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Historians will likely look back at the COVID-19 global health pandemic and the Black Lives Matter social protests as a unique period in the history of the world.

What had previously been only an idea — a literary arts magazine for the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences — is now a reality.

The number of students from underrepresented groups in the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences Class of 2022 is nearly twice that of the previous year’s class.

Approximately 70 medical students, residents and faculty members from the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences sat down to a Sept. 6 dinner with dozens of community members.

Collaboration and a sense of community were on display at the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences during a daylong event to address Buffalo’s African-American health disparities.

“The roots of medical disparities” — and how aspiring physicians can begin to overcome them — is the theme of a new course offered at the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences.

This year’s Buffalo Community Immersion program exposed 11 first-year University at Buffalo medical students to the social and cultural factors that affect Buffalo’s citizens — issues they will encounter with patients during clinical training.

The creative talents of students, faculty and staff of the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences were on display at the second annual Jacobs Arts Festival April 27 in the Biomedical Education Building atrium.

More than 150 first-year medical students put aside their lab coats and textbooks Dec. 1 to participate in the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences’ Humanities Day.

A pioneering researcher and others who have made significant contributions to their fields and to the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences were honored with 2016 Faculty-Staff Recognition Awards.

The inaugural Jacobs Arts Festival showcased works by Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences students and faculty alike in celebration of where art and medicine meet.

Eleven first-year medical students participated in the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences’ inaugural community immersion program through a weeklong series of activities during spring break.

As part of new curricula, first-year University at Buffalo medical students may participate in life drawing sessions, sketching muscle groups and skeletal structures from a nude model.

“All you have to do is have a good relationship with your patient. Focus on what’s going on in their lives,” Jack T. Coyne, MD ’85, clinical associate professor of pediatrics, advised medical students during the inaugural program of the University at Buffalo’s Center for Medical Humanities.