American Medical Students Association at NYU

Welcome to AMSA@NYU

Welcome to the New York University chapter of the American Medical Students Association. Please note that this site is primarily intended for pre-medical students at New York University and not all information may apply to students at other colleges.

Although this website contains many useful resources for you, we highly recommend that you join our Listserv if you want to stay in the loop. All AMSA and general pre-health health related communications are handled through this system.

AMSA Meeting - Friday 2 March 2007 @ 12.30 PM - Jurow Hall, Silver 101

Screening followed by discussion with Min Lu, Professor and HIV/AIDS researcher at Cornell University Medical College

***Lunch will be served ***

*Doors open for lunch at noon. Screening begins at 12:30 *

About the Film:

Ending AIDS: The Search for a Vaccine is the complex and compelling story of one of the greatest scientific and technological challenges ever: the search for an AIDS vaccine.

Ending AIDS transforms the intricacies and jargon of science into a terrifically lucid, fast-paced study of technology and human initiative at their outer limits. From sex workers in Nairobi who don't contract HIV to monkeys with SIV at Harvard, every discovery seems to hold the key. But none has yet unlocked the secret of HIV's seemingly unlimited ability to evade detection and defeat our bodies' defenses. At its core, Ending AIDS is a mystery without a villain and a rallying cry to get behind the search once again. For more information, visit www.endingaids.org

If this is your first time here, do the following:

Join the Listserv! - Everything we do will be posted on the Listserv. This site geared more for providing resources; the Listserv is for communications.
Check the NYU Pre-Health Timeline - It's located under "Resources" > "Documents from Pre-Health Advising Office." Alternative, click here to download it.
Upcoming Events - Look to the sidebar to see what's happening in the near future.

How to join the Listserv:

There are two Listserv's to join, one for AMSA and one for the Pre-Health department at NYU.
To join the AMSA Listserv:

Go to http://forums.nyu.edu/
Type in "AMSA" in the box and hit 'go'
Choose the Join AMSA Button. Type in your details to join
Alternately, you can send a blank email to join-amsa@forums.nyu.edu

To join the Pre-Health Listserv:

Go to http://forums.nyu.edu/
Type in "Prehealth" in the box and hit 'go'
Choose the Join Prehealth Button. Type in your details to join

If you do not join the Listserv, or want to access the archive of messages on the Listserv, you may access them directly from here:

AMSA Listserv - Direct Link
Pre-Health Listserv - No direct link - Requires you to join to view messages

"Writing the Personal Statement" WorkshopA personal statement workshop was held for students entering medical school in fall '07 on Monday 27th February 2006 and Wednesday 1st March 2006. If you missed this workshop, the handouts from this workshop are available in Silver 901 and in the Documents section (under 'Resources') on this site. Additionally, consider setting up an appointment at the Writing Center for help with your personal statement. The Writing Center is located on the 3rd floor of 411 Lafayette (Tel: 212-998-8866; Website Link ). Appointment Required.	Admissions Criteria - Googled?The National Association of Colleges and Employers recently released results of a poll done on their employer members who "Googled" prospective employees or checked their profiles on social networking sites (Facebook, MySpace). Now since they're poll was restricted to employer members, my question to you is this: Do premeds have to look forward to being "Googled" as apart of the medical school admissions process? For any of you involved with admissions committees, is this a process used or plan to be used to screen those on-the-border candidates? People (including AMSA) have been making the push to try to get away from solely looking at MCAT and GPA in admissions criteria, so if those other things come into play, would that open the gate for admissions committees to use any and all information they can find? What about for residencies or jobs after medical schools? This is the link for those interested in reading the results of the NACE study: http://www.naceweb.org/press/display.asp?year=&prid=240 -- Ronak Kanuga Medical Student Debt Coordinator Medical Education Action Committee American Medical Student Association http://www.amsa.org/meded/studentdebt.cfm Chief Executive Officer ASU AMSA http://www.asu.edu/clubs/amsa/ rkanuga@gmail.com (480) 518-3142 (cell)

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