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Please be aware of our upcoming MCAT seminar! It will be held on March 12 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! MCAT Seminar Details Time and date: Friday March 12 at 5:00pm Description: Unsure how to prepare for the MCAT? Then this is the perfect opportunity for you to find resources to help you conquer it! In this seminar, we will be presenting and having representatives from major MCAT prep companies: Princeton Review, Prep 101, Kaplan, and Gold Standard. Volunteer Opportunity Helping Hands For Homeless Youth Location: remote Time Commitment: not specified Link: https://alberta.campuslabs.ca/engage/organization/hhhy Description: Helping Hands for Homeless Youth is a non-profit student group that raises money to support and empower homeless youth. Events will be held throughout the year to help support the primarily the Edmonton youth shelter YESS (Youth Empowerment and Support Services), as well as other youth shelters around the city. Our most anticipated event is an annual Street Store in which we create a store-like environment for youth where they can shop for clothes, toiletries, and other goods -- the only payment required at this store is a smile! We hold other awareness campaigns throughout the year such as "Youth Story" in which we interview homeless youth to gain their perspective on their life experiences. 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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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 Hello members!
The results for our collective decision on the future seminar dates are finally in! Henceforth, the seminars will be held on Fridays from 5pm to 6pm unless noted otherwise. We will try our best to provide the seminar recordings, upon request, to those who couldn't attend the seminars! Please be aware of our upcoming international school seminar! It will be held on January 29 and will be conducted online. Please take a look at this document prior to attending the seminar for making it a comforting and enjoyable experience for everyone. More details will be available closer to the seminar and you will be notified of them when the time comes! Event Details Tentative time and date: Friday January 29 at 5:00pm Description: If studying medicine abroad is something you have been interested in, then this is the perfect opportunity to learn about several different foreign medical schools, as well as the process of obtaining residency in Canada/USA following graduation! In this seminar, we will be having representatives from Australia and the Caribbean! Medical School: An Inside Perspective Hi everyone, Happy 2021! Prep101 is back at it, they're running another free, live online seminar: Mastering the MCAT. This highly informative seminar will cover everything you need to know about the MCAT. The expert speakers will give you a comprehensive overview of what makes the MCAT challenging and proven methods to overcome those challenges. We recommend you attend! For all the info and to register, go to prep101.com/mountain. Sincerely, PMSA January Virtual Game Night Hello! On January 29th, Friends Across Campus will be celebrating the new year with a virtual game night. If your New Year's Resolution is to make new friends, this is the event for you! We'll start the evening with Speed Friending, and then the fun and socialization will continue over games such as Kahoot, Jackbox, Among Us, and Pictionary. One lucky participant will also win a $10 gift card! The event will take place on January 29th, 2021 from 7:00-9:00pm online on Zoom. To receive the Zoom link, please register at: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1z_Z4p78YBxli2-_NjfibjeeMw3U787_257Wlgx238R0/edit. Feel free to share the event and invite your friends and classmates. All UAlberta students are welcome: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/182331560343217/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/p/CKP6NM0HYo7/ Thank you so much! Hailey and the Friends Across Campus Team An opportunity to shadow doctors and travel to Italy this summer Hi PMSA, Are you looking for a pre-health study abroad opportunity? Our shadowing program will be a unique opportunity for students on a pre-health track to gain first-hand knowledge from Italian healthcare professionals who were on the first line during the unprecedented COVID 19 epidemic. The program features 2 to 5 weeks in Rome with an all-inclusive tuition, 40 to 90 hours of AAMC-compliant shadowing in multiple medical specialties, cultural immersion and excursions with the support of expert local staff. The program is offered in collaboration with Doctors in Italy - the Italian Association of English-speaking doctors - and John Cabot University - an American university in Rome, hosting more than 500 study abroad students from the US each semester. Tuition fees vary depending on the length of the program. Financial aid can often be obtained by working with the study abroad advisors. We also offer some scholarships to successful applicants. Our fellows come from: Cornell University, Gettysburg College, Ithaca College, Knox College, Saint Mary’s College, Southeastern University, Tennessee Technological