CDC invites qualified applicants to apply for a ten week summer program in Environmental Public Health at the National Center for Environmental Health/Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (NCEH/ATSDR) in Atlanta, Georgia. This is a full time summer opportunity for rising collegiate juniors and seniors to get real-world experience in Environmental Public Health activities at the federal level. Students will participate in individual projects and will be paired with mentors in order to gain valuable experience in the fascinating field of Environmental Public Health. Students who are majoring in environmental fields are encouraged to visit the website to learn more about the internship, environmental health, and previous intern projects. Questions? Please email Cory Moore at Cmoore3@cdc.gov.
Stipend: $500 per week
Deadline for application: February 18, 2009
Program dates: June 10 -August 14, 2009
Applications for admission to the Summer 2009 Adventures in Veterinary Medicine program at Tufts University are now being accepted! The sessions for college students are being held June 1-5 and June 8-12, 2009. Currently entering its 18th year, Adventures in Veterinary Medicine is a career-exploration program designed to provide participants with direct insights into the realities and opportunities of a career in veterinary medicine. The week-long sessions for college students include lectures, demonstrations, panel discussions, admissions advice, case studies and rotation through our hospitals. Many of our past participants have successfully gained admission to veterinary school here at Tufts University and at other schools. Interested students are encouraged to visit our web site for more information. As our program continues to attract bright, motivated students who are seriously considering a career in veterinary medicine, admission remains competitive. There is no deadline for applying, however, as each session has limited seats, it is highly recommended that applications be submitted by early February. The admissions selection process begins in February and continues on a rolling basis until the sessions are full.
For more information on the program, including eligibility, tuition and the online application please click on the link or contact us at AVM@tufts.edu.
Linette Scibelli
Director of Special Programs
Adventures in Veterinary Medicine
Tufts University Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine
The following announcement is from the Department of Physics.
We are offering PHY100 for the first time as a summer course in Summer
09. We will be offering it in both sessions. We will no longer be
offering this course in the Fall or Spring semesters.
We will be announcing this on our departmental website.
Olivia C. Emrich, Ed.M.
Assistant to the Chairman
Physics Department
235 Fronczak Hall
There is a new summer research opportunity at Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) and Harvard Medical School for underrepresented minority (URM) undergraduate juniors and seniors or first year medical students. The Office for Multicultural Faculty Careers at BWH is recruiting its inaugural cohort of scholars to participate in the Summer Training in Academic Research and Scholarship (STARS) Program.
Briefly, students are invited to join for 8 weeks to engage in basic, clinical or translational research projects under the supervision of BWH and Harvard Medical School faculty advisors. At the end of the 8 weeks students will share their findings during a program ending research presentation day. As well as conducting laboratory research, students will also receive professional development training, meet faculty from across the hospital and medical school, and participate in social networking events.
The BWH STARS Program will cover students’ travel costs to and from Boston , provide housing free of charge, and give them a stipend for the summer.
This is a great opportunity for students to train in the Harvard Medical School environment. Please visit the program website for more information and to download an application. The application deadline is Monday, February 9, 2009 and students will be notified of their selection by Monday, March 16, 2009.
Jabbar R. Bennett, PhD
Lecturer on Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Director, BWH STARS Program
2009 BWH STARS Program Overview
Eligibility Requirements
The applicant must:
- Be a member of an underrepresented minority group [Per Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) guidelines, at BWH, this means African-American, Alaskan/Hawaiian Native, Hispanic American, Native American]
- Be a US citizen or non-citizen national with a permanent residence visa
- Be an undergraduate junior or senior, or 1st year medical student
- Express an interest in pursuing a career in academic medicine
Program Details
- Duration 8 weeks (June 15 - August 6, 2009)
- Participants 6 - 10 URM undergraduate juniors and seniors, and 1st year medical students
- Housing Included (Vanderbilt Hall, Harvard University Student Residence Housing)
- Travel Included (To and from Boston )
- Stipend $3200
- Learning Materials Included
Program Components
- Advising
- Clinical Shadowing (Optional)
- Community Building - Social Networking
- Laboratory Research
- Reflections - Professional Development
- Research 101 - Instruction
- Roundtable
OPEN HOUSE
SUNY College of Optometry
33 West 42nd Street
Manhattan, NY
SUNY Optometry is holding an Open House for all who are interested in learning more about the Doctor of Optometry program. You’ll get answers to questions pertaining to requirements, procedures and cost of attending.
When: Thursday, January 8, 2009 from 9:45 am to 12:30 p.m.
