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LECOM

Fall Event: Preventive Med Awareness - World AIDS Day Quilt, World AIDS Day Ribbon

Spring Event: Keychain CPR Mask Sale (to be held), Community Preventive Med Lectures (to be held)

PCOM-GA SOMA

American Academy of HIV Medicine School wide drive to increase awareness of HIV medicine and membership drive for AAHIV.

Obesity Awareness- Children’s Museum in Las Vegas

Largest participation at SOMA’s Fall National Convention.

World AIDS Day: Advertisement and student participation for awareness of World AIDS Day.

Tar Wars- Corley Elementary

Partnered with Family Medicine Club to educate elementary students on the risks of smoking.

Heart Healthy- Corley Elementary

Partnered with the Pediatric Club to teach students about how to have a “Healthy Heart” through exercise and smart dietary choices.

PCSOM

9/19/08: DO’s on the Go

We provided blood pressure screens, blood glucose screens, heights, weights, and OMT to the community at the Garfield Community Center. Preventative health pamphlets and flyers were provided. Such topics included smoking cession and weight loss.

12/6/08: DO’s on the Go

We provided blood pressure screens, blood glucose screens, heights, weights, and OMT to the community at the YMCA. Preventative health pamphlets and flyers were provided. Such topics included smoking cession and weight loss. This was held as a group event Health Fair with many other clubs from PCSOM including ACOPeds and the Christian Medical Association.

April 2009: Plans are in the works to do another DO’s on the Go in conjunction with Pikeville’s largest event, Hillbilly Days. Generally, over 50,000 people flow into Pikeville (population 6,000) to attend this annual event. We hope to set up a booth at the event to provide blood pressure screens, blood glucose screens, heights, weights, and OMT. We would, again, also provide preventative health pamphlets and flyers.

May 2009: Another DO’s on the Go is being planned in conjunction with the county Relay for Life.

UNECOM

This past fall we hosted a panel on the DO/MPH duel degree in a couple weeks we are having a discussion/formal presentation by some primary care doctors. We have helped with a coat drive on campus and collections for David’s House. We also had participation in the Fall Preventive Medicine Project in Las Vegas.

UMDNJ-SOM

August: To show the how important it is to vaccinate children against preventable infections, we invited Dr. Jerry Ehrlic from Cherry Hill, NJ to discuss his experiences as a pediatrician for Doctors Without Borders in Darfur.

September: Suicide Prevention. Yellow Bears were placed in various places throughout our Atrium which contained facts about suicide in both the general population and physicians. In addition, Dr Douglas Leonard, DO; one of our faculty psychiatrists talked about suicide prevention in medical students.

October: National Breast Cancer Awareness month. We asked everyone on campus to wear pink one day. An information poster was placed in our atrium for the public and the university community on how to prevent breast cancer from turning them into another statistic. We brought out several breasts of different sizes, each with the same tumors and showed members of the student body how to conduct a breast exam and showed how breast size influences the ability to feel a mass.

February: Cardiovascular Disease Prevention. Information poster on preventing cardiovascular disease was made and displayed in our atrium. We asked out students, faculty, and administration to wear red for cardiovascular prevention. In addition, chief cardiology resident provided a lunch seminar to our students on preventing heart disease in women.

March: In conjunction with the National Boricua Latino Health Organization, we will be going to a local church and discussing cardiovascular disease prevention to the hispanic community. In addition, we will be providing information in Spanish from the AHA and we will be checking blood pressures.

PNWU

Since all 75 of us here at PNWU are SOMA members, our officers have been utilizing the resources of other clubs also active with the promotion of health and preventive medicine.

“Where there is Health, There is Hope”

PNWU Healthy Challenge

      One of the projects we have just started is the Healthy Challenge. Being a doctor implies integrity, propriety, and leading by example. We want to encourage our student body to take charge of their health status so that they can better educate and build rapport with their patients. This project begins March 10th and will include students and faculty. See attachment for more information, bottom of page.

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      Another project we are currently working on is “The Rev it Up! Coalition.” This is an organization within our very own Yakima Valley that is making strides in reducing the rates of childhood obesity. This program is working closely with the schools in the area and health professionals to increase awareness, support physical activities, provide education on nutrition and establish nutrition programs within the schools for school lunches. PNWU’s role is to help in as many ways as possible. Coming up in June, PNWU will be hosting a “Jog-a-thon” where each student will sponsor a child and help them finish the event. The OB-GYN and Pediatric Clubs are working specifically on the topic of Preventive Medicine and the benefits of Breast Feeding. In the spring, at the local farmers market, some students are going to set up a booth on a variety of preventive medicine topics; dental hygiene, annual physical exams, exercise, and nutrition to name a few.  

