January 2014 – January 2015 MCAT Test Information

The MCAT Essentials

The MCAT Essentials for 2014 – January 2015 is the official policy and procedure guide to the MCAT exam. You can find fundamental information about registration, test-day policies, rules to protect the integrity of the exam, and post-test procedures. This includes a brief overview of exam content and scoring, basic suggestions to help an examinee prepare, a list of contacts and online services, as well as other helpful information.

New Registration Fees and Deadline Structure for January 2014 – January 2015

We have introduced a new deadline and fee structure for the January 2014 – January 2015 testing season. Please refer to this chart for all applicable fees and restrictions.

If you did not receive a seat in your preferred location (or date), check again by the gold deadline as seats may free up as that deadline approaches.

Additional registration/scoring items to note:

·         Registration is now open for testing dates between January and May of 2014.

·         Registration for testing dates from June 2014 through January 2015 will open in February 2014.

·         The MCAT exam may be taken a maximum of three times from January 2014 through January 2015.

o   No-shows now count toward the maximum.

o   Voided exams continue to count toward the maximum.

·         Scores will continue to be released 30-35 days after an administration.  The score release schedule is available online.

If have questions about any MCAT resources, please contact mcat@aamc.org.

Medical Ethics Summer Fellowship

FASPE (Fellowships at Auschwitz for the Study of Professional Ethics) is now accepting applications for a fellowship that uses the conduct of doctors and other medical professional in Nazi Germany as a launching point for a two-week intensive study of contemporary medical ethics. Fellowships include an all-expense paid trip from New York to Berlin, Krakow, and Oświęcim (Auschwitz) where students will work with leading faculty to explore both history and the ethical issues facing doctors today. All program costs, including international and European travel, lodging, and food, are covered.

The 2014 FASPE Seminary program will run from June 15 to June 26, 2014.

Completed applications must be received by January 6, 2014. Candidates of all religious, ethnic, and cultural backgrounds are encouraged to apply.

To apply or to learn more about FASPE, please visit: www.FASPE.info

If you have any questions, please contact Thorin R. Tritter, Managing Director of FASPE, at ttritter@FASPE.info.

Curry School Information session on Kinesiology major and more

Curry Majors, Minor & Teacher Ed Info Session

Wed, November 20, 1pm – 2pm

Bavaro Hall 116 (Holloway Hall)

Join us to learn more about the majors and minor offered at the Curry School: Speech Pathology & Audiology, Kinesiology, Teacher Education (5 Year Bachelor/Masters) & Global Studies in Education Minor (and new proposed major: Youth and Social Innovation)

More information at http://discoveringcurry.com/

Villers Fellowship for Health Care Justice and the Wellstone Fellowship for Social Justice.

Villers Fellowship for Health Care Justice

During their year-long tenure, Villers fellows will work on a variety of health care justice issues and develop an understanding of the federal legislation and regulatory process. They will also be exposed to different advocacy strategies, including producing analytic reports, disseminating effective messages through the media, successful coalition building, and e-advocacy techniques.

The Villers fellow works as a full-time policy analyst in Families USA’s health policy department. The fellowship is based in the Families USA office in Washington, D.C., and is designed to provide the fellow with a national perspective on health care justice work and the opportunity to learn about a range of health care justice issues. The fellow’s principal responsibilities include conducting primary and secondary research on a range of health care issues and health reform topics—such as Medicaid, Medicare, the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP), the private insurance market, and health care delivery system reforms—as well as writing and contributing to publications that are relevant to current health reform issues.

For more information please see the  website or  flyer/application for more information.
 The application is due January 20th, 2014.

The Wellstone Fellowship for Social Justice

The Wellstone fellow’s primary responsibilities include assisting in the organization of conferences and trainings for advocates and community leaders; drafting talking points, blogs, fact sheets, and other publications; and developing content for the Families USA website and email lists. During the year, the fellow will learn about health reform implementation, Medicaid, Medicare, health equity, and other important health policy issues. At the same time, the Wellstone fellow will develop an understanding of the tactics and strategies used in state-based consumer health advocacy organizations and will work directly with our network of state consumer health advocates and organizations.

For more information please see the website or flyer/application for more information.
The application is  due January 31st, 2014.

USGS Land Remote Sensing Leadership Positions

The U.S. Geological Survey, Climate and Land Use Change Mission Area, is seeking applicants for two leadership positions in the Land Remote Sensing Program: the Program Coordinator and the Associate Program Coordinator.
 
These positions provide leadership and management for the science, engineering, and operations aspects of the program.  As you know, the program is known for operating, providing data, and developing information products from the Landsat satellites.  Other land remote sensing responsibilities include areas such as user requirements, UAS, LiDAR, and international data exchanges.e two positions are being advertised together (one job announcement for both).  Each is advertised in both the Physical Scientist (1301) and Engineer (801) job series, and for both internal (merit promotion, MP) and external candidates (delegated examination, DEU).

USAjobs links and announcement numbers: Supervisory Physical Scientist MP: ATL-2014-0018

Supervisory Physical Scientist DEU: ATL-2014-0013

Supervisory Engineer MP: ATL-2014-0032

Supervisory Engineer DEU: ATL-2014-0024

Hope Medical Institute Information Session

Hope Medical Institute would like to invite premed students for an information session at Newcomb Hall Kaleidoscope Room on Tuesday November 19, 2013 7:00P.M. — 8:30 P.M.

HOPE MEDICAL INSTITUTE along with its affiliated universities makes it possible for American students to study medicine at its prestigious European Medical Universities. The programs we offer are approved across the USA and is recognized by the Education Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates and certified by the U.S. Department of Education for the Title IV Federal Direct Student Loans.

For more information, see the flyer.

