Weekly Information for UW Medical Students
June 6, 2024
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In this issue:
- Standing strong for Pride Month
- Women of Color in Medicine group meets June 17
- Listserv email distribution lists will be updated later this month
- ICYMI: Cutting down on emails by eliminating aux Listservs
- ICYMI: New student activities calendar
- Spokane welcomes the newest member of the Academic Support team
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Standing strong for Pride Month
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Women of Color in Medicine group meets June 17, 2024
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The "Women of Color on Clerkship" group is now “Women of Color in Medicine.” The group is encouraging self-identified women of color who are MS1s and MS2s to join. The group meets on the third Thursday of the month, so that will be Monday, June 17, at 4 p.m. AK, 5 p.m. PT, 6:00 p.m. MT. If you are interested in attending the meeting, please RSVP!
Previously, the group focused on providing a safe space for women of color to connect and support each other during clerkship, as well as in personal, academic and social settings. However, the group members found it beneficial for 1st- and 2nd-year students to connect with 3rd- and 4th-year students to prepare for the clinical phase. They are also eager to share their experiences and support 1st- and 2nd-year students!
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Listserv email distribution lists will be updated later this month
The distribution lists for the medical student Listservs are scheduled to be updated from June 18 to 21. The communications specialist will use the official database to automatically subscribe students to the Listserv for the class in which they will be enrolled in the upcoming academic year.
Students are required to be on the list that corresponds to their class.
If you have content that you want to send in mid-June to a current Listserv lineup, please send it to that Listserv by noon, Monday, June 17, 2024.
Before, during and after Listservs are updated, we will send regular communications to the Listservs and post real time updates on the 2024 Listserv rollover updates page. We'll communicate when the rollover is complete, and there will be many opportunities to adjust the distribution list. If you need to be on several lists, we will make sure that happens.
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ICYMI: Cutting down on emails for student-to-student communications
Summary:
- Students report receiving too many emails through UWSOM Listservs.
- The Aux Listservs will be discontinued during the week of June 17 to reduce email traffic to your inbox.
- The Administrative (Admin) Listservs will remain to ensure that critical messages reach all students.
- The Medical Student Association (MSA) has created a Facebook group, UW Med Dawgs, to facilitate conversation between students.
- Student Affairs and the communications team have created a new student group activities calendar to house all events across WWAMI.
As you know, we operate two types of Listservs:
- "Administrative" (or "Admin") lists that contain important information for all students relevant to your cohort and/or WWAMI Foundations site.
- "Auxiliary" (or "Aux") lists for optional information that might be of interest to students in a given year.
In consultation with the Medical Student Association (MSA) Tech Committee, we will discontinue the Aux Listservs during the week of June 17 to reduce the number of emails you receive in your inbox.
As an alternative communication platform, MSA has created a student-run Facebook group, UW Med Dawgs. If you have a message about student group activities, requests for volunteers, housing opportunities, or items for sale, you can post on
UW Med Dawgs using your personal Facebook account.
Some UWSOM deans, staff, departments and organizations also currently send messages to the Aux lists. In the future, you can expect to find those messages on the Admin lists or this weekly e-newsletter that you receive every Thursday. The Admin Listservs such as medyr1ad, medyr2ad, medyr3ad, and medyr4ad will continue to provide you with important information for your success in class, in school, in residency and beyond.
We hope that these changes will streamline the communication you receive as a busy medical student. If you have questions, please contact Michael Campion, director of Academic & Learning Technologies. If you have questions about the new
UW Med Dawgs Facebook group or the platform, please contact the MSA Tech Committee.
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ICYMI: New calendaring system should be better for you
Related to the announcement about new communication methods, we have set up a new way to help promote your student group events, should you wish to share them publicly, throughout the WWAMI region.
By completing this survey about your event with all relevant event details, Student Affairs staff will be able to post your event on Trumba,
UW’s online calendaring system. Trumba allows for easy sharing, and it allows people to create their own personalized calendar. This will help increase attendance and overall awareness of your event.
If you have any questions or comments regarding the survey or Trumba calendar, please don’t hesitate to reach out to somstudentaffairs@uw.edu.
If you organize events and want to know more about what Trumba offers, you can watch a video here.
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Spokane welcomes the newest member of the Academic Support team
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Katie Arnold, PhD, joined Academic Support in May 2024 and will be working with Spokane students during the Foundations phase. Dr. Arnold (she/her) has a PhD in industrial/organizational psychology from DePaul University. She has 20 years of experience working in organizational and leadership development, many of those years in healthcare organizations.
Dr. Arnold is a certified professional coach, expert in personality and individual differences, and is passionate about helping students develop skills and strategies to support achieving their goals. She is also a lecturer in the Gonzaga University Department of Psychology.
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Please Read Your Class Updates for This Week
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