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Eastern Medicine Club

      A very unique SOMA member at PNWU, Brian Nelson, has created an Eastern Medicine Club. The Eastern Medicine club typically meets once a week to practice Qigong or Yoga in the OMM room. The club advisor Dr. Weston has used traditional Chinese medicine in his everyday practice for many years. He exposes us to the ancient and holdfast ideas of eastern medicine which we compare and contrast with the western medicine we practice today. This spring, the Eastern Medicine club is bringing speakers to PNWU to talk about such alternative medicine practices in today’s realm of mainstream medicine.

Union Gospel Mission-PNWU Free Health Clinic

      David Hoschek, our SOMA president, has been working very hard this semester setting up a free health clinic that will help provide the students clinical experience and the community free preventive check-ups.

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|Last updated: Wednesday, February 11th, 2009 11:41:13 AM |

|YAKIMA -- David Hoschek came to Yakima for medical school and brought with him a big goal: to open a free student-run clinic. He's made it |

|happen. The clinic will open at the Union Gospel Mission starting in March. |

|"There are a number of people who don't have insurance and the options are limited for these folks," says Hoschek, who's attending the |

|Pacific Northwest University of Health Sciences. "A clinic will alleviate some of that stress on the community." |

|The clinic will be open every other Saturday. There used to be clinic at the mission, but staffing and organizational issues closed its |

|doors. Hoschek has gotten his entire class of 75 students involved in the re-opening. He's also found a long list of local doctors willing |

|to volunteer. |

|"I was amazed at how many people wanted to be a part of this," he says. |

|Students will do patients' initial assessments, and then observe the doctors during the treatment process. A great learning tool for |

|students, and for those without insurance, a great help. |

|"It's going to be a burden taken off my chest," says Brandon Doyle, an uninsured resident at the mission who says he lives in fear of |

|health problems. |

|"The mission needs this kind of help," says resident Sarah. "The clinic is a blessing and a miracle." |

|Besides running the clinic, students will also have to fund it. Medications alone are expected to cost about $10,000 a year, but students |

|say they'll work to come up with the funding. They're hopeful future classes will continue what they've started, and that by next year the |

|clinic can be open every week. |

 

2009 Healthy Challenge      

The Sports Medicine Club wants to encourage our student body to take charge of their health status so that we can better educate and build rapport with their patients. We are sponsoring a 10 week Health Challenge program. There are different categories for men and women where each participant is initially tested in week one of the challenge. Testing consists of 6 basic fitness tests; box jumps, pushups, sit-ups, plank time, toe reach, and body fat percentage. After the first week of initial testing, each participant has 8 weeks to train, diet, and meet their goals before the final testing. The final testing will be identical to the initial testing. For different fitness goals, men and women categories will be assessed on improvement. Scoring is based on the improvement of each participant from initial testing trial to finial testing trial. Each participant must complete written food and exercise logs for 6 (of possible 8) weeks in order to be eligible for final assessment and a completion “Where there is Health, there is Hope” t-shirt. The cost is $15 dollars which guarantees each finisher a t-shirt, a water bottle, and a free personal training session.

OUCOM

The first project was setting up a relationship with the AmeriCorps program located here in Athens, OH. They conduct many activities in local schools that have a definite "preventative medicine" focus. Leah and I attended an AmeriCorps meeting to introduce the idea of having medical students help out with the activities. We are currently working on fostering this relationship between both the medical school and AmeriCorps. We have started to see some outreach from the AmeriCorps program, asking for medical student volunteers. We are definitely excited to see where this relationship goes. The second project that we are initiating is the compilation of a healthy foods- focused cook book. We are going to promote this book around Mother's Day to try to fundraise money. The idea of this project is to ask medical students for some of their favorite, quick, and healthy food options that they find themselves making during the week. This will appeal to students who do not have much time to cook, but still want to be healthy. We are really excited to get this started. Those are the two projects that the Preventative Medicine group has been working on!

KCOM

Project 1: Basic Life Support (CPR for students and community)

I. Phase One

A. Purchase CPR Equipment (approx $6000) (December, 2008)

i. Done with the assistance of local physician, SGA, and local APO chapter

B. Deliver CPR to second year class (December, 2008 – February, 2009)

i. Students were charged a nominal fee (half the normal cost of the course)

ii. SOMA provided instructors who donated their earnings from teaching back to SOMA.

iii. 142 first and second year students trained in BLS CPR

iv. Cooperative with existing community CPR instructors (approx 15 involved)

v. Additional proceeds from course go back to human patient simulation center for additional course equipment, maintenance and upkeep

vi. All courses held in the human patient simulator lab

II. Phase Two (forthcoming)

B. Complete delivery of CPR to first year class prior to their summer preceptorships

C. Train additional medical students to be instructors

III. Phase Three (forthcoming)

C. Conduct regular community and campus-wide courses

D. Taught largely (if not exclusively by medical student instructors)

E. Portion of proceeds to go toward purchase of automated external defibrillators for campus and community.  Anticipating an agreement that for each number of individuals trained per department/area/local business, they will be assisted in purchasing an AED for their area.

