Student Societies
Student participation in societies is voluntary, and all undergraduate students in the UTMB School of Medicine are invited to participate. It is the hope that the availability of strong mentors will attract student participation and provide the opportunity for students to experience professional and personal growth through their encounters with their Society mentors.
The vision of the Osler Student Societies is to provide developing physicians insight into "A Way of Life", described by Sir William Osler, not through formal lecture, but through the guidance of mentors in contact with students within and outside their academic setting.
The eight student societies are each led by faculty mentors, including faculty Osler scholars.
The goals of the Student Societies are:- To enhance Faculty-Student interaction,
- To enhance mentoring and advising of students by faculty,
- To promote professionalism and humanism,
- To promote community service, and
- To promote the development of mentoring skills and comradarie among students
UTMB's Fifth Annual Bioethics Bowl and Post-Bowl Dinner and Discourse
Tuesday, August 19, 2013
This is a competition co-sponsored by the Institute for the Medical Humanities and the Osler Student Societies for 2nd year medical students. Students form teams by their respective societies and are given six or so cases to review that pose ethical dilemmas several weeks in advance of the competition. They review the cases as a team and come up with what they feel are the best responses to the ethical dilemmas. At the competition, questions are posed relative to the study cases and the teams respond.
Congratulations to the Andreas Vesalius Bioethics Bowl Team for winning the final round of competition fighting off a determined Elizabeth Blackwell Team in this year's event. The guest speaker, Jeffery Spike, Ph.D. of the McGovern Center for Humanities and Ethics University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, provided opening remarks for a discussion on a current medical ethics problem. Listed below are the team members participating in the Bioethics Bowl:
Blocker Team: Michael Balat, Cordell Cunningham, and Claire Drom
Blackwell Team: Petra Kelsey, Lauren Langsjeon, Manny Guajardo, Howard Gill, Maria Fuenmayor, and IMH Mentor: Heather Carson Pearcy
Laennec: Nick Burns, Alexi Bulloch, Pablo Padilla, Claudia Gutarra, Mohamed Shabana, and IMH Mentor: Dr. Mark Clark
Vesalius Team: Leah Koler, Matthew Edwards, Rafay Soleja, Jessica Tedfors, and IMH Mentor: Alina Bennett
Halloween Carnival
Friday, November 1, 2013
The Osler Student Societies and Student Government Association are teaming up with student organizations across the campus to host the 6th annual Halloween Carnival intended for children less than 10 years of age and their families. This year the carnival will be on Friday, November 1st, 2013, from 5 to 7 p.m. in the Moody Medical Library Plaza, between Moody Medical Library and the Galveston National Laboratory.
The Halloween carnival for children was created in 2008 in the aftermath of Hurricane Ike. UTMB students and faculty wanted to provide a safe environment for children from the local community to trick-or-treat. Since then, the carnival has become an annual event. This year, they we will offer costume and pumpkin carving contests, face painting, balloon animals, fun games and prizes, a haunted bus, a dunking booth and of course, lots of candy.
Admission is free and open to the public. However, participants are asked to bring a canned food item for the benefit of the St. Vincent's Food Pantry.
» View pictures from 2011 carnival.
Pictures from the 2009 OSS Halloween Carnival.
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Willie O's Dinner and Toast to the Class of 2017
Friday, October 4th, 2013
All School of Medicine classes are invited to this formal dinner (professional attire and white coats) to honor the Class of 2017 and 3rd & 4th year student mentors. Spouses are also welcome. Seating will be by society tables and a representative(s) from each society will give a brief presentation on their respective namesake and introduce 3rd & 4th year student mentors. The invited guest speaker is, Melvyn Schreiber, M.D., Professor in the Department of Radiology.
FAC WAC Competition
FAC WAC is an annual fundraising event sponsored by the R. Laennec Osler Student Society. It is an academic competition between two teams of either faculty vs. faculty or faculty vs. SOM students. Students ask the teams questions, and the team that answers the most accurately wins the Anatomy Belt!! All proceeds benefit St. Vincent's clinic.
This year's event was held November 4th in the Clinical Sciences Auditorium. Admission was $5 each which included a pizza lunch. Additional donations were graciously accepted to reduce the cost of door prizes.
Some of which included:- $200 gift certificate to the UTMB Bookstore,
- $125 gift basket from The Spot, and
- Gift certificates to many other local restaurants.
This year's event raised over $1,300.00!!
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