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21 Ways to connect with 2. Start spreading the news. Let us know the URL for your website, webpage, or blog so we can add it to Connect the Docs. 3. Find out what your classmates have been up to by searching for the last two digits of your class. The Bulletin uses the preferred class—the class a student began medical school with—unless requested by the graduate, so you may want to check the class year behind you or ahead of you, too. 4. Meet other Harvard doctors through the School’s continuing education courses. Take advantage of the continuing medical education discounts HMS now offers its alumni, courtesy of the Department of Continuing Education and the Harvard Medical Alumni Association. Spend time with other Harvard doctors at the School’s live courses, as well as at the Current Clinical Issues in Primary Care Medicine programs, which are held throughout the United States and in Mexico. 5. Track down a fellow graduate. Visit Post.Harvard for contact information. If the graduate hasn’t registered or has omitted his or her contact details, call or write the Harvard Medical Alumni Association. To learn whether a doctor is an HMS graduate, consult the online white pages. 6. Learn what other Harvard docs are publishing by browsing the Bulletin’s HMS Alumni and Faculty Bookstore. In addition to books on all aspects of medicine and health, you’ll find memoirs, novels, children’s books, biographies, and explorations on such varied topics as writer’s block, wildflowers, and quirky kids. 7. Serve as a mentor to Harvard medical students. The Harvard Medical Alumni Association has created a mentoring directory that already lists hundreds of alumni willing to offer their assistance to medical students. For more information, contact the Alumni Association. 8. Trade ward stories at your class reunion. Visit the Harvard Medical Alumni Association website to learn more about Alumni Week. 9. Submit a class note to the Bulletin. We’re happy to convert press releases into class notes, but please remember that your classmates appreciate informal class notes even more. 10. Catch up on Harvard Medical School research. Learn more through Focus, the biweekly publication of the Longwood Medical Area; Harvard Science, a recap of science and engineering at Harvard University; LabWorks, a series of multimedia presentations of HMS research; and the Longwood Seminars, the School’s public seminar series. You can also subscribe to the Harvard Medical Labcast, which offers podcasts on such topics as the secret of aging and the science of social networks. Or subscribe to one or more of the School’s RSS feeds. 11. Contact a Harvard faculty member. More than 10,000 faculty members work on the School’s campus or at one of its 18 affiliated teaching hospitals and research institutes. To locate a faculty member, use the School’s online directory. To search for potential collaborators, visit the Harvard Catalyst website of the Harvard Clinical and Translational Science Center. 12. Receive career advice from your fellow alumni, or offer to serve as an advisor yourself. Through Crimson Compass, at least 15,000 Harvard alumni—including more than 600 HMS graduates—have volunteered to share their professional experiences and expertise with other alumni and students through this online career networking service. If you’re already a Post.Harvard user, just submit your user name and password to create a Crimson Compass profile; if not, you’ll need to register with Post.Harvard first. 13. Learn what your fellow graduates have been doing and thinking by scanning the growing Alumni Websites and Webpages and Alumni Blogs sections of Connect the Docs. You may be inspired to send feedback to their websites or submit comments to their blogs. 14. Support student scholarships. Today’s HMS students graduate with an average educational debt of more than $100,000. Consider joining with your fellow alumni in helping to alleviate that burden. 15. Keep count with our Dean Counter. Since our Autumn 2007 article on HMS alumni who serve at the helm of U.S. medical schools, two more graduates have been appointed medical school deans. 16. Let other Harvard docs know about your published book. Drop us a line about any in-print books you have written or edited, and we’ll be happy to include them in our HMS Alumni and Faculty Bookstore. 17. Learn which recent HMS graduates are undertaking a residency at your institution by scanning the latest Match Day list. Consider looking the new residents up and welcoming them as fellow alumni. 18. Browse What’s Up, Doc? to learn what your fellow Harvard docs have been up to lately. Categories include Media Mentions, Recent Discoveries, Professional News, and Honors and Awards. 19. Engage in the School’s Strategic Planning Process. Share your insights with HMS Dean Jeffrey Flier. 20. Start or participate in a discussion group. HMS alumni have already created several discussion groups on Post.Harvard. To access these—or to create a discussion group of your own—log onto Post.Harvard. Within Alumni Services, click on Discussion Groups, then Harvard Schools, then Medical School. 21. Take the Connect the Docs Quiz. Test your wits at the same time that you marvel at how your HMS degree means fewer degrees of separation from the authors of the techno-thriller Jurassic Park, the classic poem “Old Ironsides,” and the medical tell-all The House of God. Or perhaps you’d like to locate several patriarchs on your HMS family tree: the father of the world’s longest-reigning monarch, the father of Alaska statehood, and the father of several key rules of modern baseball.
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