April 12, 2007

Madam President

I applied to become the Vice President of Education for the UCI School of Medicine's Emergency Medicine Interest Group. Then yesterday, I got a call and was asked to actually be the Co-President. I had considered applying for it, but I'm just a 1st year and don't know a lot about the Emergency Department yet. Plus UCI's EMIG is one of the most active EMIGs at any medical school in the US - we are the only school to host an Emergency Medicine Student Symposium, a symposium put on by UCI students specifically for students and NOT for doctors, unlike any other medical symposium - so I was going to hold off until next year to run for president. But, they think I can handle it (hehehe) so it would be silly for me not to do it. I have the advantage of knowing that I want to go into emergency medicine already, so I might as well start networking and taking on responsibility and all that now. Plus I already have lots of ideas on improvements I want to make, and this would be the better position to accomplish them: BBQ on the helipad, gurney races down the ER hallways, weird-object extraction practices... I'm taking suggestions!

4 comments:

Nancy said...

yay! Another woman in a position of leadership. Go on and be a great leader and mentor to future care providers and have a great time while you are at it : ) !

Anonymous said...

Wow very impressive. And not just the part about the weird object extraction. And now you have another excuse not to study! Georg

FFB4MD said...

I can't put anything past you.

prez said...

Weird-object extraction practices, eh? Hmmm...