Photos by Rob Strong (1-2, 4-6) and Derik Hertel (3)<\/em><\/p>\n Westling then invited students to share what brought them to public health and to Dartmouth. Their stories revealed lived experiences that inspired their desire to pursue careers in public health\u2014such as injustices in access to healthcare; a realization that public health is broad, and its fundamentals apply to life; differences between U.S. and global healthcare systems and what can be learned from that; and how their shared core values connect to public health and a desire to make a difference.<\/p>\n He also presented an overview of the history and current state of public health and articulated the vision and values the Geisel programs embrace\u2014collaboration between public health and medical care delivery; eliminating the unjust variation in health and healthcare, and the drivers of health and well-being; being open to change and to creating space for continuous personal and professional growth, improvement, and resilience.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s important to create a healthy learning community that invites and supports vigorous and open debate of ideas across all of our interactions\u2014marked by respect, listening, patience, tolerance and humility,\u201d Westling told the students.<\/p>\n \u201cWhile you are here you may encounter something that will make you uncomfortable and opinions you may disagree with or may shock you. All of that is okay if it is done within a constructive learning environment, because we need to learn from other points of view even if we respectfully disagree,\u201d he said. \u201cUnderstanding where others are coming from helps us be more empathetic and strengthen our own arguments.\u201d<\/p>\n Noting the advantage of being part of a small college where students and faculty develop close first-name relationships, he explained how the MPH and MS programs fit into the Geisel School of Medicine.<\/p>\n \u201cHere you have a unique opportunity to focus on clinical care both inside and outside of the clinic as well as cross-campus collaboration with the broader Dartmouth community,\u201d he said. \u201cThe best part about our smaller learning community is that you get to learn so much from your peers.\u201d<\/p>\n As the warm summer day waned, the students ended their first day on campus on a lighter note, taking their first steps toward building lasting interpersonal relationships during a scavenger hunt\u2014a fun activity leading students to important or historic places on campus, including the Student Life Office, Occom Pond, Alumni Gym, the Hood Museum of Art and various campus sculptures, and the Geisel Dean\u2019s Office\u2014followed by an ice cream social.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This week the Geisel School of Medicine welcomed 97 students in its residential and hybrid Master of Public Health (MPH) and Master of Science in Healthcare Research (MS) programs to an intensive learning week packed with information sessions, team-building activities, and social gatherings designed to familiarize the students with Dartmouth\u2019s campus and foster interpersonal relationships.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":21496,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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":[1180,1254,626,1249,370],"class_list":["post-21480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","category-news","tag-master-of-public-health","tag-master-of-science","tag-mph","tag-ms","tag-orientation","author-12"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/08\/MPHOrientation_featured2.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4r3h1-5As","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21480","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=21480"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21480\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21503,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21480\/revisions\/21503"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"MPH](\"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/08\/ScavengerHunt1.jpeg\")
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