Win Back Our Profession
March 12-15, 2009
Arlington, VA / Washington, DC
Hyatt Regency Crystal City
March 11, 2009
Pre-Convention Symposium on
Patient Safety and Medical Quality
Webform for chapter registration to come soon. Also coming soon: ways to travel to Convention for free, discounted, or with waived registration fee!
Membership Meetings
Monday and Tuesday
December 8th & 9th
7pm to 8:30pm
in W151 Papajohn
Come to receieve your MSAR books, free membership t-shirts and find out what is in the making for the rest of the year!
Osteopathic Guest Speaker
Rm 15 Shaeffer HallTuesday, December 2nd from 7-9pm
Don't miss out or you will regret it 10 years from now.
We are very fortunate to have Dr. John Macatee, board certified both in Family Medicine and Nueromuscleskeletal Medicine (Osteopathic Manipulative Medicine) to come speak about medical school. Topics include,
-Looking back, why do you want to be a doctor-How to get into medical school.-MD vs DO. What is Osteopathy/OMM/OMT?-How to survive med school; emotionally, physically, with personal values.-Costs of medical school.-How to minimize costs of medical school during medical school, residency and beyond.-Example of doctor’s scenario.-How to get free med school training.-How to pay back student loans/interest more quickly.-The current healthcare system.
Webcast Panel- Georgetown University
December 1st
Live Webcast broadcast from
Georgetown University
Panel of Feminization of HIV webcast. Learn about the changing face of AIDS and the impact of HIV on women and girls. On World AIDS Day, Monday, Dec 1st @ 8:00 PM EST, tune into a webcast of a panel discussion on the Feminization of HIV. Join hundreds of students across the US for this exciting high tech panel discussion. This event will be filmed at Georgetown Medical School, and broadcast across the web with the technological support of Americans For Informed Democracy. Co-sponsored by Physicians for Human Rights and Universities Coalition for Global Health. Join the Panelists to learn about: (1) Harm reduction and the marginalization of sex workers and injection drug users (IDU) (2) Personal experiences from women infected by HIV and the courage they have shown to transcend disease and become figures of empowerment in their communities, (3) Physician experiences in treating HIV+ women, both young and old, and the challenges they face with protecting female patients throughout their sexual lifetime, and (4) Domestic HIV/AIDS Policy that is pending in the next presidential administration, and ways in which can we effect change through legislation.
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ee Anna Clark , Professor & Collegiate Fellow
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DMU Osteopathic Conference
Friday, October 17th
We will be having a FREE field trip this morning and afternoon to Des Moines University, College of Osteopathic Medicine. as a conference on Osteopathic Medicine. Though this does not fall during the national Primary Care Week, it is in association with the primary care initiative of AMSA. If you are interested in going, please fill out our webform by October 2nd on our chapter website.
We will be touring the school's facilities, classes, getting hands on practice and demonstrations, and closing with a free lunch!
Also, while in Des Moines, we will be arranging for a lobby day activity that is still in the making.
- Tuesday/Thursday, October 14 & 16th in Rm 61 Shaeffer Hall
Get Out the VOTE: Sex, drugs & Politics
Where: W151 Papajohn
When: Wed., September 17 at 7pm
The sex ed you were denied. The vote you're weren't.
(FREE MOVIE)
Where:W151 Papajohn Auditorium
When: Monday, Sept 15th, 7-9:30pm
Michael Moore's classic health care hit
Volunteer Fair
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Where: Old Brick (Market & Clinton St.)
When: Thursday, Sept. 11th from 11am-3pm
Many health care volunteer opp's, hosted by
the 10,000 Hours Show
KICK OFF BBQ
Where: MERF Atrium
When: 5pm, Monday, Sept. 8th...
Food, games, mentors!
Thanks to all those who came!
>September 2nd
>September 4th
7:30pm in C20 Pomerantz Center
Ground floor, career center auditorium!
Past Year's Events
2007/2008