This message is from Sydney Domanowski, president of APMS.
Hi everyone!
I have tons of announcements, and I’m sorry if this is really long, but I want everyone to have as many opportunities as possible to volunteer.
1) The only Ronald McDonald House with open spaces is the December 5th Dinner from 3:30pm-7pm. (std2@buffalo.edu)
2) Diabetes Walk at Coca-Cola Field on October 17th. Please e-mail lburkard@buffalo.edu for more info.
3) We still need more people to work Bills Games! We get paid by the number of people we supply for each game. And then at the end of the year we get a “bonus” according to our profit. We also get a free meal voucher for each person at every game and free parking. We have to have every member who can work go to the orientation October 21st from 6-9pm at Bills Stadium. There are 4 home games remaining we would have to commit to. All of the remaining games are 1:00 games, so we would have to work 10am-5pm for each game:
*November 1st
*November 29th
*December 20th
*January 3rd
You can work whichever games you are able and if you want to have friends do it with you, they’re more than welcome! We are working with AED and Pre-Dental to do this, so friends from those clubs are welcome too! Also, if you go to the orientation and work at least 2 games, you will be able to attend our CPR certification course for FREE in the spring.
4) The Sarkin Race on UB South Campus is Sat. October 24th. Please e-mail std2@buffalo.edu for info.
5) Christa will be making Trick-or-Treat Bags for Children’s Hospital on Sunday, October 25th. E-mail cfmcphee@buffalo.edu for info.
6) We will be holding a winter clothing drive for the Buffalo City Mission in early November. We’d like to make this a campus-wide event and get bins in the residence halls and throughout campus. Please e-mail mdm34@buffalo.edu to help him coordinate this event.
7) There will be any informational Army ROTC session about their Health Professional Scholarship Program on November 4 from 6-8pm in NSC215. Free Pizza and refreshments will be available. E-mail mjs83@buffalo.edu for more info.
8. We will be hosting a Buffalo Bills Party at the Kaleida Waterfront Nursing Home on November 15th. Also, if you’d like to volunteer at any time at the Kaleida Waterfront, contact us also, as we can connect you with their volunteer coordinator easily. Please e-mail sckahn@buffalo.edu for info.
9) We’re helping with a Red Cross Blood Drive on November 16th. E-mail rroach@buffalo.edu for more info.
10) We have a new research/volunteer opportunity that is an on-going commitment.
If you are available 4 hours on Fridays between 9am-5pm and would like to help out with Diabetes Education and Research (This really effects every specialty we could possibly go into, no matter what we’re going to have a Diabetic patient!).
Please e-mail me for more info std2@buffalo.edu.
11) We have added 3 new physicians to our Shadowing program! Dr. Fox and Dr.
Patel are Family Medicine Doctors and Dr. Cloud is an ER Physician at ECMC.
12) We’re working on providing CPR classes to APMS members at a decreased cost, or even for free. Please e-mail John at jbjr3@buffalo.edu for details.
I’m currently working on making a calender to send out to everyone. As soon as I find a program that everyone has, I’ll get it done. Thanks so much and have a great week!
This message is from Mark Niec, president of AED
As we did last year, we will be conducting an auction for a free Kaplan course. We are still looking for the easiest way to do this. This year we will be using Facebook. If you are interested in the auction sign up for the group Alpha Epsilon Delta Kaplan Auction. Directions on how the bidding will work is on the group site. If any of you who are interested in bidding but are prefer not to use Facebook let me know through email and we will work it out. The official start of the auction will be Monday October 12 at 9:00AM. The end will be November 2 at 5:00PM. Make sure no bids are on the wall of the group!!! Only by direct message to Justin Lobello.
~Mark Niec
AED President
This message is from Allie Mercurio, president of UBA.
The Undergraduate Biology Association would like to invite you to our Biology Night Out and fundraiser on Monday, November 2. It will be held at Transit Lanes at 7:00PM. Tickets are $8.00 and include two games of bowling, shoe rental, dinner, and desert. Raffle tickets will also be sold at the door for our Chinese auction in order to raise money for the club. It will be a great opportunity to unite faculty and students! Tickets for the event will be sold until mid October, so don’t delay! If you are interested, please contact me by email at alm39@buffalo.edu. Or you can purchase them at our next meeting on Oct 13th, where medical students will be talking about their experiences. The room is still pending.
CO-SIGN is UB’s College Student Interest Group in Neurology academic club. The mission of the club is to stimulate interest and support students interested in behavioral neuroscience and clinical neurology.
CO-SIGN holds bi-weekly meetings in Park 366 and plans to make it a habit to discuss “news and views” and interesting articles from neurology and neuroscience journals, offer students many research opportunities, provide important information and advising based on member experience, as well as opportunities to shadow physicians.
They also participate in various community service events and those offered by the Student Association.
The UB CO-SIGN website is here .
CO-SIGN is part of a national group - the American Academy of Neurology (AAN) .
The mission of SIGN and CO-SIGN is to foster student interest in neurology by providing opportunities for students to participate in clinical, research, and service activities in neurology; to increase the student’s neurologic knowledge; and to create an interest in the AAN.
