Medical Student Leaders Meet at BIDMC
Student National Medical Association Represents 8,000-plus
Date: 10/5/2009
BIDMC Contact: Jerry Berger
Phone: 617-667-7308
Email: jberger@bidmc.harvard.edu
The Student National Medical Association recently held its Board of Directors meeting and National Leadership Institute at BIDMC. SNMA is the nation's oldest and largest independent, student-run organization focused on the needs and concerns of medical students of color. Membership includes more than 8,000 medical students, pre-medical students, residents and physicians.
“The conference was a resounding success, and many of the attendees reported to me personally new interest in BIDMC as a place to train as a consequence of their positive experiences here,” said Rafael Campo, MD, Director, Office of Multicultural Affairs, and Director, Katherine Swan Ginsburg Humanism in Medicine Program. “They received lectures from our outstanding faculty, had the opportunity to meet directly with program directors representing our nationally-recognized residency programs, and got hands-on exposure to a number of clinical skills in our state-of-the-art Simulation Center.
President and CEO Paul Levy and Beverly Edgehill, CEO of The Partnership, Inc., Boston’s premier professional organization for minorities, attended the closing dinner with the students and offered words of inspiration and encouragement.
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center is a patient care, teaching and research affiliate of Harvard Medical School, and consistently ranks among the top four in National Institutes of Health funding among independent hospitals nationwide. BIDMC is clinically affiliated with the Joslin Diabetes Center and is a research partner of Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center. BIDMC is the official hospital of the Boston Red Sox. For more information, visit www.bidmc.org .
