The Health Equity Club will be hosting Dr. Mary Headrick on Wednesday, March 10th at 5pm in Rm 102. Dr. Headrick is an internal medicine doctor with the Cumberland Medical group in Crossville, TN.  She was also the first medical director of the Interfaith Medical Clinic in Knoxville.  She will be discussing barriers in health and health inequities for the local region.  Moreover, she is Patrick Matt’s mother and a pretty big deal.

Link to the Interfaith Medical Clinic — http://www.interfaithhealthclinic.org/

We will also be holding elections for the Health Equity Club at this meeting.  We will be having food for the talk so please email me at christopher.craig@lmunet.edu if you plan to attend.  If you would like more infomation about the Health Equity Club and our mission please sign up for our blackboard site or email me to gain access.  If you would like more information about health inequities please view the attached CDC document “Promoting Health Equity”. 

Promoting Health Equity (link to document)

Thanks, Patrick Craig

I am proud to announce that our first “Student D.O. of the Month” is Doug Schiller, OMS-II.

Doug has gone above and beyond as a student, colleague and friend here at LMU-DCOM.  He is the president of the Emergency Medicine club and a member of Sigma Sigma Phi, CMDA, and SOMA.  Doug served as an instructor for the basic life support (BLS) and advanced cardiac life support (ACLS) courses.  Moreover, he participates in many intramural sports and is a member of the LMU-DCOM basketball team.  He also participated in Relay for Life and the March of Dimes.  Doug is great but we must not forget that Allison, his wife and a second year student, keeps him in line. 

 Doug has raised the bar for what is expected of students at LMU-DCOM.  Please congratulate him when you get a chance.

 There is a parking space labeled “Student DO of the Month” near the entrance to DCOM.   Please be respectful and leave the space open for Doug and future recipients at all times during weekdays.  If you decide to park your car in this space during the week you may find your car behind the BP station. 

 ***If you would like to nominate a fellow student for Student DO of the Month please email LMUDCOM.SGA@gmail.com or contact a SGA officer.

I hope you are enjoying the weekend! It just started so yay!

VERY IMPORTANT TO SURVIVAL OF YOUR CLUB:

MINUTES are required of each club/organization. You must hold 3 meetings a semester and all three meetings must have minutes. Here are a few FAQ:

1)     We had a movie viewing at our meeting and that was all we did. What do I do?

ANSWER: You should always take attendance. When you take your minutes please state that: attendance was taken, a movie (state title and what it was about) was viewed, and anything else you might have gone over or will discuss at next meeting (i.e we will be discussing the fundraiser that will rock everyone socks off at next meeting, or speaker set up for next EM meeting is Dina’s awesome husband Webb, etc).

2)     We had a speaker at out last meeting and that was all. What do we do?

ANSWER:  Please see above. State attendance taken, speaker’s name and what they spoke about. You could even include question and answers, etc for those who were not present! That would be very nice of you!

3)     What is the format?

ANSWER: It can be whatever you want it to be provided it’s professional. This is an official document of your club and will be posted online. Please put title of club, date and state attendance was taken and when the meeting adjourned. Minutes typically include any recent events you discuss, any issues, finances, fundraisers, future events, conventions, etc.

4)     Why do you need these minutes?

ANSWER: Minutes are required for several reasons, the most important being if a member is absent from the meeting, they can just check up on what they missed so they can be aware of deadlines, results of elections, etc. Also, it’s in our SGA bylaws so you need to have them, it’s a way to check your club is doing activities, remaining active and being all around awesome.

5)     We have new officers what do we do?

ANSWER: Most clubs haven’t submitted minutes from the entire year, I need all minutes up until now, so even if you are a new secretary, the old secretary needs to send all three minutes from last semester. I am sure, unless you haven’t had a meeting since last semester, you should have a copy of this semester’s as well.

6)     What if we got a new secretary in the middle of the year?

ANSWER: Please see above. The old secretary should have the minutes!

