2006 APSA Texas Regional Meeting
Meeting attendees chat with Chirag Patel, Co-Chair of the 2006 APSA Texas Regional Meeting
APSA Newsletter - Phi Psi, 2007 Winter, Volume 1, No. 2
Welcome!
Jason R. Mann, Ph.D., Vanderbilt University
Welcome to the New Year! The American Physician-Scientist Association continues to grow as a community of students dedicated to improving the human condition through community building and career development opportunities. We are thrilled that you are committed to helping us reach more patients, policy makers, academic leaders and entrepreneurial movers in the quest for improved health. Now sit back, grab a cup of joe and indulge in a few minutes of reflection about where we are and the exciting prospects on the horizon. Perhaps more than ever before, we need you to jump in and lend your insights as we chart the future of medicine.
From the President's Corner
Freddy T. Nguyen, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
It has been a pleasure to continue to serve as your President this past year. Since my last column, APSA continues to expand and grow. Our partnerships have now spread to include the National Student Research Forum and the National Youth Leadership Forum, detailed below. These new collaborations are part of our outreach goals to further spread information about the physician-scientist career. We have also continued to strengthen our relationships with our other partner organizations including the American Society for Clinical Investigation, the Student Doctor Network, and the Swiss MD-PhD Association to achieve our mission and goals. In November of 2006, the first APSA-sponsored regional meeting was held in Houston, TX through the Texas Physician-Scientist Symposium. Also in November, we continued to support our collaboration with the American Medical Association-Medical Student Section through a career development session at the Interim Meeting in Las Vegas, NV.
2007 APSA Annual Meeting in April
Dylan Dodd, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Registration has begun for the 2007 APSA Annual Meeting to be held in Chicago, IL on April 13-15. Registrants for the 2007 APSA meeting will receive complimentary registration for the American Society for Clinical Investigation (ASCI) and Association of American Physicians (AAP) Joint Meeting, held concurrently at the Fairmont Hotel, and the Central Society for Clinical Research (CSCR) and Midwestern section of the American Federation for Medical Research (MWAFMR) Combined Annual Meeting to be held nearby at the Hard Rock Hotel.The 2007 Annual Meeting will serve as an excellent opportunity for current and prospective physician-scientists in training to learn about the diverse career options available to them.
Essay: “What is a Physician-Scientist?”
Stephen T. Magill, Oregon Health & Science University
"[Scientists can] go in their research wherever the techniques [take] them. But clinicians are different. We have our practical purposes. We must select our weapons and plan our researches with the patient and his unique problems in mind." -Wilder Penfield (1977), No Man Alone: A Neurosurgeon's Life
New Partnership with the National Student Research Forum
Chirag Patel, University of Texas, Galveston
APSA is excited to announce a new national partnership with the National Student Research Forum. The NSRF is in its 48th year of operation and is held on the campus of The University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, Texas. This meeting provides a forum for the presentation of research by medical students, residents, and graduate students in the biomedical sciences. Papers may include unpublished research in the basic or clinical sciences that is completed or still in progress. Participants may present their research in either oral or poster sessions. The NSRF offers an excellent opportunity for participants to receive review and recognition of their research efforts by their peers and by established scientists. Primary funding for the meeting is provided by the American Medical Association Foundation and the University of Texas Medical Branch.
The National Youth Leadership Forum on Medicine and APSA
Daniel J. Kelley, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health Chair, APSA Policy Committee
Like many others who have chosen the physician-scientist training pathway, I took part in the National Youth Leadership Forum on Medicine (NYLF/MED). The NYLF/MED introduces high school students to medicine early in their academic careers, providing some with their first exposure to medicine. Through conversations with APSA President Freddy Nguyen, and Ray Wright, Deputy Director of the NYLF/MED, I am pleased to announce that NYLF/MED and APSA reached a partnership that enables APSA members to participate as speakers in the NYLF/MED program. We expect that this partnership will serve to introduce high school students to the physician-scientist career, to foster student enthusiasm for working at the interface of research and medicine, and to provide students with a practical roadmap to physician-scientist training programs.
Essay: “Intermingling of the Minds”
Jennifer M. Kwan, University of Illinois-Chicago
Human eyes probably never expected to see the very molecules that make it up. The human brain probably never expected to manipulate the very code that directs its development. Together, humans have elucidated, collected, remembered and passed on a conglomerate of knowledge, from which we can draw on to create and accomplish extraordinary feats. As this is especially true in science and in the multidisciplinary realm of medicine, together, we will continue to build our knowledge and expand our capabilities and applications in medicine and beyond. Individuals are perfectly capable of achieving, but history demonstrates another trend: through collaborative efforts, done and organized properly, we can really channel the power and strength of human ingenuity. These synergies of individual work and talents have enabled us to launch humans into space, they have allowed us to sequence the code of life, and they have allowed us to treat and cure disease.
New Frontiers: Texas Physician-Scientist Student Symposium
Chirag Patel & Matthew McCurdy, UT-Houston Medical School & Baylor College of Medicine
The Inaugural Texas Physician-Scientist Student Symposium was held in Houston on Saturday, November 4, 2006. The Symposium brought future physician-scientists (at all stages of training) together to listen to and interact with current physician scientists and medical school admissions personnel. The Symposium was spearheaded by Matt McCurdy and Chirag Patel, MD/PhD students and APSA Institutional Representatives from Baylor College of Medicine and UT-Houston Medical School, respectively.In total, 71 students from across the state of Texas attended the meeting:
Closing
Jason R. Mann, Ph.D., Vanderbilt University
Well, there you have it. We hope this issue brings fresh perspective as you strive to increase knowledge and bring healing. Remember to register for the National APSA meeting in Chicago. Suggestions for APSA and future article submissions are always welcome and additional resources are available at www.physicianscientists.org.With best regards, Jason R. Mann, Ph.D. American Physician Scientists Association
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