Come to the Global Health and Surgery Interest Group's introductory event Wednesday 9/27/23 from 2-3pm on zoom to hear more about what a career in global health can look like. We will be hearing from Dr. Shailvi Gupta about her career as a surgeon and journey in medicine and global health.

We hope to see you on zoom!

Meeting link:
https://umaryland.zoom.us/j/96825097443

The Booked for Lunch Club will be meeting to discuss "Solito" by Javier Zamora, the story of a 9-year-old boy’s 3,000 mile journey from El Salvador to America. A limited number of copies are available for members, so reach out to enew@umaryland.edu to claim yours!

Register now!

Please join the Emergency Medicine Interest Group for a table-top disaster medicine activity! Dr. Jasani and Dr. Nusbaum, emergency medicine physicians, have prepared an EM/EMS disaster scenario where we will move ambulances around a map, move patients around a department, and learn the ins and outs of disaster medicine.

St. Clare Medical Outreach's medical director, Dr. Joana Saba, and CRNP, Gabriella Fortunato, will be joining us to share their experience working at an outreach clinic whose primary patient populations are immigrants without access to health insurance, most of whom are Spanish speakers, from Baltimore County. Through this event we hope to shed a light on the importance of these clinics, the immense impact they have on the community, and the need to provide culturally competent care. If you are interested in attending in-person or have any questions for our guest speakers, please fill out this form.

We will be providing a variety of Latin foods including pupusas, tamales, empanadas, and tacos! To ensure we have enough food so everyone can have a taste, we will be limiting the number of in-person attendance but you are always more than welcome to join via Zoom: https://umaryland.zoom.us/j/91087049971

If you are interested in the field of urology or want to know what it is, then urine good hands!

The Urology Interest Group has invited Dr. Minhaj Siddiqui, who is not only the chief of urology at the VA center but also the director of urologic oncology and robotic surgery at UMMC, to talk about what life is like as a urologist, the training and application process, and the extremely wide variety of urologic subspecilties you can go into!

Food will be provided ^^

Join us for our second Medical Spanish class! Continue to build on your medical term vocabulary and grow comfortable with taking a basic patient history in Spanish.

All Spanish level profiencies are welcome! As always, we will be having "patients" present for you to converse with and yes snacks are available. :)

Have you ever wondered what is Med-Peds and what does the specialty do? Come listen to a talk from Med-Peds physician Dr. Lemmon and learn about how Med-Peds is different from Peds, IM, and family med. Desserts/snacks will be provided and feel free to bring/eat lunch!

Join SNMA for our second general body meeting of the year to discuss minority tax and stress. All are welcome to attend and lunch will be provided! Sign up by 10/1! 

Interested in backpacking? Whether you are an old veteran or a curious beginner, we hope that you will find this discussion of the essentials of backpacking helpful in planning your future adventures!

4 MS2s will get to enjoy dinner at the Royal Taj with the brilliant Dr. Patel (MS1s, your turn will come later~)! Ask him all your questions about his global health work, Infectious Disease, and enjoy getting to know him better!

5 lucky students get the opportunity to enjoy time with Dr. Retener, Dean of Longitudinal Undergraduate Medical Education, at Lebanese Taverna! Enjoy great company, pick his brain about why he chose Internal Medicine, and get to know this POM legend better.

Join the Cancer Interest Group for a trivia night at the American Cancer Society's Baltimore Hope Lodge. The Hope Lodge program provides a free home away from home for cancer patients and their caregivers when treatment involves travel constraints. The current residents of the Lodge will be joining us for trivia. The address of the Lodge is 636 W. Lexington Street, Baltimore, MD 21021 (about a 5-minute walk from campus).

This event was put on by AOA last year and was a hit! We are currently capping the number of students at 15. Pizza from a local restaurant will be provided for dinner. 

Thank you for your interest!

**Rescheduled from 9/8/23**

Please join us for a casual lunch with non-traditional students from M2 and beyond at the newly renovated Lexington Market! We plan to meet in front of the Eva Dodge House Room at 12:00 and walk over from there. Anyone is welcome to join! 

Join the History of Medicine Interest Group and the LGBTQIA+ Health Interest Group to learn more about the history of the interactions between healthcare and the LGBTQIA+ community. We will be discussing past mistreatments and approaches to treatment and their impact on present-day coverage. We will also be going over what the future looks like and how you can support and provide for the LGBTQIA+ community as a future healthcare professional. Lunch will be provided!

ECM has the opportunity to let 4 students shadow an afternoon of Neurosurgery cases in the OR. Sign-ups will open on 10/2 at 12 pm.

We have the opportunity to let 4 people shadow in the Neurosurgery OR for a day of cranial cases. Signups will go Live on 10/3 at 12 p.m.

Celebrate Hispanic/Latinx culture through the joy of music and dance! Instructors from SalsaNow, Maryland’s premier Latin Dance company, will teach Latin dance styles. Following the dance lesson, we will gather for a cultural meal.

Register now!

The Medical Ethics Interest Group and the UMSOM Chapter of American Association of Neurological Surgeons is hosting our first joint event in collaboration with BEGIN, a recently formed international neuroethics group. 