Please confirm your attendance by calling or e-mailing
Ms. Beatriz Salazar at 757-873-3333 or bsalazar@hmi-edu.org

Start With Service: A Public Service Panel

Thursday, November 21, 12 p.m. to 1p.m.

Great Hall in Garrett Hall at the Batten School

Are you thinking about a career in public service or considering gap year(s) options? Join representatives from Teach For America, Peace Corps, International Rescue Committee (IRC), and the Virginia College Advising Corps/AmeriCorps to learn more about postgraduate service programs, and how you can use them to develop necessary skills for your career goals. Learn from firsthand experience with each of these programs, and come prepared with questions! Refreshments will be provided by the Batten Undergraduate Council.  This event is co-sponsored by University Career Services, Batten School's Office of Career Services and Professional Development, Batten Undergraduate Council, Student Council's Public Service Committee and The Career Services Committee of the Trustees.

View the flyer here

Inside the Internship: Commonwealth STEM Industry Internship Program (CSIIP)

With an increasing demand for skilled STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) workers in Virginia, the development of efficient pathways between undergraduate students pursuing STEM degrees and industry has become an urgent need. With support from the Commonwealth of Virginia, Virginia Space Grant Consortium (VSGC) in partnership with Virginia’s Regional Technology Councils, and in collaboration with Virginia companies, Virginia colleges, and community colleges, has created the Commonwealth STEM Industry Internship Program (CSIIP). CSIIP links undergraduate STEM students to paid summer internship positions with companies throughout Virginia.

CSIIP offers a one-stop, centralized, online internship application system that provides Virginia's undergraduate STEM majors the ability to search and apply for STEM-related (summer/fall/spring) paid internship opportunities with participating Virginia-based companies that can search our database of prescreened student applications for specific skills, experience, educational background, interests and desired work locations to find the best possible candidates for their paid summer internships. Companies select students, make offers, and employ interns directly. 

CSIIP accepts applications on a rolling basis.  
Apply here: https://spacegrant.net/apps/?pk=csiip.

Livestream Webcast: Clinical Research Education Program

Thursday, November 21st, 1:00 pm

The Clinical Research Education program is designed to foster the development of future leaders in patient oriented research.  We are committed to successfully prepare the next generation of investigators to realize their goals of translating discoveries to solve problems of disease.

Please join the Janice Gabrilove, MD, Director, Clinical Research Education Programs, and our current students as they discuss the clinical research education program, opportunities available after completion and to have your questions answered by the panel.

During the webcast you learn about:

• The Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
• The PhD in Clinical Research
• The Master of Science in Clinical Research
• The one year Clinical Research Training Program
• The application process
• Student Life at Mount Sinai

and much more.

Click here to register. 

Medical Center Hour- November 13th

Wednesday, 13 November 2013

12:30-1:30 pm

Jordan Conference Center Auditorium

University of Virginia School of Medicine

Topic: SLOW MEDICINE, FAST MEDICINE: TAKING A DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVE

Victoria Sweet, M.D., Ph.D.

Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, and author, God’s Hotel, San Francisco CA

 

When Dr. Victoria Sweet returned to school to pursue a Ph.D. in the history of medicine, she also went to work at San Francisco’s Laguna Honda Hospital, the last almshouse in the United States, a descendant of the Hôtel-Dieu (God’s Hotel), where the sick received care in the Middle Ages. Laguna Honda provides the site for Dr. Sweet's prize-winning book, God's Hotel: A Doctor, a Hospital, and a Pilgrimage to the Heart of Medicine, in which she weaves together premodern medicine, as exemplified in the 12^th century Latin writings of Hildegard of Bingen; her own clinical stories, the politics of modern health care, and the pilgrimage she walked to Santiago de Compostela.

               In this Medical Center Hour, Dr. Sweet offers evidence—in stories of her patients and her hospital—for some radically new ideas about medicine and health care. Have our attempts to control health care costs by privileging "efficiency" headed us down a wrong path? Might medicine work best—that is, arrive at the right diagnosis and the right treatment for the least money—when it is personal and face-to-face, when the doctor has enough time to do a good job, and when she pays attention not only to the patient but also to what is around the patient? Dr. Sweet calls this approach “Slow Medicine” and believes that its practice would be both better and more satisfying for patients and doctors alike and also less costly.

Participate in National ShaDO Week - November 18-22, 2013

Want to know what it is like to be a medical student?

SIGN UP TO SHADOW AN OSTEOPATHIC MEDICAL STUDENT!

Who: Any student interested in exploring osteopathic medicine

Where: An Osteopathic Medical School near you!*

When: November 18-22, 2013 (Specific Dates Chosen by Medical School)

*Some colleges may be pressed for space or have alternate programs that get you in touch with medical students. Sign up anyway- we will get you to the right people!

1) Sign up through this link by November 12, 2013* (* VCOM campuses only)

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/18NDCgfiMJo8g_FGXBUJ5nM-gdEYjmwIsBeiY08XivWM/viewform

2) We will notify you when we have found a seat for you at your local medical school

Osteopathic Medical Schools Currently Participating:

Arizona College of Osteopathic Medicine of Midwestern University

Des Moines University College of Osteopathic Medicine

Edward Via College of Osteopathic Medicine - Virginia Campus

Edward Via College of Osteopathic Medicine - Carolina Campus

Kansas City University of Medicine and Biosciences College of Osteopathic Medicine

University of Pikeville Kentucky College of Osteopathic Medicine

Lincoln Memorial University-Debusk College of Osteopathic Medicine

Ohio University Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine

Rocky Vista University College of Osteopathic Medicine

Rowan University College of Osteopathic Medicine

University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth Texas College of

Osteopathic Medicine

Touro College of Osteopathic Medicine-New York

William Carey University College of Osteopathic Medicine