It is time…to decide who YOU will choose to represent your interests and the medical school at large. It is time to elect the Student Government Executive (SGE) Board of 2010-2011.

SGE ELECTION TIMELINE:

SGE Applications Available – 2/15 to 2/19
SGE Informational Meeting- 2/16 in the Student Lounge at 12-1pm
SGE Applications Due – 2/19
SGE Platform Posting – 2/22 to 2/26
SGE Speeches – 2/23 and 2/25 (3rd and 5th Floor Aud at 12-1pm)
SGE Voting – 2/26 to 3/5

Stay tuned for emails from Raheel Bengali for more information. The SGE applications will be made available in the SG office (RMSB 2019) and on the SG website (http://sg.mededu.miami.edu/).

***Please be advised that you can only serve on ONE Executive Board (either SG, AS, or DOCS)***

AS and DOCS will be having their selection process after the election of the SGE. Stay tuned for emails from Eileen and Heidi/Robin.

SG DM minutes 1-13-10-1

I apologize for the delay in the posting of this meeting.  Match was discussed in this meeting among other pertinent issues.  If you are looking for the SG constitution, please scroll down.

The UMMSM Student Government is excited to get your feedback on our new Constitution.  The old one has been in need of some serious fixing up and updating, so the Executive Board has been working hard over the past months to draft a new Constitution that encompasses the changes that are occurring in Student Government and provides greater details about the responsibilities and goals of Student Government.

The most important part of the process is coming up – we need your feedback and thoughts on the work we have done.  We are going to be posting the new Constitution on the following pages broken down by article with a comments form on the bottom of each page to get your feedback.

In the coming weeks we will also be scheduling a “Constitutional Convention” to discuss comments made online and to highlight key elements of the new Constitution.  We will post the date and time to the SG calendar and will send you an e-mail as well.

In the meantime, please give us your feedback! (You can navigate to the homepage on the menubar above (UMMSM New Constitution) as well).

Constitution Outline:

• Preamble
• Article 1 – Name and Purpose
• Article 2 – Student Government Membership and Positions
• Article 3 – Executive Board Composition and Duties
• Article 4 – Class Councils Composition/Duties
• Article 5 – Council for Honorable and Professional Conduct
• Article 6 – Elections
• Article 7 – Meetings
• Article 8 – Disciplinary Action Against Student Government Members
• Article 9 – Vacancies
• Article 10 – Amendments
• Article 12 – Ratification

It has been a week since the disastrous earthquake shattered Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Many lives are changed forever and the world has united to provide relief to our brother and sisters.

Our university were among the first to land in Haiti to provide medical aid to the Haitian people. Now we, as the student body, must do our part to support the relief efforts.

The Butler Center in conjunction with the Haitian Student Organization are coordinating the student efforts from the Coral Gables campus.

Tomorrow (Wednesday) the Coral Gables campus will be holding a Coming Together event hosted by the Center for the Latin American Studies. The event will be held in the Multipurpose Room of the Field House at the Bank United Center from 6-8pm.

Then there will be a Candlelight Vigil at 8pm at the University Center Rock.

If your organization is planning an event for the Haitian Relief Initiative, please email me the details and flyer so that we can all work together and support each other with these endeavors. Also, the coral gables campus would like to be informed of our efforts. So please respond now.

The good neighbor looks beyond the external accidents and discerns those inner qualities that make all men human and, therefore, brothers. – Martin Luther King Jr., ‘Strength to Love,’ 1963

Match Day is Thursday, March 18th. The excitement (and anxiety) is building…and there have been many questions and opinions on the proceedings of MATCH DAY at the Miller School of Medicine.

Traditionally, Match Day is conducted by having individuals come up to the stage in a random order beginning at 12PM the day of Match to open their envelope and announce the program they have matched to in front of their personal and Miller family. However, this setting is not mandatory; every year a few people opt out (by emailing Mary Cotto and Dean Hernandez) and their name is never called at the Match Day Ceremony. Instead, they can access their match results by e-mail beginning at 1PM.

Student Government has recently received some feedback and suggestions about possible ways Match Day can be changed and/or adjusted. This was discussed at the SG General Council (SGGC) Meeting and an alternative option has been proposed. Thus, we will be taking a poll of the Class of 2010 and the Student Body to asses the general sentiment of our Match Day format with consideration for adjustments. Below is the alternative option we would like you to consider:

ALTERNATIVE OPTION: At 12pm on Thursday, March 18th, everyone will receive their envelopes, then the Dean will announce for everyone to open their envelopes at the SAME TIME. You are then afforded the opportunity to find out your match results in private. Immediately following, we will each have the opportunity to go up on stage and announce our MATCH to the Miller family.

PLEASE GO TO THE FOLLOWING LINK AND VOTE! VOTING CLOSES BY 11:59PM ON TUESDAY AS WE WILL BE DISCUSSING THIS IN THE NEXT DEAN’S MEETING ON WEDNESDAY MORNING.

Please vote in the correct poll by class!

CLASS OF 2010 SURVEY

CLASSES of 2011-2013 SURVEY

Please also leave comments below for discussion!

Each year the Clinton Global Initiative University hosts a meeting for students, national youth organizations, and university officials to discuss solutions to pressing global issues. Last year more than 1,000 students representing 318 schools, 60 countries, and all 50 states attended the CGI U meeting, along with nearly 100 university administrators and almost 70 leaders of national youth organizations.

The third annual CGI U meeting, which is hosted by President Bill Clinton, will be held at the University of Miami from April 16-18, 2010. At this meeting, nearly 1,500 attendees will come together to make a difference in CGI U’s five focus areas: Education, Environment an Climate Change, Peace and Human Rights, Poverty Alleviation, and Public Health.

CGI U actively seeks a range of students who have a variety of experiences, interests, talents, and goals. All students who wish to attend must submit an application. Each application is thoroughly reviewed by the CGI U team.

As a prerequisite of attending the CGI U meeting, students must develop their own Commitment to Action within any of the five focus areas: a specific plan of action that addresses a pressing challenge on the campus, in the community, or in a different part of the world. To ensure quality, every CGI U commitment must be new, specific, and measurable and can be either an individual commitment or a group commitment.
To apply to attend CGI U and learn more about making a Commitment to Action, visit www.CGIU.org

Institutional Funding
The University of Miami will be selecting ten (10) Commitments to Action to receive seed funding in the amount of $1,000.00. Once a student has been notified of their selection to attend CGI U 2010, he or she will be contacted via e-mail by UM regarding the process to be considered for institutional funding.

Questions should be directed to CGIU@miami.edu

THIS IS AN AMAZING OPPORTUNITY…DON’T MISS OUT!!!

INFORMATION SESSION: MONDAY, DECEMBER 14TH AT 12-1PM IN THE 3RD FLOOR AUDITORIUM.

SGDM minutes 11-18-09

This meeting included the introduction of the 2013 SG president.

Academic Societies has just launched Dan’s Corner, a new feature of the website with access to study guides, templates, and other useful downloads for the first two years and wards. Check it out!

SGGC Minutes 11-11-09

In this meeting, we discussed a variety of topics including feedback from a variety of events and the introduction of the first student organization of the month

SGDM Minutes 10-14-09

In this meeting, we discussed the upcoming elections as well as Dean’s cup and some other exciting upcoming events.