{"id":47069,"date":"2017-05-18T16:48:09","date_gmt":"2017-05-18T20:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/?p=47069"},"modified":"2017-05-25T08:55:11","modified_gmt":"2017-05-25T12:55:11","slug":"mdphd-commencement-an-unfinished-mosaic-of-learning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/2017\/05\/18\/mdphd-commencement-an-unfinished-mosaic-of-learning\/","title":{"rendered":"MD\/PhD Commencement: \u2018An Unfinished Mosaic of Learning\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/camed\/files\/2017\/05\/graduation_pano-636x188.jpg\" alt=\"graduation_pano\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-47166\" height=\"188\" width=\"636\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/files\/2017\/05\/graduation_pano-636x188.jpg 636w, https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/files\/2017\/05\/graduation_pano-768x227.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/files\/2017\/05\/graduation_pano-1024x303.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 636px) 100vw, 636px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe come here today, a petri dish of emotions.\u00a0 We\u2019re excited and afraid, proud and uncertain, hopeful and apprehensive.\u00a0 As we acknowledge this huge accomplishment, we recognize this equally vast step we are making into the real world,\u201d said School of Medicine PhD candidate Liz Moses at the 170th Commencement exercises on Thursday, May 18.<\/p>\n<p>BUSM conferred 150 medical degrees, six MD\/PhDs, three MD\/MPHs, and 46 PhDs; 23 students earned Latin honors \u2013 16 cum laude, five magna cum laude, and two achieved summa cum laude: Samih Nassif Abudinen and Samuel Miller.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOver the past four years, I have learned how to observe people, most notably, my classmates. I believe that these observations have had a stronger influence on my personal development than any clinical rotation,\u201d shared MD class speaker Samuel Miller.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy classmates constantly remind me that the raw materials for building a great physician are present in all of us,\u201d he said. \u201cThey teach, support, listen to, impress and humble me in countless ways, far beyond what I have listed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dean Karen Antman, MD, said, \u201cYou are becoming scientists and physicians at a time of great change and uncertainty. \u00a0We have had\u00a0epidemics of MERs, Ebola, Zika and more.\u00a0Wars and tensions around the world have escalated with a growing numbers of refugees, many of them in our own patient population. US health outcomes are lower than that for other developed countries and our health-care costs are high. You will figure it out. We have great confidence in your creativity, resilience, intellect and innovation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>As is custom, the graduating class selects their graduation speaker. The invited speaker was Anthony Fauci, MD, Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID).\u00a0 Fauci has served as NIAID director since 1984 and oversees an extensive portfolio of basic and applied research to prevent, diagnose and treat established and emerging infectious diseases, such as Ebola and Zika. NIAID also supports research on transplantation and immune-related illnesses, including autoimmune disorders, asthma and allergies.<\/p>\n<p>Fauci discussed the dynamic nature of medicine and the biological sciences. \u201cYou will have one foot in the past as you take gigantic leaps into the future.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.bu.edu\/buniverse\/interface\/embed\/embed.html?v=1ApyDx1ux\" width=\"550\" height=\"310\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou will bear witness to a constant and at times seemingly overwhelming evolution of scientific and technologic advances,\u201d he said. \u201cYou will feel both exhilarated and intimidated.\u00a0 The evolution in medicine and biological sciences will be beyond your control, but you will be part of it, hanging on seemingly for dear life to keep up with it.\u00a0 Rest assured that being bored will not be a problem for you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor in the field of Medicine and the Biological Sciences we are all perpetual students.\u00a0 We may graduate from whatever institution of learning that we attended, but that is not the end game,\u201d Fauci continued. &#8220;The scope of what we have learned and what we still need to learn is like a giant mosaic and this mosaic of our knowledge and experiences is eternally unfinished, as well it should be.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou will leave here today as professionals in a most noble field. \u00a0You have been privileged and with this privilege come responsibilities. May you carry these responsibilities with pride and conviction and I strongly hope that you will experience great joy and satisfaction in our shared profession,\u201d Fauci concluded.<\/p>\n<p>Commencement ceremonies included the presentation of faculty awards.\u00a0 This year\u2019s honorees were:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Stanley L. Robbins Award for Excellence in Teaching<\/strong><strong><br \/>\nR. Jarrett Rushmore III, PhD<br \/>\n<\/strong>Anatomy &amp; Neurobiology<\/p>\n<p><strong>Leonard Tow Humanism in Medicine Award<\/strong><strong><br \/>\nEdward B. Feinberg, MD, MPH<br \/>\n<\/strong>Ophthalmology<\/p>\n<p><strong>Committee on Faculty Affairs Educator of the Year Awards<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Educator of the Year in Preclinical Medical Sciences<\/strong><strong><br \/>\nElizabeth Whitney, PhD<br \/>\n<\/strong>Anatomy &amp; Neurobiology<\/p>\n<p><strong>Educator of the Year Clinical Sciences<\/strong><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong>Boston Medical Center<br \/>\n<strong>Jessica Levi, MD<\/strong><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong>Otolaryngology-Head &amp; Neck Surgery<\/p>\n<p>Kaiser Permanente, California<br \/>\n<strong>Janna Doherty, MD<\/strong><br \/>\nObstetrics &amp; Gynecology<\/p>\n<p><strong>Educator of the Year in Graduate Medical Sciences<\/strong><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong>Doctoral Degree Program<br \/>\n<strong>Christopher Gabel, PhD<\/strong><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong>Physiology &amp; Biophysics<\/p>\n<p>Master\u2019s Degree Program<br \/>\n<strong>Aaron Young, PhD<\/strong><br \/>\nPhysiology &amp; Biophysics<\/p>\n<p><strong>Laurie Craigen, PhD<\/strong><br \/>\nPsychiatry<\/p>\n<p>See more images from the day on our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/media\/set\/?set=a.1700548549974876.1073741879.149595361736877&amp;type=1&amp;l=a59eb93945\">Facebook album<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BUSM conferred 150 MDs, six MD\/PhDs, three MD\/MPHs and 46 PhDs at its 170th MD &#038; PhD Commencement exercises.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":903,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[124,91],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47069"}],"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=47069"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47069\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47397,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47069\/revisions\/47397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}