When is the DUE DATE???

DUE DATE FOR ALL MINUTES FROM LAST SEMSTER AND THIS SEMESTER UP until NOW are DUE TUESDAY 02MAR10 @ 5PM.

What happens if slips our mind and we forget??

If your club does not submit minutes, you will have to come to SGA with an explanation AND you risk having your funds pulled.

 Secretaries: please email me the minutes and YOUR contact info (if it’s not outlook) so I can pass these along to the lovely new SGA secretary Nicole.

We are in the process of re-doing the website, so that’s why your minutes, for those of you awesome people who have sent them, are not up yet.

Also required by Tuesday are meeting attendance sheets to David Feaker!

 THANK YOU FOR UNDERSTANDING!

HAVE A FABULOUSLY glorious weekend!

I have gotten quite a few emails this year re: end of year newsletters and all of that good stuff. I thought I had emailed everyone (but then again I can’t be quite sure) that since Amy Drittler does a PHENOMENAL JOB with our official LMU-DCOM publication, press, etc., there wouldn’t be a point in doing a newsletter to sum up the year or semester. She provides pictures and detailed descriptions of any club or individual activity she can get a hold of.

If you or your club does anything in the community, overseas (i.e the Ryan Rose awesome Peds adventure) please send it to her!

As far as newsletters go, SOMA does a great and really comprehensive one (go Amanda!) monthly, but as far as Class Officers or SGA goes we will wait until the implentation of new officers!

Thanks again and please don’t hesitate to send Amy all the fabulous things you do!:)

Go Red for Women week!

Starting tomorrow, WHMS will be selling t-shirts for only $5! We will also be selling the Go Red for Women “Red Dress” pins for $1! The sale ends Wednesday, so be sure to look for us at lunch or find me wandering around and I’ll get you hooked up!

Now, the t-shirts are the same as last year, so the 100% of the money raised from them will go to the American Heart Association! Sizes vary, and we’ll be selling them first come first serve. Make sure to get yours soon or your size may be sold out!

You’re probably saying to yourself, why do I need another t-shirt? I have plenty! You have 2 options:

Option 1:

It’s only $5, it’s for a good cause, AND you can wear it Friday (Feb 12) for DRESS DOWN DAY! Dr. Leo has graciously allowed us to dress down on Friday if you wear this t-shirt!

Option 2:

Dr. Leo has also graciously agreed to let you dress down Friday if you wear RED and make a donation! So, I will be outside the lecture halls before both the OMS-I and OMS-II lectures begin. If you don’t want to buy another t-shirt but want to dress down, choose this option!!

For you second years that already have a shirt, I hope that you would make a donation if you choose to wear your shirt or wear red to dress down on Friday.

Get good karma people!

CampusLinc mentioned our very own Dr. Leo had a paper published this week in Psychological Medicine. It is titled “A systematic review of the effects of antipsychotic drugs on brain volume,” coauthored with J. Moncrieff of the Department of Mental Health Sciences at University College, London. Congrats Dr. Leo!

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We have been doing a ton to help Haiti, but here’s another way to do so, and you get some awesome study tunes!

Itunes has a Hope for Haiti Now 20 song purchase for $7.99!! Usually songs are $1.29!

Includes Madonna, Bruce Springsteen, Justin Timberlake, Stevie Wonder, Neil Young, Dave Matthews, Beyonce, Coldplay, Alicia Keys, John Legend, Sting,  Taylor Swift, Keith Urban, KidRock, Sheryl Crow, and more! 100% profits go to the Bush-Clinton Fund, UNICEF, Red Cross, United Nations, Partners in Health, etc! Check it out!

