Please be advised that Dalene Aylward, Prehealth Advisor for Freshmen and Sophomores, will be out of the office on Maternity Leave during May and June 2007. Dalene expects to return in July.
Freshmen and sophomores with questions should first seek the Freshmen and Sophomore Prehealth Handbook, FAQ, and Prehealth Bulletin, all on this site, for assistance and answers to their questions, and may make an appointment with any other Academic Advisor in Student Advising Services for assistance as well.
The Pre-Dental Association and CO-SIGN were both received awards at the SA Awards banquet last Tuesday. Pre-Dental won the “Best Smiles and Better Attitudes” award and CO-SIGN won “Academic Council Outstanding Participation”.
Also, for the Pre-Dental Association, the new eboard for the 2007-2008 school year is as follows:
President - Rina Patel
Vice President - Kim Cuddy
Secretary - Josh Miller
Treasurer - Tina Sophaphone
Public Relations - Paul Ciero
I would like to make you aware of our M.S. in Biomedical Sciences Program offered at Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science. This unique one year non-thesis masters program is geared toward students who want to improve their overall candidacy for obtaining admission into a health professional program. Biomedical Sciences (BMS) students interact with students from all four colleges under Rosalind Franklin University. This direct side-by-side learning environment helps expose pre-health students to a variety of available health care degrees. BMS students interact with medical students, podiatry students, basic science students, physician assistant students, physical therapy students and students from other health profession programs.
I would be happy to counsel any of your students on our Biomedical Sciences Program.
Sincerely,
Jacqueline Martinez
International Student Advisor, PDSO, RO
CHP Admissions, Office Manager
Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science
Please note that the following message will go out to all AACOMAS applicants overnight.
AACOMAS advises all applicants and prospective applicants in the AACOMAS system that the application deadline for Touro College of Osteopathic Medicine New York has been changed to 11:59 pm, Monday, April 30, 2007.
Although TouroCOM had planned to accept applications through the end of May, the college has concluded that because of the number and quality of applications already received, it would be unfair to new applicants if the college continued to accept their applications beyond the end of April.
Associate Director of Application Services
American Association of Colleges of Osteopathic Medicine
5550 Friendship Blvd., Suite 310
Chevy Chase, MD 20815-7231
http://www.aacom.org
SUNY Optometry Open House
SUNY School of Optometry will have an Open House on Thursday, May 24 from 9:30 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.
Interested students can RSVP by Tuesday, May 22 at 1-800-291-3937 or via email at admissions@sunyopt.edu.
Learn more about the optometry profession, get information about requirements and procedures for entrance into the
Doctor of Optometry Program.
SUNY College of Optometry
33 West 42nd Street
NY, NY 10036
1-800-291-3937
Email: admissions@sunyopt.edu
Association for Pre-medical Students (APMS)
Congratulations to the 2007-2008 new elected APMS officers!
President - Jenn Stabel
Vice President - Shannon Palermo
Secretary - Josh Feuerstein
Treasurer - Paul DeJac
Shadowing Coordinators - Lindsay Guzetta and Forrest Crawford
You are invited to the University of Medicine and Dentistry at New Jersey - School of Osteopathic Medicine Annual Open House THIS Friday, April 27 from 12:00-4:30 at the UMDNJ-SOM Academic Center. You can register here.
UMDNJ-SOM Academic Center, One Medical Center Drive, Stratford, NJ 08084-1501.
Phone: 856-566-7050; Fax: 856-566-6895
This message is from Ola Mscichowski, AED president
I am working with a 3rd year medical student at the University of Rochester. She is selling a cookbook with 650 recipes to benefit Operation Smile, non-profit that fixes kid’s cleft lips and palates in developing countries for $20, $11 of the book sale will go toward the Operation Smile organization; you can go to this site for ordering information. She is marketing the book as a Mother’s Day present, which requires the orders to be in by next Wednesday, April 25. The books will be distributed May 6-8 in the Student Union. All orders can be completed online. I have attached a flier which you can use to pass on this to family and friends. Please consider making a donation.
New College of Osteopathic Medicine Breaks Ground
The March 23 groundbreaking of Rocky Vista University College of Osteopathic Medicine was covered by a variety of Colorado news outlets. The new COM, to be located in a Denver suburb, will be the first for-profit medical school in the United States since early in the 20th century. It is scheduled to admit its first class in fall 2008, subject to accreditation approval by the Commission on Osteopathic College Accreditation.
… Rocky Vista, Colorado’s second medical school and its first osteopathic medical college, will help ease the state’s physician shortage, particularly in its rural counties. The college “will focus on educating primary-care providers for rural, underrepresented, at-risk and underserved populations,” said Ronnie B. Martin, DO, chief academic officer and dean of the new school.
UB BREAKING RESEARCH
OVERTURNING CONVENTIONAL WISDOM: A study led by a UB medical researcher has dramatically contradicted conventional wisdom that coronary revascularization with stenting or balloon angioplasty is the best initial treatment for stable heart disease. Read more on this study.
BREAST CANCER LINK: Women who had their tonsils removed in childhood may be at increased risk of developing pre-menopausal breast cancer, according to a study by epidemiologists in the School of Public Health and Health Professions.
Read about this new development.
PNEUMONIA RISK: Researchers in the School of Dental Medicine have linked bacteria in patients’ dental plaque with triggering pneumonia in some patients in hospital intensive care units. Read more on this pneumonia trigger.
