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Program/Description |
| 6:30 am-7:30 am |
Boogie Box Fitness
Available only in Southern California, New York and Kent County, England! Boogie Box is the first complete workout to incorporate cardio, toning, sculpting, core balance and strength training all in one by utilizing the principal of "Applied Muscle Resistance." This workout is a high-intensity fusion of hip-hop and Latin dancing, mixed with kickboxing, plyometric exercises and military drills choreographed in intervals in order to really burn off those calories. Boogie Box has been University-tested and proven to burn up to 1,100 calories an hour--more than any other workout available today! All levels welcomed.
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| 8:00 am-8:50 am |
Alumni Members Meeting
Alumni and Resident members will have the opportunity to meet and discuss plans for the upcoming year.
Program brought to you by the Alumni and Resident Trustee |
| 8:00 am-8:50 am |
International Members Meeting
International members will have the opportunity to meet and discuss plans for the upcoming year.
Program brought to you by the International Regional Directors |
| 8:00 am-8:50 am |
Premedical Members Meeting
Premedical members will have the opportunity to meet and discuss plans for the upcoming year.
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| 8:00 am-8:50 am |
Regional Time for Medical Members - Region 01
Coming soon
Program brought to you by the AMSA,AMSA Board of Regional Directors |
| 8:00 am-8:50 am |
Regional Time for Medical Members - Region 02
Coming soon
Program brought to you by the AMSA Board of Regional Directors |
| 8:00 am-8:50 am |
Regional Time for Medical Members - Region 03
Coming soon
Program brought to you by the AMSA,AMSA Board of Regional Directors |
| 8:00 am-8:50 am |
Regional Time for Medical Members - Region 04
Medical members will divide into their regions to meet and discuss plans for the upcoming year. If you aren't sure which region your school belongs to, please refer to the regional map on page XX.
Program brought to you by the AMSA Board of Regional Directors |
| 8:00 am-8:50 am |
Regional Time for Medical Members - Region 05
Coming soon
Program brought to you by the AMSA Board of Regional Directors |
| 8:00 am-8:50 am |
Regional Time for Medical Members - Region 06
Coming soon
Program brought to you by the AMSA Board of Regional Directors |
| 8:00 am-8:50 am |
Regional Time for Medical Members - Region 07
Medical members will divide into their regions to meet and discuss plans for the upcoming year. If you aren't sure which region your school belongs to, please refer to the regional map on page XX.
Program brought to you by the AMSA,AMSA Board of Regional Directors |
| 8:00 am-8:50 am |
Regional Time for Medical Members - Region 08
Medical members will divide into their regions to meet and discuss plans for the upcoming year. If you aren't sure which region your school belongs to, please refer to the regional map on page XX.
Program brought to you by the AMSA,AMSA Board of Regional Directors |
| 8:00 am-8:50 am |
Regional Time for Medical Members - Region 09
Medical members will divide into their regions to meet and discuss plans for the upcoming year. If you aren't sure which region your school belongs to, please refer to the regional map on page XX.
Program brought to you by the AMSA Board of Regional Directors |
| 8:00 am-8:50 pm |
Regional Time for Medical Members - Region 10
Coming soon
Program brought to you by the AMSA Board of Regional Directors |
| 9:00 am-9:50 am |
A look at Modern Obstetrical Care
Aaron Caughey, MD, Perinatologist; Professor of OB/GYN, University of California at San Francisco
Anita Ann Trudell, CNM, MSN, Certified Nurse Midwife, University of California at Los Angeles, Educator, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
A Nurse-Midwife and a Perinatalogist will discuss modern obstetrical care, with special attention to the tread of increasing interventions, the virtual ban on VBAC and vaginal breech births as well as promoting professional collaboration with midwives.
**Curriculum Track 1: Gender and sexuality track**
Program brought to you by the Committee on Gender and Sexuality |
| 9:00 am-9:50 am |
Committee on Wellness and Student Life Organizational Time
Coming soon
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| 9:00 am-9:50 am |
Credentialing for the House of Delegates (HOD)
All delegates who have not registered and received their HOD badges should report here and check in. Make sure your chapter is ready for the start of the HOD.
