SG Meeting 3/25/08 6 pm

• Class council elections, poll now open until Friday.  Polls will close when 2/3 of the class votes.  Speeches are available on website for viewing.   No campaigning.
• Dean’s Cup.  April 11-19th. Sign up in the student lounge.
• Medical School Conventions.   9 topic choices narrowed down from 20.  Students will get to pick their top 5 choices.  Personal schedule will be made based on this.  First years chose their top five today, second years will chose tomorrow. 3rd year opinions on MSC.  Good workshops were Medical Malpractice and Financial Planning.  Workshops on Specialties/Transitions were interesting, but not sure if they were useful.  This year’s MSC will provide FAU students with free parking .  Free breakfast and lunch for all students.  Speakers booked for all sessions
• 2008 MSC Topics: Leadership, Financial Planning, Academic Medicine vs. Private Practice, Suturing workshop, Boards Review, Medical Malpractice, Transition to wards, Successful Matches, Specialties.
• Evaluation for post MSC.  Talk to O’Connell to change for future MSC improvement
• Dean O’Connell retiring rumor put to rest.  He will be returning next year.
• LCME meeting tomorrow 4th floor auditorium @ noon
• Possibility of extending gym hours.  Waiting to hear back.  Current schedule has gym closing at 5 pm on weekends and 10 pm on weekdays.  Would like to extend gym hours on weekends.
• Reservations for student lounge will be added to website, but not there yet.  When placing reservation, possibility of phone number showing up online.  Frankie will follow up on this.
• 2009 update:  Spring clothing drive in April for Miami rescue Mission.  Transition meeting with 4th years.
• 2011 update:  sweatshirt sale $25.  Pre-order/order forms in mailboxes. 4th years did hat sales last year.  Also Spring Ball plans have yet to be finalized.  Possible coffee fundraiser.  $1000 budget may be spent on purchasing sweatshirts or spring ball location rental.
• Possible SG, Class Council dinner?
• 2008 Update: MATCH!! Graduation May 10th.  Also BBQ @ Dean’s house.
• Moving SG meetings to noon?  Once a month with lunch included.
• Class dues for 2011.  One time payment that goes up every year.  (Ex: 2nd years paid $75 and then went up by $10).  If don’t pay class dues, pay more for senior dinner.
• New constitution.  Very basic 2 pgs. Adding statues.  When will new constitution be instituted?
• No directory this year.  We don’t have the resources.  Aliye collected emails.  Panta emailed to Jim
• 2010 update:  DONE WITH MODULES!  Class breakfast tomorrow to end out year.

SG Meeting 04/08/08 12pm

• Transition Meeting:  Kim works with John (old treasurer; Terri Ann works with Linda (old VP)
• PAFF Awards
• Elections for class council: 1st and 2nd years ok, 3rd years might have to do election over
• Organization Applications:  currently ongoing deadline.  Secretary and Treasurer will work together to decide on deadline to apply and get dean’s approval.  Need to reapply every year if organization already exists and for budgeting.  Deadline for last year was first of June.  Need to create an excel sheet of all groups and send to dean’s for approval
• Deadline for applying for student organizations; 2 deadlines: Fall and Spring.  Form is 7-8 pps
• Constitution: written by Brandon, need 2/3 of entire class to vote, add some statue to make constitution more flexible, online for 3rd years, email explanation of constitution
• New Committee Apps: explain each event, chair person elected (co-chair, 2 for each position) and they choose a committee
• MSC-> Keeping or not? Post MSC evaluation
• Nadine-> deadline for 3rd years.  If they don’t what happens?  No class council?
• Dates for next year:  Dean’s Cup, MSC, Fall Ball, monthly SG Meetings
• Student Directory: Mention at Dean’s Meeting, Jim, Administrative resources for my UM, Panta may have done this her year, work with Pat Whitely

