Black History Month, National Leadership Election, Annual Conference, AMWA Upcoming Events, Voyager Scholarship, and more! |
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2023-2024 AMWA Premedical National Leadership Election opens tomorrow!
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All National AMWA Premedical Members are eligible to VOTE!
CLOSES: February 17th, 2023
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LIMITED TIME OFFER!
Altius Test Prep has generously offered to award Half-Tuition MCAT Scholarships to any AMWA member planning to take the MCAT spring or summer 2023, up to a total of $200,000.
Use the special coupon code AMWA1500 to deduct HALF Tuition from the Altius Elite MCAT Course. Scholarship dollars will be utilized on a first-come, first-served basis.
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DEADLINE: January 30th, 2023 |
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Medical School Jumpstart Series
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Gap Year Discussion Panel
Sunday, January 29th
4pm PT / 7pm ET
Being an Authentic Applicant
Sunday, February 5th
5pm PT / 8pm ET
Insights from Admissions
Sunday, February 12th
5pm PT / 8pm ET
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$15 | AMWA Members
$55 | Non-Members
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Your Path to Medical School Webinar
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VisualDX Student Advisory Board
Tuesday, February 7th
5pm PT / 8pm ET
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Being a Better Ally:
A Call to Action
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Physician Just Equity
Wednesday, February 8th
5pm PT / 8pm ET
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Bellevue Literary Review Book Talk: Jasmine Brown
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Author of Twice As Hard
Wednesday, February 15th
4pm PT / 7pm ET
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Medical Communication Workshop
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Skill Building for IMGs
Wednesday, February 22nd
5pm PT / 8pm ET
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An Essential Component of Clinical Care
Monday, February 27th
5pm PT / 8pm ET
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Florida State University AMWA
Last fall, this chapter joined forces with Relay for Life, the Women's Student Union, and the NAACP to put on the FIRST ever Intersectional Breast Cancer Awareness event. They educated attendees on what breast cancer is, the prevalence, and how to check yourself at home. The event featured a breast cancer survivor sharing her perspective, an advocacy presentation on LGBTQIA+ patients, and discussion on the need for more research.
Amazing job, FSU AMWA!
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Are you graduating this year?
Purchase your AMWA graduation chord for $12.00 each + shipping!
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Interested in a summer program for medicine, dentistry, pharmacy, physical therapy, nursing, or public health?
DEADLINE: February 5th, 2023
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Participate in the Female Mentor And Learner Engagement (FeMALE) Survey study led by the University of Kentucky!
We invite you to participate to understand the impact of female mentorship on trainees in healthcare and science professions. Participants will complete an online survey and may enter to receive a $50 gift card!
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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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Voyager Scholarship for Public Service - Obama Foundation
Open to rising college juniors interested in working towards positive change with a desire to travel and expand their horizons!
DEADLINE: March 23rd, 2023
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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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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 |
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
Yara Akiel, Region 8 Premedical Director
Yara Akiel is a sophomore majoring in neuroscience with a minor in psychology at the University of Southern California. She is on the premedical track, with an interest in radiology. She loves studying the brain and learning about how such a small organ can be extremely complex and impactful on human function. Yara is very involved in USC's AMWA chapter, and was recently elected to be the Alumni Coordinator. Outside of AMWA, Yara is an admissions ambassador for USC.
AMWA has really helped Yara feel more confident about being a premedical student, and working toward a career as a physician. Having such a supportive community of women through AMWA has given her many opportunities, and eased how overwhelming university can feel. She is super excited to play a bigger role in the organization through leadership, and is ready to support her region as Region 8 Director!
Fun fact: Yara is Lebanese and fluent in Arabic!
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Be an activist and spread awareness in February! |
Observances include:
American Heart Month,
Low Vision Awareness Month,
Teen Dating Violence Awareness Month,
National Girls and Women in Sports Day (2/1),
and much more! Find out here.
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