Arts
HMS Perspectives
Inspiration and Gratitude
Edward M. Hundert, MD
Dean for Medical Education
As I reflect on the past several months since the COVID-19 pandemic began, I am filled with inspiration and gratitude. The way our faculty, students, staff, alumni and others have rallied during this time inspires me with tremendous hope for the future... Continued
Health Care Inequities and Medical Education
Addressing Racism in Medical Education
Camila M. Mateo, MD, MPH | Alden Landry MD, MPH
Racism in medical education is not a new issue. Health professions education has a long history of policies, practices, and norms that perpetuate racial and ethnic disparities in the physician workforce and patient outcomes. The nation is in the midst of what many are calling the Second Civil Rights Movement ... Continued
HMS Perspectives
A Letter to Our New Interns
Rachel Conrad, MD
Among the many Osler quotes that you will hear during training, these words might resonate in our current moment: “Humanity has but three great enemies: fever, famine, and war; of these by far the greatest, by far the most terrible, is fever.”1 Continued
Learner's Review
HMS Students’ COVID Mobilization
Shivangi Goel | Derek Soled
At the outset of the COVID-19 pandemic, healthcare workers across the country were deeply affected, experiencing dramatically increasing patient deaths, heavy workloads, and personal concern for their health and their lives.2 Continued
HMS Perspectives
Supporting Residents’ Well-being During the Covid-19 Pandemic
Glenn Gaviola, MD| Jisoo Kim, MD| Jose Lopez, MD, MBA| Fiona Malone, MD| Colette Martin, MD| Stephen Morales, MD| Sukjin Koh, MD| Sandra Palma, BA| Jennifer Uyeda, MD
The COVID-19 pandemic has transformed our medical education environment. To support our resident physicians in these uncertain and stressful times, our Diagnostic Radiology and Integrated Interventional and Diagnostic Radiology residency programs at Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) developed new programs focused on trainee well-being aided by our Residency Wellness Committee (RWC). Continued
Dr. Stanford is a fellowship-trained obesity medicine physician at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH)/ Harvard Medical School (HMS). Dr. Stanford received her BS and MPH from Emory University as a MLK Scholar, her MD from the Medical College of Georgia School of Medicine as a Stoney Scholar... 
