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Grand Rounds 10.29! Topic on Unaccompanied Immigrant Youth
PEDIATRIC GRAND ROUNDS
Thursday, October 29, 2015
BUSM, L-112
72 East Concord Street, 1st Floor
8:00 – 9:00 a.m.
“Profiles and Needs of Unaccompanied Immigrant Youth”
By
Elizabeth Badger, J.D.
Senior Attorney, Boston Office
Kids in Need of Defense (KIND)
Target Audience: Pediatric Faculty, House Staff, Nursing Staff and physicians from outside the institution, including associated neighborhood health centers.
At the conclusion of this activity, participants will be able to:
- Ask questions.
Course Director: Robert Vinci, MD
Ms. Badger does not plan on discussing unlabeled/investigational uses of a commercial product.
Boston University School of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians. Boston University School of Medicine designates this live activity for a maximum of 1 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Resiliency Training Session Tomorrow!
The Wellness Initiative is excited to announce the Resiliency Series for Medical Students, a monthly event designed for medical students to reflect on past challenges and prepare for those they may face in their future careers. Students from all years are welcome!
The first session will be held on Tuesday October 27th and will examine self-care and burnout in medicine. The session will be led by Dr. Paula Gardiner from the BMC Family Medicine Department.
Dinner will be served.
Please join us next week, and see the schedule for future sessions below!
When: Tuesday October 27th, 6:00-8:00PM
Where: L109 A/B
RSVP: Katie Enzer (enzerkat@bu.edu)
What to Expect: There will be a brief lecture and mindfulness exercise, then students are invited to participate in individual or small group reflection on their experiences.
Thank you! :)
Informational Meeting for StreetCred!
Hi everyone,
We've scheduled a meeting for students interested in volunteering for StreetCred! It will be at 5PM 10/22 in L109A/B. There will be snacks!!!
Here's a little information on what StreetCred is: StreetCred seeks to be a national, self-sustaining, social impact organization providing free tax preparation in hospitals and clinics, targeting families eligible for the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) and Child Tax Credit (CTC). Through this service, StreetCred aims to: (1) Alleviate poverty while synergistically improving health care delivery. (2) Improve child health outcomes via increased financial stability, increased participation in pediatric care, and reduction of traumatic stress. (3) Engage pediatric residents as advocates for underserved families.
Please come if you're interested for more details!
Rodman Ride Success!!
This past Saturday, Sept 26th was the Rodman Ride for Kids in Foxborough, MA! The event was a complete success with over $7,000 collected for the Kids Fund just by BUSM students!
All 6 BUSM students each biked 25 miles each!
Featured from left to right:
Katelin Blackburn (M2), Anita Knopov (M2), Victoria Gore (M2), William Kim (M2), Joseph Chung (M2), Courtney Verscaj (M1)
BU Rodman Ride Mixer!!
Cheers to Charity: BU Rodman
You’re invited to our BU Rodman Ride Mixer at Bell and Hand (America’s Oldest Tavern!!!) on Friday, September 18th. After exams or work, come hang out with your BU community with free appetizers, DJ music, and a full cash bar; all while supporting a great cause!
We're asking for a $10 donation which goes directly to the Kids Fund at Boston Medical Center. Your donation helps fund the Breastfeeding Room, bicycle helmets for kids, the pediatric weight management clinic, and much more!
We hope to see you there!!
More details can be found at our Facebook event page:
https://www.facebook.com/
Updates from the AAP!
Dear Future Pediatricians,
We hope your summers have been off to a wonderful start. We wanted to provide you a quick summer update on the opportunities that are coming up in the AAP in the hope that you will forward them to your interest group members.
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Submit ideas for SOMSRFT Resolutions:Often times we are frustrated by something that we might see in clinic or read about in the news, and it seems like we just can’t have an impact on it. For example the impact of poverty on our patients or the lack of appropriate mental health services could be affecting your patients, but you might not feel like you have the man-power or the skills to be able to appropriately address the problem. On the other hand it would be great to have the resources and skills of the AAP available to tackle this issue, and creating resolutions is a way to do that. Please fill out the interest form to let us know what issue you would like to see the AAP work on and we will connect with you about creating a resolution around this issue. Please submitted the online form by Friday, July 17, 2015.
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F.A.C.E Campaign Poverty Map - Please let us know what your interest groups are doing to engage the F.A.C.E. Poverty advocacy campaign via twitter @AAPSOMSRFT (#FACEPoverty and #PutKids1st), facebook or email. We are making an interactive Google map to highlight the diverse efforts of medical students and residents throughout the country in advocating for our pediatric patients living in poverty. In order to make this component of the campaign as thorough and representative as possible, we need your help in populating the map. Please submit 3-5 advocacy projects from your region using the Google form linked to this email by August 15, 2015. Feel free to reach out to aeporto@bu.edu on any questions on the campaign.
