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Pre-Health Students: Are you Connected? 

Have you attended a Pre-Health Overview Session? 

Do you have an AdviseStream account?

Are you subscribed to our pre-health blog?

If you answered 'no' to any of these questions, get connected now! Go to the pre-health website at https://barnard.edu/dos/graduate-school/pre-health and view 'Getting Started' 

You do not and should not have to navigate being a pre-health student on your own. Get plugged in with "Pre-Health" Advising at Barnard. Dean Melinda Cohen is here to advise, guide and support you as you explore, prepare and apply for a career in the health professions.

Please note: Pre-Health Overview Sessions count as your first advising appointment. These are bi-monthly group sessions that comprehensively review the Barnard pre-health student process. Once you attend an overview session then you can schedule individual appointments with Dean Cohen.

Fall 2017 dates coming soon! To attend an overview session, please make an AdviseStream account and RSVP using your AdviseStream calendar.

Questions? 

Contact us anytime at prehealthadvising@barnard.edu 

Internship Opportunity: Maternal and Child Health

2017-2018 Maternal and Child Health Internship

Position Duration:
Academic Year- September-May

Position Location:
Bronx

Position Summary:

The Institute for Family Health is committed to providing high-quality patient centered care to all. At our health centers, pregnant patients are offered a team of social workers, nurses, and providers that help women to navigate the complex health system in order to have healthy pregnancies and healthy babies.

The Maternal Child Health (MCH) Intern will assist the Maternal Health Advocate in coordinating the logistics of prenatal care for our patients, organizing the CenteringPregnancy program, and providing outreach to patients. Through this role, the MCH Intern will contribute to ensuring the quality of patient care in prenatal and postpartum services.

Specific Intern Responsibilities and Activities:

• Telephonic patient recruiting for Centering programs
• Assist with set up and organizing for CenteringPregnancy
• Outreaching to patients for appointments
• Updating the obstetrics information log and patient lists in the electronic medical record

Experience or skills preferred:

• Ability and desire to work in maternal and child health
• Ability to integrate into varied work environments
• Ability to work independently on tasks, take initiative, and be self-motivated
• Capacity to collaborate and work well in  teams
• Good written and oral communication skills
• Exceptional time management and organization abilities
• Spanish language strongly preferred
• Good computer skills (MS Word and Excel)

TO APPLY:

Those interested should complete the Intern and Volunteer Application and send it to along with a copy of their current résumé to Katrina Organ at korgan@insittute.org with the subject line “MCH Intern”.

ABOUT US:
The Institute for Family Health is a mission-driven health organization with a rich history and expert leadership. Since 1983 we have grown from a small non-profit with four staff members to one of the largest federally qualified community health centers in New York State, serving over 90,000 patients annually at 27 locations. The Institute is committed to high-quality, affordable health care for all. We use our expertise and resources to address racial and ethnic disparities in health, advance the use of health information technology, and find innovative ways to improve healthcare in the underserved communities we serve. We also train health students and professionals at all levels through our three family medicine residency programs, two free clinics, the New York State Area Health Education Center System, (AHEC), Community HealthCorps, and by placing students and volunteers at our health centers and community-based program sites.

Pre-Dental Event: Open House at NYU College of Dentistry 9/23

My name is Katie Rothas  (NYU '19) & I along with Priscilla Chan (Columbia '18) are the 2017-2018 pre-dental chairs for ASDA District 2. Here's our line up thus far for programming for the fall semester. 

Follow ASDA District 2 on Social Media:

Facebook: ASDA District 2

Instagram: asdadistrict2

Pre-Dental Open House

Date: Saturday September 23rd

Time: 8:30am-3pm

Location: NYU College of Dentistry 345 E. 24th St. New York, NY

Cost: $25 (ASDA members); $35 (non-ASDA pre-dentals)

Registration: https://goo.gl/forms/oDqyCHOP2CRIEwdl2

Deadline to Register: Sunday September 10th 11:59pm

 

Event Description: This event is geared for students interested in learning about the unique aspects of each dental school in NY & NJ, attending Q&A with students from all 6 schools, DAT/PAT prep & hands on experience filling cavity preps & taking impressions. 

