COMPASSIONATE MINDS. HEALING HANDS. 2020 VISION.
Congratulations and best wishes to the Campbell Medicine Class of 2020! Class of 2020, Thank you for entrusting Campbell Medicine to provide you your medical education and training. Thank you for allowing us to guide and support you through the last four years. You are a very special class to me; I arrived in Fall 2015, and you are the very first class I saw move all the way through – interviews, White Coat Ceremony, a medical mission trip with some of you - so you are a very special class to me. I was looking forward to sharing graduation week and the ceremony with you and your families to celebrate your accomplishments and all you are going on to do. While we did not get to share that special time in person, we hope the celebration video, book and gifts commemorate your accomplishment and convey how very proud of you we are. You are entering medicine at an incredibly critical time and an incredibly challenging time. COVID-19 has forever changed the practice of medicine and all aspects of our lives. You are entering medicine at a time when there is substantial need from so many patients. We focus on those in rural and underserved regions, but there are patients everywhere who are in tremendous need of good physicians to take care of them. You have so many opportunities to touch so many lives right now.
As you move forward into this next stage of residency training and practice, remember the simple things. Always let your patient guide you. Always advocate for your patient and what’s in their best interest. When you are with your patients, be present, be compassionate, and be kind. And take that approach into your personal lives as well – medicine is grueling and residency is grueling. Give yourself some grace – be kind and compassionate to yourselves, your families, your friends, and your loved ones. Approach your patients and your lives in a very osteopathic fashion making sure to take care of body, mind and spirit. Do that for your patients and do that for yourselves. Again, thank you for the special memories you have brought all of us, the joy you have brought us, and the special class that you are. Thank you for choosing to enter a career of service to others. Thank you for representing the profession and CUSOM so well. Thank you to your families, your spouses, your friends, and your loved ones for the care and support they have given you over the past four years. Don’t forget about us – we will always be here for you – you are a member of our family. Join the alumni association and be actively engaged with CUSOM. We are so proud of you for all you have done and will do.
- James Powers, DO Interim Dean and Chief Academic Officer
Cementing the legacy of those who came before, we work diligently to care for our communities. Embracing our diversity, we stand together with clarity of purpose as we learn, serve, and heal.
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