Spring Event: Keychain CPR Mask Sale (To Be Held), Community Preventive Medlectures (To Be Held)

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Fall Event: Preventive Med Awareness - World AIDS Day Quilt, World AIDS Day Ribbon

Spring Event: Keychain CPR Mask Sale (to be held), Community Preventive MedLectures (to be held)

PCOM-GA SOMA

AmericanAcademy of HIVMedicineSchool wide drive to increase awareness of HIV medicine and membership drive for AAHIV.

Obesity Awareness- Children’s Museum in Las Vegas

Largest participation at SOMA’s Fall National Convention.

World AIDS Day: Advertisement and student participation for awareness of World AIDS Day.

Tar Wars- Corley Elementary

Partnered with Family Medicine Club to educate elementary students on the risks of smoking.

Heart Healthy- Corley Elementary

Partnered with the Pediatric Club to teach students about how to have a “Healthy Heart” through exercise and smart dietary choices.

PCSOM

9/19/08: DO’s on the Go

We provided blood pressure screens, blood glucose screens, heights, weights, and OMT to the community at the GarfieldCommunity Center. Preventative health pamphlets and flyers were provided. Such topics included smoking cession and weight loss.

12/6/08: DO’s on the Go

We provided blood pressure screens, blood glucose screens, heights, weights, and OMT to the community at the YMCA. Preventative health pamphlets and flyers were provided. Such topics included smoking cession and weight loss. This was held as a group event Health Fair with many other clubs from PCSOM including ACOPeds and the Christian Medical Association.

April 2009: Plans are in the works to do another DO’s on the Go in conjunction with Pikeville’s largest event, Hillbilly Days. Generally, over 50,000 people flow into Pikeville (population 6,000) to attend this annual event. We hope to set up a booth at the event to provide blood pressure screens, blood glucose screens, heights, weights, and OMT. We would, again, also provide preventative health pamphlets and flyers.

May 2009: Another DO’s on the Go is being planned in conjunction with the countyRelay for Life.

UNECOM

This past fall we hosted a panel on the DO/MPH duel degree in a couple weeks we are having a discussion/formal presentation by some primary care doctors. We have helped with a coat drive on campus and collections for David’s House. We also had participation in the Fall Preventive Medicine Project in Las Vegas.

UMDNJ-SOM

August: To show the how important it is to vaccinate children against preventable infections, we invited Dr. Jerry Ehrlic from Cherry Hill, NJ to discuss his experiences as a pediatrician for Doctors Without Borders in Darfur.

September: Suicide Prevention. Yellow Bears were placed in various places throughout our Atrium which contained facts about suicide in both the general population and physicians. In addition, Dr Douglas Leonard, DO; one of our faculty psychiatrists talked about suicide prevention in medical students.

October: National Breast Cancer Awareness month. We asked everyone on campus to wear pink one day. An information poster was placed in our atrium for the public and the university community on how to prevent breast cancer from turning them into another statistic. We brought out several breasts of different sizes, each with the same tumors and showed members of the student body how to conduct a breast exam and showed how breast size influences the ability to feel a mass.

February: Cardiovascular Disease Prevention. Information poster on preventing cardiovascular disease was made and displayed in our atrium. We asked out students, faculty, and administration to wear red for cardiovascular prevention. In addition, chief cardiology resident provided a lunch seminar to our students on preventing heart disease in women.

March: In conjunction with the National Boricua Latino Health Organization, we will be going to a local church and discussing cardiovascular disease prevention to the hispanic community. In addition, we will be providing information in Spanish from the AHA and we will be checking blood pressures.

PNWU

Since all 75 of us here at PNWU are SOMA members, our officers have been utilizing the resources of other clubs also active with the promotion of health and preventive medicine.

“Where there is Health, There is Hope”

PNWU Healthy Challenge

One of the projects we have just started is the Healthy Challenge. Being a doctor implies integrity, propriety, and leading by example. We want to encourage our student body to take charge of their health status so that they can better educate and build rapport with their patients. This project begins March 10th and will include students and faculty. See attachment for more information, bottom of page.

Another project we are currently working on is “The Rev it Up! Coalition.” This is an organization within our very own YakimaValley that is making strides in reducing the rates of childhood obesity. This program is working closely with the schools in the area and health professionals to increase awareness, support physical activities, provide education on nutrition and establish nutrition programs within the schools for school lunches. PNWU’s role is to help in as many ways as possible. Coming up in June, PNWU will be hosting a “Jog-a-thon” where each student will sponsor a child and help them finish the event. The OB-GYN and Pediatric Clubs are working specifically on the topic of Preventive Medicine and the benefits of Breast Feeding. In the spring, at the local farmers market, some students are going to set up a booth on a variety of preventive medicine topics; dental hygiene, annual physical exams, exercise, and nutrition to name a few.

