A great deal of my time at the Brigham has been spent mentoring students and residents, particularly those who are not following conventional pathways during their training. I've seen and been advisor to students who have strong backgrounds in economics, in engineering, in biology and chemistry, of course, those are the traditional backgrounds that see... we see so often in our students, but a range of, of areas. I suppose the two students, and subsequently residents, at the Brigham who were, who are by far the most remarkable are Paul Farmer and Jim Yong Kim. Both of these men graduated Harvard Medical School in the early 90s with MDs and PhDs in anthropology. When Paul was a student at... an undergraduate student at Duke he began going to Haiti during his summer vacations and at other times of year as well, initially as a teacher. But when he became a medical student, he began a, a clinic and subsequently worked there as a resident part-time. Early in his residency he won one of the so-called genius awards of the MacArthur Foundation, and without indicating to anybody at the Foundation, he turned the entire sum over to a non-profit organization called Partners in Health, that he and Jim started when they were still in medical school. That organization, Partners in Health, has been what Paul terms the effecter arm of the work that he and Jim, and now a growing number of others, have done. It really is the organization that makes possible buying drugs or buying gasoline for the jeep that they use in the places where they work, and it has, in Paul's view and my own, been a model that we think other institutions, concerned with global health issues, should look at very hard.
