This message is from the Pre-professional Advising Office at the Univ of South Carolina
The University of South Carolina’s Office of Pre-Professional Advising is hosting its third annual intensive five-day program that assists pre-med students as they prepare for their med school application. The Application Preparation EXtreme (APEX) is a residential camp that offers personal attention to each attendee and a host of activities to help them prepare a compelling application. Applicants must have 60 hours of earned college credit by the end of this school year to attend. The program includes a personal statement workshop with follow-up assistance, an interview skills workshop with two simulated med school interviews with written feedback, and an AMCAS orientation with helpful hints and instructions. We will also perform a human cadaver dissection, shadow in local hospitals, and have a panel presentation by students who have been through the process. The admission director from the University of South Carolina School of Medicine will also present to the campers. The counselors for this camp are current medical students who offer advice and assistance the entire week. This opportunity will help highly-motivated students learn how to showcase their abilities, skills, and motivation throughout the application process to med school.
Camp Specifics:
• Sunday, June 7-11, 2009
• By application only
• First come, first served
• $795, includes room, board, transportation while attending the camp, dissection, activities, and workbooks
• $50 deposit due with application is non-refundable for those accepted into the camp. Remainder may be paid in 3 installments of $248 with the total due by June 1, 2009. Deposit due by April 1, 2009. Credit card payments accepted: 803-777-5581
Questions?
Phone: 803-777-5581
Fax: 803-777-5578
E-mail: korpita@sc.edu
Application and information can be downloaded at the link.
This message is from Shannon Palermo, president of APMS,
I hope that everyone had an enjoyable winter break, and I’d like to welcome back everyone for the spring semester! This semester is packed with meetings, volunteer events, and of course our annual end of the year banquet, so I wanted to let everyone know of some particular events coming up.
Our first general body meeting will be on Feb 18th at 5pm in NSC 220. We will be featuring a guest speaker (who will be confirmed shortly), and as always, food and beverages will be served. However, this is not your first opportunity to get involved with APMS this semester!
On Sunday, February 14th (Valentines Day!) we will be serving a holiday lunch at the Ronald McDonald House. We will be meeting at UB around 11am, and serving lunch at 11:30. Please email me at palermo5@buffalo.edu if you wish to participate. In addition to the February date, we will also be volunteering at Ronald McDonald House on Sunday, February 22nd, and also Sunday, March 22nd. Both of these will be lunch services, so the meeting time will be between 10:30 and 11am. More details will come as the dates get closer.
Shannon Palermo
APMS President
Want to make a difference in the world by doing health related work?
Interested in a health career but the careers you know about aren’t exactly what you most want to do?
Interested in doing health related research but not sure how to get the training you would need?
Come learn about Epidemiology and Public Health:
What epidemiologists and public health practitioners do, graduate programs, careers, research opportunities. Meet with faculty and graduate students from the Department of Social and Preventive Medicine
Tuesday, February 17
4:00-6:00 pm
182 Farber Hall
3435 Main Street
South Campus
Food will be served
PLEASE RSVP by February 12th to: JoMarie Woltz at jwoltz@buffalo.edu
CAREERS AND GRADUATE STUDIES IN PUBLIC HEALTH
EPIDEMIOLOGY AND COMMUNITY HEALTH
Plus food and drink in Farber Hall, Room 182
Public Health is the future. During the past 50 years there has been a 30 year increase in global life expectancy, the greatest seen in human history. It has been estimated that 25 years of the increase has been due to public health/prevention. Because of people who work in public health, the world is healthier than it has ever been.
Public Health is a great career for people who want to make a difference. It is not boring. We are in public health and we love it. We want you to talk to you, for you to consider training with us.
People work in public health with backgrounds in diverse disciplines including Engineering, Medicine, Anthropology, Nursing, Physics, Environmental Sciences, Nutrition, and Exercise Science. We need people with bachelor’s degrees; we need those with M.D., DVM, and Ph.D. degrees as well. You can come fresh out of college, or senior people might consider a degree while taking a sabbatical. Ours is an inherently interdisciplinary field.
We are recruiting students with an interest in working directly in public health and those who are interested in doing public health related research. We are looking for students to enter our PhD program in Epidemiology and in Community Health and our MPH or MS degree programs.
We offer are many exciting programs of research including foci on cancer, environmental health, heart disease and diabetes, molecular epidemiology, international epidemiology, nutrition, physical activity, genetic epidemiology and women’s health.
Come to the workshop to learn more about the exciting opportunities we can offer.
If you are interested in attending the workshop, send an email to: jwoltz@buffalo.edu. Information about the department can be found at the link.
If you are interested in a tutoring opportunity to assist a fellow UB student who is beginning PHY 101, please email Libby Morsheimer at etm3@buffalo.edu and I will pass your name and email forward. Interested students should have completed PHY 101/151 with a grade of A.
This Thursday, Jan 29 AED will host their first general meeting for the spring. It is scheduled for 5:30 p.m. in 145C Student Union. Kaplan Test Prep is coming to discuss their offerings for medical, dental, veterinary, pharmacy and optometry admissions tests. This is all good information for current and prospective applicants to these professional health programs. In addition, Kaplan offers discounts to AED members and will talk about these as well as their upcoming specials. There will also be some sample questions that you can review from the tests. The meeting will last approximately 30 to 40 minutes. See you soon!