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AAP National Conference in Washington, DC Oct 24-27,2015: Registration is FREE to all medical students. Special programming for medical students is on Saturday, October 24th! It's a wonderful conference to attend, and a great way to see all the opportunities that AAP has to offer. Also, AAP has limited scholarships available for travel though these are limited to individuals who are members of AAP( dues are 20 dollars). More information can be found here .
Please don’t hesitate to contact us if there is anything that we can do to facilitate your child advocacy or education efforts over the summer/coming year, or if you are interested in getting more involved in the AAP. Please also continue to keep us updated on the programming and successes of your pediatric interest group.
For kids,
Nan Du
MS4, Warren Alpert Medical School - Brown University
District I Representative, AAP Medical Student Subcommittee
Gen Guyol
MS3, Boston University School of Medicine
Assistant District I Representative, AAP Medical Student Subcommittee
Shannon Brockman
Chair, AAP Medical Student Subcommittee
PGY-1, National Capital Consortium Pediatrics
Walter Reed National Military Medical Center
Pediatric Residency Scholarship Opportunity!
By Dr. Rachel Thompson
Division of Pediatric Emergency Medicine
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
Pediatric Clerkship Director and Director of Pediatric Medical Education
Boston Medical Center - Boston University School of Medicine
Dowling 3 South: #3414
Boston, MA 02118
P: 617-414-2569
Dear Students –
Every year, several of the pediatric residency programs offer scholarships or stipends to help defray the cost of doing an away elective at their site. As these opportunities become available I will forward the details to you with the contact information and the qualifications for application. Hopefully these will soon also all be listed on the BUSM Pediatrics Website that is run by the pediatric interest group (https://sites.bu.edu/busmpeds/).
If you have questions about the rotation, I would suggest contacting the program. If you have questions about whether you should apply (i.e. whether this would be of benefit to you in your application process) please contact your FSA or me as we are always happy to help. Pediatrics, in contrast to many other fields, encourages these away (sometimes called “audition”) rotations as a way to demonstrate interest in a program. I know that this is not necessarily true for other fields of medicine!
I just received the following invitation today:
On Behalf Of Laura Ibsen
Subject: OHSU diversity stipend
OHSU is offering a diversity stipend for visiting students to cover room and board during a rotation at OHSU. The goals of the program are to enhance student awareness of opportunities in academic medicine at OHSU and in Portland, to increase the number of diverse students applying to OHSU’s Residency Programs and to provide mentoring and networking for diverse students.
Laura M. Ibsen, M.D.
Professor of Pediatrics and Anesthesiology
Interim Chief, Division of Pediatric Critical Care Medical Director, Pediatric Intensive Care Unit
Director of Medical Student Education in Pediatrics
Doernbecher Children's Hospital, Oregon Health and Sciences University
3181 SW Sam Jackson Park Road, Portland, Oregon, 97239 ibsenl@ohsu.edu
503-804-0792 (cell)
Don’t Forget- Opportunity to write an article for AAP!
Just one last effort to find authors for this June's Mental Health issue. Please let me know if you or anyone you know would like to write about things like:
- bullying/ suicide
- social media
- anxiety/ depression/ADHD
- the teen brain/developing brain
- teens and alcohol
Read Across America Day Event
In commemoration of Dr. Seuss’ birthday (4/7/15), we at BUSM celebrated NEA’s Read Across America day with pediatric patients at the hospital. First year medical student volunteered to read to the children at the hospital waiting room while they waited to be called in by medical staff for their appointments. In addition to reading, children and volunteers engaged in reading activities like crossword puzzles and word searches. We had a total of around 12 volunteers and read books in both English and Spanish. Some of the older children used the opportunity to read aloud and practice their oratory skills, while others listened keenly and interacted with the volunteers. It was a successful event especially when seen how some of the children preferred to stay with us to read instead of heading in for their appointment! We plan on making this an annual event now that we have gone through the steps of establishing it for the first time.
Pediatrics Panel Lunch Talk
We invited a panel of 4th year BUSM students who have matched into pediatrics to share their experiences and pathway into the field. Our panelists spoke passionately about why they chose pediatrics to approximately 45 students. The told students what opportunities they took part in over their careers as medical students, what experiences drove them pursue forward and what else they considered or thought about along the way. Panelists also were helpful in giving practical advice about how to match into pediatrics and also in sharing their enthusiasm for their chosen profession and future career plans into fellowship. 