SG Dean’s Meeting 04/09/08 12 pm

• Introduce New Staff:  President- Frances DiFranco, VP-Terri-Ann Bennett, Secretary- Sabrina Scott, Treasurer- Kimberly Hoang
• Dean’s Cup: administrative schedule, 240 T-shirts
• MSC tomorrow 4/10/08
• PAFF Awards April 30th in the Lois Pope Auditorium.  Plaques for winner’s, best faculty
• Class council elections for 2.5 weeks.  3rd years need more votes or elections will be declared null and void.  Deadline on April 20th. 3rd year positions are not contested (unopposed).  Lack of apathy for running for positions.  Need quorum for constitution.  Consequence of not reaching quorum?  No ethics rep.  Cancel or next year.  Administration to make announcement about elections.  Possibly holding $ for organization, will get back to Dr. O’Connell.
• Student Government:  PR and Publicity for next year to improve involvement
• Student lounge reservations approved by Dean Hernandez.  Privacy issue with online reservations, name and phone number appear online.  Can either put behind password or make cell phone optional (not required)
• Emails for book sales and apt rentals.  Marketplace sections on SG website.  IT people to block those emails.  Student consensus to keep email for book sales and apt rentals.
• Extending Gym Hours-emailed but no response
• PAX Access
• Ethics Council-change in code to make ethics council more available.  Currently person who complaint is against find all info.  Change this so they will not know until investigative hearing.  Dean concerned about discoverable info and right to know about complaint.  Ethics chancellor and class rep have access to info.
• 4th year- 12 scramblers match. 4 derm.  3rd year help and parent association.  Calle ocho only $1000 profit, but made more($6000).  4th years are busy with paperwork, contracts and finding places to live.  Upcoming BBQ.  Senior Professionalism Feedback
• Raise $ for graduation for banquet and senior week.  Alumni Banquet?  Marsha Kegley- dean asked for $15,000
• Class of 2009: election issue, spring clothing drive, president transitioning, schedules ok, 21/22, class meeting Monday with sophomores, 6 weeks elective time, seniors get first choice so some electives may be filled
• Class of 2010: waiting for schedules, getting fingerprinted for VA, Class council elections almost done, class breakfast closure to the year.  2010 positions are unopposed.  Currently in PBL
• New order for headsets for computer lab ($500 total, $50 each).  Bin with headsets.  Turn in ID to get them.  New computers are also in.  Dean’s money to repair circuits in student lounge.  IT committee? Nick and team
• Class of 2011- sweatshirt sales for $25.  Class get together, small BBQ, fundraiser raised $2500 for melanoma
• Academic Societies: Goals for upcoming year, individual society applications, Harvey training, IV and intubation training, competency week, Trainers training by end of month, New games day ideas-society vs. society, New anatomy coordinators and tutors, April 16th at Gordon Birch Thank for old TA’s, Premed Advising, Faculty mentor luncheon to recruit new faculty members
• DOCS: transition, 2 exec meetings, full staff meeting, Monday selecting associate staff, Goals for year: Physician Board letters to physician inviting (good number of responses), 1 attending from each specialty with 2 resident for each health fair.  Training handbooks for 1st and 2nd years of each station.  Education for students and patients, tobacco cessation.  Strengthen follow-up, change patient behaviors.  Good follow up with Pap Smears.  Student advisory 3rd and 4th years assess quality of follow-up time at each station
• NEXT Dean’s Meeting May 14th
• OSR-in Sandesten with Dr. Hernandez.  New OSR applications, next year humanism award paperwork, National Office VSAS pilot program 4/15
• AAMC Community Service Award in 1993-UM was first recipient.  Can apply again(every 10 years) application due May/April collaborate for strong application
• Dean’s words:  we are #52 out of 156 medical schools.  Based on GPA, MCAT, NIH funding, Student teacher ratio, etc
• LCME- Megha.  Student self study survey 4/18.  Important!! Over 50% of student body needs to complete.  $50 gift card for 1 person from each class.  Takes 20 minutes.  300 questions for upperclassmen.  5/9 final report.  Need someone to analyze data.  4th years will leave soon; need to send email every day.  Sherry Ketiz analyzes faculty evaluations.  Robert Duncan in biostats dept.

