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Boston University School of Medicine + boston university school of medicine + spring 2013 • www.bumc.bu.edu WE TOOK A HARD LOOK AT OUR CURRICULUM FOR THE 21ST CENTURY. AND MADE IT EVEN BETTER. CREATING DR. RIGHT Message From The Dean spring 2013 dissections, they also learn radiology by of the National Institutes of Health, from studying the CT scans of the cadavers. which we receive hundreds of millions of Students also see their first patients dollars of grant support. We already have within a week of starting medical school felt the impact of these reductions to our Contents and start learning how to interview them. mission of teaching, research, and clinical Students may practice clinical skills with care; the pace of important research is standardized patients (who definitely note slowing and we are jeopardizing the careers whether they wash their hands, introduce of the next generation of leaders in science themselves, and make eye contact) before and medicine. We have enacted budgetary Match Day Joy by Frank Curran venturing to the clinics to conduct their first adjustments and operational strategies to physical examinations, and can practice mitigate the loss of funding as we actively hearing heart sounds with simulators that collaborate with our colleagues nationally to mimic mitral valve stenosis or a heart gallop let Washington know how devastating the deaR FRiends, rhythm with the turn of a dial. Before they reductions will be to the public health and Albert Einstein once noted, “The world as we care for their first patients in anesthesiology, scientific inquiry. have created it is a process of our thinking. they intubate mannequins in the Clinical Skills We greatly appreciate the generosity It cannot be changed without changing our and Simulation Center until they can skillfully of the School’s alumni and friends who thinking.” At the School of Medicine, the (and confidently) do the procedure rapidly. continue to support our research projects, process of our thinking about the curriculum, Our faculty members are deeply particularly at times like these when for both MDs and PhDs, has undergone a invested in finding ways to present material research budgets are endangered. Class of transformation. As you will read in this issue, that facilitates learning; at any given time 1965 graduates Douglas and Donna Barnard the MD curriculum has evolved over seven they are involved in a number of studies have contributed to the School for almost years based both on national perspectives on educational interventions, the results of four decades, and we are pleased to share on medical education and on BU-specific which they present and publish. Students their story in this issue. educational initiatives. Our educational often participate in these studies and Thank you for your interest in and programs more closely reflect our patients’ sometimes contribute to their design, commitment to BUSM. With your current health care needs. ensuring that the faculty stays attuned to the suggestions, advice, and support, we The classic model of medical education student experience and their perceptions. continue to educate outstanding physicians for the past century (two years of basic Dr. Deborah Vaughan, professor of and make progress in important research. science followed by two years of clinical anatomy and neurobiology and a good clerkships and electives) has given way to example of our dynamic and progressive early clinical experiences and the integration faculty, is featured in this issue. Dr. Vaughan Best regards, of basic science didactic sessions into the has significantly modified the histology third and fourth year; today we are as likely curriculum and studied the effects of the to use small group discussions as large modifications. She is a true academician and lectures. We continue to teach the core scholar with an intense love of science and Karen Antman, MD biomedical sciences—human anatomy teaching and great respect for students. Provost, Medical Campus has not changed for a hundred thousand You are probably aware of sequestration Dean, School of Medicine years or so. But today, as students do their and its cuts to Medicare and the budget Professor of Medicine ON THE COVER Drs. Linda Hyman and Douglas Hughes +by Cydney Scott Boston University School of Medicine: design & production Please direct any questions or comments to: Campus & Alumni News Boston University Creative Services Mary Hopkins Published by the Boston University Communications Office Medical Campus Communications contributing writers Boston University Medical Campus Office on behalf of Boston University Lisa Brown, Leslie Friday, Mary Hopkins, 85 East Newton Street, M420 FEATURES DEPARTMENTS School of Medicine. Holly Lindner Boston, MA 02118 Respecting students 2 Campus News 23 Students Maria Pantages Ober photography P 617-638-8491 | F 617-638-8044 | E [email protected] Deborah Vaughan—Teacher, Mentor, Leader 14 Research 30 Giving Director of Communications BU Photography, Boston University 6 Boston University’s policies provide for equal opportunity and School of Medicine Educational Media affirmative action in employment and admission to all programs cReating Dr. Right 20 Faculty News 34 Alumni Mary Hopkins Center, Frank Curran, Betty Yang ‘15, of the University. Integrated Medicine Curriculum and Foundations Publications Manager and Gina Orlando. 