BUSSW is pleased to announce that Dr. Kanako Okuda will take on the role of assistant dean of practicum (field) education effective Monday, February 3rd. Dr. Okuda will also join the school’s faculty as a clinical associate professor. Dr. Okuda is a social work educator, scholar, and practitioner. She has been director of practicum education […]
Home visits are a key part of being a health and social service professional. However, graduate students often do not receive hands-on, interprofessional learning in class to prepare them for home assessments at field placements or after graduation. To address this, Profs. Jordana Muroff and Bronwyn Keefe from BU School of Social Work (BUSSW) and […]
Three MSW students from Boston University School of Social Work (BUSSW) got an inside look at cutting-edge harm reduction facilities on a recent visit to OnPoint NYC, the operator of the nation’s first and only sanctioned supervised consumption centers. The students – Kate Crotty, Renee Mackintosh and Jaime McCaughey – were interns at Boston Medical Center’s […]
By Bianca V. (MSW’23) As a second-year student in the MSW program at BU School of Social Work (BUSSW), I have often felt like a circus performer this semester while juggling four classes, a field placement, a part-time job, friends, and other responsibilities. While classes and my field placement certainly take the front seat, I […]