Activities
Up-coming Events: Industry in Health Care
Lunch Lecture 1: Relationships between Industry and Health Care: an Introduction
Date: Friday February 20th, 2009 2/20/09
Location: rm 539 AF
Lunch provided
The Role of Industry in Health Care: an Ethical Discussion
A panel of health care professionals discuss the relationship between the health care industry and medical communities
A Gold Foundation sponsored event
Date: Thursday, March 5th, 2009 3/5/09
Time: 5:30-8pm
Location: rm 994 AF
Dinner provided
Lunch Lecture 2: Conflict of Interest Policy
Date: Thursday February 26th, 2009 2/26/09
Location: 539 AF
Lunch provided Read More »
PharmFree Conference at UIC 10/11/08
Tue, 09/16/2008 - 1:40pm — kgarlo
Are you interested in AMSA's National PharmFree Movement? How about the global movement for Access to Essential Medicines? Have you ever wanted why the two movements weren't better connected? Then continue reading for a great opportunity to learn about the intricate relationship between these two campaigns.
AMSA, AMSA Foundation, National PharmFree Week, PharmFree Steering Committee, AMSA Global, AMSA Culture of Medicine, UIC College of Medicine, and UIC College of Pharmacy present:
Bridging the Gap - PharmFree joins Access to Essential Medicines
Date: Saturday October 11, 2008
Location: UIC College of Medicine, Chicago IL
Description: UIC College of Medicine and UIC College of Pharmacy will host a FREE day-long workshop on understanding the intricate relationship between the campaign for PharmFree medical education and the global campaign for access to essential medicines. This intimate Saturday workshop will heavily emphasize actual case studies. Confirmed keynote speeches will cover specific areas such as:
1) How students made "statins" globally accessible (co-sponsored by Universities Allied for Essential Medicines, Sandeep Kishore MD/PHD student from Cornell)
2) Intellectual Property, TRIPS, and Novartis' legal challenge to India (Brook Baker, Board member, HealthGAP and professor at Northeastern Law)
3) Thailand, Abbott, and Compulsory Licensing: Actvism and Access to Essential Meds (Tanya Wansom, AMSA Global Health Committee Chair)
4) The evolution of UIC College of Medicine and UIH's conflict-of-interest policies
5) PharmFree 101 - Learn more about AMSA's PharmFree campaign to reclaim the ethics and professionalism of medicine.
6) Pharm Rep Tactics and Counter-Detailing (led by former pharm reps)
7) Network with local students from UIC, Rush, Northwestern, Loyola, U Chicago, Oregon, Texas, and much more!
At the end of the workshop, attendees will draft/brainstorm points to be included into a draft resolution on PharmFree medical education Access to Essential Medicines. Students will be encouraged to bring this resolution and these campaigns back to their Academic Medical Centers through leadership, advocacy, and seminars / lectures.
Workshop Date: Saturday October 11, 2008
Location: UIC College of Medicine, Chicago IL
Due to student request, the application deadline has been **Extended** to: Saturday, September 20, 2008
We ask that your school provide the cost of transportation for each student to demonstrate their commitment to and support of advocacy and leadership skills on pharmaceutical policy and global health.
TO APPLY, please send the following materials to PharmFreeAccess@gmail.com:
1. Name, year in school, and contact information (please include address and phone)
2. CV
3. Briefly describe your interest in pharmaceutical policy, conflict-of-interest, access to essential medicines, or global health (less than 250 words).
4. Previous experience in advocacy and grassroots organizing (though experience is not required).
Please email completed application to PharmFreeAccess@gmail.com
AMSA informational ppt.
You can find more information at www.AMSA.com. The attached powerpoint is very comprehensive.
Ultimate Frisbee
If you are interested in playing Ultimate Frisbee:
There is pick-up on Wednesdays 6-8pm and Sundays 3-6pm. We play at Arrigo Park on Loomis St. between W. Harrison and Taylor. New players are welcome! We play year round, even through the winter! It is not competitive -- just a good time.
Also, check out Ultimate Chicago. http://www.ultimatechicago.org/uc/index.php. This is an organized league and the play is more competitive. You can play in the fall, spring, and summer seasons. On this website there is information about other pick-up groups around the city.
I play pick-up and league. It is awesome! If you want more information, send me an e-mail katherine_garlo@rush.edu.
Spring 2008
Happy New Year everyone. I just wanted to let everyone know that the CEO schedule for the Spring quarter will be posted and emailed shortly. Enjoy the rest of your break!
City Life
Fri, 12/07/2007 - 7:02pm — jblackhallI thought it would be a good idea to have a book that we could all edit about things to do around the city. Feel free to add chapters to this book for anything you'd like to talk about. I'll start us off with a restaurants section.
Local Churches
Here are some of the local churches available around Rush Unversity.
Chicago International Free Evangelical Church
9th Floor of Armour Academic Center
Rush University
600 S. Paulina Street
Chicago, IL 60607
Sunday Service 10:15am Read More »
Volunteer Opportunities
The following are just some of the many volunteer opportunities and scholarships that are available for Christian medical students at various stages of their medical school careers.
Rush Community Service Initiatives Program (RCSIP)
The first place to turn to for volunteering at Rush. It currently offers five clinical programs, nine non-clinical programs, and one interdisciplinary student program. Some of the clinics involved are Christian! Read More »
Proud to be 2011?
So I was thinking of printing shirts (or hoodies, or mugs?) to show our Rush pride. I posted some pictures on Facebook, I'll get to that in a minute. Jeff saw these pictures and told me he had been working on a design too, for the very same reason.
I was fooling around with Paint.net, a free and powerful (though not as powerful as Photoshop) image editing/creating software and eventually made what you see here (depicted on a t-shirt). The original image is here. Now my mockup is by no means the final product. I believe someone in our class who is so much more creative can probably come up with a better design than this. In fact that is what I'm hoping for.
If anyone has a design they would like to submit please e-mail me (usama_ahmad@rush.edu)! There is no hurry on the printing, I mean we can put this off until the end of our first year, but I was kind of hoping to get it done by winter break.
I've attached the original files with this post.
