Weekly Information for UW Medical Students
June 13, 2024
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In this issue:
- UW Medicine Town Hall is Tuesday, June 18
- Order badges with name pronunciation
- ICYMI: Listserv email distribution lists will be updated next week
- ICYMI: Cutting down on emails by eliminating Aux Listservs
- ICYMI: New calendaring system
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UW Medicine Town Hall is Tuesday, June 18
The next UW Medicine Town Hall will include reflections on the past year and a look ahead at the upcoming academic and fiscal year with Tim Dellit, MD, CEO of UW Medicine, executive vice president for medical affairs and the Paul G. Ramsey Endowed Dean of the UW School of Medicine. The Town Hall will be recorded.
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Reminder, you can order badges with name pronunciation
Whether you are doing hospital mornings, service learning, clerkships or heading off to residency, consider ordering a name pronunciation badge through the Names & Pronunciations Initiative. This student-led project highlights the importance of names and their pronunciations and supports more inclusive communication by providing physical badges (upon request) which include users' written phonetic name pronunciation.
You can order the badge and place it behind your hospital ID card, for use as needed.
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Listserv email distribution lists will be updated next week
The distribution lists for the medical student Listservs are scheduled to be updated from June 18 to 21. Students will be automatically subscribed 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 to a current Listserv lineup, please send it to that Listserv by noon, Monday, June 17, 2024.
Many of this year’s MS4s will no longer receive Listserv messages (If that’s you, thank you for reading this newsletter over the years!). Listserv updates will be posted on the 2024 Listserv rollover updates page in real time. There will be many opportunities to adjust the distribution lists. If you should be on several lists, we will make sure that happens. Stay tuned for communications when the update is complete or
check the updates page.
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ICYMI: Cutting down on emails for student-to-student communications
Summary:
- UWSOM has had two types of Listservs: Administrative (important and critical messages) and Auxiliary (casual, noncritical messages).
- Students report receiving too many emails through UWSOM Listservs.
- The Auxiliary (Aux) Listservs will be discontinued next week to reduce email traffic to your inbox.
- The Medical Student Association (MSA) has created a Facebook group, UW Med Dawgs, to facilitate conversation between students (replacing the Aux Listservs).
- The Administrative (Admin) Listservs will remain to ensure that critical messages reach all students.
- Student Affairs and the communications team have created a new student group activities calendar to house all events across WWAMI.
We have historically operated 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 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 send messages to the Aux lists. In the future, you will receive some of those messages on the Admin lists or this weekly student 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. You should certainly still publicize the event in other ways that reach students.
By completing this survey about your event, Student Affairs staff will be able to post your event information 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 Trumba calendar, please don’t hesitate to reach out to somstudentaffairs@uw.edu.
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Please Read Your Class Updates for This Week
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