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| 9:00 am-9:50 am |
From Sex Workers in Indonesia to Drug Injectors in Russia: Harm Reduction Practices Around the World
Tim Anderson, MS-3, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine
Coming soon
**Curriculum Track 1: Global health and HIV/AIDS track**
Program brought to you by the AIDS Advocacy Network,Committee on Global Health |
| 9:00 am-9:50 am |
Getting Into and Succeeding in Medical School
Coming soon
**Curriculum Track 1: Premedical track**
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| 9:00 am-9:50 am |
I Have a Great Idea…How do I Find the Money to Make it Happen? Grant Writing and other Fund-Seeking Essentials
Cassandra Isidro, MBA, Development & Business Relations Director, AMSA
Shari Dogbo, MBA, Grants Manager, AMSA Foundation
Money does not grow on trees- especially in today’s economy. This session will provide participants with the opportunity to explore ways to take a great idea, grow it into a project, and seek out funding to implement it. A well planned project is essential to making you stand out as fund worthy. Knowing where to look for money and how to ask for it are equally important. Participants will walk away from this session with templates for fleshing out projects, developing SMART goals and measureable outcomes, creating timelines and budgets, and helpful hints on how to write an excellent proposal and where to seek funds. We will discuss how to find funding opportunities which may exist at your academic institution, in your community, and from foundations or the government. With so much to cover in one session, participants will also be able to schedule appointments with Ms. Dogbo throughout the remainder of the convention, if they would like to discuss ideas about a specific project.
Come prepared to participate. If you have a project in mind, be prepared to discuss it- what better way to jumpstart your plans! This session is geared to students or professionals who are interested in learning how to seek funds. It is not designed to provide specific funding opportunities- Ms. Dogbo does not have any grant funds to distribute.
**Curriculum Track 1: Career and professional development track**
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| 9:00 am-9:50 am |
Improving Health Through Human Rights in South Los Angeles
Rishi Manchanda, M.D., M.P.H., Director, Social Medicine and Equity, St. John's Well Child and Family Center
In the US, persistent health inequities and the health care crisis offer compelling evidence of a collective disregard for human rights. Few places exhibit the ill effects of this disregard like South Los Angeles. Conversely, no other community stands to benefit as much from a community-based human rights approach to health. Dr. Rishi Manchanda will be joining us to present his work around health and human rights, and describe how a rights-based approach is effectively reducing inequities and improving health in South Los Angeles. He will also discuss the national Rx Vote Campaign, which brings health care into the civic engagement movement. AMSA is a Rx Vote Campaign partner.
**Curriculum Track 1: Community health track**
**Curriculum Track 2: President's track**
Program brought to you by the Steering Committee on Health Equity |
| 9:00 am-9:50 am |
International Exchange Leadership Summit--Part II
Leaders from AMSA pre-medical and medical chapters gather with one purpose: to learn how to develop an international exchange program at their schools! You will have the opportunity to meet with national and local leaders who have established exchange chapters on their campuses and learn all of the tips and tricks you will need to seamlessly implement an international exchange chapter on your campus. These experiences are available through accepting students for month-long placements in the US and sending US students for month-long placements abroad. By offering to host foreign medical students even during just a couple months of the year you and your classmates are eligible to participate in the world's largest, best-organized medical student exchange program, with over 80 countries around the world!
To certify completion of the International Exchange Leadership Summit, participants must attend all five sessions in their entirety.
