Weill Cornell Community Service Program Report 2010 - 2011
Weill Cornell Community Service Program Report 2010 - 2011
Weill Cornell Community Service Program Report 2010 - 2011
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Medical Students for Choice/Reproductive Health Initiative (MSFC/RHI)<br />
<strong>2010</strong>-<strong>2011</strong> Coordinators: Gabriel Briscoe, ’13 Lauren Stewart, ‘13<br />
Medical Students for Choice/Reproductive Health Initiative is a student-led organization<br />
dedicated to increasing medical students’ education and awareness regarding current issues<br />
in reproductive health through shadowing opportunities, movie screenings, hands-on<br />
workshops, and educational lectures on all areas of reproductive health (i.e. pregnancy,<br />
perinatology, abortion medicine, and IVF). As future practitioners, they are committed to<br />
ensuring that they and their peers are prepared to provide patients with the full range of<br />
reproductive health care choices.<br />
During the <strong>2010</strong>-<strong>2011</strong> academic year, MSFC/RHI organized an introduction to labor and<br />
delivery, shadowing opportunities in IVF and labor and delivery, an Ob/Gyn meet and greet,<br />
a discussion with an ACLU attorney on the barriers to reproductive healthcare in the United<br />
States, a book club reading of “Before Roe v. Wade”, a papaya workshop, and sponsor<br />
students who wanted to attend the MSFC National Conference.<br />
Ophthalmology Interest Group (OIG)<br />
(formerly known as the Unite For Sight)<br />
<strong>2010</strong>-<strong>2011</strong> Coordinators: Sha-har Admoni, ’13 Daniel Agarwal, ‘13<br />
Alexander Port, ‘13<br />
Ophthalmology Interest Group is a community service group run by students where they<br />
administer vision screenings at local soup kitchens, senior centers and health fairs. They also<br />
take patient histories and perform basic eye exams, and organize ophthalmoscope-training<br />
sessions. This past year, OIG hosted an introduction to Ophthalmology lecture, panel<br />
discussion with matched students, and conduct vision screenings at the Grand Central Clinic.<br />
Sports Medicine Interest Group (SMIG)<br />
<strong>2010</strong>-<strong>2011</strong> Coordinators: Matthew Inra, ’13 Hanano Watanabe, ‘13<br />
Sports Medicine Interest Group’s current goals are three fold: to provide health information<br />
to the student body about sports injuries, prevention, treatment and care through various<br />
lectures and events; to provide information to students about physician opportunities in sports<br />
medicine from different specialty areas; and to facilitate research and clinical shadowing<br />
experiences for interested students by matching them with mentors in associated areas. In the<br />
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