 

Deans’ Meeting Agenda: February 6, 2008

• Student Government Executive Board
• President – Panta Rouhani (out of town)
• Secretary – Franki DiFranco
• Topics:
• Dr. Hernandez – how student should report inappropriate behavior?
• (PIR form or via personal email) – students choice to submit PIR’s anonymously will stay effective per Dean Goldschmidt’s reques
• Student Government Executive Elections: February 21-29
• Student Government Class Council Elections: March 21-28
• Spring Fling: March 13 or March 14
• Student BBQ update from Dean Goldschmidt – if we want to have one the Dean will make it happen (both for UM and FAU students- entire school); however, many of the deans expressed concern about attendance; vote at mtg was 1 yes and 16 no’s; it was resolved that the Senior BBQ will be at Goldschmidt’s house (he can accommodate one class)
• LCME Student Committee update – Megha Garg, Co-chair
• Treasurer – John Weston
• Vice-President – Linda Nguyen
• Pinning Ceremony: March 7 – almost done planning, lunch info session soon for c/o 2011 broadcast to FAU
• Medical Student Convention: April 10 – need venue
• Dean’s Cup – Friday 4/11 to Sat 4/19
• Paff Awards – started planning a couple weeks ago
• Class Council
• Class of 2008 – Shannon Haliko, Class President- top priorities are Match Day and Graduation, Pot luck every Wed. night, BBQ in Feb/Mar, Senior Cruise with Royal Caribbean, student giving toast – Timothy MacDonald, Golf Tournament sponsorship through Dean’s office
• Class of 2009 – Rajiv Nijhawan, Class President – evening feedback from 4th years in addition to Specialty Program Directors session by Dr. H. Mechaber, FinAid talk
• Class of 2010 – Terri-Ann Bennett, Class President – Miami Diva on 3/14 @ Score – get excited!, Food For Thought 2/26 @ Alamo noon-1pm
• Class of 2011 – Rob Grossman, Class President – Leukemia/Lymphoma fundraiser made $2500, in the process of making a UM Med sweatshirt
• Boca Campus SG President – Dan Medel
• Academic Societies – Gizelka David-West and Parvathy Pillai – Blood Drive/Bone Marrow Registry in student lounge end of Feb., 1st years Neuro exam training, application/interviews for Board in mid-Mar (3/10?), 3 awards at Spring Fling incl. Spirit stick, Innovative Society & Teaching Award
• Department of Community Service (DOCS) – Chris Caulfield - FKHF 800+ patients (700+ veni and 100+ Pap smears), Pompano Bch HF next weekend 2/16, applications for DOCS positions go out 2/13 and due 2/27, interviews on 3/3, adding Thurs. night to Bosco clinic and adding Victims Service Center to be one of DOCS clinics
• Organization of Student Representatives (OSR) – Lindley Barbee – newsletter w/National mtg update, etc. and Regional mtg in Destin coming up
• Ethics Chancellor – Nadine Housri – 2 lunchtime presentation, also added lectures in conjunction w/Doctoring program, re-writing Ethics Code to make wording more clear

 

Student Government Meeting January 29, 2008

• Parking: 14th Street Garage can choose morning or afternoon to park for free, all day on weekends
• LCME Student survey: Feb 11-22 administer survey to student body
• Elections for student government: end of Feb new SG exec, March class council elections
• Class Updates:
• 2008-Softball Tourney/Family Day successful, 51 days to Match, a lot of committees, Class BBQ in Feb maybe schoolwide
• 2009-Basketball Tourney successful with a lot of participants, specialty session @ end of year with 4th years that matched
• 2010-Miami Diva March 14th @ Score, Food for Thought soon
2011-$2500 raised from event at Suit

 

Student Government Meeting November 29, 2007

• SG Constitution- School wide email and vote via website in March; add statutes (i.e. officer descriptions)
• SG Reps- tell class about parking- extended to 11:59pm (from 10pm) on weekdays and all day Sat/Sun; monthly purchasing instead of 3 mos at a time- Daisy knows
• Student Directory- c/o 2011, 2010, and 2009 finished; still need c/o 2008 if interested
• SG–sponsored tailgate – good turnout, lots of good BBQ and beverages, OB = craziness
• Fall Ball- good turn out by c/o 2011 and holdin the fort down by c/o 2010
• Submitted 2 organization aps fpr Dean’s approval last week (12/5)
• Website launch party? Semester almost over
• LCME student committee very important- look for individual email if selected
• Next SG meeting 1/8/2008 6pm, 4th floor auditorium

