Mission

 

The purpose of Applied Medicine Society is to provide an exposure and learning environment for students in all fields of healthcare. As opposed to other student groups, Applied Medicine Society focuses on all fields of healthcare rather than solely catering to students interested in becoming physicians.


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Officers/Executive Board   (View members and descriptions here

Standing committees

 Events committee: responsible for planning and executing medically related events. Events committee will meet once per week.  

 Fundraising committee: responsible for planning and executing fundraising events. Fundraising committee will meet one per week.  

Public Relations committee: responsible for advertising events and serving as a liaison to other student groups. Public Relations committee will meet once per week.

 

Past Events

MD / DO Panel

01/28/2009 15:25
On Wednesday, January 28th, Dr. Virginia Kaklamani and Dr. Andy Evens from Northwestern Medical Faculty Foundation at Northwestern's Feinberg School of Medicine spoke to us about their different career paths and how they ended up in the same hospital. We learned about the differences between the...
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Bionic Arm

01/15/2009 14:55
On Thursday, January 15th, 2009  Professor Edward Colgate from the Mechanical Engineering Department at NU came to discuss his work on the bionic prosthetic arm, chartered by DARPA and made initially for military amputees.     
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Doctor Panel

05/17/2008 15:53
Dr. Nilesh Mehta, Oncologist, Hematologist and  Xavier Parreno, Internist     
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Disease Outbreak Case Study

03/08/2008 15:39
On Saturday, March 8th 2008 we had a disease outbreak specialist talk to us and give us a case study.  Computer-based epidemiologic case studies, which are self-instructional interactive exercises based on real-life outbreaks and public health problems, can downloaded here from the CDC website.
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CPR Training

03/01/2008 15:40
On Saturday March 1st, 2008 the American Heart Association provided Northwestern students with the opportunity to learn how to save lives.  Interested students engaged in a stimulating CPR class that endowed them with CPR certification at the level of healthcare providers.  Mike O’Brien,...
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