MSG Weekly Newsletter, March 2nd, 2014 Edition
1. THIS WEEK’S STUDENT EVENTS
a. Penn Med Yoga, Tuesday 4:15-5:15pm, Wednesday 12:15-1:15pm
2. NEWS FROM MSG
a. ADVISING Office Hours Updates!!
b. Res Medica Journal opportunity
c. Smile-inducing Image of the Week
3. COMING SOON
a. Caring for Veteran Women, March 18th
b. Philadelphia Oral Cancer Walk with Penn Dental, March 29th
c. Houses Event – Wharton 5km, April 5th
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1. THIS WEEK’S STUDENT EVENTS
a. Penn Med Yoga
Student Group: Penn Med Yoga
When: Tuesday, March 4th 4:15-5:15pm; Wednesday, March 5th 12:15-1:15pm
Where: Student Lounge; The Lookout
Contact: Tiffany Liu (tiffliu@mail.med.upenn.edu)
Open to: Everyone
Free all-levels yoga class for graduate students. Please arrive a few minutes early and bring your own
mat if you have one.
March Dates:
Tuesday, March 4th 4:15-5:15pm; Student Lounge
Wednesday, March 5th 12:1-1:15pm; The Lookout
Tuesday, March 18th 1:15-2:15pm, The Lookout
Thursday, March 20th 5:15-6:15pm, Student Lounge
Tuesday, March 25th 3:15-4:15pm, Student Lounge
Thursday, March 27th 4:15-5:15pm, Student Lounge
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2. NEWS FROM MSG
a. Advising Updates!!!
Freaking out about starting clerkships?
Have a question about choosing a specialty?
Need to vent? Laugh? Cry? Panic?
Wondering what happens next, and next, and next?
The mentors in the Office of Diversity & Inclusion in Suite 100 are open to ALL STUDENTS to ask ANY
QUESTION. No appointment required. Just walk into office hours to ask your question. This time is set
aside specifically for students to come by and ask whatever’s on their minds.
Mondays 2-5: Dr. Horace DeLisser
Tuesdays 2-5: Dr. Benoit Dubé
Wednesdays 3-5: Dr. Horace DeLisser
Thursdays 3-5: Dr. Cindy Christian
Fridays 3-5: Dr. Roy Hamilton
Office Hours are located in Suite 100.
b. Res Medica Journal submission opportunity
Interested in publishing some of your work? Check out the following opportunity through Res Medica.
Res Medica, the open access peer reviewed journal of the Royal Medical Society, is now open for
submissions from medical students worldwide. We aim to provide a platform from which medical
students can publish, read and review academic research. Indeed, to further this cause, we are in the
process of applying to have the journal PubMed indexed (PMID).
We welcome original research, reviews, case reports, audits, perspective articles, historical articles and
editorials from medical students, doctors and academics in the field of medical research (please see
our Submissions section for more details, available at
http://journals.ed.ac.uk/resmedica/about/submissions
The submission date for the 2014 edition of Res Medica is the 31st March 2014. Submissions will be
accepted online. Articles that are accepted will be published in October 2014. Please see Editorial
Policies(http://journals.ed.ac.uk/resmedica/about/editorialPolicies#focusAndScope) for details on the
peer review and selection process.
c. SMILE!!
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3. COMING SOON
a. Philadelphia Oral Cancer Walk with Penn Dental, March 29th
The 6th Annual Philadelphia ORAL CANCER WALK will take place on March 29th, 2014. This event is
hosted by Penn Dental students, in association with the Oral Cancer Foundation, and is one of Penn’s
largest community service events. We promote the message that early detection saves lives, and as
future health care providers, each of us is instrumental in the mission to fight oral cancer. The event is
consistently great fun, with free oral cancer screenings to the public, great guest speakers, facepainting, music, free food, smoothies, and free giveaways all in the name of a great cause.
What you can do:
Be a part of our walk and 5K. Register athttp://www.oralcancerphilly.org/
Donate money
at http://donate.oralcancer.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=donorDrive.event&eventID=590, all proceeds go
to theOral Cancer Foundation
Educate yourself and help spread awareness (important facts attached)
Ask YOUR dentist to perform an oral cancer screening at your next dental visit!
Why get involved:
Help support your colleagues in a fight against a leading cancer
Great way to be involved in a condition that could directly affect your future career and patients
Free Oral Cancer Screenings available
Feel free to email me back at kfrance@dental.upenn.edu with any questions, concerns, and ideas to
help in our fight against Oral Cancer.
b. Caring for Veteran Wome
Student Group: EBS and Penn Med Veterans
When: Tuesday, March 18th 1:00-2:00pm
Where: Stemmler 102A
Contact: Kathryn Paolucci and Jonathan Wood (jowood@upenn.edu)
Open to: Everyone
A lunch lecture about the health and psychosocial challenges faced by female veterans, featuring Dr.
Engel from the VA.
c. Houses Competition - Wharton 5 km
When: Saturday, April 5th 8:30am
Contact: Robert Smith (robjamessmith@gmail.com)
Open to: Everyone!!
The Wharton Roadrunners are sponsoring a 5km run on Saturday, April 5th to raise money for Camp
Kesem and the American Cancer Society.They have offered to fund a free happy hour for the Med
School House that has the most number of people sign up. Sign up at here! The cost is $15/person.
When registering, you'll have the chance to sign up with your House under the "Group" drop-down tab
(go Dickens!). I'll be sending out periodic emails with leaderboard updates. Here's some more
information below.
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