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Metamorphosis of a Medical Student

David Hirsh and Kat Wakeham with a patientExperiences in the clinic during the third year of medical school spur a remarkable transformation. For the first time, future MDs begin to feel like doctors.
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Mutation Implicated in ‘Broken’ Heart

broken heartGene alterations that shorten the body’s largest protein could improve diagnosis and treatment of dilated cariomyopathy, a familial heart disease.
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Herbal Remedy’s Secret Revealed

hydrangeaResearchers have discovered the cellular target for a two-thousand-year-old herbal remedy known as Chang Shan, a root extract from a type of hydrangea that grows in Tibet and Nepal.
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Teaching and Learning

The School is enhancing medical education through new high-tech classrooms, a stem-to-stern review of curriculum and other initiatives following a productive two-year self-evaluation.
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Appetite for Life

Learn how peanuts might fuel a nutritional revolution and marvel at how a gecko’s foot inspired a surgical innovator. All this and more in Harvard Medicine Winter 2012.
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Hydrangea: iStockphoto/Andyd
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