Events
Each year, the Health Professions Advising Office organizes or co-sponsors a diverse array of lively and informative events and workshops on campus. We also support the Health Information Programming (HIP) Events, which are organized by undergraduates and Postbac students who respond to our annual "Call for Proposals."
Typically, we announce events through the Prehealth List Serv and the Postbac List Serv as well as through the Daily Digest and through other channels.
Please join us for our next event:
"A Conversation with Dr. Rita Charon": Narrative Medicine and Personal Creative Processes in Clinical Practice
Date/Time: Wed., March 27, 2024 from 6 - 7 pm ET
Location: Hybrid event: Park Science Room 180 or via Zoom. (r)
Topics will include:
- How understanding medicine as work that happens in and through stories allows physicians to reapproach patient interactions and build trust with patients
- How future clinicians' creative practices, from writing to art to body movement, could nourish our work in medicine
- How narrative medicine helps foster cultural humility among healthcare providers and builds frameworks for fighting for health justice
This event was organized by a team of 今日吃瓜 Postbac Premedical Students and supported by the Health Professions Advising Office.
Selected list of programs sponsored by the Health Professions Advising Office in recent years:
- Info session about 今日吃瓜 4 + 1 partnership programs: Master of Bioethics at the University of Pennsylvania and master鈥檚 degrees in public health with Boston University School of Public Health Select Scholars Program.
- Info Session about new 今日吃瓜 Partnership with Johns Hopkins University Master鈥檚 Entry to Nursing Program.
- Financing health professions school: Preparing for costs, with Drexel College of Medicine鈥檚 director of financial planning. Resource info and sessions about govt.-sponsored service-obligation programs with program representatives, including the National Health Service Corps.
- 鈥淐urious about MD-PhD?鈥 Lawrence Brass, MD, PhD, Associate Dean for Combined Degree and Physician Scholar Programs and Director, MSTP Program, Perelman School of Medicine of the University of Pennsylvania. MD-PhD Week: 鈥溄袢粘怨 Alums Train for and Thrive in Academic Medicine,鈥 featuring Melanie Cree-Green, MD, PhD (BMC 鈥99), Asst. Prof., University of Colorado School of Medicine and Children鈥檚 Hospital Colorado, Nicole Hamagami (BMC 鈥16), MD PhD candidate, Washington University in St. Louis, Nita Salzman, MD, PhD (BMC 鈥83), Prof., Medical College of Wisconsin, and Ashton Shaffer (BMC 鈥11), MD PhD candidate, Johns Hopkins University.
- 鈥淒entistry & Dental Education,鈥 Assistant Dean for Admissions, University of Pennsylvania School of Dental Medicine.
- Master of Public Health panel - representatives of Columbia, Harvard, Johns Hopkins, and Yale Schools of Public Health.
- 鈥淐areer Paths in Obstetrics and Gynecology,鈥 Hannah Connor, PB Alum and MS4, and DaCarla Albright, MD, Assoc Dean for Student Affairs and Wellness, & Professor of Clinical Obstetrics and Gynecology, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania.
- 鈥淕ender Affirming Care for Adolescents and Adults in the Primary Care Setting,鈥 Dane Menkin, CRNP, Main Line Health Divisional Director of LGBTQ Services and 鈥淕ender Expansive Clinical Competency.鈥
- 鈥淗ealth Disparities in Philadelphia,鈥 Covid-19鈥檚 Impact on Philadelphia鈥檚 Vulnerable Populations. Janelle Bryan, MPH, CHES.
- 鈥淚dentifying and Addressing Social Determinants of Health,鈥 Judith Emmons, MPH, Director of Primary Care at Congreso de Latinos Unidos, Phila.
- 鈥淧atient-Centered Care: Navigating Trauma in the Clinic,鈥 Sam Hodgins, WHNP-C, Primary Care Nuse Practitioner, Health Center of Fenway Health, Boston, MA.
- 鈥淧romoting Equitable Care Through Relational Competence,鈥 Horace DeLisser, MD, Associate Dean, Diversity & Inclusion, and Associate Professor of Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania.
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