Program brought to you by the International Federation of Medical Student Associations |
| 9:00 am-9:50 am |
The True Cost of Health Care in the U.S.: The Case for a Single-Payer System
James G. Kahn MD MPH, President, California Physicians Alliance; Professor of Health Policy & Epidemiology, Institute for Health Policy Studies, University of California San Francisco
Dr. Kahn is a leader in the large California single-payer movement. Dr. Kahn will be outlining the case for a single-payer system of health care reform and discussing the political history, potential, and implications of the California single payer movement
**Curriculum Track 1: Health policy track**
**Curriculum Track 2: President's track**
Program brought to you by the AMSA Jack Rutledge Legislative Director,Committee on Policy |
| 9:00 am-9:50 pm |
Social Networking
Katherine Chretien, M.D., Director of Clerkship, Washington, DC VA Medical
Coming soon
**Curriculum Track 1: Career and professional development track**
**Curriculum Track 2: President's track**
Program brought to you by the AMSA Director of Student Programming,Committee on Student Life |
| 10:00 am-11:20 am |
Panel Discussion: Physicians Impacting Their Communities Through Service
Charlie Clements, MD, Charlie Clements, Executive Director of the Carr Center for Human Rights at Harvard UniversityFormer AMSA President, 1979-1980
Rishi Manchanda, MD, Founder, Rx Democracy! / Rx the Vote Campaign
Karen Lamp, MD, Medical Director, Venice Family Clinic
Facilitated by Charlie Clements, MD, a well-known human rights activist, public health physician, and former AMSA president (1979-1980) this one-of-a-kind session hosts a fascinating panel of outstanding physician leaders, discussing a number of intriguing topics. Included in the discussion will be Rishi Manchanda, MD, a primary care doctor in south central Los Angeles who founded the Rx Democracy! / Rx the Vote Campaign. This nationwide, nonpartisan effort sought to increase civic participation and voter turnout through health care and address health disparities. In its 2008 inaugural effort, Rx Vote coalition partners registered over 26,000 voters in clinics nationwide. Dr. Manchanda will discuss his work with patients and community groups to demonstrate that the best prescription for a healthy democracy is participation. Other topics will include health literacy and advocacy, street medicine outreach and representatives from Doctors Without Boarders will address physicians' impact on global communities.
The AMSA/GLMA LGBT Health Achievement Award will be presented during this time.
Program brought to you by the AMSA National President |
| 11:30 am-12:20 pm |
National Candidate Speeches
Come listen to the candidates for AMSA’s positions of National President, National Vice-Presidents for Programming, Membership and Finances; and National Secretary as they address AMSA’s membership. These students will be leading the AMSA 2010-11, so listen with a critical ear and an open heart.
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| 11:30 am-3:30 pm |
Project Linus: No-sew Blankets
Project Linus is comprised of hundreds of local chapters and thousands of volunteers across the United States. Each volunteer and local chapter all work together to help us achieve our mission statement, which states: First, it is our mission to provide love, a sense of security, warmth and comfort to children who are seriously ill, traumatized, or otherwise in need through the gifts of new, handmade blankets and afghans, lovingly created by volunteer “blanketeers.” Second, it is our mission to provide a rewarding and fun service opportunity for interested individuals and groups in local communities, for the benefit of children.
Together we have distributed over three million blankets to children in need since our inception in 1995.
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| 12:30 pm-1:00 pm |
Credentialing for the House of Delegates
All delegates who have not registered and received their HOD badges should report here and check in. Make sure your chapter is ready for the start of the HOD.
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| 12:30 pm-1:50 pm |
Manual Vacuum Aspiration Papaya Workshop
Jessica M. Kingston, MD, Associate Clinical Professor, Department of Reproductive Medicine, Division of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of California San Diego
Coming soon
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| 12:30 pm-4:00 pm |
AMSA House of Delegates (HOD) Business Session I
Credentialing of delegates will run from 9:00am - 10:00am and from 12:30pm - 1:00pm. The HOD business session will begin at 12:30pm, where delegates from AMSA chapters across the country participate in deciding the future course of AMSA. The HOD will discuss and debate the resolutions submitted by AMSA members and decide which policies the organization will adopt. The HOD is where AMSA activism begins.
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| 1:00 pm-1:50 pm |
110% Chapter Meet and Greet
Coming soon
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| 1:00 pm-1:50 pm |
Check a Box. Save a Life: Students Winning Better, Safer Health Care
Dan Henderson, AMSA Health Justice Fellow
Ben Goold, 2nd year medical student, The University of Illinois College of Medicine, Chicago; Chair, Action Committee on Culture of Medicine
Alvin Calderon, MD, PhD, FACP, Program Director, Virginia Mason Internal Medicine Residency Program
We all strive to provide our patients the best care possible, yet every medical student at one time sees mistakes being made, systems of care breaking down, and patients being harmed, even killed. As students and residents, we may feel powerless to change the problems we witness in the wards and clinics.