October: ASDA Pre-Dental Month

National ASDA will be hosting a series of webinars, giveaways and other activities all geared towards pre-dental students. All the details & registration for the events for this can be found at this website: https://www.asdanet.org/index/programs-events/virtual-events/Predental-Month

Volunteer Opportunity at Bellevue Hospital

Patient Navigator Volunteer Program at Bellevue Hospital

Position title:  Patient Navigator Volunteer

Employer:  Bellevue Hospital

Address:  462 1^st Ave, Medicine/Geriatrics Clinic

Intended start date:  Fall 2017

Contact: Harriet Fisher (harriet.fisher@nyumc.org)

Program Objective:

·         Provide Medicine/Geriatrics clinic with assistance in coordinating patient care and connecting patients with resources

·         Participate in efforts under study entitled “Transforming Health Care Systems through Interprofessional Training and Health Professional Team Development in Primary Care in Urban Underserved Settings.”

Responsibilities

·         Ensure that patients are able to easily participate in their care process, meaning patients are aware of where they are in the care process and patients are easily able to find the appropriate locations for the care they require

·         Compassionately coordinate and organize patient flow, including crowd control, queue management, and equitable service provision to all patients

Recruitment/Qualification:

·         Must be at least 18 years of age

·         Exhibit strong interpersonal skills and professionalism

·         wort least 3-12  hours of availability on weekdays (generally 8-11am or 12-3pm)

·         1 year commitment

·         Bilingual is a plus (Spanish, Mandarin, Bengali preferred)

Approval/Training:

·         We will screen applicants based of their resumes and cover letter and select candidates for an interview.

·         Upon clearance by Bellevue volunteer office, we ask volunteers to complete the CITI training tutorial and two Bellevue orientation sessions

Application:

·         Please email a resume, cover letter, and two professional references to harriet.fisher@nyumc.org; offers will be made on a rolling basis

Volunteer Opportunity: Inpatient Units at St. Luke's

Dear Students,

Please email prehealthadvising@barnard.edu for a copy of the volunteer application. Their office will be accepting applications until early September.

Clinical Opportunity: Winthrop LIDA Birth Doula Project

My name is Deborah Rotunno, and I am one of the project coordinators for the Winthrop-LIDA Birth Doula Project. The Winthrop-LIDA Birth Doula Project is a coalition of women’s health practitioners at Winthrop University Hospital and Long Island Doula Association, Inc. (LIDA)-trained birth doulas seeking to improve birthing outcomes for mothers in our community. We are hoping to recruit and train individuals interested in offering continuous, evidence-based birth support to women in labor and their partners. The Winthrop-LIDA Project is a unique clinical opportunity for any student interested in:

-          Gaining hands-on, meaningful, clinical exposure

-          Empowering women to become agents of their bodies and health

-          Promoting mother and baby-friendly childbirth initiatives

-          Exploring birth doula work, midwifery, or obstetrics as possible professional trajectories 

Specifically, birth doulas provide emotional, physical and informational support to women in labor. The benefits of birthing with birth doulas are numerous, including:

-        Personalization and respect of individual birthing choices

-      Promotion of breastfeeding and maternal-infant bonding

-       Increased rates of vaginal delivery

-        Acknowledgement of birth as a natural process

-        Increased maternal satisfaction 

Volunteers will not only gain holistic exposure to the field of women’s health, but will also be fulfilled by their abilities to affect positive change in the diverse patient population they will serve. 

Our next training is September 9 & 10, 2017. If your students are interested in registering for the next training and learning about pre-training requirements, please encourage them to reach us at winthroplida@gmail.com.

Post Grad Job Opportunity: Lab Technician in new lab at Meyer Cancer Center (WCMC)

Please contact: 

Elena Piskounova, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Cell Biology in Dermatology

Department of Dermatology

Sandra and Edward Meyer Cancer Center

Weill Cornell Medicine

Belfer Research Building, BB1324

413 East 69th Street

New York, NY, 10021

Phone: 646-962-6167

Email: elp2025@med.cornell.edu

WEILL MEDICAL COLLEGE POSITION DESCRIPTION

           

POSITION SUMMARY

The Piskounova Lab focuses on understanding the process of metastasis, specifically on the metabolic and post-transcriptional adaptations that occur in cancer cells as they progress through the metastatic cascade. We use patient-derived xenografts of melanoma and pancreatic cancer to model metastasis in vivo. 

