MSS 2014-15
General Council Meeting #4
Date: 5th Feb, 2015
Location: Annex lounge
Time: 7:05pm-9:20pm (2h15min)
Members present: Nebras, Amy, Kelly, Amol, Jasmine, Sena, Lea, Alex, Joshua, Doulia, David, Matthew, Kapil, Daniel, Xin,
Sarah, Sophie Vincent, Marika, Gianni
Absent with apologies: Neil, Stanley
** Take the council picture! **
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Topics
By
Description
Action by
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Welcome and
Mid-Semester
Review
Nebras
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Internos
Updates,
Valentines
candy grams
and Faculty
Olympics
Sena &
Lea
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Internos
o We have a waitlist of down to about 60
o We just opened the tickets to the med3s. Open till 9th
midnight
o Open up table seating the next day
 V day candy grams
o Med3 class council: sent someone a message and the
candy gram was distributed during the re-call day
o Lea and Sena going to organize and coordinate, but the
class councils are going to be giving it out and
implementing it
o Kelly: by donation – buy candy grams by donation! We
will be raising funds for MSF – Partners in health
o In each class, we will give out candy canes and ask for
donations
o The cost will be covered by MSS class councils
 Faculty Olympics
o March 11-14
o Alex: the budget can allow for a max $400 for 60
medical students from each year. This way we don't
have to raise the cost for each student in order to
organize the pre drink
o Good exposure for faculty of medicine
o Min 50, max 60 per team. We can have have more than
1 team, or combine teams with nursing too.
o Pre Last year: most of the money for the Pre is out of
pocket from the med4s
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We need to get something that stands out. Don't
need to get beer
Sena and Lea to
coordinate and
organize the candy
grams
Class councils – to
implement the
candy grams
3
Accreditation
Neil
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Tell everyone it’s
an accreditation
year!
We have only 2 more meetings left before the election
Ask yourselves:
o What would you want to accomplish before your
mandate is over?
o How are you going to accomplish it in the 3 months?
8 yearly accreditation of a medical school – where McGill
This is the year to give back feedback on the curriculum –
they can voice it to an external committee!
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4
MSS
Leadership
award
Alex
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5
Club
Restructuring
Amy
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Issues
o Mistreatments
o Long working hours
o Make sure all academic topics are adequately
covered e.g. hematology
If someone has feedback, get in touch with Annick and
Neil, and the class presidents
When you feel mistreatment, you can go to the college
MSS Yellow Pages – who to contact for what?
o Create a document where everyone in the MSS
members can know who to contact
o Any additional committees e.g. TPC, FMD, Family
Med, Internal Med
o Like a yellow page for MSS
Raise issues with TCP with the class president
Many scholarships for medical students are for med 4s
upon graduation
Few awards for leadership awards outside of medical
school
An MSS leadership award for students by students -- the
selection committee is going to be formed by MSS execs
and members
Faculty is really supportive – Dean, Elizabeth, Dr Gupta
Funding
o 4x$500 each
o Need to look for other sources of funding
Application: CV and letter of motivation
Committee
o VP Finance
o MSS president
o Med1 and 2 president
o 4 non MSS members (make sure all years are
represented)
o Evaluations will be anonymous
o Budget approval - motion by Jasmine, Second by Sena,
unanimous vote
At least 2 events per semester
If you dont have 2 events per semester, and at least 15
members, you will be closed
o We cannot apply a rule retrospectively – so the new
rules:
 Max number of execs --- to find out what is a fair
number‼
 It's a case by case basis – justify the # of execs for
the amount of tasks being done
 Min of 2 events per semester
 Jasmine
o Some clubs are completely dead
 Alex: money issues – transition issues
o Changing banking services by the end of this year
o Create new accounts for clubs at the new bank – only
Amy to facilitate
the MSS Yellow
Pages
Council to inform
TCP students to
bring issues up
with Matthew
Budget passed
Amy to contact
club execs –
joining another
club. If they do
want to keep the
club alive, they
have to meet the
new rule
Amy to Contact
SSMU regarding
club execs and
club criteria
for those clubs that continue
David: there should be a stricter process in the intake of
new clubs
o Talk to Stefan – how to approve of clubs
 Post the news about “killing” clubs everywhere. Deadline
to inform the execs 1st week of March
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6
Club Award
Amy &
Alex
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7
Toronto Notes
sale logistics
Stanley
Not present
8
CFMS Meetings
for newly
elected VPs
Nebras
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Election of
Wellness Rep
Nebras
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10
