On September 10, the OB/GYN Interest Group and the ONC Interest Group worked together to bring Dr. Markham and one of her patients, an ovarian cancer survivor, to speak at a lunch meeting in honor of Ovarian and Uterine Cancer Awareness Month (September). The patient graciously shared her story with…
The Emergency Medicine Student Association hosted the first of its EM Lunch Talk series on Tuesday, September 10th. Nearly sixty students from the Classes of 2015, 2016, and 2017 attended. Dr. Matthew Ryan spoke on the history of Emergency Medicine, including the development of this relatively young specialty, and on…
A HUGE thank you to Dr Balbis for donating an amazing, top of the line pack and arms full of medical goodies to the UFCOM wilderness medicine interest group today. He shared with us (as well as many other physicians in the community) from his vast experience as an Army…
AIG hosted it’s first meeting of the 2013-2014 academic year on August 26th. Dr. Sean Kiley, their faculty adviser, gave a brief presentation on opportunities for shadowing, workshops, working as an Anesthesia Tech, and future exciting talks from current faculty in the Department of Anesthesiology.
Peds IG was invited to teach the kids at the Salvation Army’s Vacation Bible School for a week in August. They did presentations about the skin, cardiovascular, respiratory, GI and musculoskeletal systems. They also had the kids trace organs from construction paper and put them on their own cut-out “bodies”!…
The American Medical Student Association (AMSA) had it’s first meeting of the year on August 28th. This meeting served as an overview of what AMSA is about. New members got to hear Dr. Robert Hatch speak about what AMSA stands for and has done over the years, and all…
A panel of oncologists including a medical, surgical, and radiation oncologist addressed the question of “Why Oncology?” Students came to hear how and why doctors chose to become oncologists.
The radiation oncology interest group had a meeting led by Dr. Tyler Hollen, regarding radiotherapy as a treatment modality for skin cancer. Dr. Hollen discusses different methods of radiotherapy, and the appropriate use of radiotherapy in treating skin cancers of the head and neck. The pros and cons of radiation…
Dr. Lagmay, a pediatric medical oncologist, spoke with first and second year students regarding a career in pediatric oncology. Following the introduction to the career of pediatric oncology, Dr. Lagmay and one of her patients discussed the journey from diagnosis, through treatment, and now onto survival for a young patient…
The SIG planted a dogwood tree memorializing the C/O 2015 cadavers at the Wilmot Gardens with the previous classes’ trees. There will be a commemorative brick laid too.