To Register, e-mail: admissions@sunyopt.edu
Provide: Name, Address and if you’ll be bringing a guest. there is a limit of TWO guests per attendee.
State University of New York College of Optometry
33 West 42nd Street, New York, New York 10036
Phone: 800-291-3937
My name is Matthew Geller and I am leader of the Pre-Optometry club at SUNY Albany.
Are you interested in attending the biggest Pre-Optometry conference of
2009 and meeting the top leaders in the field of Optometry?
We are holding an Optometric Convention on March 14, 2009 (Saturday
night) in the SUNY Albany Ball Room. Although we are planning the event now, it will be a 3 hour FULLY CATERED event with many great guest speakers.
**If you are interested in the field of Optometry or Ophthalmology, this event is your chance to meet the leaders in these fields and to get your name out there!**
We plan to have Admissions Presidents from NECO (Dr. Potaznick) and SUNY Optometry (Dr. Johnston) to come and speak along with opticians, optometrists, and ophthalmologists. Along with this there will be pre-optometry students and current Optometry students speaking at the event. As another treat we will be having Optometric business consultants to come and discuss the business model of optometry. (Other guest speakers from other optometry schools are still pending, but it is looking good!)
We know that everyone involved will truly benefit from this great exchange of value and knowledge. Nothing like this has been done before so NOW is your chance to RSVP to an Optometric Convention for Pre-Optometry students of 2009!
If you are interested, just send an e-mail to UAOPT@Albany.edu - saying that you would like to attend. From here we can send you a formal invitation and give you more details.
Also check out our club website at www.SUNYAlbanyPreOptometry.com
Thanks so much, we look forward to seeing you in March!
UA Pre-Optometry Club Creator,
Matthew Geller
***SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT***
Volunteer Orientation scheduled at UB for SATURDAY, JANUARY 17, 2009 at 8:30 a.m. - (approx) 11:00/11:30 p.m. in KNOX 4.
Buffalo General Hospital and the other Kaleida Hospitals (Women and Children’s, Millard Fillmore Gates and Suburban and DeGraff) are seeking responsible and highly motivated UB students to volunteer in various departments. Many of the hospitals offer volunteer placements in nearly 30 different departments. Responsibilities will vary based on the department of interest.
The goal is provide meaningful and substantive volunteer experiences for students interested in health careers and many of the positions allow students to interact with patients and their families. The hospital provides free parking and vouchers for meals. There is the expectation that students will complete anywhere from a total of 100 to 150 volunteer hours.
If you are interested, a special orientation session has been arranged for UB students. This orientation will take place SATURDAY, JANUARY 17 at 8:30 a.m. in Knox 4.
Father Richard Augustyn, Head of Volunteer Services and Director of Pastoral Care at Buffalo General Hospital, Ms. Kathy Gorski, Head of Volunteer Services at Millard Suburban and Ms. Jennifer Flood from Women and Children’s Hospital of Buffalo will discuss the various placements and conduct the orientation session.
Prior to beginning volunteering, students would need to submit an application including a health form and letter of recommendation. Participants would also tour the hospital, have a TB test (2), and a background check completed.
If you attend the orientation, you can get the necessary forms. If you plan on attending the orientation, please SIGN UP NO LATER THAN THURSDAY, JANUARY 15, 2008. You can sign up by emailing Nicole Schwab at nmschwab@buffalo.edu.
If you wish to volunteer, you MUST ATTEND this orientation or attend a future orientation session scheduled at the hospital.
Subject: FW: UF News: Future doctors share too much on Facebook, UF researchers say
Future doctors share too much on Facebook, UF researchers say
July 10, 2008
Media Contact: April Frawley Birdwell, afrawley@ufl.edu,
Writer: Tim Lockette, lockette@coe.ufl.edu,
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Would it bother you to know that your physician smokes cigars and likes to do “keg stands”? That your gynecologist was a member of a group called “I Hate Medical School”? That your urologist is a fan of “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre”?
That is exactly the sort of information many people share on social networking sites such as Facebook and MySpace. According to a new University of Florida study, many medical students are sharing far too much.
“College has traditionally been a time in life when non-normative behaviors are considered OK,” said Dr. Lindsay Acheson Thompson, an assistant professor of general pediatrics at UF’s College of Medicine. “I’m not sure I would want to have a permanent, public record of everything I did 10 years ago, but many of our students are creating just such a record, and they need to understand the problems this may cause.”
Thompson and several researchers from the UF’s colleges of Education and Medicine did a review of the Facebook sites of 362 UF medical students and residents and found that a significant portion of them were publicizing personal information most physicians would never share with their patients.
