As a club, we sponsor several community service projects which include our annual Dash For Diabetes, Tar Wars, and the Advanced Directives program we are currently initiating (for information about these programs, please follow the corresponding links...Advanced Directives will have a link when it is up and running).
We also sponsor a variety of networking and educational programs throughout the year. These programs include our monthly Residency Dinners and Differential Diagnosis Lunch Lectures as well as our annual Primary Care Day. For more information about Primary Care Day please follow the corresponding link (to be added by the end of Nov.).
Residency Dinners
The Residency Dinners grant our students the opportunity to talk with physicians and residents for various Pennsylvania Family Medicine Residency Programs over a relaxing dinner at one of the many local restaurants. Additionally, the residency program has a short presentation for the students, usually in the form of a lecture or game, on topics related to family medicine. Topics that have been presented in the past include Medical Jeopardy, Immunizations, Bio-Terrorism, Opportunities in Family Medicine, and others. Finally, these dinners serve to provide the students with insight into residency in general as well as the specifics of the presenting program.
Differential Diagnosis
The Differential Diagnoses are a series of lunch lectures sponsored and presented by our affiliated Family Medicine Residency Program, the Good Samaritan Residency Program of Lebanon, PA. Residents from the program come to campus and provide a 45 min interactive case presentation related to recent coursework of either the first or second year class. These lectures almost always prove to be a good review of upcoming exam material.
Membership Benefits
- FREE membership to the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP)
- FREE subscription to American Family Physician, official magazine of AAFP
- FREE membership to the Pennsylvania Academy of Family Physicians (PAFP)
- Interaction with other medical students, faculty, and physicians
- Learn about family medicine residency programs
