Chair: Responsible for overseeing the various operations of the section and communicating relevant information upward to the MMS and AMA. Collaboration with Region leadership to execute a Region 7 meeting in Boston, MA.

Secretary / Recruitment Chair: Organize & execute the recruitment endeavors throughout the year (including the student activities fair and Region 7 meeting) in collaboration with associated AMA/MMS staff persons.

Treasurer: Facilitate the submission of funding requests to the MMS and BUSM for campus events and travel. Balance the books. A separate meeting from the transition meeting is highly recommended with the immediate past treasurer.

Community Service Chair: Organize and execute community service projects based on your interests and concerns.

Legislative Advocacy Chair: Coordinate events and projects for students to interface with important healthcare policies and issues.

The final number of positions available depends on the number of interested students.

The Co-presidents will share responsibilities for organizing programming to encourage mentorship, service, and leadership especially for empowering female identifying students in medicine. This includes small group mentoring sessions to chat with female physicians, an introductory dinner panel event in a variety of specialties and a yearly match panel for students to discuss challenges (including gender based discrimination) that may occur during the interview process.

Contacts:
Judy Wang, judyw@bu.edu
Erin Kim, erinjkim@bu.edu
Rishabh Singh, rishabhk@bu.edu

http://www.bumc.bu.edu/busm/student-affairs/student-life/service-learning/art-space-supporting-people-and-creating-empowerment/

2-3 positions

Bridging Gaps in Care is a service learning organization at Boston University School of Medicine. Typically site visits to Marcus Garvey Gardens (an affordable housing community for older adults) would involve talking to the residents, learning and performing basic clinical skills and tasks, working with the supervising medical professionals, developing educational workshops, and creating patient flyers. – Our mission: Bring preventive medical care to the people and places in Boston that need it most. – Our model: Medical students bringing regular, physician-supervised health education, and preventive screening to subsidized housing in Boston. – Our vision: Establish a long-lasting relationship with the surrounding community and create opportunities for medical students to provide preventive care to low income elders under physician supervision. 

http://www.bumc.bu.edu/busm/student-affairs/student-life/service-learning/bridging-gaps-in-care/

For more information, please check out our video!

https://youtu.be/zIDvMuZ0XcQ

Any questions can be sent to bridging@bu.edu

Site Visit Coordinator (1): Coordinate site visits at Marcus Garvey, communicate via email with Marcus Garvey; serve as liaison between Marcus Garvey and BGC.

Workshop Coordinator (1): Setup the room for workshops and also help prepare the slides for the topic of the month. Traditionally, each site visit is preceded by a workshop with a theme for the month (e.g. diet, exercise) so the students are prepared to have basic conversations with the residents under physician supervision.

Financial Coordinator (1): Responsible for submitting semester budget requests, reimbursing expenses, and getting approval for new events that require possible funding.

Raissa Souza (raissas@bu.edu)
Andrew Dey (atdey@bu.edu)
Samantha Hall (shall16@bu.edu)
Punit Matta (pmatta01@bu.edu)

Eric OH (ericoh@bu.edu)
Nicole Sileo (nsileo@bu.edu)
Punit Matta (pmatta01@bu.edu)

Co-leaders (2-3)

Emails: Krishanth (kmano@bu.edu) and Joyce (jcylee@bu.edu)

https://www.bumc.bu.edu/busm/student-affairs/student-life/student-life-student-life-enrichment-groups/narrative-medicine/

http://www.bumc.bu.edu/busm/student-affairs/student-life/career-interest-groups/otolaryngology-interest-group/

Clothing: Maintain a clean and organized closet, and organize clothing supplies as needed. Coordinate clothing donations, purchase clothing supplies, and work with community partners to get additional clothing donations. Plan rotating items. (1)

Food: Point person for our food donating community partners (GBFB, Star Market, Fair Foods, Chequers) and leads monthly trips to the GBFB to maintain our supply of canned goods. (1)

Advocacy: Build partnerships with community organizations and create events to promote advocacy around issues that are relevant to our clients, such as housing insecurity and immigration. Past projects have included hosting phone banking events in collaboration with immigrant and refugee rights groups. (1)

Outreach: Keep the Facebook/Instagram pages and the website updated for our followers and donors. In addition, we take the lead for the Humans of OVP posts. Outreach to East Boston community to increase the number of people aware of the van. (1)

Education: Plan and coordinate educational events for the OVP/HHIE M1’s. (1)

Fundraising: Oversee OVP grant applications, track OVP budget, and manage donations and acquisition of toiletries, school supplies, and all non-clothing material. (1)

1- Demonstration Kitchen: Within BMC’s distinguished Teaching Kitchen, we collaborate to cook healthy meals. Emphases are on placed on simple, affordable, and plant-based options.

2- Dietetic Intern-Medical Student (DI-MS) Match: Medical students are paired with dietetic interns in a 4 session program co-led by a medical student and registered dietitian. In this interdisciplinary setting, students gain personalized dietary counseling as well as an understanding of how to best partner with dietitians in clinical practice and how to assess and counsel patients on eating habits.

3- Medical Student Residence Garden: Every spring we plant an array of vegetables, herbs, and flowers that thrives through the summer and into fall. Come by to help plant, water, and harvest!

4- SNAP Challenge: Hunger spans all races, ages, genders, locations, and education levels. The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) is a valuable resource. What is it like to live off $4.50 per day for food? Through meetings, social media forums, and blog posts, we stand in solidarity and share our experiences.

Alex: aboden@bu.edu
Keller: kellersg@bu.edu
Max: maxzhu@bu.edu

We have three editors this year. We will accept the same number or more.

Seth Bergenholtz (sethberg@bu.edu) and Chris Noyes (cnoyes@bu.edu). 

https://www.bumc.bu.edu/busm/student-life/student-life/career-interest-groups/urology-interest-group/