Weekly Announcements--Week of 2/8/16

Happy Black History Month!

A couple messages from Maria Zimmerman:

Who doesn't love Girl Scout cookies?  My daughter Olivia is a Girl Scout and will be on campus Friday, February 12th to sell cookies.  I am collecting orders in advance to make sure I bring enough cookies for everyone. Please order your cookies by this Wednesday at 6pm using the google doc link below. 
 
You can pick up cookies on Friday, February 12th in the Admissions Office, Suite 124 MERB.  
 
The cookies are $4/box and payment will be collected (cash only please) when you pick up the cookies.  To see descriptions of the cookies, visit www.girlscoutcookies.org and select the link to "Meet the Cookies." 
 
To order cookies:   
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1XYa_oyZLVj73ywwzTsvuxNU-ofJh8mmPVv6-Q_ZxkSA/edit?usp=sharing
 

Attention 1st year students:  

Are you interested in being a tour guide?  We are looking for Ambassadors to give tours on interview day as well as during special events.  If you are interested, interviews will be held on Monday, February 15th on the third floor MERB (rooms 342, 343 & 341).  12 students will be selected to serve as tour guides.
Tours/lunch with the applicants are held from noon until 2:00 every Tuesday, Wednesday, or Thursday.  Four Ambassadors are scheduled for each interview day  - so the time commitment is once a week for two hours.  
If you are selected to be a tour guide, you will meet with Maria Zimmerman on Monday, February 22nd at noonand follow two tours before you take over for the second year tour guides. 


You will follow one tour the week of February 22nd and another tour the week of February 29th.  You will take over tours the week of March 14th after you return from spring break.  Interviews for the class of 2020 will end in April.
You can sign up for a time slot here:
https://docs.google.com/a/temple.edu/spreadsheets/d/1Wm-_AAtaM63yR4j67K8gK4IKg05aJeD5T6rPzOQD1Ck/edit?usp=sharing

Thanks in advance,
Maria Zimmerman
Director for Admissions
Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University
maria.zimmerman@temple.edu​
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Message from student affairs on Philly Ultrafest

Class of 2019

Philly Ultrafest, Saturday 3/26, Hamilton. Ultrafest is an annual free educational symposium for medical students in the Philadelphia area, where students will have the opportunity to learn and practice clinical sonography. Clinical ultrasound has become prevalent across many medical specialties including medicine, surgery, emergency medicine, family medicine, ob/gyn, dermatology, rheumatology, anesthesiology, urology and more. In many specialties it has become part of residency training, however many people (including us here at Philly Ultrafest) believe it should be taught earlier in the medical school. We believe in the next 10 years it will be more utilized in bedside care than the stethoscope.

Join us on March 26 - register at : phillyultrafest.org.

Email us at phillyultrafest@gmail.com with any questions/concerns. 

Lydia Hanna
Sidney Kimmel Medical College 


Weekly Announcements:

Psych SIG: Addiction Medicine: A Primer
Monday 2/8/2015, MERB 217, 12:00p.m.-1:00p.m.
Cocaine, heroin, alcohol, sex, THE INTERNET. Interested in addiction medicine or psychiatry? Come out to PsychSIG's second event of the semester Monday February 8th to hear all about it and get FREE FOOD.

Step 1 Review Session - Session 3 
Tuesday 2/9/2015, MERB 319, 12:00p.m.-1:00p.m.
Hello 2nd years, It is time for our next Step 1 review session! The next session will be on Tuesday, February 9th at noon. Note that this session will be on Tuesday at noon and not Wednesday. Please check Facebook for a reminder closer to the date and for the room number. This session will be on Microbiology and Antibiotics. As always, please email us with anything specific you would like to see at this session or with any questions. See you then!

Mike Bashline Matt Dougherty Kyle Sears 

Student National Medical Association; Medical Humanities Book Club
Black Man in a White Coat: A Book Excerpt Discussion
Thursday 2/11/2015, MERB 217, 12:00p.m.-1:00p.m.
Calling all bookworms, come satisfy your craving for delicious books with a joint Book Club-SNMA (Student National Medical Association) event! :D We will be reading and discussing an excerpt of Dr. Damon Tweedy's national best-selling book Black Man in a White Coat. Plenty of food and drinks for all!