This interactive panel session will empower participants to improve health care. Highlighting innovative and exciting stories of students and residents who are leading the way and saving lives in the process, participants from all levels of training will gain insights and opportunities to help them take action. Connecting to AMSA’s newest campaign to improve health care, Best Practices, participants will receive useful and effective tools to help them become leaders in the cause of better, safer, more fulfilling medical practice.
**Curriculum Track 1: Career and professional development track**
Program brought to you by the AMSA Health Justice Fellow |
| 1:00 pm-1:50 pm |
Committee on Global Organizational Time
Coming soon
Program brought to you by the Committee on Global Health |
| 1:00 pm-1:50 pm |
How to Write a Great Abstract
Robert M. Lembo, MD, FAAP, Executive Director, Graduate Medical Education and Designated Institutional Official to ACGME; Deputy Director, Office of Clinical Research Training and Medical Education, NIH Clinical Center, National Institutes of Health
Coming soon
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| 1:00 pm-2:20 pm |
Everything Doctors Want to Know About Sex, But Never Asked
SueAnn Marks, Ph.D., Clinical Sexologist
Megan Andelloux, Certified Sex Educator
Carol Queen, PhD, Sexologist
Kat Wentworth , Director, Project Prepare
This panel will feature three experts from the field of sexology that have worked extensively with health care professionals and medical students. First, each panelist will discuss their experiences teaching medical students and doctors about sexuality and comment on the current state of sexuality in medical schools. Next, we will open it up to a Q&A session, allowing panelists to answer questions students have about the holes in their training.
**Curriculum Track 1: Gender and sexuality track**
Program brought to you by the Committee on Gender and Sexuality |
| 1:00 pm-2:20 pm |
International Exchange Leadership Summit--Part III
Leaders from AMSA pre-medical and medical chapters gather with one purpose: to learn how to develop an international exchange program at their schools! You will have the opportunity to meet with national and local leaders who have established exchange chapters on their campuses and learn all of the tips and tricks you will need to seamlessly implement an international exchange chapter on your campus. These experiences are available through accepting students for month-long placements in the US and sending US students for month-long placements abroad. By offering to host foreign medical students even during just a couple months of the year you and your classmates are eligible to participate in the world's largest, best-organized medical student exchange program, with over 80 countries around the world!
To certify completion of the International Exchange Leadership Summit, participants must attend all five sessions in their entirety.
Program brought to you by the International Federation of Medical Student Associations |
| 2:00 pm-2:50 pm |
Behind the Scenes of Health Care Reform
Richard Brown, Ph.D., Director, UCLA Center for Health Policy Research
Have you ever wanted to know what was going on behind the scenes in health care reform? Dr. Brown will give us glimpse of what goes on in the decision making process from policy to law. From his extensive involvement in the analysis and development of public policies, with particular emphasis on health care reform, to his time as a full-time senior consultant to the President's Task Force on National Health Care Reform, Dr. Brown has a point of view you won't want to miss!
**Curriculum Track 1: Health policy track**
**Curriculum Track 2: President's track**
Program brought to you by the Committee on Policy |
| 2:00 pm-2:50 pm |
Care That Just Ain't There: A Look at the Health and Healthcare Landscape for Urban American Indians
Ralph Forquera , (Juaneno Band of Mission Indians, Acjachmen Nation); Executive Director of the Seattle Indian Health Board
Roxane Spruce Bly , (Laguna/Ohkay Owingeh); Director, Bernalillo County Off-Reservation Native American Health Commission
Coming soon
**Curriculum Track 1: Community health track**
Program brought to you by the Steering Committee on Health Equity,Committee on Race, Ethnicity and Culture in Health |
| 2:00 pm-2:50 pm |
Grassroots Team Organizational Time
Coming soon
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| 2:00 pm-2:50 pm |
How To Be A Sex Savvy Health Professional
Yvonne Fulbright, Ph.D., M.S.Ed., Sexologist, Author, Founder, Sexuality Source, Inc
Between the media, internet, and increased societal discourse, patients are becoming more informed - and misinformed - about their sexual and reproductive health. With more questions than ever, they're turning to their physicians for advice. Doctors today need to be sexually informed; they need to have the clinical skills to take a sexual history, make a diagnosis, determine treatment, and/or make an appropriate referral. This session is your crash course to handling all of those components to delivering effective sexual and reproductive health care. Participants will become more in-the-know about their patients' sex lives and concerns while developing their comfort in fielding sex issues that come their way.
