“MD: The Making of a Doctor”
“MD: The Making of a Doctor”: Video to be shown on Wednesday, October 4 at 4:00 p.m. in 330 Student Union (sponsored by APMS). Go behind the scenes with NOVA and APMS to real ERs and hospitals with seven real Harvard medical students. This intimate drama follows the medical students “throughout the rigors and rewards of their medical training–anatomy and analgesics, C-sections and cardiac arrests, taking blood and giving physicals, broken bones and broken marriages.”
The video will be shown in three segments from 4:00 - 6:30 pm so that students who need to keep other commitments can come and go as needed. The first segment covers the first two years of med school; it focuses on coursework and exams of standardized patients (~ 20 min).
The second segment follows students during the next two years and covers the anxiety associated with taking board exams and the challenges of clerkships in emergency medicine, ob-gyn, neurology, surgery, and cardiology. It records the reactions of a med student to the death of her patient and closes with the med school commencement ceremony (~ 33 min).
The final segment focuses on internships and residency.
For Students Interested in International Health Scholarship Opportunities
Please click here for information about scholarships to international community based integrated health project and other opportunities internationally for pre-medical students through The American Medical Student Association (AMSA).
“What is Public Health?” Presentation
On Tuesday, October 17 from 3:00-4:00, Anthony Torres, the Assistant Dean for Student Affairs at SUNY Albany will be presenting on “What is Public Health?” in room 250 SU. Undergraduate majors leading to careers in Public Health include: anthropology, business, communication, chemistry, criminal justice, economics, finance, history, human biology, math and statistics, political science, psychology, sociology, etc…
AED 1st General Meeting
This message is from Ola Mscichowski, president of Alpha Epsilon Delta (AED)
Welcome all individuals interested in AED and all existing members!
Join us THIS Wednesday, September 27 at 5:00 pm in the Student Union room 145A. The focus of the meeting will be to go through the application, including addressing all the requirements and any questions you may have. In addition, we will discuss the events happening this semester and how you can become involved at UB. You can come meet AED members, who are good resources for information about classes, professors, and medical and graduate school programs. *Refreshments and pizza will be provided.* All students are welcome, including those who are interested in AED but are not current members. Hope to see you there!
Medical Student Training Looks at Cultural Differences
Release Date:
09/12/06
Contact:
Lois Baker
BUFFALO, N.Y. — Physicians treating refugees and immigrant populations face a minefield of potential cultural gaffes.
They should not touch a Muslim man during the initial interview. A nod of the head may mean “no” instead of “yes” if the patient is Albanian. Among Latinos, the head of the family, not the patient, makes treatment decisions.
A $604,000 federal grant from the National Heart Lung and Blood Institute to Kim S. Griswold, M.D., M.P.H., associate professor of family medicine at the University at Buffalo, will help new and experienced physicians avoid such missteps.
Buffalo is a major refugee resettlement center, currently receiving refugees from Somalia, Iraq, Cuba, Burma, Sudan and Vietnam. In the past, the area’s four resettlement agencies also served an influx of persons from Rwanda, Ethiopia, Congo, Kosovo and Bosnia.
During the next five years, Griswold and colleagues in the UB School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences will develop and test patient-centered videos, called “patient voices,” for use in teaching; consolidate a hodgepodge of existing cultural-competency projects into a cohesive educational program for medical students as well as residents and practicing physicians, and produce handbooks on cultural competency.
Griswold also hopes to establish a diversity executive council that will include representatives from all areas of the medical school to guide the effort. “UB has a variety of medical training programs in diversity,” said Griswold, “but there is no cohesive plan, and there isn’t a mandated curriculum that emphasizes cultural awareness. We are working to make cultural-competency training more formalized.”
Griswold initiated the volunteer Refugee Cultural Competency Training Program for medical students in 2001 with a grant from New York State Department of Health, following a two-year pilot study. That program was carried out in two clinics serving refugees. The current training procedures will involve clinics at Jericho Road Family Practice in Buffalo, in conjunction with Journey’s End Resettlement Agency, and at Niagara Family Health Center in Buffalo, in association with the International Institute/World Connect of Buffalo, Inc.
Additional investigators on the grant are Luis Zayas, Ph.D., and Judy Shipengrover, Ph.D., research assistant professor and research associate professor, respectively, in the UB Department of Family Medicine.
The University at Buffalo is a premier research-intensive public university, the largest and most comprehensive campus in the State University of New York. The School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences is one of five schools that constitute UB’s Academic Health Center.
AED Participation in SA Volunteer Opportunity
On Sunday, October 1, 2006, SA will be hosting a clean up within and around South Campus. We will be cleaning, raking and planting bulbs in areas that need it most, specifically, in parts of the Heights and Masten districts. It will take place from 1:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. Registration will begin at noon in front of the Health Sciences Library on South Campus (close to the Main Circle bus stop). The first 300 volunteers registered that day will be given free T-shirts, and food and refreshments will be provided to all volunteers at 5pm at the registration site. All clubs who sign up 10 members before 12pm Wednesday September 20th will have their club name printed on the shirts.
E-mail Ola Mscichowski at oam4@buffalo.edu as soon as possible to let me know if you are interested. Come and show your support in AED as well as the Buffalo Community.
MHRP Announcement
This announcement is from Amanda C. Charles, vice-president of MHRP
The Minorities in Health Professions (MHRP) next general meeting will be on THIS Wednesday, September 20 from 4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. in room 145 E in the Student Union. Our guest speaker will be from The Collegiate Science and Technology Entry Program (CSTEP). To get an idea on what they will be discussing take a look at their website:
All students are welcome; MHRP will be looking forward to seeing you there!
HEALTH RELATED JOB FAIR - Monday, September 25, 2006
11 am - 2 pm, 105 Harriman Hall, South Campus
Come discuss job or internship opportunities with over 40 health related employers! This is your best opportunity during the school year to have direct contact with employers interested in hiring students for the health field. Network with recruiters from a variety of disciplines. All students interested in the health field are welcome, don’t forget to bring multiple copies of your resume!
Click here for a list of attending employers. For more information, call 645-2231 or stop in Career Services in Capen 259.
HEALTH RELATED RESUMANIA
NEXT Monday, September 18, 2006
11 am - 3 pm, 105 Harriman Hall, South Campus
Career Services counselors will be available to critique your resume for internships, jobs, and of course, the Health Related Job Fair to be held next week! If you spend most of your time on the South Campus, this is a great opportunity to get your resume reviewed without having to travel at all. For more information, call 645-2231 or stop in Career Services in Capen 259. Hope to see you there!
IMPORTANT: Changes to Early Assurance Program – UB School of Dental Medicine
If you review the website site detailing the Early Assurance Program at UB’s School of Dental medicine, you will see that the required GPA is now a 3.5 overall and in the sciences (biology, chemistry, physics) and there is a required score of 20 on the Academic Average portion of the DAT exam. Previously the required GPA was 3.3 and the requisite Academic Average score was 19.
