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Kofi Mensah and Kim Gannon, APSA Newsletter Co-editors and APSA Public Relations Committee Members

Welcome to the latest edition of Phi-Psi, the newsletter for APSA. Inside, you'll find two articles on the first ever APSA regional meetings, which were held on November 17th 2007 at Caltech in Pasadena and at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in NYC. Over 100 people attended each meeting, and 40+ institutions were represented, including undergraduates looking to learn more about a physicianscientist career. Speakers included a former NIH director and leaders from academia and industry. There was even a chocolate fondue fountain at one meeting! Our feature article this edition is about finding a collective voice within your institution via an MD-PhD student council. The article offers insight and suggestions on how to form a student council, or, if you've already got one, you may get some new ideas for improvement. This article will no doubt be a springboard for conversation among the institutional reps at the upcoming annual meeting. From the Policy Committee, we have an article on an issue of importance to us all: the preliminary results of the recent APSA survey on the proposed changes to the USMLE are in. Find out what the 7,200+ students who participated had to say.