Weekly Information for UW Medical Students
May 30, 2024
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In this issue:
- Watch last week’s Physician's Oath and Hooding Ceremony
- Facebook group will replace Aux Listservs in mid-June
- New calendaring system
- Financial aid updates
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Congratulations, graduates!
We held our Investiture of Doctoral Hoods and the Physician’s Oath Ceremony on Friday, May 24, in Seattle’s Benaroya Hall for the UW School of Medicine’s 75th graduating class. The graduation speaker was Michael J. Stephens, MD, clinical assistant professor of Family Medicine, and a member of the Spokane Foundations faculty since 2015. Dr. Stephens urged the students to reflect on the words and meaning of the Physician’s Oath. He showed students a copy of the oath he took 30 years ago and still carries with him to this day as a reminder.
“The words you are about to say: They matter. And that you are saying them out loud, in front of us, matters. By saying the words of the oath, you’re sealing a covenant between you and the rest of us,” Dr. Stephens told the graduates before leading them through a reflection on several lines of the oath.
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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 will update the distribution lists during the week of June 17 so, for example, current MS1s will be placed on MS2 lists. There will be plenty of time to make sure you are on the list(s) right for you.
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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Financial aid updates
As you know, the most recent FAFSA did not have a place to put parent information. Due to this change, the Financial Aid team created this form for you to input your parent income information. It mimics the FAFSA in wording and we are requesting information from your parents' 2022 tax return(s). Please submit the linked form along with the application to be considered for UWSOM scholarships. The team will be selecting students at random to submit their parents' actual tax return(s) to us for review. The team will email you in the fall if this is needed. Please do not submit until requested.
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UW Pantry Food Drive continues in Seattle
Thanks to your support, the food drive to help members of the UW Seattle community who are in need will continue indefinitely. The collection box has been moved inside Suite A-300 in the Health Sciences Center.
The UW Food Pantry is committed to ensuring that no Husky goes hungry. It provides food to UW students, staff, and faculty who may be experiencing food insecurity. The Pantry is located in Poplar Hall 210. Learn more about how to use the pantry and how to donate by visiting
their website.
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Please Read Your Class Updates for This Week
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Got questions? Email these offices:
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