By Jacqueline Gierer, OMS-IV What does professionalism mean to you? Is it the oath to put patients first, and your personal priorities second? Is it actually rising from your warm bed, getting dressed, and showing up to NYCOM for class? What about vowing to not identify who you bumped into in HIV clinic today while [...]
The Global Health Organization is hosting a T-Shirt Design Competition. For more information, view the details in the flyer below:
What other organization can promise to keep you physically fit, help you earn you TOUCH points, and promote shooting things (inanimate objects in a controlled environment, of course)? No other group can do this except those military-supporting future doctors of the Association of Military Osteopathic Physicians & Surgeons (AMOPS)! For the past month, every Tuesday [...]
The following is a message from Michael D. Mallie, Executive Director of DOCARE International: Greetings, As you may know, DOCARE proudly opened our first year-round continuity clinic this June in San Andreas, Itzapa, Guatemala. DOCARE has been hosting missions in this and other areas of Guatemala for many years, and the need was clear. The [...]
SAAO (co-sponsored with ACOFP) held the first OMM Mock Practical for the first year students on the evening of September 14, 2011. The purpose of this event was to provide a means for first year medical students at NYCOM to prepare for the official OMM practical exam, without running into any surprises on exam day. [...]
As the school year had begun over a month ago in August, many Muslim students had begun fasting for the month of Ramadan. Ramadan is the ninth month of the Islamic calendar. It is the month of fasting. During these 29-30 days, Muslims are to refrain from eating, drinking and some other activities from sunrise [...]
