Event held by ObGyn – Ob/Gyn Interest Group on 12/11/2020: Dr. Paradise and Dr. Narvaez, dedicated Project Haiti physician volunteers, spoke on their experiences as OBGYNs who are passionate about improving access to women’s healthcare locally and globally.
Event held by EMSA – Emergency Medicine Student Association on 12/10/2020: An introductory Q&A with Gainesville and Jax emergency medicine residents and attendings including Dr. Tyndall and Dr. DeVos.
Event held by USIG – Ultrasound Interest Group on 12/10/2020: USIG hosted Dr. Brian Yorkgitis, the Pediatric Trauma Medical Director at UF-Jax, for a presentation about Ultrasound use in the Emergency Department. He discussed the FAST (focused assessment with sonography for trauma) exam used in trauma patients.
Event held by IMIG – Internal Medicine Interest Group on 12/09/2020: During this event, medical students met up via Zoom to discuss the topic of private practice in internal medicine. 2nd year students also discussed notable medical topics and study strategies for 1st year students.
Event held by MSFC – Medical Students for Choice on 12/08/2020: In this meeting, we got to chat with an abortion provider on her experiences in abortion provision and about her path to becoming an abortion provider. We also discussed barriers to access, stigma surrounding abortion care, and current…
Event held by IRIG – Interventional Radiology Interest Group on 12/08/2020: Dr. Craig Meiers, PGY VI and IR fellow, answered questions and others about IR.
Event held by GSO – Graduate Student Organization on 12/08/2020: Monthly general body meeting, in which GSO officers and chairs as well as anybody interested in joining meet and discuss updates on matters such as funding, community service or athletic activities, diversity events, etc.
Event held by CMA – Catholic Medical Association on 12/08/2020: Father Clyde spoke movingly about having faith and spirituality as both a patient with disease, as well as in our roles as future physicians towards patients at the end of life. Dr. James Drew then spoke about his experience…
Event held by LMSA – Latino Medical Student Association on 12/07/2020: Our goal is to offer a platform for Latino physicians to share their journey through medicine. Sharing adversities they have faced, cultural values, unique healthcare needs minorities require, and increase student awareness to current issues faced by minority…
Event held by IHMIG- Integrative Health and Medicine Interest Group on 12/04/2020: We watched a short Ted Talk on integrative practices and held open forum discussion.
