AMSA
AMSA's Local Chapter Project Directory
| PROJECT DESCRIPTION/CONTACT INFORMATION | |
| Project title | Introduction to AMSA |
| Project type(s) | Social Event,Speaker,Recruitment |
| Date completed | 09/20/2008 |
| Chapter | Western Michigan University |
| Project Coordinator | Adam Nemon |
| Summary of project | We invited all of the Pre-medical advisors from our college and the director of the local Kaplan center to speak at our first chapter meeting. They talked about the benefits of being part of an organization like AMSA and the Kaplan/AMSA partnership, highlighting the importance of MCAT preparation. |
| Content area | Recruitment |
| Number of participants | 60 |
| Participant hours involved | 1.5 hour(s) |
| PROJECT PLANNING | |
| Coordinator roles | |
| Coordinator hours | hour(s) |
| FUNDING & ADVERTISING | |
| Total project cost | $50.00 |
| Project funding | Local chapter funds |
| Funding breakdown of sources and/or donations: | |
| Project advertising | The event was jointly promoted both by AMSA members and Kaplan. We posted fliers, made announcements in science lectures, had tables at two major beginning of the year events, and sent out numerous emails to biology and chemistry majors via their advisors. |
| PROJECT EVALUATION | |
| Success rating (1 = unsuccesful, 5 = very successful) |
4 |
| Lessons/suggestions | We did a very good job promoting the event and saw triple the attendance of any of our previous meetings. We did not have enough copies of some handouts, and could have set up earlier as the guests started arriving about 30 min early. |
| ADDITIONAL COMMENTS | |
| Comments | Having Kaplan help us promote the event seriously took some of the burden off of the chapter officers, who are all full time students. In exchange we let Kaplan explain the partnership and promote their classes at the beginning of the meeting. |
