AMSA

MEETING

1st

Payment Information

• $30 for 1 year• $55 for 2 years

Pick up an application and turn it in with your payment! We accept cash, credit card, or check!Due February 4th at our 2nd General Meeting!

Mission Trips!!

Other Mission Trips

• What: Baylor Medical Mission Trip• When: summer• Where: El Salvador • How long: Part of Summer 2 • How much: • For more info contact:

rodney_bowden@baylor.edu• Come to the interest meeting this

Wednesday, Jan. 22 @ 2:30pm SLC Rm. 308!

Medicine Drive for Guatemala Mission Trip!

-Help us raise medications to pass out in Guatemala

-Bring an item (from the list of medications on the AMSA Website) in a baggy with your name on it

-Bring baggy to next amsa meeting!

-5 points per two items on list, max of 10 pointsAny questions, emailTiffany_Caloway@baylor.edu

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SERVICE!!

Service Committee Applications

Due THIS FRIDAY!!

You can get it from Blackboard or the New AMSA Website!

Make sure you get it emailed to Evan_Barrios@baylor.edu by the deadline!

Interviews will take place this Sunday!

Pack of Hope

• Pack food for children in the Waco school district that are in need

• January 22nd and January 29th

• 7:30 am-8:30 am

• Weekly event; Unlimited volunteers

• Starting a new weekly email list. Please sign up!

• Email Corinthian_Wesley@baylor.edu with questions

Friends for Life

• 10:00am – 11:00am

• Wednesday, January 22nd

• Come love on our friends with special needs at an adult daycare.

• Contact Eric_Cline@baylor.edu with questions

Friends for Life

• Come and work on arts and crafts at an adult daycare!

• Wednesdays, 1/23/13 and 1/30/13, 1:45-3pm

• Weekly

• 5 points

• Contact Evan_Barrios@baylor.edu with questions

Family Abuse Center Thrift Store

• Help clean & organize thrift store; all proceeds from store go to the Family Abuse Center

• January 22nd and January 29th

• 4:00 pm-5:00 pm

• Weekly event; up to 10 volunteers

• Email Corinthian_Wesley@baylor.edu with questions

Emmanuel Children's Ministry

• Every Wednesday from 6:10-8:15 pm

• Meet at the Bobo by 6:10 pm

• 5 points!!

• Contact Gabe_Dampf@baylor.edu with any questions

Talitha Koum

• Thursday 1/23/14 and 1/30/14 (WEEKLY)

• 4 – 5 pm

• Cleaning and sanitizing classrooms at Talitha

• Koum Mental Health Institute for pre-K children suffering from multigenerational poverty.

• Contact Sarah_Yuen@baylor.edu with questions

Compassion Ministries Childcare

• Mentor children living in transitional housing for homeless families in Waco

• Thursday, January 23 and 30 from 5:30-7:30

• 1421 Austin Ave.

• Weekly

• Contact Yvette_Farran@Baylor.edu

Meyer Clinic

• We will be spending time talking with patients and giving out hygiene bags to patients without insurance.

• WEEKLY: Thursday 4-6pm

• Email magda_hernandez@baylor.edu with any questions

Friday Morning Breakfast

• Friday 1/24/15

• 6 – 8 am

• Helping to serve complimentary hot breakfast and socialize with the homeless of Waco

• Contact Sarah_Yuen@baylor.edu with questions

Compassion Ministries Scrapbook

• Help Compassion Ministries celebrate 30 years of serving Waco by making this scrapbook

• Friday, January 24 at 1:30

• Contact Yvette_Farran@baylor.edu

King’s Club

• Have fun and play games with children from a local apartment complex.

• 10am to 11:30 am Saturdays (Weekly) January 25th and February 1st

• Contact Tyler_Matjeka@baylor.edu with questions

Bingo at Greenview Manor

• 2:30pm – 4:00pm

• Saturday, January 25th

• Meet at the top level of the East Village parking garage.

• We will bring as many people as we have sign up!

• Come if you like talking to elderly people!

• Contact Eric_Cline@baylor.edu with questions.