Dean’s Meeting December 5, 2007

• Class of 2008- student committee meetings going well, interested in figuring out funds for senior year
• Class of 2009- basketball tourney in Jan., concern about observers on rotations
• Class of 2010- Food for Thought fundraiser made $650, possible 2nd event in spring, also working on “Miami Diva” with MedicOut to raise money and spread LGBT awareness to the community (last week Feb, early Mar?)
• Class of 2011- newsletter, working on law school mixer, coffee and bake sales raising some money
• Academic Societies- Thanksgiving food drive a success, JK Robinson Grant for premed mentor program awarded, new banners, Holiday toy drive
• Ethics- curriculum for Doctoring on alcohol/drugs incorporated next semester
• DOCS- Nov. 3- Upper Keys (185 patients) and Florida City health fairs (150 patients, very education focused, vaccines)
• Meeting with student leaders for student opportunities at Cedar’s

Dean Meeting October 10, 2007

• Student Government Executive Board (incl. Ethics)
• Parking
• Dean response. NO free or discounted parking but monthly payments instead of quarterly payments; can cancel at anytime but lose parking space- can get a spot when return but will take ~4 weeks to get preferred lot
• Clinical Research Building Garage- can either park free from 5-11:59pm and all day Sat. & Sun. OR 5-8am
• Right now not enough money to subsidize parking
• SG made it very clear parking is a primary concern for students

 

• Graduation speaker
• Review Dean Goldschmidt’s suggestion- Thomas Pollard, Professor at Yale- c/o 2008 decide if would like to have him speak at graduation and Shannon will reply by beginning of Nov.
• Graduation- May 10, 2008 5pm

• Class of 2011 Council election polls close Oct. 11 at noon- winners announced Oct. 12
• Two tailgates- Alumni sponsored Oct. 13 and Student Government Nov. 10
• Fall Ball- Fri. Nov. 16 at either Neovertica or Hurricane 100 Room
• Dean’s Cup- tentative April 11-19, kick-off social and ending party
• Athletics- coed football #1 Med 3rd and 4th years; #2 Med 2nd years
• Pining Ceremony- contacted Mike Weisfelt for speaker, chair of admissions at Hopkins
• Student website by Harry Ritter; launch party Halloween?

 

• Class Council
• Class of 2008
• Senior Stress Relief BBQ
• Senior Week activities- Jan. 20 Seniors vs. Faculty baseball tournament
• Match Day- Mar. 20
• Mar 9- Alumni Golf Tournament

• Class of 2009
• Basketball fundraiser Jan. 23 at undergrad
• Camillus House volunteer day Nov. 7
• Winter clothes drive
• Entertainment booklet fundraiser ongoing

 

• Class of 2010
• Main focus = fundraisers; one in Nov.
• IT concerns

• DOCS
• Little Haiti Health Fair this weekend Oct. 13 @ 10am
• HHF recap- 270 patients, great relationship w/church, referral clinic
• Nov. 3- Upper Keys and Florida City health fairs
• New DOCS website
• Clinic- adding extra night so societies can go more often- Thursday night?
• New health fair- Liberty City or Overtown possibly this year?

 

• Academic Societies
• Evaluations- lots of feedback- revising Games Day, AS handbook
• 3 new societies at FAU- Apgar, Osler, Herophilus
• Habitat for Humanity was a success on Oct. 6
• Tutoring programs going well- Anatomy, premed, high school
• Society points are back
• Faculty advisors recognition in Jan.?
• New banners

• OSR- Organization of Student Representatives
• Preparing for National meeting in Nov.- presenting Hialeah Health Fair (Megha Garg), Anatomy tutors (Rajiv Nijhawan), Dr. Mack’s minority programs (O’Rese Knight)
• Creating charter

 

• Boca Campus
• Broadcast Dean’s meetings
• 1st years- lots of clinical exposure, PBL curriculum, class council elected
• New Academic Societies
• Preparing for Pompano Health Fair
• FAU premed program tutoring program a success, 30 students participated last year

 

SG Meeting Minutes October 2, 2007

• Present: Panta Rouhani, Frances DiFranco, Brandon Faza, Terri-Ann Bennett, Colleen Ford, Nadine Housri, Shannon Haliko, Chris Caulfield, Stuart Samuels

