AMWA Upcoming Events, Branch Highlights, Recruitment Contest, Food Insecurity Advocacy Project, National COPD Awareness Month, and more!
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Filling Gap Years
Tuesday, November 8th
5pm PT/ 8pm ET
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Tackling the MCAT
Thursday, November 17th
5pm PT/ 8pm ET
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Overcoming Setbacks
Wednesday, November 30th
5pm PT/ 8pm ET
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Non-Traditional Medical Student Speaker Series
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Region 5 Speaker Series Part 1
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Developing Healthy Habits
Guest Speaker:
Dr. Lealani Acosta
Friday, November 11th
8:30am PT / 11:30am ET
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Keeping Kids Safe from Gun Violence
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Policies, Practice, and Progress
Guest Speakers:
Lois Lee, MD, MPH
Po Murray
Monday, November 14th
4pm PT / 7pm ET
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Be Prepared for the Holidays
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Losing Physician Family Members
Guest Speakers:
Michelle Chestovich
Seth Snyder
Wednesday, November 16th
5pm PT / 8pm ET
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Cultural Humility in Medicine Workshop
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Promoting culturally-sensitive practices in patient-centered care
Sunday, November 20th
5pm PT / 8pm ET
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Advocacy, Service, and Community Outreach!
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University of Michigan AMWA Members
help launch FIRST
and ONLY pregnancy loss doula program in Michigan!
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Know anyone experiencing reproductive loss? Share this with someone in need!
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On October 30th, U of M AMWA team members of the nonprofit Lunar Doula Collective (LDC) launched the Bereavement Support Initiative (BSI). This virtual platform provides free emotional, physical, and informational support to individuals undergoing miscarriage, stillbirth, or pregnancy termination.
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Networking, Collaboration, and Event Planning!
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University of Southern California AMWA Chapter
hosts FIRST
Inaugural Women In Medicine Symposium!
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On October 19th, USC AMWA hosted more than 15 women physicians from Keck Medicine, UCLA Health, and Cedars Sinai leading round-table discussions on their journeys into medicine for over 90 premedical students in attendance.
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Win a prize for your branch by participating in the 2022 Premedical Recruitment Contest!
Use code "diversity" for 15% off any membership type only for November!
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Deadline to recruit national members for your branch:
November 30th, 2022
Good luck to everyone!
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Gentle Reminder: We would like to emphasize that AMWA student branch members MUST also have National AMWA membership. National membership is important in case headquarters needs to verify student membership for a letter of reference or during the application cycle.
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Help with AMWA's Food Insecurity Advocacy Project!
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Join this interactive advocacy campaign to increase awareness and education about food insecurity, as well as create a cookbook to distribute to food pantries.
We need YOUR HELP to create a low-budget, healthy cookbook representing various recipes that are meaningful to AMWA members. We are collecting recipes and a short story about why the recipe is meaningful to the member who submitted it or if there is a cultural relevance to the recipe.
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Have a project idea that you want to pursue on a national level?
This is an opportunity to lead or work on a National AMWA Project over the summer or year-round!
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Is your branch achieving great things? Want to be featured in the next newsletter?
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Membership Scholarship (Need-based fee waiver)
AMWA understands that the cost of joining professional organizations such as AMWA can be a burden when taking into consideration the cost of applying to medical school and other expenses. In an effort to be more inclusive and break down financial barriers, AMWA has created a need-based membership scholarship for students interested in joining AMWA. Recipients of the scholarship will be chosen on a rolling basis based on extenuating circumstances and personal embodiment of AMWA’s goals.
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The Science Ambassador Scholarship
Open to any high school senior or undergraduate student who is pursuing or planning to pursue STEM programs. Applicants must create a video explaining a STEM topic which they are interested in.
DEADLINE: December 13th, 2022
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AMWA Premedical Brochure
Are you taking advantage of all that the AMWA Premedical Division has to offer? Have questions about AMWA and what it means to be a member? Interested in becoming more involved with AMWA?
Read and share our brochure to learn all about our division. Learn about our task forces, committees, blog, virtual shadowing, workshops, mentorship program, and more!
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Please fill out this form to nominate a Premedical AMWA Member to be spotlighted by our National Premedical Division!
We want to recognize and celebrate all of the phenomenal work our premedical members do to change the future of medicine.
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Feature your work on the Premedical Division Blog
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The Premedical Division welcomes talented writers who are passionate about sharing their experiences as premedical students - and helping others, too! If you would like to contribute to our Premedical Blog, please fill out this form.
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Leader Highlight
Sneha Magesh, Region 6 Premedical Director
Sneha Magesh is a sophomore at The Ohio State University, where she is majoring in Health Sciences on the premed track with a minor in Biological Sciences. She has been able to start her own cultural organization at OSU called Tamil Sangam. Sneha is also a volunteer at project DYS and part of OSU’s Mirrors Sophomore Honorary Cohort. One of her biggest passions is to sing and freestyle dance. Sneha is a current research volunteer at OSU’s immunology department.
She has been an advocate of mental health since high school and has continued to take part in many organizations that work to destigmatize mental health. Sneha is also passionate about advocating for health care affordability. She hopes to meet fellow premeds through AMWA and engage in meaningful advocacy work together!
Fun fact: Sneha has a diploma in South Indian classical music!
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Follow us on social media!
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Be an activist and spread awareness in November!
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Observances include:
American Diabetes Month,
National COPD Awareness Month,
U.S. Antibiotic Awareness Week (11/18-11/24)
and much more! Find out here.
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