University, and University of Maryland. You can find at this link a pdf file with highlights of the program whereas here you have a link to our Website where students can apply for the program and all the most updated information will be published. Feel free to share this information with your colleagues or through your university’s listserv. We would like to schedule a virtual meeting with you to discuss further the program and the early bird discounts that your students can benefit from at this stage. Please check our Calendar here and book the time slot that better suits your schedule. Best, Doctors in Italy Medical Science Workshop - TeamUP Science Hello PMSA, My name is Shezel and I am the Vice President External of TeamUP Science at the University of Alberta. We put on STEAM related events/workshops for youth. One of our most popular events of the year, the Medical Sciences Workshop (MSW) is happening on February 6th and 7th and is a great opportunity for students to explore different fields in the health sciences such as medicine, pharmacy, dentistry, nursing, paramedics and more! This workshop is great for those who may be thinking about these fields for their future and can really help guide their decisions when applying to medical school or other post-secondary programs. We have altered our event this year to ensure public health, safety and accessibility: the event will be held fully online and tickets will cost $6.32. There will be 4 sessions held so that students can attend when it best fits their schedule. Eventbrite Registration: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/medical-science-workshop-msw-2020-tickets-129987585367 YouTube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJqK0hb-J2o Kind Regards, Shezel Muneer 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! Hello everyone hope you are all enjoying your well-earned winter breaks. PMSA is interested in accommodating our seminar times to be more accessible . If possible could you place fill out the following survey: https://www.when2meet.com/?10617076-aK9HM. It should only take a minute. Thank you.
Hello members!We have finally reached the end of another year everyone! Kudos to all your hard work and patience!
Don't know what to do with your free time for the winter break? Wondering how you can spend your break productively despite the apparent challenges and limitations we are facing? Check out the opportunities below that would make your winter a meaningful and goal-directed time! Medical School: An Inside Perspective Hi everyone, We hope your exams are going well! Due to popular demand, Prep101 is running their FREE Getting into Med School seminar again. The excellent speakers will provide a comprehensive overview of the best practices to become a competitive applicant to med school. For all the info and to register, go to prep101.com/mountain. Sincerely, PMSA Wake Forest University Pre-Med Online Workshop Hi! Wow, what a semester! I can’t believe it’s wrapping up! Quick reminder that, through our partnership with Wake Forest, we are offering the Wake Forest University Pre-Med Online Workshop running January 4th-15th, 2021. This workshop is open to all students, not just those attending classes at Wake Forest and includes a valuable preview of the med school journey, insights into the med school application process, career options, and vital current topics in the field. Please pass the email along to your members, share the social graphic attached, and see the program website for more information and to register. Reach out if you or your members have any questions! If you or your members are looking to do a little Christmas shopping for yourself in the form of test prep, don’t forget that, as our partner, you have access to course discounts: -Your club discounts: -10% off Kaplan courses with code CLUB10. Enroll at kaptest.com or by calling 1.800.KapTest. Wishing you all a safe and happy holiday season! Kaplan Student Brand Ambassadors Kaplan Test Prep Happy Holidays from The Princeton Review + Boxing Week Sale Hello, PMSA! I want to wish you a very safe and happy holiday season! Hopefully 2021 will be a better year! I also want to let you know that we’re having a Boxing Week Sale from Dec 24th – Dec 30th , and MCAT Ultimate and MCAT 510+ courses will be $500 off! Anyone can use the code MCATCAN on the website at checkout to save $500 – www.princetonreview.com/MCAT. If you can also please let me know of any events you have planned for the Spring that would be great! We’ll be running another medical school symposium and mock MCAT in March, and we’ll be in touch a bit later about promo. HAPPY HOLIDAYS EVERYONE! Caitie 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. Stay safe and rest well! Panjae Lee Secretary Hey everyone, I hope exams are going well. One of the SU councillors is urgently working with the ISA on behalf of the ASA on providing food for international students staying at the Augustana residences over the break. The cafeteria will close over the break, and those students staying in residence will have frozen meals to replace the cafeteria. They’ve tried organizing home cooked meals for the international students staying, but due to the new covid restrictions this is no longer possible.
