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Title: Interviewing 101 for Pre-Health Students: Applicant Interviews
Description: This workshop will help you prepare for the admissions interview process for Dental, Medical, Optometry, Podiatry and Veterinary schools.
Topics will include:
What Interviewers are looking for
Attitude and Effort
Body Language
Research
The Mock Interview
Thank You Notes
We will address your concerns about the nature of med, dental, and vet school interviews. Included will be a review of common mistakes and tips on how best to prepare.
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Title: Doctor Speaker Series-Dr. Elizabeth Kitsis
Description: Join us for an engaging discussion with Dr. Elizabeth Kitsis, director of bioethics education and assistant professor of epidemiology & population health and of medicine at Albert Einstein College of Medicine.
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Title: Hunter College Osteopathic Medical Schools Fair
Description: Join us for Hunter's second Osteopathic Medical Schools Fair.
Meet with Medical School Admission Officers
Learn about osteopathic medicine and medical schools
Discover the best ways to prepare for medical school
Pre-Professional Advising
Title: How to Succeed as a Post Bacc
Description: The time you spend as a Post Bacc will go by quickly! What do you need to be doing and when do you need to be doing it?
Come find out how to be a successful post bacc- we'll be covering everything from grades and evaluations to research and committee letters. Don't wait to start planning! Having a timeline for the next 2-3 years will make your life easier and your applications stronger!
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Title: How to Pursue Research Opportunities for Pre-Health Students
Description: Vartan Pahalyants, the Pediatric Emergency Medicine Research Coordinator at New York Presbyterian Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital will discuss how to find research opportunities. Your success in finding a research opportunity will depend on your ability to be proactive, build faculty relationships, and use key resources.
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Title: Summer Medical and Dental Educational Program Application Workshop
Description: The Summer Medical Dental Education Program, (SMDEP) is an expenses-paid, nationwide, six-week summer program for first and second year college students interested in medical and dental professions. Students learn skills for success in health science careers. This workshop will include:
- Information about the benefits of SMDEP
- Meet past SMDEP participants
- A walk-through the application process.
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Title: Dinner with a Doctor Speaker Series-Dr. Kelly A. Garrett
Description: Join us for an engaging discussion with Dr.
Kelly Garrett. Kelly Garrett is Assistant Professor of Surgery at Weill Cornell Medical College and an Assistant Attending Surgeon at New York Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center.
She specializes in the minimally invasive surgical treatment of colon and rectal cancer, pelvic floor disorders and inflammatory bowel disease.
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Title: Time management for Pre-Health Students
Description: Learning how to effectively manage your time will be one of the most important skills you will need to acquire in order to be successful. Reducing anxiety and procrastination, eliminating cramming, increasing motivation, and gaining extra time are a few of the many advantages of learning how to effectively manage time. Join for this workshop that will help you to maximize your time. This workshop is strongly recommended for students who are struggling academically or who are preparing to apply to professional schools.
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Title: Giving Back: A Pre-Health Panel on Volunteerism
Description: Volunteer work is an important component of any pre health trajectory. Join us for a panel of post baccalaureate students sharing their volunteer experiences, both medical and non-medical. Learn how to find exciting volunteer opportunities here in New York City and abroad. Refreshments will be provided.
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Title: What is Complementary and Alternative Medicine?
Description: Dr. Hakima Amri, the director of the Georgetown University Medical Center Complementary and Alternative Medicine Program (CAM), will discuss what is Complementary and Alternative Medicine, as well as the Georgetown University Masters program in Physiology with a concentration in Complementary and Alternative Medicine.
Join us for an informative talk on Complementary and Alternative Medicine.
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Title: Optometry Admissions Test (OAT) Information Session
Description: Please join the Pre-Optometry Society of Hunter College for a presentation about the Optometry Admissions Test (OAT) by Kaplan.
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Title: Time management for Pre-Health Students
Description: Learning how to effectively manage your time will be one of the most important skills you will need to acquire in order to be successful. Reducing anxiety and procrastination, eliminating cramming, increasing motivation, and gaining extra time are a few of the many advantages of learning how to effectively manage time. Join for this workshop that will help you to maximize your time. This workshop is strongly recommended for students who are struggling academically or who are preparing to apply to professional schools.
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Title: Applying to Summer Research Programs and Hunter Research Opportunities
Description: The Hunter chapter of the American Medical Student Association will be hosting a workshop about how to apply to Summer 2016 research programs and research opportunities at Hunter College laboratories.
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Title: Pre-Health Columbia University Summer Enrichment Workshop
Description: Cindy Estevez, the program coordinator for the Office of Diversity and Multicultural Affairs at Columbia University Medical Center will discuss three enrichment programs that are geared towards students on the pre-medical and pre-dental educational tracks: the Summer Medical and Dental Education Program, the Summer Public Health Scholars program and the NERA MedPrep Program.
Title: Research Panel Discussion
Description: The Post-Bacc Community be hosting a panel discussion on extracurricular research opportunities, and we'd like to invite everyone involved in the pre-health community to attend!
We have some great speakers lined up discuss their own experiences working in research (clinical, bench, and more!), what they've learned form their time in the field, and what they'd recommend.
Topics will include how to find and apply for positions, how to find a good PI, what it takes to get your name on a paper, what's important when applying to schools, and much more!
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Title: From CUNY to Harvard Medical School
Description: Join us for an engaging discussion with Dr. Elliot Melendez, a pediatric emergency physician at Boston Children’s Hospital; a physician triple board certified in pediatrics, pediatric critical
care and pediatric emergency medicine; and a Harvard Medical School graduate.
A high school dropout from the South Bronx, Dr. Melendez entered Lehman in 1989 after earning his GED. Working full-time while attending class, he was forced to leave school during his junior year to support his wife and newborn child. But his determination led him to return two years later and ultimately to graduate cum laude with a biology major in 1995.
His research focuses on the evaluation of severe infection in infants and children, and he is also involved in a telemedicine initiative with the Hospital Buen Samaritano in rural Puerto Rico in which knowledge and expertise are shared via telemedicine technology. He will be coming to Hunter College to talk about his non-traditional path, and to answer any questions pre-med and pre-health students may have.
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Title: From CUNY to Harvard Medical School
Description: Join us for an engaging discussion with Dr. Elliot Melendez, a pediatric emergency physician at Boston Children’s Hospital; a physician triple board certified in pediatrics, pediatric critical
care and pediatric emergency medicine; and a Harvard Medical School graduate.
A high school dropout from the South Bronx, Dr. Melendez entered Lehman in 1989 after earning his GED. Working full-time while attending class, he was forced to leave school during his junior year to support his wife and newborn child. But his determination led him to return two years later and ultimately to graduate cum laude with a biology major in 1995.
His research focuses on the evaluation of severe infection in infants and children, and he is also involved in a telemedicine initiative with the Hospital Buen Samaritano in rural Puerto Rico in which knowledge and expertise are shared via telemedicine technology. He will be coming to Hunter College to talk about his non-traditional path, and to answer any questions pre-med and pre-health students may have.
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Title: Personal Statement and Experiences Workshop for Post Bacc Certificate Students
Description: The Post Bacc personal statement and experiences section of the AMCAS application needs to be stronger than an undergraduate's. The purpose of this workshop is to preview what medical school admissions look for in a Post Bacc application.
The workshop is critical to preparing a "standout" medical school application.
THIS WORKSHOP IS MANDATORY FOR ALL POST BACC CERTIFICATE STUDENTS HOPING TO APPLY FOR A 2016 COMMITTEE LETTER.
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