10 0413 9040039599 in Biomedical Sciences FRANK CURRAN Campus & Alumni News | BOSTON UNIVERSITY School of Medicine Spring 2013 | www.bumc.bu.edu 1 BUSM ON THE www.facebook.com/ www.twitter.com/ www.youtube.com/ campus News WEB BUMedicine BUMedicine BUMedicine Little Sprouts, which was established in 1982 its Early Reading First, Preschool Centers of and currently has 16 early education schools Educational Excellence Award for nine con- Child Care Services across Massachusetts and New Hampshire. secutive years. The Little Sprouts philosophy focuses on For more on Little Sprouts, visit www. teaching children critical social-emotional littlesprouts.com. For specific information Come to BUMC skills—including problem-solving and inde- about the program being offered on the BU pendence—through interactive learning and Medical Campus, please call 877-977-7688. collaborative play to help them develop a “After two decades of exploring child care lifelong love of learning. Little Sprouts takes a options for the Boston University Medical child-centered, individualized approach to edu- Campus, we are pleased to be able to offer this cation; children are actively engaged in their service to members of our community,” said learning, and their interests, learning styles, Dean Karen Antman, MD. “Housing the pro- and preferences are considered in every day’s gram in our beautiful new student residence is planning. The US Department of Education an added plus for the children being cared for has honored the Little Sprouts program with and for the students living in the building.” n BU Elected to Association of American Universities The Association of American Universities (AAU) has elected Boston University to mem- bership. A nonprofit organization founded in 1900 to advance the international standing of US research universities, the association consists of the 62 leading public and private Dean Karen Antman, MD, congratulates Class of research universities in the United States 2013 AOA inductee Anunita Garg. and Canada. “The decision by the AAU's current mem- Thirty Class of 2013 BUSM students were rec- bers to add Boston University to their ranks is ognized for their leadership, character, commu- a tangible validation of the quality and impact nity service, and professionalism as inductees of our doctoral research programs and of into the national medical honor society Alpha Omega Alpha (AOA). Also inducted was BUSM2. the research and scholarship of our faculty,” America’s research enterprise and in educat- faculty member Gregory Grillone, MD, associ- said President Robert Brown in announc- ing the nation’s young scientists, engineers, ate professor and vice chair of the Department ing the election to the University community. and scholars. Boston University is a welcome of Otolaryngology—Head and Neck Surgery; and “This news is a major milestone in Boston addition to the ranks of these leading research two alumni, orthopedic surgeon Timothy Foster, University's history.” universities.” MD ’86, and dermatologist Keyvan Nouri, MD G ’93. Three housestaff inductees from Boston UN n December 2012, child care services became available on the BU Medical Campus (BUMC). O AAU extended the invitation to Boston The other Massachusetts-based members Y Medical Center, Jonathan Hatoun, MD; Nora Lee, Y A University following an in-depth review of are Harvard University, the Massachusetts MD; and Victoria Pimentel, MD, were recognized Located on the ground floor of the new medical student residence at 815 Albany Street, the CK the University’s research and academic Institute of Technology, and Brandeis as well. center provides child care slots in the early education program that are available to Medical NA M programs by its Membership Committee. University. The AAU focuses on issues criti- AOA is dedicated to the belief that the medi- isti Campus employees and students, members of the BUMC Residency Programs, BU Charles R K : "Boston University is an outstanding insti- cal to research-intensive institutions, such as cal profession’s quality of patient care is improved iRiver Campus employees, and Boston Medical Center employees. The program is run by by recognizing high educational
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