Official test to see if it’s real:

Students were split into groups of 3 to 4 people to visit Neighborhood Community Health Centers around greater Boston and conduct interviews and participant observation exercises.  Some of the health centers they visited included:
Dimock Community Health Center: opened in 1862 as the 2nd hospital in the U.S. dedicated to women with female doctors.  Today it […]

Here is a picture of my honey braving the cold to visit me…
 It is not really as cold as it looks.  We are on the Mass Ave Bridge (the MIT bridge) over the frozen Charles River, which was covered in snow although the rest of Boston was not.  If Bob tells you it was -11 degrees […]

One of today’s lectures with Dr. Ben Siegel and a current 3rd year medical student Ricardo, gave students a glimpse at the “culture of medical school.”  What rituals, traditions, techniques help to transform students into doctors?  We watched clips from a Nova PBS series called Survivor, MD.  Dr. Siegel would pause the video at a particularly […]

This is my favorite scene from So Much, So Fast, a documentary I saw last night at a special screening hosted by Coolidge Corner Theatre and Jamie Heywood, one of the ’stars’ of the film.  Afterward he answered questions about his brother’s battle with ALS, as well as his own battle to find funding for […]

This afternoon we had an engaging introduction to the history of Boston’s neighborhoods.  Boston is known as a city of neighborhoods: Back Bay, Beacon Hill, The South End, Roxbury, Jamaica Plain, Fenway, South Boston, The North End, Allston, Brighton, Mattapan, Roslindale.  I listed these all from my own cursory understanding of Boston geography.  Other areas […]

Lecture from Gerald Keusch: “Global Health in 2007: Looking Back, Looking Forward.”  Dr. Keusch is the former director of the Fogerty International Center at the NIH and currently serves as Dean for Global Health at BUSPH and director of the Global Health Initiative.  A graduate of Harvard Med School and Columbia College, his lifelong research topics include: tropical infectious […]

We played a silly “getting to know you” game this morning.  The person in the center of the circle shouts, “The wind blows for me and anyone who _________” and if the descprition fits an individual, he or she is “blown” across the circle to a new spot.  Whoever does not get to a new […]

Phew…I am exhausted.  I have worked for 10 days straight, often 10-12 hour days in preparation for this weekend’s student arrivals.  There was an 84 page Orientation to put together, Syllabi for 4 courses, course packs full of readings for the semester, a new passport to secure (pending), and 3 disparate faculty personalities to get to know.  […]

The following is the welcome letter I mailed to students in December…more soon on the students’ arrival in Boston and our orientation today!  -Adi 
 Dear Students,  
     I am sitting in a small café in Boston trying to craft an opening letter to you, and I simply cannot decide what to say first!  So many thoughts run […]