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News Please be aware of our upcoming admissions seminar! It will be held on February 26 and will be conducted online. Please take a look at this document prior to attending the seminar for making it an amazing experience for everyone! Admissions Seminar Details Time and date: Friday February 26 at 5:00pm Description: Come and meet our passionate guest speakers with experience in the medical school admission process! Attending this seminar will allow you to prepare yourself better for your admission into medical school and make you a competitive applicant! We will have a speaker from the admissions office from the University of Alberta and two current medical students. Seminar Recordings Were you not able to attend the previous seminars? No worries, you didn't miss anything! If you've missed the seminars and are still interested in accessing them, please fill out this form to receive access to the recordings of the seminars! Getting into Med School seminar We hope your midterms are going well! Prep101 is running their FREE and super popular Getting into Med School seminar again. The seminar will give you all the information to become very familiar with the med school application process. The speakers are excellent and very approachable, you can ask tons of questions, and it's FREE! For all the info and to register, go to prep101.com/mountain. Sincerely, PMSA Cell Biology Research Day 2021 * This event is scheduled for today, but it's still not late to join them! Sorry for your inconvenience. "Cell Biology Research Day 2021 will be taking place on Friday, February 19th, 2021. Our event aims to showcase the research put on by students in the Cell Biology Department at the University of Alberta and other institutions. This year, we have also added in interactive case studies and a case competition to explore the diverse applications of cell biology. 9-10am: Medical Case Study (led by Dr. Gary Eitzen). Students will learn about what some pathological conditions look like from a cellular perspective and will be able to try their hand at diagnosing an unlabeled image. 10-11:30am: Oncology Case Competition (led by Jessica Bennett, 4th year undergraduate student). Participants will learn about the hallmarks of cancer, current treatments, and treatments in development. They will be tasked with designing an adjuvant therapy that targets select hallmarks of cancer. The case competition will be judged by professors in the Department of Oncology and the winning team will be awarded $20 gift cards. This event is limited to 40 participants maximum and registration is first-come, first-served. 12-1pm: Keynote address by Dr. Samara Reck-Peterson from the University of California, Sam Diego, "Microtubule-Based Transport in Health and Disease" 1-1:30pm: Student meetings with the Keynote speaker 3-4:30pm: Research competition. Undergraduate and graduate students will each give a 5 min. oral presentation followed by a 3 min. question period. The event will be judged by professors in the Department of Cell Biology and prizes will be awarded to the winner and runner-up in each category. 7-8:30pm: Games Night, with games from Jackbox.com The RSVP link is here: https://forms.gle/qL7oo7F1ipg7ZvnQ8 Hope to see you at CBRD 2021!" Mock MCAT, Medical School Symposium, and CARS Session Medical School Symposium Thinking about applying to medical school? If you answered yes and you’re feeling stressed about the application process, then we’ve got the right prescription for you! Join us on Tuesday, March 2nd at 6pm PST/7pm MST for The Princeton Review’s Medical School Symposium! Our expert instructor and medical student will go over the MCAT test itself – the structure, content, and Covid-changes – as well as the application process for medical school. We’ll conclude the event with a panel of current and former medical students so you can get all your questions asked and answered. Don’t miss out on this event! This event will take place online, and you will receive a Zoom link the day before the event. Please register at www.princetonreview.com/medicaleventscanada Mock MCAT Day Are you thinking about writing the MCAT? Come try a free practice test with The Princeton Review on Saturday, March 6th a 9am. You’ll be proctored online, with a free full-length MCAT exam. After the test, you’ll have access to a full interactive score report that will show you the correct answers with a full explanation, so you can see where you went wrong and how you can improve your score going forwards! This event will take place online, and you will receive a Zoom link the day before the event. Please register at www.princetonereview.com/medicaleventscanada CARS Session Does the prospect of the CARS section (still rated as the hardest section) make you nervous? Well let us put you at ease with a special CARS session! On Thursday, February 25th at 6pm PST our expert instructor will walk you through the CARS section in detail and will also go over a passage in full so you can learn how to tackle it yourself! Register at www.princetonreview.com/medicaleventscanada Please note you will need 3 registrations for 3 events. We hope to see you at our events! Follow Us Follow us on our social media using the links below this email for more information! If you have any questions or concerns in regards to our club, please contact us at pmsa@ualberta.ca. Thank you and stay safe! Panjae Lee Secretary
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