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Eastern Medicine Club

A very unique SOMA member at PNWU, Brian Nelson, has created an Eastern Medicine Club. The Eastern Medicine club typically meets once a week to practice Qigong or Yoga in the OMM room. The club advisor Dr. Weston has used traditional Chinese medicine in his everyday practice for many years. He exposes us to the ancient and holdfast ideas of eastern medicine which we compare and contrast with the western medicine we practice today. This spring, the Eastern Medicine club is bringing speakers to PNWU to talk about such alternative medicine practices in today’s realm of mainstream medicine.

Union Gospel Mission-PNWU Free Health Clinic

David Hoschek, our SOMA president, has been working very hard this semester setting up a free health clinic that will help provide the students clinical experience and the community free preventive check-ups.

Free Clinic To Open in Yakima

Lindsay Watts / Reporter
Last updated: Wednesday, February 11th, 2009 11:41:13 AM
YAKIMA -- David Hoschek came to Yakima for medical school and brought with him a big goal: to open a free student-run clinic. He's made it happen. The clinic will open at the Union Gospel Mission starting in March.
"There are a number of people who don't have insurance and the options are limited for these folks," says Hoschek, who's attending the Pacific Northwest University of Health Sciences. "A clinic will alleviate some of that stress on the community."
The clinic will be open every other Saturday. There used to be clinic at the mission, but staffing and organizational issues closed its doors. Hoschek has gotten his entire class of 75 students involved in the re-opening. He's also found a long list of local doctors willing to volunteer.
"I was amazed at how many people wanted to be a part of this," he says.
Students will do patients' initial assessments, and then observe the doctors during the treatment process. A great learning tool for students, and for those without insurance, a great help.
"It's going to be a burden taken off my chest," says Brandon Doyle, an uninsured resident at the mission who says he lives in fear of health problems.
"The mission needs this kind of help," says resident Sarah. "The clinic is a blessing and a miracle."
Besides running the clinic, students will also have to fund it. Medications alone are expected to cost about $10,000 a year, but students say they'll work to come up with the funding. They're hopeful future classes will continue what they've started, and that by next year the clinic can be open every week.

2009 Healthy Challenge

The Sports Medicine Club wants to encourage our student body to take charge of their health status so that we can better educate and build rapport with their patients. We are sponsoring a 10 week Health Challenge program. There are different categories for men and women where each participant is initially tested in week one of the challenge. Testing consists of 6 basic fitness tests; box jumps, pushups, sit-ups, plank time, toe reach, and body fat percentage. After the first week of initial testing, each participant has 8 weeks to train, diet, and meet their goals before the final testing. The final testing will be identical to the initial testing. For different fitness goals, men and women categories will be assessed on improvement. Scoring is based on the improvement of each participant from initial testing trial to finial testing trial. Each participant must complete written food and exercise logs for 6 (of possible 8) weeks in order to be eligible for final assessment and a completion “Where there is Health, there is Hope” t-shirt. The cost is $15 dollars which guarantees each finisher a t-shirt, a water bottle, and a free personal training session.

OUCOM

The first project was setting up a relationship with the AmeriCorps program locatedhere in Athens, OH. They conduct many activities in local schools thathave a definite "preventative medicine" focus. Leah and Iattended an AmeriCorps meeting to introduce the idea of having medical studentshelp out with the activities. We are currently working on fostering thisrelationship between both the medical school and AmeriCorps. We havestarted to see some outreach from the AmeriCorps program, asking for medicalstudent volunteers. We are definitely excited to see where this relationshipgoes. The second project that we are initiating is the compilation of ahealthy foods- focused cook book. We are going to promote this bookaround Mother's Day to try to fundraise money. The idea of this projectis to ask medical students for some of their favorite, quick, and healthy foodoptions that they find themselves making during the week. This willappeal to students who do not have much time to cook, but still want to behealthy. We are really excited to get this started. Those are thetwo projects that the Preventative Medicine group has been working on!

KCOM

Project 1: Basic Life Support (CPR for students and community)

Phase One
Purchase CPR Equipment (approx $6000) (December, 2008)
Done with the assistance of local physician, SGA, and local APO chapter
Deliver CPR to second year class (December, 2008 – February, 2009)
Students were charged a nominal fee (half the normal cost of the course)
SOMA provided instructors who donated their earnings from teaching back to SOMA.
142 first and second year students trained in BLS CPR
Cooperative with existing community CPR instructors (approx 15 involved)
Additional proceeds from course go back to human patient simulation center for additional course equipment, maintenance and upkeep
All courses held in the human patient simulator lab

Phase Two (forthcoming)

Complete delivery of CPR to first year class prior to their summer preceptorships
Train additional medical students to be instructors

Phase Three (forthcoming)

Conduct regular community and campus-wide courses
Taught largely (if not exclusively by medical student instructors)
Portion of proceeds to go toward purchase of automated external defibrillators for campus and community. Anticipating an agreement that for each number of individuals trained per department/area/local business, they will be assisted in purchasing an AED for their area.