**Curriculum Track 1: Gender and sexuality track**
Program brought to you by the Committee on Gender and Sexuality |
| 2:00 pm-2:50 pm |
Program by Elsevier
TBA,
Coming soon
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| 2:00 pm-2:50 pm |
Session with Dr. Vivian Pinn
TBA,
Coming soon
**Curriculum Track 1: Gender and sexuality track**
**Curriculum Track 2: President's track**
Program brought to you by the Committee on Gender and Sexuality |
| 2:00 pm-2:50 pm |
Surviving the Wards: Navigating the clinical years to a rewarding training experience
Russell Buhr, 4th year medical student, USC Keck School of Medicine, AMSA Vice President of Programming
Dr. Farbod Raiszadeh, PGY-4 Cardiology Fellow, Montefiore Medical Center, Secretary-Treasurer, Committee of Interns and Residents (CIR)
Dr. John Ingle, PGY-4 Otolaryngology Resident, University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center, Regional Vice President, CIR
From the relative comfort of the first and second-year classroom to the chaos of the medical and surgical wards, the clinical years can be intimidating, even downright distressing. As medical trainees, between the stresses of 80+ hour weeks and the joys of connecting with our passion for medicine, there is so much that we are never told.
What will my schedule look like? How can I cope with the rigors of clinical duties? How do I make learning stick when it happens in the hallways? What will it take to shine as a 3rd or 4th year medical student?
This interactive panel features a graduating medical student and two senior residents, all survivors of the clinical years. The discussion will prepare participants for the wards. It will answer questions about what to expect, offer with valuable tools and tips to succeed as well as survive, and shed light on how to ensure your clinical years prove manageable, as well as memorable.
**Curriculum Track 1: Career and professional development track**
Program brought to you by the Committee on Student Life |
| 2:00 pm-2:50 pm |
The Changing Global Workforce
Tom Hall, MD, DrPH, Executive Director, Global Health Education Consortium, Lecturer, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California at San Francisco School of Medicine
Many developing nations are facing healthcare personnel shortages that stunt their ability to care for their citizens. As the Global Healthcare Workforce changes, new methods of training and training priorities have been developed to avoid brain drain and increase the healthcare providers in rural areas.
**Curriculum Track 1: Global health and HIV/AIDS track**
**Curriculum Track 2: President's track**
Program brought to you by the Committee on Global Health |
| 2:00 pm-3:30 pm |
Clinical Session: Manual Vacuum Aspiration Papaya Workshop
Jessica M. Kingston, MD, Associate Clinical Professor, Department of Reproductive Medicine, Division of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of California San Diego
Coming soon
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| 2:30 pm-3:50 pm |
Community-Driven Care for Women with HIV in Rwanda
Mardge Cohen, M.D., Co-Founder and Medical Director, WE-ACTx
Women’s Equity in Access to Care and Treatment (WE-ACTx) is an international community-based initiative that was launched in fall 2003 by frontline AIDS physicians, activists and researchers with extensive experience in caring and advocating for HIV-positive women. WE-ACTx’s primary goal is to increase women’s and children’s access to HIV testing, care, treatment, support, education and training in resource-limited settings at the grassroots level. WE-ACTx is committed to helping survivors of genocidal rape and sexual violence. WE-ACTx began working in Rwanda in early 2004 to provide HIV care to genocide rape survivors, in active partnership with the Rwandan government and five Rwandan NGO partners. Today, this organization has grown and works with 24 NGO partners, has two medical clinics that have served over 3,500 patients. The program provides women with skill sets to help them become financially independent, operates a Legal Project—which educates people affected with HIV/AIDS about their legal rights and has published a handbook that provides an overview of laws that can be used to help Rwandans advocate for their rights. WE-ACTx focuses on empowering HIV-positive women and girls to take charge of their lives and become leaders in the fight against AIDS.