The study was published this week in the Journal of General Internal Medicine.
The researchers looked up more than 800 medical students by name on Facebook, finding that 44 percent of them (for a total of 362) had profiles on the social networking service. Only 37 percent of those students had made their Facebook entries private — the most obvious safeguard against revealing too much personal information on the Web.
The Facebooking students seemed to be aware of the personal safety issues inherent in social networking: only 6 percent revealed a home address. However, students were looser with lifestyle information including sexual orientation (revealed by more than half of Facebook-using students), relationship status (revealed by 58 percent of students) and political opinions or positions (revealed by half of students).
But the numbers tell only part of the story. The researchers randomly selected 10 Facebook profiles for a more in-depth analysis, looking for hard-to-quantify items that patients or colleagues might find objectionable. Seven of the 10 included photographs in which the subject was drinking alcohol, and some form of excessive or hazardous drinking was implied in as many as half of those photos.
Three of the 10 students in the sample had joined groups that could be interpreted as sexist (“Physicians looking for trophy wives in training”) or racially charged (“I should have gone to a blacker college”).
Facebook is full of bluster and trash talk, and college-age users may feel that these items are not to be taken seriously. Yet patients and future employers, the researchers say, may not have quite so strong a taste for irony.
“Doctors are held to a higher standard,” Thompson said. “There are stated codes of behavior that are pretty straightforward, and those standards encourage the development of a professional persona.”
The medical profession isn’t the only career that requires young people to develop a professional identity. The medical school study was modeled closely on an earlier study that looked at the Facebook use of future elementary-school teachers studying in a college of education. Generally, the education majors’ postings were relatively tame, but the study found that many future teachers shared information to an unsafe degree. For instance, almost half of those with public accounts posted their home address on Facebook.
Associate professor Kara Dawson — one of several College of Education researchers who worked on both studies — says the goal of this line of research is not to discourage Facebook use but to make students aware of the demands of a professional persona. There is some evidence that students do begin to understand the impact of Facebook as they approach graduation. The study found that while 64 percent of medical students had public Facebook accounts, only 12 percent of resident physicians did.
The researchers say they have ample anecdotal evidence to show that medical schools across the nation have a similar problem.
“When we presented this at the Pediatric Academic Societies in May, we were overwhelmed with requests from pediatric program directors who wanted to know how to get their students to be more careful on Facebook,” said co-author Erik Black, a doctoral student and fellow at the College of Education. “This is a global problem, and ours is one of the first studies to address the problem head-on.”
The researchers note that awareness of this problem is rapidly growing, and many UF medical students have cleaned up their online presence significantly in the 12 months since the data for the study were collected. The researchers would like to take this awareness a step further, encouraging students to use social networking sites to enhance their professional identity.
“Social networking is a powerful tool,” Dawson said. “Both teachers and doctors can use networking to their advantage — but they need to create sites that reflect their professional identity.”
University of Cincinnati College of Medicine
R.O.S.E. Program
(Research, Observation, Service, Education)
What is R.O.S.E.?
The University of Cincinnati College of Medicine offers a unique early assurance acceptance program called R.O.S.E. (Research, Observation, Service, and Education). R.O.S.E. students enjoy the following benefits:
Two (consecutive) summer research internships with a biomedical focus. Internships last 8-10 weeks and take place in Cincinnati. Students are provided a stipend of $2500.
An early assurance guarantee for our M.D. program provided that they earn an MCAT Score of 30+ (no less than a 9 in any category) and an AMCAS calculated BCPM of 3.45+ and 3.40 cumulative.
Mentorship from our faculty and support from our Office of Student Affairs and Recruitment.
Shadowing opportunities with UCCOM faculty, students, and alumni.
Who can apply?
R.O.S.E. is designed for high ability, intellectually curious pre-medical college students. To be considered for R.O.S.E., applicants must meet all of the following criteria:
Be an Ohio resident but can attend college anywhere in the world.�
Earn a “B” or better for at least one term of organic chemistry by the time of application.
Have a solid overall academic record.
Have at two full summers available for the internship as a college student.
When do students need to apply?
The application is now available online. All applications and supplementary materials must be received by February 16, 2009 to be considered for the program.
Where can students find more information on R.O.S.E.?
Please send all questions to ROSEProgram@uc.edu or call 513-558-5581.
Office of Student Affairs and Admissions
University of Cincinnati College of Medicine
3202 Eden Avenue, Room 229
PO Box 670668
Cincinnati, OH 45267-0668