CO-SIGN will be holding their general meeting at 366 Park Hall, THIS Thursday October 8, at 7:00pm. The E-Board will introduce CO-SIGN and discuss upcoming events, volunteering, shadowing opportunities, and get acquainted with each other. There will be Wegmans pizza and refreshments.
CO-SIGN is meant to stimulate interest in neurology and behavioral neuroscience, so anyone with the slightest hint of interest is very welcome to join us this Thursday.
This message is from Mark Niec, president of AED
NEXT Wednesday at 7pm there will be Take Back the Night, a program to promote awareness of sexual violence. It will take place in Diefendorf hall on south campus. If you are interested in volunteering and helping them out email me at mjniec@buffalo ASAP!
This message is from Sydney Domanowski, president of APMS
Hi everyone!
Alright, I just wanted to remind you of a few things:
1) Our next meeting is NEXT Thursday, Oct. 8th 5:30pm in Diefendorf 148 (on South campus). If you need directions let me know. We will have a Kaplan presentation and then raffle off a half-priced course. Every member in attendance will get one ticket for the raffle. If you plan on entering, please make sure you will have the $950 available within 2 weeks of the meeting. We will also be watching a movie about the life of a medical school student, which is really great. I will also be announcing a lot of new volunteer opportunities at this meeting.
2) There is an orientation for the Bills games tomorrow from 10am-2pm at Ralph Wilson Stadium. If anyone else wants to sign up to help us out with some of the remaining home games, please let me know. We really need to fundraise in order to be able to do everything we do in a year.
3) Anyone who is still interested in volunteering for the Walk to Fight Diabetes on Saturday, October 17th we are needed for registration from 8am to 10am. If you are interested, this also allows you to be able to participate in the walk. The training session is from 6-7pm this Wednesday, October 7th on Alberta Drive. We can set up a carpool for this for anyone who is interested. Please let me know ASAP if you would like to volunteer so I can RSVP for our group as a whole to the training session. For anyone that has already expressed interest, please let me know if you are still interested given this information at lburkard@buffalo.edu
4) UB Gettin’ Dirty will be held on Sunday, October 11, 2009 from 10am to 2pm. This year the Student Association in collaboration with both campus and City of Buffalo community will be launching a citywide clean-up. You will have to meet up with the Student Association at 9:30am at Main Circle on UB South Campus. When you get there please do not forget to identify yourself as an AED or APMS member. Please email cfmcphee@buffalo.edu
5) I will compile and send out a listserv next Friday with an attachment. This will be a calender with ALL of the APMS events for the whole semester on it. So, please read it and let me know if you have any questions about details.
Thanks so much everyone! Have a great weekend!
UB Gettin’ Dirty will be held on Sunday, October 11, 2009 from 10am to 2pm. This year the Student Association in collaboration with both campus and
City of Buffalo community will be launching a citywide clean-up.
You will have to meet up with the Student Association at 9:30am at Main Circle on UB South Campus. When you get there please do not forget to identify yourself as an AED or APMS member. If you have any questions, please email me.
Melitta Mendonca
Vice President AED
mm329@buffalo.edu
This message is from Mark Niec, president of AED.
Dear AED Members,
We are still accepting people who would like to mentor or be mentored. This is a great program for freshmen and sophomores to benefit from.
Upper classmen basically give advice to the younger classmen in ways that they can make their professional school applications stronger. Email me with your name, year, major, and field of interest (dental, surgery, etc.).
~Mark Niec
AED President
If you have put in an application for shadowing in the Emergency Room and have not yet heard back from me, Becca Roach (rroach@buffalo.edu), you need to re-fill out an application and submit it either on-line or to Norton 108. We have been experiencing some technical difficulties with the applications and we want to make sure that everyone that is interested in shadowing in the ER has an opportunity to do so. Thank you very much and sorry for any inconvenience.
Thanks again,
Becca Roach
APMS Shadowing Coordinator
Also, I have to let the Bills staff know by tomorrow about working the games.
So, anyone who wants to or already has signed up, let me know which orientation you can do and which games you can work. Thanks so much!
Sydney Domanowski
APMS President
This message is from Sydney Domanowski, president of APMS.
Hi everyone!
So, yay! we have 14 people signed up to work some of the games, but we still need at least a couple more! So, here’s the deal:
1) We get paid by the number of people we supply for each game. And then at the end of the year we get a “bonus” of any profit over the projected profit of 3%. We also get a free meal voucher for each person at every game and free parking.
2) We have to have every member who would work any number of games go to the orientation. There are two available-Sept 30th 6-10pm or Oct 3rd 10-2pm.
3) There are 5 home games remaining we would have to commit to. Also, if god intervenes and the Bill’s make the playoffs, we do have to still work those games.
4) All of the remaining games are 1:00 games, so we would have to work 10am-5pm for each game.
Here are the remaining games:
*October 11th
*November 1st
*November 29th
*December 20th
*January 3rd
Let me know what dates you guys can do and which orientation you will go to ASAP please. You can do as much or as little as you like and if you want to have friends do it too, let me know! We are working with AED and Pre-Dental to do this, so friends from those clubs are welcome too! Thanks everyone, hope to hear from you soon so we can do this! Have a great weekend!
Sydney Domanowski
APMS President
