Peru; Anne Hasitings, Fonkoze, Haiti.
9:00am – 1:00pm, New Research Building, HMS

"Volunteer opportunity at The Food Project”
SEAM & MUNCH
9:30 am-12:30pm, West Cottage lot in Roxbury
Transportation provided. Email Christine or Molly Perencevich. Limit 15 students. www.thefoodproject.org/

Ongoing
"2nd Year Show Videos"
Checks to “HMS/HSDM 2nd Year Show.”
Contact: Nancy Chang



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