Project 2: Strikes for smiles

This year will be in April. This event will benefit Operation Smile; to help people globally with cleft lip and pallet surgeries. We will negotiate a discount rate for the local bowling alley and encourage school and community to form teams of bowlers. The event will generate proceeds for operation smile through local business donations

OSUCOM

Time-line for Preventative Medicine Events

Fall Semester

September 20th, 2008- SOMA’s Annual Rural Health Fair in Cleveland, OK. Screening tests performed: OMT, Vital Signs, Blood Glucose, Vision, Hearing. Raised Awareness: Smoking, Alcoholism, Obesity, Coronary Artery Disease, Cancer, Diabetes, Depression, Anxiety, Child Safety. Over 700 citizens of Cleveland, OK attended.

November 2008- Conducted letter writing, phone calling, and e-mail campaign to save local area hospital. The Hospital provided care to the underserved population of Oklahoma. The campaign was extremely successful. The hospital was converted from a privately funded hospital to a public trust. (I included this event in preventative medicine because without saving this hospital a large population of people in Tulsa would have been without health-care.)

Spring Semester

March 27th, 2009- ACOPMini-MedSchool. Members from SOMA will be chaperones for this event. The Mini-MedSchool is designed to teach elementary school kids how to make smart choices in the areas of diet, and exercise.

April 4th, 2009- SOMA’s 30th Annual Osteopathic Scrub Run “Run for Life!” This event is a race to raise awareness for organ donation. The event offers a 1 mile fun run, 5K, and 10K. Besides the physical activity involved, OMT, and a presentation on organ donation are conducted.

April 16th, 2009- EugeneFieldsElementary School Health Fair. This event is focused on pediatric health. The screening tests and information provided are similar to the Rural Health Fair. This event is a collaborative effort by all of the clubs at the OSUCOM campus. The OSUCOM SOMA chapter will be sponsoring the blood glucose screening booth.

MichiganStateUniversityCollege of Osteopathic Medicine

During the last year, MSUCOM SOMA has been involved in multiple projects that promoted preventative medicine in the community. Two projects of interest were the D.O. Monster Dash and the speaker Dr. James Maas. During the fall of 2008, MSUCOM hosted the annual fund raising event the “D.O. Monster Dash 5K Run/Walk.” The 150 participants were encouraged to race in their Halloween costumes. We received donations for prizes, which went to the Best Halloween costume, top 3 finishers by age and gender, and the remainder were raffled off. Between cash donations from the community and the entry fee, we were able to raise $2700.00 for The Friendship Clinic, a free clinic in Lansing, Michigan. We are hoping to help buy Hemoglobin A1C meters and glucose meters for the clinic to aid in their efforts to prevent and treat diabetes. Also during the Monster Dash, the UAAO performed Osteopathic Manipulative Therapy before and after the race in an effort to promote Osteopathic Medicine, OMT, and preventative medicine.

This winter we had the privilege to bring Dr. James Maas, who is also known as Dr. Sleep, to MSUCOM to speak to our students about the power of sleep. All Osteopathic students, Allopathic students, Veterinary students, Nursing students, faculty and staff were invited to this event. Dr. Mass talked about the negative consequences of being sleep deprived and spoke about the numerous benefits of getting quality sleep. We hope that this speaker was beneficial to the health of our students and useful in promoting healthy lifestyles amongst the health professions at MichiganState.

CCOM

October: Breast Cancer Awareness. We held a panel of breast cancer survivors to speak about their experiences and challenges. We held a bowl-a-thon and raised 500 dollars for the Susan G Koman Fundation. Also, we encouraged members to sign up for the Walk for Breast Cancer in the summer of 2009.

November: We observed Diabetes Awareness month with an additional booth at the health fair specifically focusing on Diabetes prevention, monitoring, and control. We will soon be hosting a speaker to talk about the quickly evolving field of diabetes management both with pharmacological intervention and lifestyle change.

December: We observed World AIDS Day with a week of presentations. We hosted a panel of HIV/AIDS patients, the director of an AIDS outreach, and an expert on epidemiology in regard to the crisis with AIDS in Africa. We also held a poster presentation with information on contraception and fundraising for projects in Africa.

We observed Heart Disease Awareness with the creation of our first MWU/CCOM healthy diet cookbook. We gathered recipes from students in order to distribute them to the whole campus. The event was successful; however, we would like to continue this with SOMA-wide participation for the upcoming year.

January: We focused on HPV awareness with a speaker concerning her clinical experience in administering the vaccine.