Premedical Summer Opportunities Panel
TONIGHT Monday, November 30
6 - 7:30
603 Hamilton Hall
I know it's not yet even winter break yet, but believe it or not, it's already time to start thinking about what you will do this summer. Come to this informative panel to get tips about how to begin your search for summer opportunities. There are a wonderful array of opportunities and this panel is designed to introduce you to just a few of the things that you can do. You will have the chance to hear from the Office of Preprofessional Advising and most importantly your premedical peers who
have each had interesting and rewarding summer experiences.
This is a program not to be missed!
This program is co-sponsored by the Office of Preprofessional Advising and CU AMSA.
Please register here: http://www.studentaffairs.columbia.edu/preprofessional/health/events.php
Here is a taste of what some of our panelists will be talking about
Zeena Audi CC 10
Neuroscience and Behavior Major
Research Assistant at New York State Psychiatric Institute Summers 2007, 2008, 2009
Began what would be a 2 year long research project studying the relationship between neurogenesis in the hippocampus in the adult brain and depression.
NYU Medical Center Summer Fellowship Summer 2008
Shadowed Chief of Neurosurgery Dr. Jafar Jafar, his colleagues, and residents in Neurosurgery and other fields in Operating Rooms, Intensive Care Units, Recovery Rooms, and Routine Check-Ups
Montefiore Hospital Clinical Observership Summer 2009 (June)
Shadowed Chief of Surgery Dr. Robert Michler and his colleagues in Cardiothoracic Surgery in Operating Rooms, Intensive Care Units, Recover Rooms, and Office Hours
Lang Youth Medical Program Summer 2009 (July)
Served as the Lead Advisor for the rising 8th graders.
Taught and helped create English and biology curricula for an school students in Washington Heights to achieve their college and career goals, especially in the health sciences
http://childrensnyp.org/mschony/lang-youth.html
Margot Lazow CC11
Chemistry Major
Donald Hood Lab
Columbia Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF)
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/biology/ug/surf/index.html
The Department of Biological Sciences at Columbia University offers Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowships to a select group of motivated undergraduate students who will benefit from the opportunity for hands-on biology related laboratory research. Participants must organize an experiment, complete it within 10 weeks, and give presentations as well as write a paper on their results SURF is an extraordinary learning experience for anyone interested in the sciences.
It helps undergraduates to better comprehend scientific journals and allows them to complete an experiment in an organized and structured environment.
Bioethical Cross-Cultural Educaitonal Program (BioCEP)
The Center for Bioethics at Columbia University offers each summer a 2-4 week internship program in cross-cultural bioethics, call BioCEP [Bioethical Cross-cultural EducationalProgram]. In this educational enrichment summer workshop, twenty American University students spend two weeks in August in Thailand with fifteen Mahidol University students engaged in lectures, discussions and on-site professional visits related to the challenges of bioethics and medical ethics. Students have the
option to stay on for an additional two weeks to serve as interns in one of the many public or private hospitals in Bangkok.
Ian Solsky CC'09
English
Yale University Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics Summer Internship Program:
Yale's Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics offers a unique 2-month-long summer internship program for American and international undergraduate and graduate students from varying disciplines who are
interested in learning more about bioethics. Interns attend a series of morning lectures surveying the field of bioethics; attend intensive 4-week seminars on special topics such as care for the dying, bioethics and law, bioethics and media, literature, technology and ethics, public health ethics, and feminist approaches to bioethics; attend a bioethics film/discussion series; participate in field trips to bioethics-related institutions; present an original paper at a final in-house "mini-conference;" and participate in the life and work of the Bioethics Center. Interns are in residence on the Yale campus, and can sometimes find part-time work on the Yale campus or in the area. For more information, please go to http://www.yale.edu/bioethics/summerinternship.shtml
Joyce Khandji CC 2010
MEALAC with a pre-med concentration
Unite for Sight
Unite for Sight is a non-profit organization that works to improve eye health in remote and under-served areas of the world and also strives to eliminate preventable blindness through education programs. In order to participate, volunteers need to raised $1,400 to donate to the program and bring 300 pairs of glasses to distribute to the villagers we visit. Before traveling, in order to learn the basics about the structure of the eye, eye care, and eye exams before the trip volunteers need to shadow an eye doctor. Once in Ghana, volunteers participate in outreach trips to villages outside of Accra (2-4 hours away) by helping to give eye health lectures, visual acuity tests, distributing and demonstrating
the use of eye drops, and scheduling surgeries depending on the diagnosis after the exam.
Additionally volunteers have the opportunity to observe surgeries to treat cataract, pterygium, and glaucoma that are performed at the Crystal Eye Clinic in Accra by Dr. Clarke. This experience was the
single most influential in my decision to pursue medicine because it demonstrated the extent to which good medical care could change people's lives. It also highlighted the need for education in order to live healthier lives and prevent sickness preemptively in developing nations. For more information check out www.uniteforsight.org
Rheumatology Clinic
While studying in Syria, I volunteered in the afternoons at Dr. Suzanne Al-Sayed's Rheumatology clinic. She was a thorough teacher, who patiently explained each case we saw together, providing me with background on the patient's condition and defining all the new terms. Additionally, she permitted me to do the visual acuity test, measure the height and weight, and take the blood pressure of the patients as her assistant.
Elizabeth Americo CC11
Anthropology
Washington Heights Corner Project (needle-exchange program) WHCP's outreach services are designed to effectively reach individuals in the Washington Heights community who are HIV and/or HCV infected or at high risk for HIV and/or HCV. WHCP facilitates access to free HIV and
HCV testing and follow-up comprehensive care. Currently WHCP operates as a NYS-licensed Syringe Exchange and Harm Reduction Education Program. Syringe exchange services are available at our 76 Wadsworth Avenue office location as well as street-based near the George Washington Bridge Bus Terminal.