 

• Calendar/constitution: distribute SG full year calendar, today Class of 2011 election speeches, winners by Oct. 12th
• Next SG meeting Tues. Oct. 30th   (2 hour meeting w/dinner provided)- distribute and discuss constitution, then present to classes and get feedback before November 27 to vote
• Student health care: Need update on primary care for student clinic, appt scheduling hotline, staff negotiator for student plans
• Parking: make it the main issue at the next Dean’s meeting on Oct. 10th, ask Deans O’Connell and Hernandez to bring poll results from orientation
• Senior Budget: on back-burner for now but want to get commitment to cover certain costs
• Organization Applications: move application deadline from August to January, possibly move organization fair as well
• Student Directory: no resources to create a student directory, each class council will resolve their classes directory
• Website launch party: breakfast or lunch in lounge
• SG sponsored tailgate: alumni-sponsored tailgate 10/13 at noon and SG student tailgate 11/10
• Ethics Council: need to wait for new officers
• Class of 2008: senior stress BBQ, senior committees well-organized
• Class of 2009: Basketball fundraiser on Jan. 23 at undergrad, selling entertainment booklets, holiday clothes drive, 4th year panel on residencies
• Class of 2010: main issue- fundraisers
• MD/PhD: more clinical experience during research years
• DOCS: Pompano Fair moved to Feb. 16, LHHF in a couple weeks- sign up online already up
• OSR and Academic Societies: absent

Student Government Exec Board Meeting 9/18/2007

• 9/19/2007 5th floor labs Class of 2011 elections informational meeting
• Next Dean’s meeting 10/10 12noon
• Next SG meeting 10/2 6pm Gem rooms 1 & 8
• Student Directory?
• SG Committees- Fall Ball 11/16 or 11/17; Pinning Ceremony- speaker booked, Dean’s Cup April 13-19
• Budget done
• Website should be running next week on 2bmd
• Website Kickoff- Breakfast in the lounge?
• Substitute for SG ropes course

 

Student Government Meeting
August 7, 2007

• First Year Orientation
• Wednesday- Medical Parents Night- Aug. 8 7pm @ Retter Auditorium
• Thursday- no small group lunches- student panel during lunchtime; end at 4:15pm- what to do for Thursday night social? Proposed idea to have reception/free dinner at Pasha’s in the med wellness center from 4:30-6:30pm- everyone at meeting thinks it’s a bad idea; other ideas- Gameworks (#1 choice), food/drinks on the quad (#2 choice)
• Friday- pizza lunch; 1:30pm – SG, AS, DOCS presentation; organization fair 2:15-4:30pm; freshman mixer 6-9pm at the Commons
• Saturday- Games Day 9-3; social at night

 

• Organizations
• Applications deadline one time per year
• Proposal- rolling applications process for recognition and then one deadline for funding
• Another proposal- 2 deadlines one in the fall and one in the spring with funding only once per year in the fall
• Move up SG Exec elections so that everything is not delayed

• Parking
• Med Wellness Center free from 7pm-7am with student ID and must validate via Daisy in the parking office 305-243-2430

• Insurance
• Megalife switched to United
• Separate hotline for faculty, staff, students to make appointments
• Family Medicine student clinic
• Better prices for insurance plans

• Next Meeting September

 

• Constitution Updating
• Academic Calendar Agenda

 

