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August 22, 2005 Volume 14 No. 16

Color My World
First-Year Medical Students Paint Durham School As Part Of Orientation

When Elizabeth Reese and the other 100 first-year medical students arrived at Duke the first week of August for orientation, they may have thought a stethoscope would be one of the first instruments placed in their hands.

It was a paintbrush instead.

On the second day of orientation at the Duke University School of Medicine, the incoming class received community service training in the morning. Before noon, they were on a bus on their...

First-year Duke University medical students Alok Tewari (left) and Elizabeth Reese help paint the interior of the Carter Community School with rising seventh grader Marcus Jackson. The work was part of a community service project during medical school orientation.

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