MCAT Registration Re-Opened

Registration for the January - June 2014 MCAT has resumed.

MCAT Registration Delayed

The 2014 January to June MCAT registration will not re-open today October 16th. Please follow @AAMC_MCAT to receive updates on when registration will re-open.

Applying to a Health Professions School in the 2014-2015 Application Cycle?

Then make sure you attend the "Application Process Meeting Part 1" on Wednesday, October 23rd, 5:00PM - 6:30PM in the Bryant Hall Recruiting Room. This program is essential to any student who is planning to apply to a school for the health professions in the 2014 cycle. The meeting will feature an explanation of the application timeline and equip students with the information needed to be organized in the application process. Following the presentation the Health Professions Advisors will hold a thirty minute group advising session in which questions will be answered.

Registration Open for January - May 2014 MCAT

Registration is officially open for the January to May 2014 MCAT Exam dates.

Health and Wellness/Public Health Internship

Health and Wellness/Public Health Intern
Arthritis Foundation, Richmond, VA
Desired Start Date: January 6, 2014
CAVLink (ID: 39360)
 
The Health and Wellness/Public Health Intern will assist the Health and Wellness Director with planning community outreach events (such as various Health Expos and Patient Education Programs) and with the maintenance of existing public health and exercise programs.

Specific tasks include:

• Communicating with program volunteers
• Planning support programs for children with arthritis and their families
• Writing and editing newsletter pieces
• Gathering information and resources for grant writing efforts
• Participating in developing partnerships with community based organizations
• Assisting with all aspects of health and wellness activities and programs

To view the full posting, login to CAVLink http://www.career.virginia.edu/cavlink/

The Medical Center Hour - In the Name of Pain: Pain and the Stigma of Disability

Wednesday, 16 October 2013

12:30-1:30 pm

Jordan Conference Center Auditorium

University of Virginia School of Medicine

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A John F. Anderson Memorial Lecture

In the Name of Pain: Pain and the Stigma of Disability

 

Tobin Siebers PhD, Department of English, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor MI

Lois Shepherd JD, Center for Biomedical Ethics and Humanities and School of Law, UVA 

David B. Morris PhD, University Professor emeritus, UVA, Charlottesville VA

 

Everyone wants to avoid pain, whether it be psychological, mental, spiritual, or physical. Medicine’s focus on eradication of pain draws attention to it, and efforts to manage or eliminate it drive biomedical research and consumer markets alike. But is there less pain as a result? And what are the costs of thinking of human beings as potentially pain-free? This is not to suggest that people should seek out pain but rather to question whether avoidance of pain produces more suffering in the form of discrimination against those—often, people with disabilities—whom we believe to be in pain or already suffering too much. What would it mean to name pain not as alien to human existence but as one of the defining conditions of being human?

In this Medical Center Hour, three experts—in disability studies, bioethics, and the cultural study of pain and pain medicine—consider our complicated attitudes toward pain, especially as we (think we) regard it in others.

Dermatology Clinical Assistant/Scribe Opportunity for June 2014 - July 2015

Gap Year Opportunity for June 2014-July 2015
Dermatology Clinical Assistant/Scribe Position

 

I am a dermatologist in private practice in Charlottesville. My office is located on Pantops and I work with another dermatologist who graduated from UVA, Dr. Bridget Bryer. This will be our third year running this annual gap year program. We have had great success working with recent UVA graduates and teaching them valuable hands on medical skills.

We are looking to hire a student who is considering taking a year off from their studies prior to enrollment in medical school. We are in need of a dermatology clinical assistant/scribe who would bring patients back from the waiting room, take an initial history of the medical problems to be discussed, generate prescriptions to be sent electronically, help with surgical procedures, and provide medical education regarding dermatological conditions and treatment. This individual does not have to have any dermatology or surgical knowledge at all. We will teach all that is needed. This is a paid position.

This position would be of great benefit to someone wanting or needing to take a year off from their studies. This would qualify as excellent experience for a medical school application.  After working with us for a year, the individual would be comfortable seeing live patients, taking succinct medical histories, assisting with surgical procedures, interfacing with electronic medical records, and well versed in dermatological diseases and treatments.

We will be making our decision in the coming months. Interested applicants should submit a resume, current GPA, and MCAT scores (if taken) to my email address as soon as possible: brettkrasner@yahoo.com.

 
Sincerely,

Brett Krasner, M.D.
Board Certified Dermatologist