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Samuel S. Myers (far left) and Aaron Bernstein are interested in the bigger picture. Both enrolled in interdisciplinary programs in college and moved on to medical school. But even their medical school and residency experiences were untraditional. Myers enlarged his view of the world by taking a two-year break from his medical residency at the University of California, San Francisco, when Tibetan officials invited him to become the health administrator of Qomolangma (Everest) National Park. There he taught basic health care and conservation practices to villagers living within the national park. Now an instructor and doctor at Harvard Medical School, Myers studies the effect of climate change on human health. Bernstein attended the University of Chicago’s medical school program, which, unlike any others at the time, integrated its medical school with its division of biological sciences. “I would often take classes with people getting PhDs in cell biology,” he says. ...