Friends for Life

• Tuesdays from 10:45-11:45am

• January 28th and February 4th

• WEEKLY

• Work at an adult daycare

• Contact Rachael_Helpenstell@baylor.edu with questions.

Hygiene Bags for Meyer Clinic

• We will be collecting hygiene bags for the Meyer Clinic!

• Please bring bags labeled with your name.

• 5 items/bag= 5 points, with a maximum of two bags.

• Looking for travel-sized toiletries.

• Email Magda_Hernandez@baylor.edu

School Supply and Book Drive

• The child development Belize academic mission trip team are asking for donations

• January 22nd through February 18th

• Bag of supplies (crayons, markers, pens, pencils, scissors); 5 items/5 points & 10 items/ 10 points; 10 point max

• Children books; 1 book/5 points & 2 books/10 points; 10 point max

• Email Corinthian_Wesley@baylor.edu with questions

Fundraising!

$10 Cash or Credit

All funds go to support Mission

Trip team members!

Mission Trip Shirts!!

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NEW!!!!AMSA Sunglasses1 for $3 or 2 for $5

SUNGLASSES

U-Swirl NightTHURSDAY, January 23rd 5-9pm

100 N New Rd, Waco, TX 76710

Get to know the officers! Earn 5 Points!

MUST say AMSA at the register!!!!

Social Activities!

Milk and C….kies S…cial! Right after the meeting! 2nd floor A wing elevator landing

Get to know other AMSA members and enjoy some milk and cookies

5 points!

Work Out Hours!• On the Tuesdays when we do not

have a meeting (Jan.28, Feb. 11)

• 7:30-8:30pm

• Meet in front of the SLC, there will be an AMSA sign.

• Bring a sweat towel and a shirt with sleeves!

• Don’t gain weight this semester, lose it!!

• 5 points

• Email Rachael_Helpenstell@baylor.edu with any questions

Are you interested in having an AMSA game night in February?

We are going to rent out the whole SUB game room for y’all (5 bowling lanes, billiard tables, foosball

tables, ping pong, shuffleboard, and a TV lounge with Wii capability… JustDance?

MarioKart?)

Sign up on the Google Doc

5 points

Email Rachael_Helpenstell@baylor.edu with any questions

Medical Discussions!

Wednesday, 1/22 at 5:00 pm location: BSB atrium by the A wing

5 points

Newsletter Discussion

• Topic: Friends For Life • Deadline 1/31 at 5:00 pm

Guest Writer Competition

Topic: Legalizing Marijuana

Thursday, 1/30 at 6:00pm

Location: TBA, earn up to 10 points

Ethics Forum,

Applications are on the website!

Deadline: Friday, January 31st by 5:00pm

Email: Miki_Wang@baylor.edu

Committees!

Research & Internships!

Research & Internship Committee

Helps AMSA members receive opportunities for research at Baylor and local/national medical internships throughout the

year

Sets up mock interviews for students applying to internships and medical school

Coordinates workshops for AMSA members

Email all completed committee applications to Kevin_Shah@baylor.edu by 5 PM on Friday, January 24th!

Start applying now!

Baylor’s Prehealth Internships• BU – Scott & White Undergraduate Research

Program• Hillcrest – Baylor Prehealth Clinical Research

Internship Program• BUGS – Veterans Affairs Program• Providence Research Volunteers• Baylor Health Care System – CMO Internship

Program

BCM – National School of Tropical Medicine Summer Institute

Summer Internships & Programs

Potential workshops include:

• Suturing & Clinical Skills• Applying for Research & Internships• Healthcare Law• Communication & interviewing• Cover Letter and Resume Writing

Email Kevin_Shah@baylor.edu with any other ideas or suggestions!

CHECK OUT OUR WEBSITE : http://amsabu.info/

Points!

• 70 Points to be an active member!• Make sure to sign-in at events!• Points will be updated periodically!• Login to blackboard; Click on “Grade” on the

right; Select American Medical Student Association in the list

• For any questions or concerns, email Nitheesha_Alapati@baylor.edu