Features

		Northern Exposure A bold partnership between Tufts and Maine Medical Center seeks to relieve the doctor shortage in rural portions of New England's largest state By Bruce Morgan - Photograph by Patrick McNamara Run Date: Sept, 2009
		This Crazy Love She's a doctor. She's a first-time mom. And when she enters the ER clutching her injured child, all bets are off. By Rachel Salguero Kowalsky, M.D./M.P.H.,'03 Run Date: Sept, 2009
		Coding and Billing Spitfire Dreama Sloan-Kelly '02 has found her professional nich at last By Bruce Morgan - Photograph by Steve Marsel Run Date: Sept, 2009
		Drop in Pressure With two young children at home and her training in front of her, a pediatrics resident is torn apart - until she decides to go part-time By By Susan Clinton Martin, M04 Run Date: August, 2009
		Springboard - Tufts first MBS Class While Tufts' MBS program is certainly not the only post-baccalaureate premedical program, its size and intimacy make it unique. With 78 students in the 2008-09 class, the MBS program is less than half the size of the first-year medical school class, which averages around 170 students each year. That means more individual attention from professors in the classroom. By Jacqueline Mitchell Run Date: May 2009
		World of Good: Journey to India Sohil Sud, an MD/Fletcher MA student, went to Mangalore on the west coast of southern India, to learn from and study with the public health practitioners at Father Muller Medical College. His experience treating a rural population for everything from snake bites to polio is related in this audio slidehow. Media Type: Audio Slideshow Run Date: February 6, 2007
		World of Good: Journey to Peru Educating young villagers in the mountains of southern Peru about their reproductive rights was a welcome challenge for MD/MPH student Manisha Kumar, a recipient of the Hickey-Peyton International Travel Fellowship. Our audio slideshow features the many highlights of her trip, including teaching the pupils of an all-girls school in a remote mountain town. Media Type: Audio Slideshow Run Date: February 6, 2007
		World of Good: Journey to Africa Catherine Hooper, an MD student, journeyed to Dar es Salaam, Tanzania in east Africa, where she helped professors at Muhimbili University College of Health Sciences link up with TUSK, Tufts University School of Medicine's online database. Media Type: Audio Slideshow Run Date: February 6, 2007

Feature Archives

Care on Call - By Claire Vail - March 2007
At the Tufts-run Sharewood Clinic, Tufts medical students are not only helping disadvantaged members of the community, but getting a head start at being a physician. A volunteer-based clinic run by Tufts students and supported by Tufts' family medicine residency program, Sharewood has had over 2,500 visits from 1,500 different patients over the past decade.

The Doctors-To-Be Are In - By Claire Vail - March 2007
The patient, a man in his 50s, explains that he's had a bad flu for nearly a month. In the last few days, a strange soreness under his left arm has put him into in a mild panic. After researching his symptoms on the Internet, he fears he may have a lymph node infection or worse -- angina pains. We peek behind the curtain and take a close-up look at a typical case at the Sharewood clinic.

Zanzibar - By Kadesha Thomas - September 2007
Kadesha Thomas, a student in the School of Medicine's Masters of Public Health program, recently spent a semester on one of the two Zanzibar islands off mainland Tanzania. Her experience as a student in the local medical clinic, and as an observer of native culture, has been full of wonder.

Found in Translation - By Claire Vail - November 2007
Librarians at Tufts School of Medicine have created an online health resource that is helping Asian immigrants in Boston's bustling Chinatown neighborhood better understand what ails them.

Against the Flow - By Jacqueline Mitchell - December 2007
Update: Dr. Judah Folkman passed away on January 14, 2008 while en route to Vancouver for one of the thousands of lectures that he gave to scientists around the world. Children's Hospital Boston has issued an obituary.

Treating China's Lost Generation - By Claire Vail - November 2007
Caring for China's "lost generation" -- survivors of the country's decade-long cultural revolution -- presents unique challenges for health care providers in Boston's Chinatown.

What's Left Out By Julie Flaherty
When Dr. Michael Jon Zackin, N '86, quizzes his patients about what they had for breakfast yesterday, he is not testing their memories.

Virtual Plague By Jacqueline Mitchell
Whether the language used is mathematical or Web-based, modeling and predicting infectious disease is a tricky business. Now a program of global cooperation at the medical school promises to help.

The Sleeping Brain
Sorting, moving, arranging, mixing -- there's a lot of essential cognitive processing going on while you snooze.