We would like to invite you to our first virtual talk on Wednesday, October 11^th at 5pm EST on Applying Medical Ethics to Real World Cases in Pediatric Neurosurgery. Our speaker is Dr. Jeffery Raskin, an assistant professor and pediatric neurosurgeon at the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. We’re excited to have him join us to learn about how he has navigated ethical concerns and cases during his practice. 

Please submit any questions you may have here. 

Zoom Meeting Link: https://umaryland.zoom.us/j/96466279953?pwd=NERkdlJvUSszV1RNdlkwRzV1dm5CZz09&from=addon”

Join the Intercultural Center for a night celebrating Latinx culture! Play a game of dominoes, paint your own ceramics to represent your cultura, and of course, there will be music and dinner served!

Please register through this link so that the Intercultural Center can have enough supplies and plan accordingly :)

Join us for a Lunch & Learn with Drs. Kate Thomas and Julie Brownley! Dr. Thomas is a certified Sex Therapist and Clinical Director in the Johns Hopkins Sex & Gender Clinic and Dr. Brownley is a psychiatrist who specializes in women's health and reproductive psychiatry (and is a UMSOM alum)!

This talk will cover topics such as sexual stigmas, approaching conversations around pleasure and sexual function, and common sexual health myths. We will also hear about the speakers’ experiences working with diverse patient populations, addressing patient dissatisfaction with their sex lives, clinical sexology, treating couples presenting with relationship challenges, and much more!

Lunch will be provided, so please sign up in advance!

More about Dr. Thomas's practice: https://katethomasphd.com/about/ 

More about Dr. Brownley's practice: https://www.psychiatryforwomen.org/about

The Office of Community Outreach and Engagement at University of Maryland's Greenebaum Cancer Center (UMGCCC) is looking for Spanish-speaking volunteers to help distribute bags of cancer screening/health education resources on Saturday October 28th. Please join us in improving health education access for Baltimore's Latinx community! Make sure to sign up on Medscope and fill out the attached google form so COE can finalize details for the event.

Come to the Reid Rooms to get some themed infectious disease treats! 

Come by the Reid Rooms before small group and enjoy some baklava, brownies, and cold brew to celebrate spooky season and support Sight Savers' mission to provide free glaucoma screenings to the Baltimore community! 

Our LMSA and LGBTQIA+ Health Interest Group is hosting a panel of providers who have experience working with trans/gender-nonconforming minorities in order for us to learn about what aspects of care we need to be more conscious of with this patient population, how culture and possibly language plays a role in their care, how to better connect with our patients who may not be of our same cultural background, and how barriers to access to gender affirming care may or may not differ. 

Food will be provided!

**sign ups coming soon**

Join the Cancer Interest Group as we explore and learn about the Maryland Proton Treatment Center! 

For those that might not know, proton therapy is a highly advanced form of radiation treatment that has the ability to provide cancer patients with positive clinical outcomes, shorter treatment times and substantially fewer side effects or complications! 

Attendance will be capped at 25 people. Come learn about this exciting new cutting edge technology that is making a real impact on the patient population of Baltimore!

Please note that space is limited so please only sign up if you WILL be attending. Thank you!

Join us for a “Lunch & Learn” with Sexual Assault Nurse Examiners (SANEs) from Mercy Medical Center. Lunch will be provided, so please sign up on here in advance!

We will discuss topics such as: caring for victims of sexual assault, components of a sexual assault exam and evidence collection (“rape kit”), legalities behind specimen preservation and reporting, handling difficult scenarios, post-sexual assault care in Baltimore City, the field of forensic nursing and the importance of trauma-informed care across all specialities in medicine. 

Did you know that Mercy Medical Center is the designated hospital in Baltimore with a SAFE (Sexual Assault Forensic Exam) program? In cases of sexual assault, all patients (from any hospital in the Baltimore area) are referred to Mercy Medical Center to collect evidence and receive the appropriate medical attention, so we are super exicted they are willing to share their expertise!

Maryland Coalition Against Sexual Assault Website & List of SAFE Programs: https://mcasa.org/survivors/getting-medical-attention 

Speakers:

Debra Holbrook (Director of Forensic Nursing @ Mercy): https://bmoresafemercy.org/staff/debra-holbrook-2/ 

Allyson Boss (Forensic Nurse & Coordinator): https://bmoresafemercy.org/staff/allyson-boss-bsn-rn-cnrn-fne-a-scrn/

10 lucky students will have the opportunity to join Dr. Martinez for dinner, graciously hosted at Dr. Martinez's house! Enjoy great conversation, learn about Emergency Medicine, and get to know this lovely OME faculty member. 

4 lucky individuals will get to enjoy a few hits of golf with our very Dean for Curriculum, Dr. Shah! Kick off the return from fall break with this opportunity to practice your swing, ask him about Pulmonary Medicine or Critical Care, and spend some quality time with this incredible faculty member. 

4 lucky individuals will have the chance to practice their swing with Dr. Reavis, our incredible Dean of Student Diversity and Inclusion! Ask her about family medicine or her role as director of maternal-child health, learn about her work addressing gender and cultural disparities in medicine, and enjoy your time with this queen!

Enjoy a wonderful opportunity to get lunch with Dr. Thom, our Associate Dean for Student Affairs! Ask her about Epidemiology and Public Health, take advantage of her expertise in student personal and professional development, and enjoy great company!