This week I attended the virtual Association of Academic Medical Center’s 2020 (#aamc2020) Annual meeting. I want to highlight the four themes that permeated the sessions I attended. These are 1) community collaboration; 2) Anti-Racism; 3) Covid-19 Lessons Learned; and 4) Medical Education.
Books are vital to understanding ourselves and those around us. Use this month as a starting place to read stories and compilations by indigenous authors and expand your understanding of Native American history.
Please join Countway Library and the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine for a book talk and panel to celebrate Paul Farmer's latest work, Fevers, Feuds and Diamonds.
First, our upcoming Holiday Party will be a virtual event this year. It has been a difficult and challenging year for everyone and we hope the party will be a way that we can take a breather from work and just enjoy each other’s company as we prepare for the winter holiday break.
As I mentioned in an earlier message, October is the month in which we celebrate the valuable role medical libraries play in supporting the academic health sciences enterprise.
Help us learn more about your needs and grow the #CountwayCommunity by sharing your Countway experiences during COVID-19, and you could be featured in our next installment of #CountwayStories!
Please join Countway Library and the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine for a book talk and panel to celebrate Paul Farmer's latest work, Fevers, Feuds and Diamonds.
By all accounts, our fall semester has been full steam ahead. Staff are onsite 48 hours per month and making tremendous progress doing work which cannot be done remotely such as...
As you may know, HMS is working on planning for the first year MD students to return to campus in the spring. The 2nd, 3rd, and 4th-year students are currently on-site and working in hospitals.
Learn about the life and influence of John Collins Warren with Sarah Alger, Director of the Paul S. Russell, MD Museum of Medical History and Innovation at Massachusetts General Hospital, Dominic Hall, Curator of the Warren Anatomical Museum in the Center for the History of Medicine, Countway Library, and Bill Pearson, Director of Health and Science Ministries, Park Street Church and Visiting Scholar, Harvard Program on Human Flourishing.
