Minutes 01/12/99

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By: Brian Keegan (1st Year Vice-President)


Present:                                                                         

Ethan Cowan		Doug Gauld		Deb Klugewicz		Lee Smith

Manish Parikh		Dave Poppers		Nicole Hindman		Eric Silver

Brian Keegan		Sarita Kaza		Dave Hu			Juan Rodriguez

Mike Wein		Evelyn Ha		Ben Hamar		Jeremy Poppers

Tom Garvey					

                                                          

Not Present: (*Excused)

*Demetre Daskalakis	*Margaret Chou	*Greg Evangalista		*Jess Heller

Class Announcements

Class of 1999

Class of 2000
Feb 24th class meeting, Sub-Internships lottery and the LCME Student Survey will be distributed at this meeting.
Recommendation that the Educational Program Leading to MD Degree take over analysis of developing other Sub-Internships.
Switch Party at Joshua Tree January 28th.

Class of 2001
March 23rd class dinner.
There is a need to better orientation for Sophie Davis medical students. We will discuss methods and compose a letter (e.g. meeting with deans, introduce Sophie Davis at 1st year orientation etc.).

Class of 2002
Anatomy service is now rescheduled for Jan. 21st.
Ski trip (all are invited) is planned for Jan. 22nd-24th.
Pancake supper is now Jan. 19th

MD/PhD

Old Business:

Harm Reduction Club budget: Student Council voted 11-1-3 (For, Against, Abstain) to fund $500 for a matchbook education program; Student Council voted 11-2-2(For, Against, Abstain) to fund $1000 for a physician education program; Student Council voted 0-12-3 (For, Against, Abstain) to fund $500 for needle disposal program.

New Business:

Think Tank: Dr. Nachbar's with the help of the council wants to organize a brainstorming session with students to generate ideas on how to integrate technology into pre-clinical and clinical training. Eric will send out e-mail for volunteers.

LCME: LCME steering committee with Dean Levin has asked Eric & Deb to sit on Committee.

Phone line and Fax for Student Council office: Phone should be activated this week.

Mental Status: Old issues of Mental Status will be distributed to Student Council Members to provide them with more guidance. Deadline for submission has been pushed back.

Honor Code: Tom, Sarita and Mike met to discuss methods of reporting infractions. It would help to put a proposal in writing. We need to figure out in detail what current methods are in progress. Proposition to form a sub-committee to form Honor Code to examine our existing system passed 12-1-0 (For, Against, Abstain). Current people interested will begin research and involve general student body when they determine if project is worth pursuing.

Clothing Sale: We will need to order more clothing if we are going to have a clothing sale

Next Weeks Agenda Items:

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Student Council President