They’re working with international student services, residence services, and the alumni office to try and see what can be done for these students. The alumni office has gathered a “stocking” for each of the students but they are not able to get food. They’ve proposed to international student services gift cards to diverse restaurants so they could have a break from frozen meals and they will be receiving these cards. However, they also want to also supply these students with more food, such as snacks or easily prepared food that they are familiar with, to give them a small part of their home over their break. The ASA have a food pantry that they will have access to, but these are not ethnic foods and only accounts for ~30% of food as it is supplemental. Please be encouraged to share this message and donate, so these students don’t have to spend the break isolated with only access to frozen meals, this donated food can be the closest they get to feeling at home. There are 7 international students staying in residence and they are from: China, India, Turkey, Great Britain. Hello members!
Please be aware of our upcoming volunteer resources seminar! It will be held on November 19 and will be conducted online at 5:00 pm. Please take a look at this document prior to attending the seminar for making it a favorable environment for everyone! More details will be available closer to the date of our seminar and you will be notified of them when the time comes! Event Details Tentative time and date: Wednesday November 19 at 5:00pm Description: Many volunteering opportunities have vanished from our community upon the arrival of the pandemic. However, we are not discouraged from moving forward! Know that PMSA is with you, and we will find what we can do with our current circumstances and how to make the best out of them together. In this seminar, we will present plentiful volunteer resources and executive testimonials that will benefit your medical school application! Volunteer Opportunity Crisis Text Line Position: Crisis Counselor Location: online Time Commitment: 4 hours per week, 30 hours of training is required Link: https://www.crisistextline.org/become-a-volunteer/ Description: "Crisis Text Line is the free, 24/7 text line for people in crisis in the United States. The service is powered by volunteer Crisis Counselors who work remotely—anywhere with a computer and secure internet connection works. Crisis Counselors answer texts from people in crisis, bringing them from a hot moment to a cool calm through active listening, collaborative problem solving, and safety planning." Scholarship Opportunity The Atila Science and Engineering STEM Scholarship: https://atila.ca/scholarship/atila-science-and-engineering-stem-scholarship-sj1i30zi The deadline is Saturday, November 14, 2020 and the funding amount is $200. It's open to any university student in Canada who is currently studying or planning to study in a science, engineering or any STEM related field. Find more details in the link provided! 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! Hello members! Were you not able to see us this Wednesday? No worries, you didn't miss anything! If you missed the seminar and are interested in accessing the seminar, please fill out this form to receive access to the recording of the seminar. The recording will be ready in a few days, so please allow us some time before sharing it with you :)
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. Hello members! Please be aware of our upcoming research seminar! It will be held next Wednesday and will be conducted online. Please take a look at this document prior to attending the seminar to make our meeting mature and professional! More details will be available closer to the date of our seminar and you will be notified of them when the time comes! Event Detail Tentative time and date: Wednesday October 21 at 5:00pm Description: If you aren't sure where and how to start looking for research opportunities at the University of Alberta, this is the right seminar for you! Our inspiring speaker and the executives with research experiences will guide you through the world of research(how to approach professors, what is it like to work in a research setting, etc.), and by the end, you will have a solid idea how to start your search. Canada's Most Comprehensive MCAT Prep Course + Discount! Dear Members,
We’re super excited to announce our alliance with Prep101! Prep101 is happy to offer a discount of $500 on the most comprehensive and most flexible MCAT prep course in Canada! Some of the course features include: > Most practice passages in class > 138 hours of live instruction (more than any other company) > Most hours of CARS instruction > Unlimited Free Repeat Policy (only offered by Prep101) To get your $500 discount, please reply to this message! This promotion is for PMSA members only. Check out mcat.prep101.com today! Volunteer Opportunity Reading Volunteer Frontier College Position: school reading support volunteer Location: online Time Commitment: 1 hour per week Link: https://www.volunteerconnector.org/edmonton/frontier-college/reading-volunteer-library-1 Description: Volunteers use online reading resources from the Edmonton Public Library website to read, write, and play literacy games one-on-one with learners from the ages 6-11. Help children keep up with building their reading skills and make a difference in their lives! Click the link for more information! 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. Heads up! We will be hosting an Extracurricular Research Seminar on October 21, 2020. More information on how to register to come next week.
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