SPH Snapshot: Fall Orientation 2024.
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SPH Snapshot: Fall Orientation 2024
SPH welcomed its newest students during Orientation Week, which featured a new seminar on how to deal with rejection, a workshop on what to expect the first semester, and introductions from the School’s deans.
Orientation at BUSPH is a multi-day series of events with the aim of helping new students transition into the School while learning about the various facets of campus life. During Orientation Week, new students engage in activities designed to create a sense of community and get an immediate start on teamwork and collaboration via icebreaker sessions, group activities, and networking events.
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What is Public Health?
Dean Sandro Galea delivered the traditional first lecture for new students that explores what matters most to public health and how it guides our scholarship and action.
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Making Connections
Students shared meals on the Talbot Green or took in the views of Boston from the Hiebert Student Lounge.
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Building Community
New students learned what to expect in their first semester at SPH, and that handling rejection—and bouncing back from it— is an often-overlooked skill of academic life. They were also encouraged that the practicum, the required graduate-level internship that allows MPH students to apply the knowledge gained in the classroom in a real-world public health setting, is usually less stressful than expected.
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Expanding Networks
The Resource Fair is a joint annual collaboration between the School of Public Health and the Graduate Medical Sciences program that is designed to introduce new Medical Campus students to the array of resources they will likely use at BU. Representatives from dozens of student groups dispensed advice and information about networking opportunities and
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