{"id":75201,"date":"2019-09-25T14:50:32","date_gmt":"2019-09-25T18:50:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/busm\/?p=75201"},"modified":"2019-09-25T15:22:14","modified_gmt":"2019-09-25T19:22:14","slug":"students-celebrate-medical-equipment-day-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/2019\/09\/25\/students-celebrate-medical-equipment-day-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Students Celebrate Medical Equipment Day 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"551\" height=\"310\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1hdSVb6cujQ\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>For many, the White Coat Ceremony represents the beginning of a medical student\u2019s journey to become a doctor; but receiving your first stethoscope embodies the <em>practice of doctoring<\/em> \u2013 using science and technology to listen and determine what is happening to a patient.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, Sept. 24, the Class of 2023 came together for the second annual Lorraine Stanfield Memorial Doctoring Lecture, with special guest speakers Drs. Elizabeth Ferrenz, Nanette Harvey, Robert Lowe and Katie Harris. The goals of this enlightening lecture are to help students more deeply understand the healing role of physician-patient interactions, the important function the physical examination plays in caring for and diagnosing patients, and to connect these themes to Dr. Stanfield\u2019s career as a primary care clinician and medical educator.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m sorry that you don\u2019t get to meet Lorraine. She was a great colleague, a great friend, a great family member. But you\u2019re going to meet her in little bits and pieces. You\u2019ll meet her in the people she\u2019s trained who are now training you, including me, our residents, our medical students and every bit of her that tells you how to talk, deal with and care for a patient\u201d said Dr. Lowe.<\/p>\n<p>After the lecture, students received the tool crucial to begin their practice: stethoscope kits generously donated by more than 80 BUSM alumni. Along with their stethoscope, they received a copy of Dr. Atul Gawande\u2019s book, \u201cBeing Mortal,\u201d donated annually by Dr. Elizabeth Dooling, MED\u201965.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI speak for the whole class when I say \u2018thank you.\u2019 Receiving something like this and feeling the support of others that have gone through the same thing is really something special,\u201d said student Antonio Diaz.<\/p>\n<p>Upon opening their kits, which also included a diagnostic set, blood pressure cuff, tuning forks, reflex hammer and a gown, students found a card complete with the name and contact information of their alumni donor. Gathered together as a class, they tried out their new stethoscopes and wrote thank you notes to the donors who made the day possible.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne of the hallmarks of being a doctor is paying it forward. Receiving this stethoscope has made me feel like the doctors that graduate from BU follow in that tradition. I hope I can do the same when I become a doctor,\u201d said student Steven Moura.<\/p>\n<p>The event, held annually since 2007, highlights the importance of alumni involvement in supporting current School of Medicine students and initiatives.\u00a0 See more on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pg\/BUMedicine\/photos\/?tab=album&amp;album_id=2927334123962973\">Facebook<\/a>. If you would like to donate a stethoscope to future classes, please visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/give2busm\">www.bu.edu\/give2busm<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Receiving your first stethoscope embodies the <i>practice of doctoring<\/i> \u2013 using science and technology to listen and determine what is happening to a patient.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":903,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[154,157,91,158,156],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75201"}],"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=75201"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75208,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75201\/revisions\/75208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}