Deans’ Meeting Agenda: July 18, 2007

• Student Government Executive Board
• Treasurer – John Weston
• Secretary – Franki DiFranco
• President – Panta Rouhani (out of town)
• Vice-President – Linda Nguyen (out of town)
• Summary- organization application process- Deans made aware of approval urgency to begin org fair planning
• Ethics Chancellor – Nadine Housri
• Summary- plans to present at freshman and sophomore orientations; bylaws change? FAU ethics council?
• Class Council
• Class of 2008 – Shannon Haliko, Class President
• Summary- step 2 and rotations going well; town hall last week where discussed having 1. faculty vs. 4th years softball game during senior week and 2. stress relief afternoons for seniors in Aug. and Feb.; planning white coat sale for freshman
• Class of 2009 – Rajiv Nijhawan, Class President
• Summary- transition to wards; Step 1 average 225 for both campuses (minus 13 people who have not taken it), pass rate 97%
• Class of 2010 – Terri-Ann Bennett, Class President
• Summary- preparing to represent freshman class; ordering freshman pack this week; student lounge refurbish pool table and new microwaves (2) and toaster; new programs- "In a Day in the Life of..." (specialty speakers) and "What I Wish I Knew as a 2nd Year"
• Boca Campus SG President – Dan Medel - absent
• Organization of Student Representatives (OSR) – Lindley Barbee
• Summary- Rajiv Nijhawan appointed new junior rep; Megha Garg and Geoff Kannan appointed as head of sub-committee activities
• Department of Community Service (DOCS) – Chris Caulfield
• Summary- 1st clinic night on 7/17 at Corpus Christi Mission; a lot of interest in specialty clinics; 9/8 Hialeah Health Fair at church (capacity 400-500); smoking cessation program emphasized this year by DOCS at health fairs in coordination with AHEC and Family Medicine Dept.
• Academic Societies – Gizelka David-West and Parvathy Pillai
• Summary- planning Games Day, food/games already done; trainers ready; anatomy tutors selected and working with Dr. Blanks; separate FAU societies being discussed- 3 new societies

 

• Next meeting August 8th- clinic opportunities for FAU students and new academic societies

SG Executive Board Meeting
Tuesday May 1, 2007

• Senior Class Fundraising
• One generalized budget- fund
• Activities subsidized
• Goal not to pay dues or have to fundraise
• Leftover money from graduating classes?

 

• II. Parking
• Too expensive
• Month to month payments
• Availability- waiting list
• Updates on medical wellness garage?

 

• III. Student Insurance
• Mega Life not good- students sent to collections- affect credit ratings
• Switch to United? - the current insurance co. for undergrads and law school
• Panta will meet with Dr. Anapole on main campus to talk about policy and with Dr. O’Connell
• Overall, a needs assessment will be initiated to determine students’ specific needs

• Other topics
• Perhaps, Student convention needs to be revamped to increase desire to attend; change date to fall semester?
• Student government new image- bulletin in lounge with recommendation box, communication about events run by SG committees- MORE PR!!
• MyUM website- calendar (more use of) and more user friendly/interactive; place for selling stuff like books and rental listings
• Organization applications
• One annual event at President Shalala’s house- Fall Ball?
• Library- 5000 sq. ft. of space cleared for student use; will be a long process; study rooms on the second floor; free printing; John Weston will go to another meeting on May 7th

 

SG Class Councils Meeting - Tuesday May 1, 2007

 

• Freshman Class of 2010
• Dr. McDreamy fundraiser- successful and will do it again next year
• Concerns: Boards review/exam questions, parking- Dominion parking after-hours and weekends not free anymore, student lounge improvements (new pool and ping-pong tables- $550 to refurbish the pool table, also 2 new microwaves, microwave toaster oven)- want input from other classes for lounge

• Sophomore Class of 2009
• Freshman package
• Clothing drives and community service (nights at Camillus house)
• Dues- 80% of class paid
• Obtaining pagers for 3rd year
• Getting reimbursed- separate funds from undergrad or debit cards for each organization? - need to get reimbursed faster
• Ad booklet fundraiser made $432

 

• Junior Class of 2008
• Pagers
• Social events because do not see each other (on different rotations)
• Hat fundraiser
• Rose fundraiser at 4th year commencement
• Follow-up with people who worked on senior events
• More social events –last year to enjoy each other and Miami
• Exam forum via AS or getting more involved with DOCS; giving back to 1st, 2nd, and 3rd year classes

• MD/PhD Representative- Stuart Samuels
• Want to be more involved in student activities with MD students
• Not on the listserv for their respective classes; ask to be added to another listserv; for now forward emails to Stuart Samuels in order to get emails to MD/PhD students

 

• Academic Societies
• Finance issue

• DOCS
• Contact with MPA (Medical Parent Assoc.)- want to make sure that they are contacted early- 4th year rep? (past rep- Reena)

 

• To do:
• Separate financial meeting
• Fundraising forum