AMSA
AMSA's Local Chapter Project Directory
| PROJECT DESCRIPTION/CONTACT INFORMATION | |
| Project title | Balancing Children with Medicine Panel |
| Project type(s) | Speaker |
| Date completed | 03/28/2006 |
| Chapter | University of Pittsburgh SOM |
| Project Coordinator | Tara Marsh, Enyinne Ejiasa |
| Summary of project | We got together a 7 member panel with faculty, residents, fellows and medical students to talk about when they started their families and what changes they had to make in their careers in order to have productive families and be actively involved with their children. |
| Content area | Wellness/Well-Being |
| Number of participants | 75 |
| Participant hours involved | 60 hour(s) |
| PROJECT PLANNING | |
| Coordinator roles | |
| Coordinator hours | hour(s) |
| FUNDING & ADVERTISING | |
| Total project cost | $300 |
| Project funding | Local chapter funds |
| Funding breakdown of sources and/or donations: | |
| Project advertising | 1) On the local calendar on the student web 2) Email a week ahead of the event 3) Word of mouth |
| PROJECT EVALUATION | |
| Success rating (1 = unsuccesful, 5 = very successful) |
5 |
| Lessons/suggestions | It was very helpful to let students know about this event ahead of time, and those who were working on putting this together contributed by contacting 1-2 possible speakers. The planning took about 3-4 weeks and at the end we had gathered 7 excellent panelists. It was striking that more than 50% of the audience were guys... and so it would've been better to have had some men on the panel. Since the event was about childbearing, we had included only women who had gone through this during their medical training or were currently pregnant. We ended up holding a series of panels and the next one included male panelists. |
| ADDITIONAL COMMENTS | |
| Comments | Definitely advertise ahead of time (a week works well) and ask for RSVP's to know how much food to bring. |
