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...order to make sure that undergraduates are clear about the purpose of their counseling organization, the students running Eating Problems Outreach have changed the group's name to reflect its goals a little more clearly...
Eating Problems Outreach (EPO) handles anonymous calls from students suffering from anorexia nervosa, bulimia and other eating disorders. Those with anorexia, which has been recognized since the Middle Ages, are preoccupied with dieting and lose at least 25 percent of their original body weight yet still see themselves as fat. Bulimia, only recently recognized as a disorder and more difficult to detect, involves a cycle of binging and self-induced purging...
William Boardman "knows alumni, knows the University, and will build an outreach for those [poorer] schools that have got to develop their own constituency beyond alumni," says Reardon. "He will bring central expertise to deal with specific programs...
...Medical School has promoted social awareness activities outside the curriculum as well, including community outreach programs and academic societies, Federman says...
Although members of the faculty sometimes advise outreach programs and the Medical School provides some funds, the school is not directly involved in any student projects, Professor of Medicine and Director of primary care at Massachusetts General Hospital John D. Stoeckle says. "The Medical School isn't formally doing very much...