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M. J. Friedrich

JAMA. 2001;286:1301-1303.

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Boston—When students in Harvard Medical School's Four Directions Summer Research Program arrive in Boston for the first time, many of them—accustomed to vast Western vistas—remark on how disconcerting it is to be unable to see the horizon, said Darryl Smith, MD, a radiologist at Brigham and Women's Hospital. And yet, by the time the 8-week program draws to a close—as this year's did recently—these Native American students have often expanded their horizons beyond any they imagined for themselves before they came.

"I think what the program does best," said Smith, "is to take some of the fear away, some of the limits, so that the students can reach their potential. If you had never imagined your possibilities, how could you realize them?"

An informal advisor to the program, Smith, a Cherokee who came from rural Oklahoma to attend the school in the 1980s, can relate to . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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