Paul Safyan

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Paul Safyan

Bob:

Glad you are exploring.

I just put this forum out as a test.  The picture says it all!

Shirley Smith (Kirsten)

Is this the only site, or are other classes doing the same?

Kim Solez

This past Thursday the 12th I won the medical school clinical mentoring award. Here is the video of the award ceremony and my acceptance speech. I wonder how the experiences I relate mesh with your own experie

nces with mentoring, and I also wonder how surprising this speech is for you, whether you would have expected something different from the Kim Solez you knew at Oberlin in 1964-68! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j03j1JMlYg0

Paul Safyan

Fun, Kim!

Susan Gardner

Being recognized by one's peers is a wonderful thing.  Congratulations on helping young doctors develop into excellent pathologists.   Susan Gardner

Kim Solez

Thanks, Susan! Many of the trainees were in other areas of medicine outside pathology, or in other areas of science or the arts outside of medicine.

Kim Solez

The mentoring award presentation begins with mention of Oberlin, and my Oberlin diploma is proudly displayed beside the mentoring award certificate in my office https://www.facebook.com/kim.solez/media_set?set=a.10154849928957571.1073742937.803377570&type=3&pnref=story  All the best. - Kim

Edward McKelvey

On a different subject, though one tangentially related to mentoring, I wanted to be sure people who had Hirsch Kasper as a professor knew that he is retiring this year.  Hirsch came to Oberlin the year before we did, which makes this the 54th year of his service to the college.  I had him for labor economics and I'm sure many of you had him in various courses.  Since returning to Oberlin almost six years ago I have gotten to know Hirsch as a colleague.  He is one of the wisest, unassuming, and thoroughly private people I know.  That said, I know he would appreciate any words of well wishes any of you want to lob his way.  His email address is hkasper@oberlin.edu. 

Kim Solez

If you are looking for something to do at 6 am MST this Wednesday the 15th you can watch this live stream flipped classroom teaching session I am doing with pathology residents from the Mount Sinai Health System in NYC by Skype! 8 am EST. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avJlFmYyvSw Here is more background on the subject matter: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGReQizyn-c  https://termis.ipostersessions.com/default.aspx?s=78-58-CE-D4-AB-91-46-64-FF-06-6C-A6-54-AD-8D-D0

Paul Safyan

Thanks for letting everyone know.  I hope some doctors join.

Kim Solez

There was a good response. The three associated YouTube URLs attracted 152 views in the past 24 hours https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avJlFmYyvSw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9TCpaxMSn9Q https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5OwztAbQ1i4

Kim Solez

Let me propose a contest, poets vs. physicians/scientists. Most poets would like to jump immediately to the start of the poem in this video at 11 minutes 32 seconds and physicians/scientists might be interested in the video from the beginning. Using YouTube analytics we will be able to tell eventually how many people started at the beginning and how many started at the poem. But then there will be defections, some poets will then want to watch the whole video. Some physicians/scientists may be interested in going back again and again to the poem. It is a good measure of the power of poetry versus the power of didactic presentation. Let the contest begin!

Liz Ryan (Cole)

I was pleasantly surprised to have this pop up this morning on the OCandC Class of 1968 webpage, but I am also confused. It appears to be part of a longer thread?  Where did it come from ?  Are there others?  thanks in advance for any explanations.  liz

Kim Solez

Hi Liz,

This is the only thread in the forum, but many of the individual classmate profiles have considerably longer threads attached to their individual profiles. Click on any of the names with a camera icon for examples. Also many of the In Memory threads for departed classmates are very interesting and informative.

Eve Roshevsky