Project 2: Strikes for smiles

This year will be in April. This event will benefit Operation Smile; to help people globally with cleft lip and pallet surgeries. We will negotiate a discount rate for the local bowling alley and encourage school and community to form teams of bowlers. The event will generate proceeds for operation smile through local business donations

OSUCOM

Time-line for Preventative Medicine Events

Fall Semester

September 20th, 2008- SOMA’s Annual Rural Health Fair in Cleveland, OK. Screening tests performed: OMT, Vital Signs, Blood Glucose, Vision, Hearing. Raised Awareness: Smoking, Alcoholism, Obesity, Coronary Artery Disease, Cancer, Diabetes, Depression, Anxiety, Child Safety. Over 700 citizens of Cleveland, OK attended.

November 2008- Conducted letter writing, phone calling, and e-mail campaign to save local area hospital. The Hospital provided care to the underserved population of Oklahoma. The campaign was extremely successful. The hospital was converted from a privately funded hospital to a public trust. (I included this event in preventative medicine because without saving this hospital a large population of people in Tulsa would have been without health-care.)

Spring Semester

March 27th, 2009- ACOP Mini-Med School. Members from SOMA will be chaperones for this event. The Mini-Med School is designed to teach elementary school kids how to make smart choices in the areas of diet, and exercise.

April 4th, 2009- SOMA’s 30th Annual Osteopathic Scrub Run “Run for Life!” This event is a race to raise awareness for organ donation. The event offers a 1 mile fun run, 5K, and 10K. Besides the physical activity involved, OMT, and a presentation on organ donation are conducted.

April 16th, 2009- Eugene Fields Elementary School Health Fair. This event is focused on pediatric health. The screening tests and information provided are similar to the Rural Health Fair. This event is a collaborative effort by all of the clubs at the OSUCOM campus. The OSUCOM SOMA chapter will be sponsoring the blood glucose screening booth.

Michigan State University College of Osteopathic Medicine

During the last year, MSUCOM SOMA has been involved in multiple projects that promoted preventative medicine in the community. Two projects of interest were the D.O. Monster Dash and the speaker Dr. James Maas. During the fall of 2008, MSUCOM hosted the annual fund raising event the “D.O. Monster Dash 5K Run/Walk.” The 150 participants were encouraged to race in their Halloween costumes. We received donations for prizes, which went to the Best Halloween costume, top 3 finishers by age and gender, and the remainder were raffled off. Between cash donations from the community and the entry fee, we were able to raise $2700.00 for The Friendship Clinic, a free clinic in Lansing, Michigan. We are hoping to help buy Hemoglobin A1C meters and glucose meters for the clinic to aid in their efforts to prevent and treat diabetes. Also during the Monster Dash, the UAAO performed Osteopathic Manipulative Therapy before and after the race in an effort to promote Osteopathic Medicine, OMT, and preventative medicine.

This winter we had the privilege to bring Dr. James Maas, who is also known as Dr. Sleep, to MSUCOM to speak to our students about the power of sleep. All Osteopathic students, Allopathic students, Veterinary students, Nursing students, faculty and staff were invited to this event. Dr. Mass talked about the negative consequences of being sleep deprived and spoke about the numerous benefits of getting quality sleep. We hope that this speaker was beneficial to the health of our students and useful in promoting healthy lifestyles amongst the health professions at Michigan State.

CCOM

October: Breast Cancer Awareness.  We held a panel of breast cancer survivors to speak about their experiences and challenges. We held a bowl-a-thon and raised 500 dollars for the Susan G Koman Fundation.  Also, we encouraged members to sign up for the Walk for Breast Cancer in the summer of 2009.

November:  We observed Diabetes Awareness month with an additional booth at the health fair specifically focusing on Diabetes prevention, monitoring, and control.  We will soon be hosting a speaker to talk about the quickly evolving field of diabetes management both with pharmacological intervention and lifestyle change.

December: We observed World AIDS Day with a week of presentations. We hosted a panel of HIV/AIDS patients, the director of an AIDS outreach, and an expert on epidemiology in regard to the crisis with AIDS in Africa. We also held a poster presentation with information on contraception and fundraising for projects in Africa.

We observed Heart Disease Awareness with the creation of our first MWU/CCOM healthy diet cookbook. We gathered recipes from students in order to distribute them to the whole campus. The event was successful; however, we would like to continue this with SOMA-wide participation for the upcoming year.

