My visit to the Upstate Medical School yesterday

I had the honor and pleasure of addressing 90 MD and PA students last night at Weiskotten Hall on the campus of the Upstate Medical school in Syracuse at the kind invitiation of David Kolva MD. I presented an illustrated powerpoint talk that shows what it is like to practice rural primary care in the Adirondacks, and what it takes to be a successful rural practitioner. The audience was attentive and asked a lot of great questions afterward. I have already received a nice email from one of the students which I will paste below along with a panorama of the great lecture room and the rural primary care class. I would like to thank Dr. Kolva and the Upstate Medical School for giving me the chance to influence the next generation of rural family docotrs and PAs. Here is what one student said in an email that I received before I even got home:

My name is Danielle and I am an MS1 at Upstate who was at your lecture tonight. I just wanted to say thank you so much for coming to speak with us (I would have come down to the front of the hall to say so but you looked like you had a crowd). Your talk was very inspirational, and as someone who wants to practice family med in a rural NY area it was the perfect message for me. Your pictures and stories are beautiful, and I even ordered your book for my dad for Christmas. He is an internist in Elmira, coincidently he also did his residency on Long Island, but he moved upstate to experience the beauty and lack of dense population! I'm sure he'll love your book. So thanks again for your lecture and for all that you do!