By: Anuja Sanghvi 1st year Vice-President
Present:
Lee Smith Brian Keegan Shirley Bassiri-Tehrani
Marianne Moon Jess Heller Eric Silver
Chirag Kapadia Deb Klugewicz Dave Hu
Sean Burns Steve Mezzafonte Dave Poppers
Doug Gauld Anuja Sanghvi Felix Olale
Jeremy Poppers Mike Wein Manish Parikh
Kevin Kaplan Ethan Cowan Nicole Hindman
Not Present: (*Excused)
*Greg Evangelista
The Match will take place on March 16 at 12 noon. Seniors will be meeting outside Farkas auditorium. There will be a match party later that evening from 8:30-11:30. There will be an open bar and snacks. If you want to bring guests it will cost you $15 per guest if you pay in advance, $25 at the door and you will be allowed only 2 guests per person. Invitations will be sent out next week. RSVP the invites to Don and Carol. The deadline is March 6.
People should confirm and pick up their ACLS training course materials at Bellevue. If you do not confirm your date then you will be dropped from the class. You have up to 10 days before the class starts to confirm. Also, if you confirm your date and then decide not to show up $300 will be billed to your bursar account. The office at Bellevue is open from 8-4.
Class of 2001
The class dinner on Feb.17 went well. Thank you to all who attended.
CVs and background information is due at the registrar's office by March 1.
March 1 is the last date that you can change your core rotations and your sub-I. The sub-I site lottery will take place Feb.28-March 3. Results of the lottery will be posted on the Student Council bulletin board on March 6.
There will be a dinner on March 30 with the class of 2000 (after they have matched).
The deadline to sign housing licenses is March 8. Class of 2001 housing lottery is on March 1 at 7pm in AHA.
March 9 is the deadline date to register for fourth year electives at the registrar's office.
Class of 2002
March 8 will be the day that numbers for the clerkship lottery will be handed out. Please remember to send Felix an email if you are going abroad, if you're taking the year off, or if for whatever reason you are not planning on doing your clerkships in your third year.
The housing lottery will take place at 8:30 am on March 15.
Class of 2003
The housing lottery will be at 3:00 pm on March 31.
MD/PhD
The deadline for registering for the NYC conference is Feb. 28. Talk to Dave or Jeremy if you have questions.
The housing lottery will be on March 17.
Spring Formal - The formal will be on March 17. Please pre-pay at Don and Carol's.
LCME - The issues in the LCME report that were not sent to CORE to take care of have been distributed to the various committees that they need to go to. Some of the issues we hope to see future progress in include recruiting more minority students, dealing with more women's studies, having better support and advisory systems, etc.
Patrick Reinfried (SIGN) - A new student group called SIGN (Student Interest Group in Neurology) was approved 17-0-2 (for-against-abstain). The group is affiliated with the American Academy of Neurology with many chapters in various med schools in the US. SIGN is geared towards helping med students learn more about careers in neurology and facilitating med students' interactions with neurology residents and faculty. Contact Patrick with questions.
Administered by Brian Robert Keegan
Student Council President