09/10/10

=OHSU Med13 :: officers’ meeting :: 09/10/10=


 * 1.	All-Hill Council report
 * No representatives present.


 * 2.	Senators’ report
 * 20,000 budget. Goes quickly. Meeting within next few weeks. Send out monthly email for people requesting funds. In the Spring determine scholarship winners.
 * Med14 election results and how to aid them in transition


 * 3.	Student Resource Council report
 * Ironing kinks out for next year during the SRC small groups (in orientation) to help smooth the transition between the faculty and student only sessions.
 * Med13 SRC leaders to discuss anatomy scrubs, acknowledging lecturers, and talking during class.
 * Setting up office hours for the year.
 * Will send an email for Med14 elections.
 * Intend to put a locked box in the mail room for anonymous comments.


 * 4.	PCM Representatives’ report
 * Spent time this summer streamlining communication between PCM reps, PCM faculty, and students to share concerns.
 * People felt a lot more enthusiasm this year for PCM from the faculty, which fed to the students.
 * Ryan working with Dr. Diorio to setup virtual office hours.


 * 5.	Curriculum Committee Representative’s report
 * Accreditation is up to 8 years. We are up again in 2012. Beginning process to determine student and faculty likes/dislikes. Annual National Student Reps meeting will be in DC this year. Review of GIE and Circulation (and potentially other classes) during January. Finalized schedule for boards study is not yet complete. Course directors are still working on reorganizing lectures to allow an extra week of board study.


 * 6.	Alumni Representative’s report
 * Alumni BBQ on FRI.SEP.24 @ 5pm in the Vollum Courtyard
 * Residency-interview housing. Still working on setting up a network.
 * Specialty-speed dating in conjunction with Specialty Talks Tues Nov 16th from 6:30-8:30.


 * 7.	Dean’s Advisors’ report
 * Meet September 28. Suggest to Med14 to send an email to their class introducing themselves as a liaison with the Deans. Examples of things completed last year: double-sided printing, scrub access for surgery preceptorships. Students were also interested to see class grade distributions. Drs. Osborn and Grady-Weliky discussed this over the summer.


 * 8.    Admissions Report
 * New student interviews begin the 27th. Sign-ups will be this month. Check email for the details regarding credit for participation.

Collect food in PCM small groups for local families before Thanksgiving. Looking for leaders in Med14 to help with that.
 * 9.    SOM Fundraisers for Haiti, Chile, Pakistan
 * 3-on-3 BBall tourney: Are people interested in doing this again? When, in terms of testing schedule? Who should benefit?
 * Turkey Baskets


 * 10.	 SOM T-Shirts sales
 * T-shirt fundraiser was based on a design contest. Class voted and most popular t-shirt design was sold. Profits benefit the Med13 class fund. Secondary sales during the book fair. Jason as liaison for Med14 if they are also interested. Demand for very standard OHSU SOM apparel. Consider a joint fundraiser between Med13/14 with a new design. Extend the sales to the PA/RA students.


 * 11.	 Results of Book Fair sales
 * Still working on tallying sales, returning books and profits. At the next meeting we will know what the profits were.


 * 12. VP Update
 * Post-Exam party for med13+med14: Touche on MON.SEP.13 from 7pm on
 * Big sibs set up.
 * BBQ was successful.
 * Prom committee will be next to organize. Consider using Prom as a fundraiser (against trafficking women was a suggestion). We can work to get the venue etc. donated. Ticket sales can benefit an org/group. Based on feedback from last year we can try to make it both a celebration for ourselves and a community project.