MedGames
Sophie
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11
Annex Update
Jasmine
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Amy to recruit for
Award to the clubs
4 committee
Application
Need 3-4 people to sit on the committee who are NOT club members
execs
Have the execs go to the first meeting in Sept. So Sept-AprSept
Do the transition of the positions in Sept and not in Apr
There are many academic committee, and there is
someone from the MSW on these committee
There should be an elected member on the MSS as a
wellness rep, who will be voting on the academic
committees
They can serve as a liaison between MSS and the wellness
committee – they will be both MSW and MSS members,
but they don't have to attend MSS GMs
Sena raise the motion, Jasmine seconded - passed
A few thousand excess ~$8000 due to damages and
unforeseen circumstances
Set up an event to sell alcohols and also to give out the
bags (they already paid for the bags and bottles)
Ideas for a party for distribution of medgames stuff – a
paint party
Selling the backpacks
Desjardin
o The idea of getting them as a major sponsor for the
MSS next year‼
o We will need to go for a meeting with Desjardins in the
first week of March
Lea and Sena is going to sort out the McGill caps
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She needs a few people who have time to clear the MSS
storage room – will set out a Doodle
Change the lock combination
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See candy grams section
12
Global Health
Fundraising
Kelly
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SSMU and
Josh and 
French tuition fees – big survey in the falls. The govtmt’s
Wellness rep
passed
Everyone to
recruit attendees
for the Desjardins
talk
Jas to recruit
people to clean the
storage room
Senate Updates
David
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decision coincides with our stand
International student fees – its currently spread around all
Quebec schools. Its been done for management, law,
engineering and science. There is a doubling/tripling of
the international tuition fee.
o The deregulation has been a 10 year policy. They are
pushing for the expansion of this policy to all faculties
o They have a cap on what they contribute to everyone
else
o Issues
 Very high international tuition fees
 There is going to be differential tuition fee among
different faculties
o Josh and David will vote based on their judgment
 Limit the increase in international fees
 Make sure there are proper bursary and loans
o Huge student movement – planning a strike March 21st.
Coincide with other public section sect (St Justine and
CSSS of laval) – student are going to bandwagon
 We cannot strike as a medical student – even
though we are completely against austerity. We
agree with the majority of the points
 We can make a simple badge for the medical
students against Bill 10, 20 and 28, and the cut of
funding to education
 We have done a survey for bill 10 last
semester, but we should get the student
feedback for bill 20 and 28.
 Need to represent our stance at the FMEQ GA
 We should do the referendum during the GA
o Sexual assault policy – MSS is for it in principle
o Mental health – academic policies that are bad for
mental health. Using medicine as a positive example
for other faculties
14
TNT (training
new trainees)
Sophie
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Leadership session for an entire weekend
None of us at the MSS when we were elected had a boot
camp for the entire council!
 Suggestion:
o Sophie is willing to give the training – with materials
she received at the leadership session we attended
o Very general advice on leadership – we train people to
be great leaders
 Budget:
o The IFMSA retreat was basically free – went to
someone’s house. – to train on how do you manage a
team
o A potluck sleep over?
o Sophie suggest that we do the training and at the end
of the training we bring in the old council
Sophie will be
organizing this
session for the
new council
15
Provincial
Lobby Day
David
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Council to
complete survey
on Josh and
Drama at the FMEQ meeting
But they disregarded the consultative info gathered from
medical students
David’s
performance
We need to vote on bill 10 and 20
What can we do at the MSS now?
o Make sure our emphasis is on public health and the
patients
o Whoever who would like to get involved contact GAAC
 All faculty councils to judge Josh and David’s performance
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GA
Sophie
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17
More Efficient
Meeting
Structure?
Nebras
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Sophie has to organize it
Mid march
More frequent meetings but with a smaller council
o We use these meetings to come up with plans and
ideas and things we want to do
We will have 4 big meetings per year to pass motions
We will do a trial now, and then at our 6th meeting they
will vote on the changes in the constitution (from 6 to 4
meetings)
Motion by Marika, Second by Jasmine
Early May for the elections
Meeting adjourned, motioned by Marika, seconded by Jasmine
Sophie to plan and
set date for GA