As requested by classmates, we are selling tables again (informally- I will not be sitting outside the lecture halls).  Attached are the 2 styles of tables.  I purchased “the new ONE” and LOVE it.  Please look at the attached flyer and once you decide on a table, please bring a check made payable to  “LMU-DCOM UAAO” for the appropriate price.  You can find me in A lab this week (or between the labs) for OMS-Is or I am in B lab for OMS-IIs.  We would like to get tables ordered as soon as possible so you have until FRIDAY to get an order to me, January 29^th 2010. You only have 3 days, so don’t forget!  If you are worried about finding me to place your order, email me and I will set up a meeting place.

The Torrance Company

The new ONE

Thank you!

UAAO

UAAO is starting Greet & Treat for the semester, we are combining extra practice sessions with the G&T.

Available dates (before the 1^st EXAM!):

Monday 4-6p (Feb. 1^st)

Thursday 5-7p (Feb. 4^th)

Monday 4-6p Feb. 8^th)

Since this is short notice, we won’t have a sign-up sheet for the 1^st 3 sessions, please just show up and bring a buddy to practice/treat!

Thank you,

UAAO

CAPTAINS MEETING TONIGHT 5PM 2nd Floor.

Ballers,

IM Sports are back. We will be holding a captains meeting on Tuesday, January 26th at 5:00 p.m. on the second floor lounge. The rules are on blackboard under DCOM Oganizations, DCOM Intramural Sports, Schedules/Records. Games will be on Wednesday nights some time after 7:00 p.m. If you do not have a team but would like to play, please show up and we will try to find you a team. A reminder that all sports are COED, so ladies, don’t be afraid to show your skills.

Is poverty the main factor contributing to health-care disparities? (article attached).

JEH-NIEWCZYK – Poverty & SES

Also we need volunteers for the 2^nd Annual DCOM Classic 5K!!!

The Health Equity Club will be sponsoring a 5K on April 24^th.  We need help with soliciting sponsors, designing a T-shirt, setting up, registration, and timers.  If you are interested in helping please come to the meeting (race info will be first).   The race will benefit Amputees Coming Together which is a free week long summer camp for amputee children from all over the southeast.

http://blogs.do-online.org/dailyreport.php?itemid=37001&catid=6

To qualify for a grant, the recipient shall be an osteopathic student leadership organization or club at an AOA accredited college of osteopathic medicine. The project/program must focus on one of the following:

• Back to Basics (promoting the tenets of osteopathic medicine)
• Fit for Life (achieving a high level of wellness by focusing on health education, injury prevention, and disease prevention)
• Patient Centered Quality Care (treating the whole patient and not just the symptoms)
• Pride in the Profession (promoting the distinctiveness of osteopathic medicine)

For FY2010, the AOF Board of Directors approved $30,000 for the Student Initiative Grants. Grants up to $1,000 are available to fund projects at AOA accredited colleges of osteopathic medicine that meet the eligibility criteria.

Enter the special promotional code “COMLEX” on the online membership application page www.ama-assn.org/go/joinstudent.  The offer ends Friday, January 8th.

4 year membership – $68; 3 year membership – $54; 2 year membership – $38

First Aid for COMLEX – List price – $44.95

Questions regarding the COMLEX promotion? Contact AMA staff at mssop@ama-assn.org.

I hope everyone enjoyed their breaks and you are ready to hit the ground running this semester   It is time we started getting things in order to register for UAAO Convocation 2010.  That being said UAAO will be having a MANDATORY MEETING for anyone interested in going to convocation this spring break (in Colorado Springs, CO) JAN. 15th at 12pm in ROOM 105.  Please email trasi.crumrin@lmunet.edu if you plan on attending with the subject line “UAAO CONVOCATION”. If you would like to check out the website for some information please do…

http://www.academyofosteopathy.org/uaao/home

also check out the link for the “pre-convo packet”

Registration will need to take place very soon and transportation will need to be arranged for everyone wishing to go.

WHAT: UAAO CONVOCATION MEETING (MANDATORY)

WHERE:  ROOM 105

WHEN:  JAN. 15TH 2010 @ 12PM

WHY:  WE HAVE TO START PLANNING/REGISTERING!!

Thanks,

LMU-DCOM UAAO