Come join us for a talk given by Dr. Kalpesh Vakharia, a facial plastic surgeon and faculty member of the UMSOM Otorhinolaryngology Department, on how to be a star on clinical rotations!

Have you ever wondered what it’s like to treat an emergent patient in the ED? EMIG is excited to host a MASTRI sim lab experience with two emergent patient scenarios! Join EMIG and EM physicians Monday, January 26th from 12:30-3:30pm and challenge yourself to make medical decisions as if you are an attending physician working with an ED team. Sign ups are limited to the first 14 students. 

Come join the Pediatrics Interest Group and a Pediatric M4 Chief to learn how to get involved in legislative advocacy, both broadly and within pediatrics! This is the second in a three-part series covering the Maryland legislative process, how to identify and track child-health legislation, and foundational advocacy skills focused on testifying, lobbying, and sustaining legislative engagement throughout medical school. You do not need to have attended the first session to participate!

Please come to a panel of amazing physicians who work with peds patients and learn how to approach important but sensitive topics with them, such as sexual/emotional/physical abuse.

More details to come (but date and time will likely be this one) !

Come learn about pregnancy termination and its role in reproductive healthcare! This event is part of the M2 curriculum as an optional lecture but is open to students of ALL years. 

Lunch (not pizza) will be provided!

Walk through a Neurotrauma case with Dr. Gary Schwartzbauer, director of the Neurotrauma Critical Care Unit, Department of Neurosurgery, University of Maryland. Dr. Schwartzbauer is a physician-scientist and the first neurosurgeon to complete a Surgical Critical Care Fellowship at the R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center. His areas of expertise include traumatic and degenerative spine disease, traumatic brain injury and brain tumors.

Ever wondered how orthopaedic surgeons fix complex fractures with plates, screws, and seemingly big power tools?? Come join OIG, our Ortho Residents, and our partners at Stryker to learn how to perform some awesome surgical techniques on realistic synthetic bone models! Dinner will be provided. 

Sign-ups will go live on medscope this Friday, 1/23 at 12pm.