by jiyeon kim
Last summer, as the global pandemic raged through Los Angeles, I decided to sort through boxes in my attic. Among the mementos I stumbled across were twenty issues of
The Weekly Murmur: Tracings of Student Life, a newsletter published at HMS from October 2003 to April 2004. Reading them, I was touched, delighted, and amused; the articles were informal snapshots of my HMS and Harvard School of Dental Medicine classmates and captured our last year together prior to scattering to our clinical clerkships. As far as I know, the cache I found is the only remaining physical copy of this series, and I suspect my chief reason for saving them from the recycling bin was my nostalgic attachment as the publication’s editor-in-chief.
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JOHNSON CITY – The Street Medicine Interest Group (SMIG), a new student organization at East Tennessee State University, is building bridges with community partners to help people who are experiencing homelessness overcome barriers to health care.
The group hosted its first flu clinic on Friday, Dec. 18, at Munsey Memorial United Methodist Church. This event provided donations of warm clothing to many and flu shots to 12 individuals who are experiencing homelessness in the Appalachian Highlands.
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The SMIG is an interprofessional student organization that is comprised of approximately 60 students representing ETSU s five health sciences colleges including the Quillen College of Medicine, Bill Gatton College of Pharmacy, College of Nursing, College of Public Health and College of Clinical and Rehabilitative Health Sciences. It was organized by students who were looking for a way to make a difference in the community.