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Wed, 28 Feb 2007 07:13:29 GMT

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Friday, January 26, 2007

Fri, 26 Jan 2007 07:21:39 GMT

The CCOM Chapter will be hosting the Region 6 Conference!
Saturday, March 3, 2007

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Tuesday, December 05, 2006

Tue, 05 Dec 2006 04:07:12 GMT

National APAMSA Conference held October 6-7, 2006

This year's National Conference was held at at the Uniformed Services University of Health Sciences, Bethesda, Maryland. The theme was, "Medicine: A Call to Service," which reflects the rapidly evolving field of medicine and increasingly diverse roles of physicians.

Some of the workshop topics: Hepatitis B in APA Community, Challenges Facing Multicultural Families, Mass Casualty Workshop, International Adoption Pediatrics, and APA Medical Students: Stereotypes and Educational Profiling.

It was certainly a different experience to visit a school with tight regulations and uniform requirements. Above are our new found friends Sameer and Art.

The conference gave us a chance to meet other medical students both MDs and DOs. Above is a picture of Jessica from Kirksville University. We were glad to give her some tips on how to start APAMSA in their school.

Attending the conference was worthwhile and gave us an opportunity to represent CCOM. We definitely made an impact as our very own president was nominated as Junior Regional Director.

Congratulations to Linda Nguyen for being elected Junior Regional Director!

Tuesday, December 05, 2006

Tue, 05 Dec 2006 03:12:09 GMT

Some announcements:

The APAMSA Officers would like to THANK all the members who participated in the past months' events (pictures below). Let's keep up the good work and keep our chapter active!

Also, we are planning to host this school year's Regional Conference at MWU granted that we receive the appropriate approvals from our faculty as well as monetary support. We are aiming to have this conference around the time we have our springbreak. Please think about devoting some time either in preparation for the conference or lending out a helping hand the day of the conference. More details to follow.

Please mark your calendars on the following days:

December 13, 2006 Wednesday LUNCHTIME Kim Setlak and Rose Robel will have a slideshow presentation of their Summer Study Abroad Experience

January 12, 2007 Friday We will have a fundraiser graduation flower sale. Please help us out by devoting one hour of your time.

Tuesday, December 05, 2006

Tue, 05 Dec 2006 02:45:34 GMT

Halloween Fest 2006

The kids were happy. WE were happy because there was a ton of candy! And of course, we made our booth to be the ultimate asian game, DDR! To fit the halloween theme, we changed its name to 'Gremlin Groove.' The kids and some of the big "kids" were definitely groovin'. Thank you members for an awesome halloween!!!

Tuesday, December 05, 2006

Tue, 05 Dec 2006 02:25:08 GMT

Health Fair November 4, 2006.

Our themes this year were: (1) Hepatitis B in Asian Americans (2) Lactose Intolerance and it's high incidence in Asian Americans.

Wednesday, September 13, 2006

Wed, 13 Sep 2006 03:20:37 GMT

Monday, Sept 18

12-1pm

APAMSA

1^st General Meeting

in Centennial Hall East

Lunch Provided!

Monday, April 24, 2006

Mon, 24 Apr 2006 04:03:58 GMT

CONGRATULATIONS TO OUR NEW 2006-2007 EXECUTIVE BOARD!!

President: Linda Nguyen

Vice-President: Payal Patel

Treasurer: Jerell Chua

Secretary: Rose Robel

We participated in the Hepatitis B Initiative by setting up a booth at Midwestern University's annual health fair. It was held on April 22, 2006 in Athletic Hall from 9am-2pm. We wanted to thank our Health Fair Chair, Jerell Chua, for organizing this event and putting together materials and a poster board. We also wanted to thank all of the volunteers that came out to help!

We also had a very successful Bone Marrow Drive on April 25, 2006, which was held in the Athletic Hall from 11am-3pm. We were able to obtain $200 from the Student Senate to support this community service event. Our Bone Marrow Chair, Payal Patel, did a wonderful job making annoucements and letting people know about the bone marrow drive. Other volunteers that made this event possible include: Erin King (MS-II), Darbi Leighton (MS-II), and Rutuja Desai (MS-I). We were able to get 59 donors added to the registry!!

Year in Review

Mon, 17 Apr 2006 13:28:00 GMT

Monday, April 10, 2006

Mon, 10 Apr 2006 06:35:21 GMT

Dear APAMSA Members—A lot is happening with APAMSA these days! Please read below to find out more.

1. APAMSA Newsletter

2. Join our membership list serv: http://www.apamsa.org/Alex/MembershipApplication.php

3. NEW! APAMSA’s Medical Education Study

4. Hepatitis B Initiative

5. National Marrow Donor Program

6. Upcoming conferences

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1. APAMSA newsletter!! We recently released a newsletter highlighting APAMSA’s activities for the past 2004-2005 school year, please see http://www.apamsa.org/newsandevents1.php. A newsletter featuring this years activities will be coming soon!

2. JOIN OUR MEMBERSHIP LIST!! We highly encourage ALL members at your school to sign up for the National APAMSA list serv. Please forward this message to anyone you think might be interested in joining our national membership list. Encourage your friends and acquaintances to

SIGN UP NOW WHILE IT’S STILL FREE!!!! http://www.apamsa.org/Alex/MembershipApplication.php

Through this list serv you will receive important information about APAMSA’s events, resources on APA health, scholarship/internship opportunities, exclusive APAMSA publications, and MUCH MORE to come!! We are currently working on establishing discounts for APAMSA members on medical textbooks, supplies, and more!

NOTE: If you are receiving this message from ‘National APAMSA’, you are already a registered APAMSA member.

HIGHLIGHTS OF APAMSA:

3. NEW!! APAMSA’s EDUCATIONAL STUDY

Previous studies conducted of APA medical students conclude that Asian students perform worse during their clinical years than their preclinical years. These studies were performed more than a decade ago, were single institutional, and had small sample sizes. A comprehensive, nationwide study regarding the present status of APA medical student performance is needed; therefore, APAMSA is conducting its first official research study on this issue. VOLUNTEERS are needed to e-mail a survey to clinical medical students of ALL races/ethnicities at your respective schools. Clinical students of ALL races/ethnicities are invited to respond to the survey when it is released in a few weeks. Please e-mail president@apamsa.org to volunteer or participate in the study.

4. APAMSA FIGHTS TO BREAK THE HEPATITIS B CYCLE!
APAMSA’s National Hepatitis B Initiative is an ongoing effort. New officers should contact Debbie Yi, hepatitis@apamsa.org, to get information about planning a Hep B initiative at your school for the upcoming school year. We need a NATIONAL effort to make this successful!

5. ASIAN PACIFIC AMERICAN DONORS CAN SAVE LIVES!!!

APA donors are severely under-represented in the national bone marrow registries! Please contact Vivian Chin, marrow@apamsa.org to get involved!

6. UP COMING APAMSA CONFERENCES:

*Region II, Albert Einstein University, May 7, 2006, e-mail region2@apamsa.org for more info.

*Region III, Conference to be held at Jefferson Medical College, April 14-15, 2006, http://www.apamsaregion3conference.org/, REGISTRATION DEADLINE IS APPROACHING!

*2006 APAMSA National Conference, October 6-8, 2006, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, MD/ Washington, D.C.

SEE www.apamsa.org for the latest information.

For changes to this list serv, please e-mail MVP@APAMSA.ORG

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