The Lab Manager / Research Technician will head an energetic and cutting edge cancer research team, overseeing the day-to-day operations of the laboratory and participating in ongoing research projects. He/she will coordinate purchasing and inventory for the laboratory, ensure safety requirements are met, procedures are outlined and followed, and trainings are up to date. He/she will also perform experiments under the general supervision of the Principle Investigator and Research Fellows, and be able to work effectively both independently and collaboratively to execute experiments and management tasks. Located in the new Belfer Research Building at Weill Cornell Medicine, the position will be an integral part of a diverse and expanding research team. The successful applicant should have a strong interest in biomedical research and two or more years experience in a research laboratory setting. Prior experience working with laboratory rodents is desired, but not essential.

ACTIVITIES

• Organize equipment and reagents. Place orders as needed. Ensure laboratory is in compliance with safety and environmental regulations

·         Liaise with vendors, service personnel and laboratory administration

• Culture and manipulation of human cell lines and xenograft tumors, including drug administration and RNA interference experiments
• Immunohistochemical and immunofluorescent stains; DNA and RNA analysis, including QPCR; western blotting;
• Mouse necropsy, tissue/fluid collection and processing for molecular biology, metabolomics, immunohistochemistry and flow cytometry.

           

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS

·         Bachelor's degree in Life sciences or a related scientific discipline with two years experience or a Master’s degree with requisite knowledge and skills

• Experience with computer systems including web-based application and Microsoft Office suite. Experience with relational databases (e.g. Filemaker Pro) and image software (e.g. Adobe Photoshop) is preferred.
• Excellent communication skills.

HIGHLY DESIRED SKILLS AND ABILITIES

• Prior experience with breeding and experimentation of laboratory rodents preferred but not essential
• Background in mammalian cell culture and/or molecular biology

·         Ability to work both independently as well as in a team

First-Year Opportunity: Pre-Med Monday Google Hangout with Dean Cohen on July 17th

Pre-Med Monday
July 17, 12-1 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time
With Melinda Cohen, Dean for Health Professions Advising

- for entering first-year students with questions about pre-health course selection

To RSVP:
1. Log into myBarnard
2. Click on this link to access the RSVP form: https://goo.gl/forms/Olp9MXbN6JpSzJhP2
3. Complete the form and click "submit"


To Participate in your chosen Hangout:
A few minutes before its scheduled start time, either:
1. Log into Google Hangouts app using your Barnard credentials
     or
1. Log onto your gBear email and make sure you have enabled Hangouts (not just gChat). 
2. If you have RSVPed, you should see your Hangout as an option -- if not, please email first-year@barnard.edu and ask for a link to join.

Penn Dental Medicine Pre-Dental Academy

Hello Pre-Dental!  Less than TWO WEEKS left to Register. Limited spots available! University of Pennsylvania School of Dental Medicine’s chapter of the American Student Dental Association (ASDA) would like the invite you to our inaugural summer Pre-Dental Academy. This event will be held on July 21-July 23. We are holding this event to help YOU, the Pre-Dental student, become a better applicant for dental school and also to introduce you and show you around our dental school and interact with our students.  By attending this event, you’ll get a glimpse of what it feels like to be a dental student with brief student-led lectures and hands-on lab work on Saturday. On Sunday, we will be explaining you through speakers and breakout sessions the intricacies of the DAT, the AADSAS application, and Interviews. We hope to help you as much as possible to get into any dental school! And on Friday evening, we will be having a meet and greet with our students so come hang out. More information including a breakdown of each day’s events are within the TicketLeap event page with the link below. There are two payment options for which you can choose. The first being if you live within the area or prefer to find your own accommodations, the base fee for the weekend is $60 and will cover your food, supplies, and fees. Or if you are coming from far away and wish to stay at our local Sheraton University hotel hassle-free with a discounted group rate, the payment will be $245 and will include the $60 fees. If you wish to come with someone you know, we can pair you up with them in that 2 person room, otherwise, we will pair you up with someone of the same sex. Lastly, we are offering a social event for that Saturday to a Philadelphia Phillies baseball game as an additional purchase, so please consider that, where you will be able to further interact with dental students.  penn-asda-predentalacademy.ticketleap.com/penn-asda-pre-dental-academy-2017/ If you have ANY questions or concerns at all, please feel free to contact me at this email: dliber@upenn.edu  Thank you and we hope you consider attending Penn ASDA’s Pre-Dental Weekend Academy. It’s going to be really informational and of course, a lot of fun! David  David Liberman

