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As part of the project, incoming medical students each received pocket-sized quilted hearts designed to remind them why they were called into service as physicians.
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| During orientation week, first-year students were also introduced to Project HEART, a new initiative begun by Isaac Wood, M.D., the medical school's associate dean for students activities. The quilted hearts were begun by Sisters of the Yam, a group of local African-American women who use quilting as a metaphor for healing as they recover from personal losses. |
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| The ceremony is part of a wider effort to deflect against the hardening that sometimes takes place in medical school. |
Photos by Jennifer Watson, VCU Creative Services.
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