The AED Eboard
Brianna Pilliod is looking for UB pre-vet students who are interested in starting a Pre-Vet Club through SA. You can contact Brianna at her UB email address for more information: briannap@buffalo.edu
If you are interested in a tutoring opportunity for another UB student who is beginning CHE 202, please email Libby Morsheimer at etm3@buffalo.edu and I will pass your name and email forward. Interested students should have completed CHE 201 and 202 (or 251-252) and earned grades of A for both semesters.
Register Online Today. Registration rate increases after January 31.
Global Health and Innovation Summit
A Conference Presented Annually by Unite For Sight
NEW: Conference Schedule Online
Early Bird Rate - Register To Secure Lowest Rate: Sat, April 18 - Sun, April 19, 2009
Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
“A Meeting of Minds,” –CNN
200 Speakers, Including Keynote Addresses by Dr. Susan Blumenthal, Nicholas Kristof, Dr. Jeffrey Sachs, Dr. Sonia Sachs, Dr. Al Sommer, and Dr. Harold Varmus. Plus social innovation sessions by CEOs and Directors of Save The Children, Partners in Health, HealthStore Foundation, mothers2mothers, and many others.
What? Join 2,500 people from all 50 states and from more than 60 countries for an innovative, high-impact idea incubator.
Who should attend? Students, professionals, educators, doctors, scientists, lawyers, universities, corporations, nonprofits, and others. Anyone interested in international health and development, public health, eye care, medicine, social entrepreneurship, nonprofits, philanthropy, microfinance, human rights, anthropology, health policy, advocacy, public service, environmental health, and education.
Confirmed Keynote Speakers
“Global Health Challenges and Opportunities,” Susan Blumenthal, MD, MPA, Former US Assistant Surgeon General, Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Georgetown School of Medicine and Tufts University Medical Center; Senior Medical Advisor, amfAR (The Foundation for AIDS Research; Chair, Global Health Program, Meridian International Center, “The Challenges of Development and Making Aid Work,” Nicholas Kristof, Columnist, The New York Times, Jeffrey Sachs, PhD, Director of Earth Institute at Columbia University; Quetelet Professor of Sustainable Development, Professor of Health Policy and Management, Columbia University; Special Advisor to Secretary-General of the United Nations Ban Ki-moon, “Millennium Villages: Update,” Sonia Ehrlich Sachs, MD, MPH, Health Coordinator, Millennium Village Project, “Preventing Blindness; Saving Lives,” Al Sommer, MD, MHS, Professor and Dean Emeritus, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, “New Perspectives on Global Health and Science,” Harold Varmus, MD, President and Chief Executive, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center; Former Director of the NIH; Nobel Prize Recipient, Confirmed Leaders of Social Innovation and Social Entrepreneurship Speakers, “Social Entrepreneurship as a Tool to Strengthen Health Systems,”Leah Barrett, MPA, Program Officer, VillageReach
“Unite For Sight: Social Entrepreneurship As A Symbol of Hope for the (Poor) Blind Villagers and Refugees in Ghana,” James Clarke, MD, Ophthalmologist and Medical Director, Crystal Eye Clinic, Ghana, “Strategic Social Entrepreneurship as a Tool for Advancing Global Health,” Greg Dees, PhD, Professor of the Practice of Social Entrepreneurship and co-founder of the Center for the Advancement of Social Entrepreneurship, Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business, “The Power of Public/Private “Hybrids,” Gene Falk, Co-Founder, Executive Directors, mothers2mothers, “The HealthStore Foundation: Improving Access to Life-Saving Medicines through Micro-Franchising,” Scott Hillstrom, Chairman of the Board, CEO and Co-Founder, HealthStore Foundation, “The Impact of the Food and Nutrition Crisis on the Global Health Agenda,” Charles MacCormack, PhD, President and CEO, Save The Children, “Health Care From The Grassroots,” Joia Mukherjee, MD, MPH, Medical Director, Partners in Health; Director, Institute for Health and Social Justice; Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School; Division of Social Medicine and Health Inequalities, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, “‘Patient’ Capital for Global Health,” Ajay Nair, MBBS MPH, Portfolio Associate, Acumen Fund
Plus 200 More Featured Speakers!
The Ohio University College of Osteopathic Medicine will again host the Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) program. The SURF program provides a wide variety of summer research opportunities for undergraduate students interested in careers in medicine or biomedical research. Participants in this program work in an active research lab under the guidance of a biomedical science faculty member. The goal is to expose students to the challenges, excitement and satisfaction of research.
The SURF program is 7 weeks in length and includes room & board, a living allowance, 8 quarter hours of biology credit and the potential for a guaranteed interview for the entering class at the medical school.
Detailed information, eligibility requirements, and application materials can be obtained by going to the SURF web site
The deadline is Feb 1.
If you have any questions about the program, please contact the OU-COM Admissions Office at 800-345-1560.
Director of Admissions
Assistant Professor, Department of
Social Medicine
Ohio University College of Osteopathic Medicine
102 Grosvenor Hall
Athens, Ohio 45701
800-345-1560
The following programs are for pre-medical students looking for a two-week, intensive, medical exposure program. All the basic information can be found on-line.
Summer Surgery Experience
Summer Neuroscience Experience
Jennifer Burg Rosichan, MA
Director, Student Affairs and Recruitment Programs
Office of Student Affairs and Admissions
University of Cincinnati College of Medicine
