JMC Student Council: Meeting Minutes
October 8, 2003
Absences (excused): Alok Sawhney, Lydia Sit, Ranu Dhillon, Carson
Campe, Bob McCauley, Michael Morris, Chan Park
Absences (unexcused): Sheila Barbarino, Joanna D-Elia, Matt Prowler
***All Class and Committee Reps. are required to attend student
council meetings, please email me at ami.kapadia@jefferson.edu
if you will not be able to attend the meeting. Thanks***
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE REPORTS
President (Chan Park): excused
Vice-President (Stephen Tai):
-welcomed newly elected 1st year reps: Mimi Raleigh, Runa Hatti,
Swetha Srinivasan, Mark Mandicheck
Treasurer (Margaret Johnson):
-no new business
Secretary (Ami Kapadia): Welcomed 1st years.
-no new business
DEAN'S REPORT (Dr. Lopez)
Career counseling sessions:
- for 1st/2nd years: 3 formal sessions will be held
- for 3rd years: 1 formal session
- for 4th years: specific sessions related to residency/match
- tentatively scheduled all-class party for Nov. 14th
COMMITTEE REPORTS
ADMISSIONS COMMITTEE (Chris Jones):
-6421 applications (compared to 6392 previous year)
-5 early decision applicants accepted so far
AFFILIATIONS COMMITTEE (Alex Lee, Kris Lyon):
-no new business
ALUMNI COMMITTEE (Peter Fleischut, Carson Campe):
-Career day will be on Wed. Dec 3rd
-representatives from various specialties to talk to
RESEARCH COMMITTEE (Cathy Davies):
-met with upper class reps and with Dr. Lopez
-trying to continue lecture series: speakers from competitive
residencies to discuss what it takes to match in these areas
CURRICULUM COMMITTEE (Matt Prowler, Ed McCann):
-course review for FCM: 50-70% attendance
-small groups rated as good for learning
-comments for improvement: syllabus and staying within 50 min.
time limit per lecture
-trying to decrease lecture time by 10%
-mean for exams was 84-85%
-trying to improve syllabus
-new 4th year elective: coronary care
-will be offered
-post-exam review proposal accepted: all clerkships must allow
time for student review of exams
-Chris Coletti is new student co-chair for curriculum task force
STUDENT AFFAIRS (Koel Guha, Jamie Koprivunikar):
-2 new clubs approved: Outing Club and Jefferson Ambassadors
-still working on changing email system back to previous system
TECHNOLOGY COMMITTEE (Lea Sullivan, Kevin Turner, Keith
Mathers):
-setting up Q & A for 2nd year class: all students can make
up own questions based on syllabus > available to whole class
-can't send attachments to whole class through Pulse > so,
they are setting up new site to send attachments to, and everyone
can access attachments from this site (in progress)
CLASS REPORTS
Class of 2004:
-involved in application process currently, preparing for residency
interviews. Early match students getting responses
-Oct. 20th > measured for caps/gowns and senior portraits
-Oct. 22nd-practice interviewing seminar
-if anyone has an old computer they would like to donate to JeffHope
for Kids > contact Kelly McGuigan
Class of 2005:
-middle of 3rd block
Class of 2006:
-had exam on Fri. Oct. 3rd
-addressing complaints about library: too much talking, conversation.
Need to go in stairwell to answer cell phones, don't answer in
study area b/c this disturbs other students. Avoid conversations
in study area.
Class of 2007:
-newly elected reps introduced themselves
TASK FORCES
SAFETY TASK FORCE
-none present
NEW BUSINESS
- Mary Bove and Ami Kapadia: requested funding for P.A.P.A./Malpractice
talk sponsored by Public Health Society and AMSA
- Kelly McGuigan: requested funding for Dermatology society >
speakers and meetings
- Jennifer Pelli-requested funding for AMWA
- Chris Jones-requested funding for Geriatrics Society for lecture
series
- Kelly McGuigan-requested funding to support travel to conference
to present research.
- Outing Club-requested funding.
***NOTE FOR 4th YEARS: due to email problems (receiving emails
late related to interviews, etc.) > you can check emails through
eras to ensure that you aren't missing any important messages due
to Jefferson email problems***
For further information, contact President Chan Park (Chan.Park@jefferson.edu).
