The Illinois College of Optometry is pleased to announce their summer program for underrepresented minority undergraduate students. The program is a weeklong experience that will expose undergraduate students to the profession of optometry in a variety of settings. Participants will have the opportunity to meet and work with current optometry students, ICO Faculty & Staff, as well as practicing optometrists.
Students will be housed at no charge in our Residential Complex. There is no cost to participate in this program. Participants are responsible for their travel expenses and/or transportation cost to and from ICO.
Program Dates: Monday, July 14, through Friday, July 18, 2008
Application Period: April 1 - 30, 2008
Notification: Applicants will be notified on or about May 16, 2008.
For eligibility and application information, click on the link.
Illinois College of Optometry
3241 S. Michigan Ave.
Chicago, IL 60616
Phone: 312-949-7407
Applications to U.S. colleges of osteopathic medicine (COMs) have already reached record highs again this year, with many applications yet to be received before the mid-April deadline. The application numbers reflect a six-year period during which several new osteopathic medical schools have been built and thousands of additional potential medical students have applied to enter one of the fastest-growing health care sectors.
Some 11,650 individuals are hoping to fill one of the 4,462 total fall 2008 seats available at the nation’s 25 COMs and their branch campuses, compared with last year’s record-setting 11,459. The growth represents an increase of more than 4 percent over this point in the application cycle last year.
from Inside OME, March 7, 2008
U.S. Med School Seniors Have Most Successful Match Day in 30 years
U.S. medical school seniors celebrated Match Day on Thursday, March 20. More than 94 percent of seniors who applied for residencies this year through the National Resident Matching Program (NRMP) were paired with a program of their choice-the highest percentage in more than three decades. In fact, 84.6 percent of those seniors matched to one of their top three program choices.
The 2008 Match was also the largest ever. Overall, 28,737 applicants vied for one of 22,240 first-year residency positions–the most applicants in history.
A record-high 15, 242 of those applicants were U.S. medical school seniors.
The number of first-year residency positions available through the Match was also the highest in history; 395 additional positions were added this year.
For the full article, please click on the link.
from AAMC Stat, March 24, 2008
SBI Health Education’s AIDS Coalition is pleased to invite you to our annual spring HIV awareness event at the UB! This year’s theme will be HIV and the Media: Fight the Stigma and the event will be held on Wednesday April 2nd from 12-3pm in the Student Union Theater.
We will screen the locally-produced short film, “AIDS: Dangerous Silence” and feature a panel discussion with community leaders in media and HIV research:
- Dr. Lance Rintamaki, an assistant professor of communications and health behavior at UB whose HIV research features how stigma affects access to healthcare for HIV-positive individuals
- Chris Voltz, Director of Marketing and Special Projects at AIDS Community Services
- Andrew Galarneau, a Buffalo News reporter who wrote a piece in December 2007 on HIV in Western New York today
Reception afterwards with FREE FOOD and FREE raffle giveaways, including tickets to Darien Lake!
GREAT for pre-health students: As a healthcare professional, how should you talk to with someone living with HIV? How has the media portrayed HIV in the past 25 years, how has it changed, and how SHOULD it be portrayed to address the urgency of the transmission rates without adding further stigma to the disease?
THIS EVENT IS FREE FOR STUDENTS AND FACULTY!
This message is from Jennifer Stabel, president of APMS
The APMS banquet tickets are on sale now at the Sub-Board ticket office on the second floor of the Student Union for $5.
This includes a dinner buffet of chicken marsala, roast beef and gravy, baked penne with mozzarella, chef salad, oven roasted baby red potatoes, vegetable medley, cake and ice cream. There will also be live music and free raffle drawings. Tickets are limited to 50 people, so get your’s now!
Banchetti by Rizzo’s Banquet facility (*note this is not in Cafe Banchetti, which is located next door to the Banquet building) Doors open at 5:30 Dinner starts promptly at 6:00 PM
See directions below:
From: 15 Capen Hall, Amherst, NY 14260-1609 US
To: Banchetti By Rizzo’s, 550 N French Rd, Amherst, NY 14228 US
DRIVING DIRECTIONS from North Campus
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A) 15 Capen Hall, Amherst, NY 14260-1609 US
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1. Start out going WEST on PUTNAM WAY. (go 0.2 miles)
2. Turn RIGHT. (go 0.0 miles)
3. Turn LEFT onto HADLEY RD. (go 0.1 miles)
4. Turn RIGHT onto RENSCH ENTRANCE. (go 0.2 miles)
5. Turn RIGHT onto SWEET HOME RD/CR-301. (go 2.4 miles)
6. Turn LEFT onto N FRENCH RD/CR-299. (go 0.3 miles)
7. End at 550 N French Rd Amherst, NY 14228
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B) Banchetti By Rizzo’s, 550 N French Rd, Amherst, NY 14228 US
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TOTAL ESTIMATED TIME: 7 minutes | DISTANCE: 3.17 miles