**Curriculum Track 1: Global health and HIV/AIDS track**
Program brought to you by the AIDS Advocacy Network,Committee on Global Health |
| 2:30 pm-4:00 pm |
Interest Group Organizational Time
Coming soon
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| 3:00 pm-3:50 pm |
Clinical Session: Airway
Farooq Khan , ASA Resident President
Zach Chambers, ASA Resident Component
Chris Dionne , Liason, ASA Resident Component
Coming soon
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| 3:00 pm-3:50 pm |
Policy Team Organizational Time
Coming soon
Program brought to you by the Committee on Policy |
| 3:00 pm-3:50 pm |
Program by Kaplan
TBA,
Coming soon
**Curriculum Track 1: Premedical track**
Program brought to you by the Committee on Premedical |
| 3:00 pm-3:50 pm |
Resident Work Hours: In Search of Safer Schedules
TBA,
Dr. Farbod Raiszadeh , PGY-4 Cardiology Fellow, Montefiore Medical Center, Secretary-Treasurer, Committee of Interns and Residents (CIR)
Dr. John Ingle, PGY-4 Otolaryngology Resident, University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center, Regional Vice President, CIR
Ever wonder why they're called "residents"? Gone are the days when doctors in training truly lived at the hospital, or when 100 or even 120-hour workweeks were considered the norm. Yet despite improvements, the latest evidence shows that resident physicians are still working too many hours, and that these long hours lead to serious medical errors, car crashes, and needle sticks.
In this interactive workshop, participants will learn about the history of AMSA's work to promote safer schedules. You'll about AMSA's partnership with the Committee of Interns and Residents (CIR) in 2001 that won the current 80-hour limits, as well as residents' experiences with long hours, and to survive the process of residency. Finally, participants will have the opportunity to get involved in AMSA and CIR's ongoing campaign for safer schedules and the new effort with wakeupdoctor.org. Protect yourself and your patients from the dangers of unsafe schedules, because long hours are bad medicine.
**Curriculum Track 1: Career and professional development track**
Program brought to you by the AMSA Health Justice Fellow |
| 3:00 pm-4:30 pm |
3rd Annual Women Leaders in Medicine Reception
Coming soon
Program brought to you by the Committee on Gender and Sexuality |
| 4:00 pm-1:00 am |
Free Time--Downtown Disney & Disneyland
This is your time to enjoy Downtown Disney and Disneyland with fellow attendees without missing any convention programming. Make sure to purchase your discounted Twilight Ticket when registering. Have Fun!
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| 8:00 pm-10:00 pm |
OMM Mixer
Coming soon
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| 8:00 pm-10:00 pm |
Premedical Mixer
Coming soon
**Curriculum Track 1: Premedical track**
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| 8:00 pm-11:00 pm |
AMSA Movie Night
8-9:15 pm --Diagnosing Difference (64 min)
How does it feel to have your gender identity included in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders? Diagnosing Difference is a full-length length documentary featuring interviews with 13 diverse scholars, activists, and artists who identify on the trans spectrum (transgender, transsexual, genderqueer, and gender variant) about the impact and implications of the Gender Identity Disorder (GID) on their lives and communities. Using the diagnosis as a departure point, the participants debunk myths and misconceptions about transgender identities, challenge stereotypical gender expectations, and offer educative insight into the terms and language used to describe transgender lives. This groundbreaking film is the first to explore the impact of the GID diagnosis on people who identify on the trans spectrum in their own words and images.
9:30 - 11 pm --Born into Brothels (85 min)
The most stigmatized people in Calcutta's red light district are not the prostitutes, but their children. In the face of abject poverty, abuse, and despair, these kids have little possibility of escaping their mother's fate or for creating another type of life. In Born into Brothels, directors Zana Briski and Ross Kauffman chronicle the amazing transformation of the children they come to know in the red light district. Briski, a professional photographer, gives them lessons and cameras, igniting latent sparks of artistic genius that reside in these children who live in the most sordid and seemingly hopeless world. Devoid of sentimentality, Born into Brothels defies the typical tear-stained tourist snapshot of the global underbelly. Briski spends years with these kids and becomes part of their lives. Their photographs are prisms into their souls, rather than anthropological curiosities or primitive imagery, and a true testimony of the power of the indelible creative spirit.
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| 9:00 pm-11:00 pm |
Health Equity Mixer
Coming soon
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| 9:00 pm-11:00 pm |
International Mixer
Coming soon
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