January: We focused on HPV awareness with a speaker concerning her clinical experience in administering the vaccine.

For the remainder of the year we will observe Dental Care month with trips to Downers Grove elementary, Eating Disorder awareness with a Fast Food pledge-a-thon where students raise pledge money to avoid fast food. This will fund raise for Eating Disorder outreach services. Finally, we will observe mental health awareness month in April with a self defense class and pepperspray sale. This will be offered specifically to females on campus before starting rotations.

West Virginia School of Osteopathic Medicine

Student Osteopathic Medical Association

Preventative Medicine Projects: 2008-2009

Health Fair

Synopsis: SOMA volunteers spent an evening at Greenbrier East Middle School to speak with parents, teachers, and students about the health risks involved with cigarette smoking, smokeless tobacco use, and eating disorders.

It is important to educate young people and the people responsible for helping them to establish healthy habits – their parents and teachers. According to both Medscape and the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, West Virginia has one of the highest rates of smokeless tobacco usage when compared to almost any other state. Tooth loss is also a major problem in our state. Preventative care is important to us at WVSOM and especially to SOMA. By working this health fair, SOMA began a conversation with our local youth about the risks of tobacco use. We are committed to continue our support of this targeted population and to act on their behalf to rid our community of this preventable health risk.

Blood Drive

Synopsis: SOMA worked together with AMOOPS to bring the American Red Cross on campus so that our administration, faculty, staff, and students could donate more than forty units of blood.

WVSOM is located in a small community with local hospitals that need blood regularly. Our school donated blood to support our community members when there is a need for that blood. Although a blood drive may seem like a simple idea, it is one that plays an important role in our community each year. We hope to continue providing this service each year as it also provides a means for SOMA to bring a united spirit to our campus.

Left: Student, Joel Griffin happily donates blood while still studying!

A Prepared by NLO 2008-2009, Kristin Mack

Contact: kmack@wvsom.edubove: Three student volunteers registering donors and providing a spirited environment!

Western University of Health Sciences College of Osteopathic Medicine of the Pacific 

1. RED CROSS BLOOD DRIVE  

Western University, led by SOMA, donated 124 productive units of blood on September 16-17, 2008. This translates to 372 lives saved!  

2. Reach Out West End (ROWE)

ROWE is a youth organization that aims to peak the interest of middle through high school aged children in science and medicine. SOMA coordinated, through Dr. Susan Mackintosh and the Service Learning Project (required 1st year project), 5 first year students to continue community service at ROWE. The students meet with a group of kids every other Wednesday and give talks about different aspects of science and medicine. After a short lecture, the kids spend 45 minutes to an hour participating in an activity that correlates with the day’s theme. 

LMU DCOM

What's In Your Lunchbox program was put on at the local middle school. I was working with one of the teachers who is married to a student in my class. My son also helped out and he's a student in the middle school grade we talked to. We had about 25 minutes the first day so myself and another medical student (who was a dietician before medical school) met with the entire 7th grade class in their auditorium to present the power point show from SOMA's website. We then answered questions they had written about different aspects of nutrition and healthy eating vs unhealthy eating. The students had just finished a nutritional series of classes in their curriculum so we were a kind of finish to that lecture series. The following day a handful of medical students went back to the school. We divided the same kids up into groups and did a fruit project with them. I had cut up a large amount of fruit and divided it up. I also had toothpicks and kabob sticks and showed the kids how to build 'people' or wands or fruit kabobs. While the kids were building their projects I walked around and talked to them about nutrition and answered any questions they might have.

As far as future projects, I would like to do a first aid course for the same class (a few of the teachers asked me if we could do that). I thought maybe bringing a few of our CPR dummies and maybe some of the intubatins dummies and letting the kids practice on them. Also having some of our EMT's come and talk to the kids about first aid and maybe certify them.

Finally I wanted to try and put on a heath safety type week as spring approaches for the undergraduate students at our school. Maybe like a bike safety, outdoor safety (were a rural, park type location), drinking and driving, healthy living habits type thing. Maybe make it a week long thing with seminars and speakers.

NEW CHAPTERS RVUSOM AND PACIFIC NORTHWEST (PNWU)

Region I( VCOM, NYCOM/NYIT, PCOM, TOURCOM, LECOM, UMDNJ-SOM, UNECOM

Region II( DMUCOM, CCOM, KCOM, OUCOM, WVSOM, MSU-COM

Region III(KCUMB, AZCOM, TUCOM-CA, TUN-COM, ATSU-Arizona, Western UCOMP

Region IV( LECOM-Bradenton, NSU-COM, TCOM, LMU-DCOM, OSUCOM, PCOM-GA, PCSOM

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