{"id":15056,"date":"2021-07-30T09:27:58","date_gmt":"2021-07-30T13:27:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/?p=15056"},"modified":"2021-07-30T11:09:37","modified_gmt":"2021-07-30T15:09:37","slug":"geisel-welcomes-the-class-of-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/2021\/geisel-welcomes-the-class-of-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Geisel Welcomes the Class of 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"

Photos by Kurt Wehde<\/em><\/p>\n

Now that many coronavirus restrictions have been lifted, 92 first-year medical students at Geisel School of Medicine marked the beginning of a new academic year by spending time with each other in person before immersing themselves in their medical education.<\/p>\n

During his opening remarks, Duane Compton, PhD, dean of the Geisel School of Medicine warmly welcomed the new students to three days of activities designed to build interpersonal relationships and familiarize them with the Geisel community.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is where it begins,\u201d Compton said, referring to their journey through medical education, which can be daunting. An avid hiker, he used his hiking poles as a metaphor for the support Geisel gives students throughout their medical education and emphasized the importance of teamwork to both medical education and the practice of medicine. \u201cAs you take your first steps today and move forward on your path \u2026 you will encounter times when you need extra support. That\u2019s why we are here\u2014to support and guide you.<\/p>\n

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Dean Compton address the Class of 2025 in Chilcott Auditorium.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cTake every opportunity you have during medical school to make something positive happen. Be active. Be engaged. Ask questions. Don\u2019t be a spectator. Make the most of the next four years,\u201d he said. \u201cWe are right here by your side to support you.\u201d<\/p>\n

Roshini Pinto-Powell MD, associate dean and chair of admissions, professor of medicine and medical education, said each class has always formed a tightly knit, supportive bond that begins now. Addressing imposter syndrome, a subject she has written about that is common among first-year medical students, Pinto-Powell remined them they belong at Geisel. \u201cEach of you has the potential to be a leader\u2014I am not speaking of titles here, I am speaking of a way of being\u2014leadership from within, someone who chooses to see the good, the positive, and the potential in yourselves and others. We are confident that each one of you will contribute to medicine: as a clinician, an educator, researcher, manager or a combination of those in any field you choose.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe want to partner with you to help you be the best you can be so that together we can make the field of medicine and healthcare better for all people.\u201d<\/p>\n

On Thursday, the class participated in a team building exercise at Storrs Pond. Teams were given rudimentary materials to build rafts which they used to race across a section of the pond and back.<\/p>\n

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This year in addition to the Storrs Pond outdoor team building activities, Compton unveiled a mural by artist and Dartmouth graduate Sam Modder D '17 Thayer '18, in Kellogg Hall\u2019s mezzanine. Commissioned by Geisel\u2019s 2020-2021 inductees to the Gold Humanism Honor Society, the mural launched Project HEAL: Reaffirming Black Health, Education, Art, and Lives. The intention of the artwork is to inspire a call to action by inviting viewers to reflect on and carry the tenets of Project HEAL forward.<\/p>\n

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Project HEAL mural unveiling in Kellogg Hall.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Returning to in-person orientation activities, the Geisel School of Medicine welcomes first-year medical students to campus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":15092,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9,1],"tags":[1020,847,370],"class_list":["post-15056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","category-news","tag-class-of-2025","tag-home-feature","tag-orientation","author-12"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/07\/Orientation1_featured-1.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4r3h1-3UQ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15056","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15056"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15056\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15093,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15056\/revisions\/15093"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}