Opportunity: NYU Emergency Department Research Associate Internship - Fall 2017-Spring 2018

Research Associate Internship

The Research Associate (RA) Internship is an innovative volunteer program for enthusiastic and inspired college and post-baccalaureate students. Created by the Ronald O. Perelman Department of Emergency Medicine, the internship grants students an opportunity to experience and observe multiple aspects of clinical research. The program consists of clinical and non-clinical research shifts based in the Emergency Department. The program offers the committed student a unique experience to furnish a wealth of knowledge about the numerous options for a career in healthcare. This school-year long or summer intensive unpaid research internship will expose participants to a diverse spectrum of clinical research investigations occurring in the Emergency Departments of Bellevue Hospital Center, NYU Langone Medical Center, and NYU Lutheran.

RA interns will develop basic research skills and become an integral part of research projects and grants occurring through the Ronald O. Perelman Department of Emergency Medicine. They will be taught how to collect, enter and analyze data, and maintain databases. RA interns will participate in laboratory meetings and gain Principal Investigator mentorship and/or shadowing experiences. RA interns will also become oriented to the Institutional Review Board and other Human Subjects courses.

Successful in-state RA interns who commit to at least a school-year will be eligible to apply to become Chief RAs. Chief RAs are expected to commit to 12 hours/week and assist in training and orienting new RA interns. Chief RAs work closely with PIs and/or their Research Coordinator to fulfill and help meet the respective project's deliverables. RA chiefs will also have the opportunity to continue clinical volunteering within the ED.

This experience permits RA interns to be exposed to new and innovative research, and develop a comprehensive understanding of clinical research.

Requirements

 

The RA Internship is a very demanding program and requires a great deal of commitment on the part of the student. We accept applications year-round, but only accept students into the program to begin in the Fall-Spring and Summer sessions. Fall-Spring RA interns can expect to work at least two, four-hour clinical shifts and one, two-hour non-clinical shift per week for a total of 10 hours per week during the length of the school year.

Summer RA Interns are required to commit to at least four, four-hour clinical shifts and one, two-hour non-clinical shift per week for a minimum of 18 hours per week during the summer.

RA interns are also expected to attend study meetings when new research studies are starting in the ED.

Shifts take place each day of the week, including weekends, in four-hour time blocks. The first shift is 8am-12pm, and the last is 8pm-12am.

Application Process

 

The application cycle for the Fall 2017-Spring 2018 Internship is now OPEN. All application materials including letters must be submitted by Friday, June 30^th, 2017. The Fall 2017-Spring 2018 Internship will take place during the following time frame: September 1^st, 2017 – May 31^st, 2018. Please download the Schedule Template Form Here.

*Summer 2018 Research Associate Internship Application will open in January 2018*

We are actively recruiting SPANISH and NON-SPANISH speaking Research Associates. For SPANISH-speaking applicants, please indicate your level of proficiency in your application. 

We invite applications from mature, committed, and motivated students who fully accept the demands of the RA Internship and have a willingness to participate enthusiastically in all aspects of the program. We encourage applications not only from students with a strong interest in healthcare (aspiring doctors, nurses, nurse-practitioners, physician assistants, clinical psychologists/psychiatrists, and clinical social workers), but also from students who are uncertain about pursuing a career in healthcare. Students who have completed at least one year of undergraduate studies are eligible to apply. Though research experience is preferred, it is not necessary.

Two letters of recommendation are required in order for your application to be reviewed. Letters of Recommendation must be written and directly sent in by a non-relative. Letters cannot be faxed and must include a completed Letter of Recommendation Cover Sheet and physical signature. Letters should be e-mailed either to Michelle Shum at EMResearchAssociates@nyumc.org or sent in a signed-and-sealed envelope, and mailed to:

Michelle Shum
Ronald O. Perelman Department of Emergency Medicine
462 First Avenue, Suite A345
New York, NY 10016

For questions or concerns, you may contact Michelle Shum at EMResearchAssociates@nyumc.org