AMSA 2004-2005 Calendar of Events

MAY

May General Body Meeting - Senior Reflection Panel, Elections

Monday, 5/9/05
Room 4-231
7:15pm

Learn about the medical school admissions process from seniors who have been through it. Hear what you can do if you want to take time off before applying.

We will be holding elections for next year's AMSA Executive Board after the reflection panel. We strongly encourage anyone who would like to help run AMSA next year to run for office. Each candidate must submit a letter of intent to NASHEED (nijamal@mit.edu) by 11:59PM on Saturday, May 7. If you have any questions about particular positions, feel free to email the officer currently holding that position.

JANUARY

The Joy of Clinical Medicine

Dr. Louis Kuchnir
Wednesday, 1/19/05
8:00pm - 9:00pm
Room 2-105

Enrollment limited to 30 participants: advance sign up required (see contact below)
Signup by: 1/23/05

Back when doctors were among the wealthiest Americans, they could have retired early, but instead they tended to work until their own health failed. Lately, clinical medicine is cast as an unrewarding profession. Observers point to how "jackpot justice" is causing a malpractice crisis while cost-savings programs developed by managed care bureaucracies are blamed for destabilizing the doctor-patient relationship. I'll try to inspire those of you interested in becoming clinicians by explaining how the rewards of medical practice are so enormous that they outweigh the indignities that dominate the headlines.

http://web.mit.edu/career/www/events/workshops.html
Contact: Heather Bois Bruskin, 12-170, x3-4733, hbruskin@mit.edu

Introduction to Allopathy -- The Unique Philosophy of Modern Western Medicine

Dr. Louis Kuchnir
Monday, 1/24/05
Room 2-105
7:00pm - 8:00pm

Enrollment limited to 30 participants: advance sign up required (see contact below)
Signup by: 1/23/05

Allopathic medicine is taught by medical schools that award M.D. degrees. At its base is the philosophy that medical therapy should be based on science. In this moderated discussion with Dr. Louis Kuchnir, we'll explore both the strengths and quirks of conventional medicine, based on its foundation in the scientific method including peer review, controlled experimentation, and underpinnings in human biology. We'll also discuss how allopathic philosophy creates an antipathy toward euthanasia, prescribing placebo, integrating alternative therapies, etc. Finally, we'll consider the development of the standardized undergraduate premedical curriculum and extra-curriculars as prerequisites for studying medicine in an allopathic school.

http://web.mit.edu/career/www/events/workshops.html
Contact: Heather Bois Bruskin, 12-170, x3-4733, hbruskin@mit.edu

Bon Voyage: Premeds Journey Abroad

Wednesday, 1/19/05
Room 2-105
6:00pm - 8:00pm

Premed students at MIT often do not realize that they are not limited to staying in the United States while in college. Learn about opportunities for MIT students to enter the international arena. Hear from premeds who have studied, volunteered, and worked abroad.

Contact: Nasheed Jamal, 2-105, nijamal@mit.edu

OCTOBER

Community Service Event - Kandy for Kids

Make your candy bags on: Wednesday, 10/27/04 to Friday, 10/29/04
Student Center 1st Floor
Daily 11am - 3pm

This year, we will be making halloween candy bags for children at Shriner's Hospital of MGH, which is a burns victim hospital designed for pediatric cases. These candy bags will be made by students (such as yourself) from 10/27 to 10/29 in the Student center, daily from 11 to 3. In addition to making the candy bags, we will also distribute them and spend a few hours with the children at Shriners: Saturday October 29th, leaving 77 Mass Ave at 1pm and returning no later than 5pm. If you want to man the student center booth for at least an hour during the above dates, please email Johanna (hanners@mit.edu) with the time slots that you're willing to cover. In addition, if you want to go visit Shriner's on that Saturday to distribute the candy, please email me back to tell me. Because of the hospital's size, they recommend that we not take more than ten people. The first ten people who reply to me get first priority! :)

SEPTEMBER

AMSA First General Body Meeting - Anesthesiology and the Future of the Operating Room

Monday, 9/13/04
Room 6-120
7:00pm

Warren Sandberg, M.D., Ph.D.
Director of Anesthesia, CIMIT OR of the Future Project
Department of Anesthesia & Critical Care, Massachusetts General Hospital

For all you fellow engineers out there, are you wondering how your engineering degree can help improve the field of medicine? Do you want to learn about what the future has in store for the OR? Or are you interested to learn more about the field of anesthesiology? If you do, you shouldn't miss the next AMSA general body meeting, featuring Dr. Warren Sandberg, the head of Anesthesiology and Future of Operation Room project at MGH. He will be able to answer all your questions!

Also, for Freshmen and Sophomores, are you interested in gaining a leadership position in AMSA? We have two Officer-at-Large positions open for you. Come to our meeting to learn more details. If you are interested in the position and can not make the meeting, please e-mail amsa-exec@mit.edu to request for more details.

FREE FOOD
OFFICERS-at-Large Positions Available: 1 Freshman, 1 Sophomore
FREE RAFFLE

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