{"id":25586,"date":"2015-11-04T16:26:19","date_gmt":"2015-11-04T21:26:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/busm\/?p=25586"},"modified":"2015-11-05T11:06:24","modified_gmt":"2015-11-05T16:06:24","slug":"stethoscopes-for-students-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/2015\/11\/04\/stethoscopes-for-students-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"Stethoscopes for Students 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"550\" height=\"310\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/buniverse\/interface\/embed\/embed.html?v=6W4730\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s often draped around the necks of doctors and helps to check a patient\u2019s heart and blood pressure. The stethoscope is considered a symbol of the medical profession.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, Nov. 3, each student of the BUSM\u2019s Class of 2019 received one as a gift from a BUSM alum.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis gift is something these students will carry with them for the rest of their lives,\u201d said Nanette Harvey, MD, course director for Introduction to Clinical Medicine and coordinator for the medical equipment distribution to first-year students.\u00a0\u201cThe alumni who provided these stethoscopes have set another example of their outstanding generosity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>More than\u00a080 alumni\u00a0participated\u00a0in the Stethoscopes for Students program, now in its\u00a0eighth year and coordinated by the BUSM Alumni Association. Along with the stethoscope, the distribution of medical equipment included a blood pressure cuff, ophthalmoscope, otoscope, reflex hammer and two tuning forks.<\/p>\n<p>As a special addition to this year\u2019s event alumnus Elizabeth Dooling, MD (BUSM \u201965) a pediatric neurologist at Massachusetts General Hospital, donated and personally handed out copies of Atul Gawande\u2019s book \u201c<em>Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End<\/em>\u201d to each member of the class.<\/p>\n<p>After trying on their stethoscopes and posing for pictures with fellow classmates, students wrote thank-you notes to the alumni who purchased their gifts.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is such an amazing experience,\u201d said first-year student Stephen Hill. \u201cIt\u2019s great to feel that connection between me and my previous alumnus. This moment feels very real.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>See the <a href=\"http:\/\/on.fb.me\/1HbNztG\">Facebook album<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BUSM first-year medical students receive stethoscopes compliments of alumni. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":903,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[91,123],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25586"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/903"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25586"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25586\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25597,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25586\/revisions\/25597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}