The OCED Book Program began in 2000 to exemplify our commitment to your highest educational and personal growth as medical students here in the School of Medicine. We want all student who join our family of learners to value and appreciate diversity, the impact of cultural differences on health and healthcare, and to remember to continue to pursue other aspects of themselves outside medicine and continue to read broadly.
The books we have sent in the past were selected as stories about culture in general and the culture of medicine as practiced in America, and how they impact our patients’ health outcomes and the health experiences. Below is a list of books previously presented to newly admitted students:
| 2000 |
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures , by Anne Fadiman |
| 2001 |
Bless Me, Ultima |
| 2002 |
The Scalpel and the Silver Bear: The First Navajo Woman Surgeon Combines Western Medicine and Traditional Healing , by Lori Arviso Alvord, MD and Elizabeth Cohen Van Pelt |
| 2003 |
If I Get to Five: What Children Can Teach Us about Courage and Character , by Fred Epstein, MD, and Joshua Horwitz |
| 2004 |
Far From Home: Shattering the Myth of the Model Minority , by Mary Chung Hayashi, Founder of the National Asian Women’s Health Organization |
| 2005 |
Creative Healers: A Collection of Essays, Reviews, and Poems from The Pharos, 1938-1998, compiled and edited by Edward Day Harris, Jr., MD |
Students have had the opportunity to discuss the book with faculty and other students during one of the academic society meetings and/or had an opportunity to meet the author on campus.
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