AMWA Upcoming Events, Recruitment Content, Mentorship Program Application, Pixorize Scholarship, National Breast Cancer Awareness Month, and more! |
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Reproductive Health Care Public Forum
Faced with Having an Abortion: 2 Women's Experiences
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Wednesday,
October 26th
4:30pm PT /
7:30pm ET
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Julie Whitsett and Dr. Mellinger-Birdsong see the need to go public with their story to normalize the way the decision to have an abortion often occurs.
In this public forum, they will share their stories and why making such a decision is and should remain a personal one.
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Tips & Tricks for Conference Abstracts & Posters: 1-on-1 Abstract Feedback
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Wednesday,
October 12th
5:30pm PT /
8:30pm ET
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Join AMWA Poster Chair, Dr. Kate Stampler, and AMWA Research & Scientific Development Chair, Rose Caston to get personalized feedback on your abstract or poster!
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Medication Abortion 101: What is It and How it Works
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Wednesday,
October 12th
5pm PT / 8pm ET
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AMWA offers this program to introduce what medication abortion is and the appropriate use of this method. Join this dicussion to learn about the legal implications for prescribers and patients.
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Preventing and Protecting: AMWA Against Domestic Violence
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Saturday,
October 22nd
8am PT / 11am ET
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Come learn how to identify signs of intimate partner violence in patients and treat them through a trauma-informed lens. We will also discuss how the overturning of Roe V. Wade will impact the delivery of services to survivors.
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Charting Your Path: Careers in MedEd
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Monday,
October 24th
4pm PT / 7pm ET
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Hear from Dr. Abby Spencer, Professor and Vice Chair for Education at the Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine, about her journey and advice for those considering exploring the medical education path!
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Region 5 Kick-Off Meeting
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Wednesday,
October 26th
3pm PT / 6pm ET
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Come meet the Region 5 Physician, Medical Student, and Pre-Med Leadership Team. Guest Speaker, Dr. Jattu Senesie, will be giving a talk on wellness in healthcare too!
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Win a prize for your branch by participating in the 2022 Premedical Recruitment Contest!
Use code "recruitment" to give new members 15% off of the National Membership Fee!
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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2022-2023 National Mentorship Program Application NOW OPEN! |
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DEADLINE EXTENDED TO: October 31st, 2022
lf you would like to be a part of AMWA's National Mentorship Program for the 2022-23 (even if you would like to continue and keep the same mentor/mentee pairing), please fill out the application form below.
We look forward to launching a new year of revamped mentorship activities, such as our mentorship committee webinar series, newsletter, annual conference networking & the introduction of our new streamlined mentorship platform (Qooper) to connect students from coast to coast!
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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 Pixorize Scholarship
Pixorize, a visual medical school student resource, is offering students a scholarship this month! Each scholarship will have one grand prize winner that gets a free subscription to Pixorize along with $250, and two runner-ups that will each get a free subscription to Pixorize. Applicants for the scholarship must complete an application which consists of submitting an idea for a way to visualize a concept you have learned throughout your medical school prerequisite courses.
DEADLINE: October 24th, 2022.
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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 |
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
Sai Chelluri, External Relations Chair
Sai Chelluri is a Molecular and Cell Biology major at UC Berkley graduating a year early this spring with an emphasis in Immunology. She has been involved with AMWA since her first semester of college, serving as the former Region 2 Director and leading the UC Berkeley branch as Program Director.
In addition to AMWA, she conducts infectious disease research on campus investigating Dengue virus pathogenesis, leads her student government's Commission on Health Advocacy, serves as President of the Coalition of Concerned Medical Professionals at Berkeley, where she connects low-income workers with health care often inaccessible to them, and works at her university’s on-campus health services center. She is most proud of the supportive community of fellow premedical students that AMWA fosters and is honored to be serving it this year!
Fun fact: Sai can speak 4 languages!
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Be an activist and spread awareness in October! |
Observances include:
Health Literacy Month,
National Breast Cancer Awareness Month,
National Domestic Violence Awareness Month,
and much more! Find out here.
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