The Neighborhood, comprised of five Houses, cultivates community, well-being, and professional identity through

individual and shared experiences.

IN THIS ISSUE

Map Your Career With The COMPASS Passport...READ MORE

Careers in Medicine...READ MORE

Operation:Education...READ MORE

Gold Humanism Honor Society Nomination Process...READ MORE

Writing and Signing Your Honor Code...READ MORE

Volume 3, Issue 6

January 2017

House Calls

Y O U R N E W S F R O M T H E S M P H N E I G H B O R H O O D

Neighborhood Leaders

NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE OFFICERS: The InterHouse Council

Laura Steenberge steenberge@wisc.edu Bamforth

Minbo Bai mbai7@wisc.edu Bamforth

Ivan Kasprouk kaspruk@wisc.edu Bamforth

Elena Kurudza kurudza@wisc.edu Bamforth

Kofi Fosu kfosu@wisc.edu Bardeen

Nadia Sweet nlsweet@wisc.edu Bardeen

Michael Gyorfi gyorfi@wisc.edu Bardeen

Hannah Blanchard hblanchard@wisc.edu Bardeen

Nicole Altman naltman@wisc.edu Gundersen

Cole Swiston cswiston@wisc.edu Gundersen

Sasha Jascor sjascor@wisc.edu Gundersen

Allison Nackers nackers@wisc.edu Gundersen

Felicity Harl harl@wisc.edu McPherson

Lauren Shuda lshuda@wisc.edu McPherson

Alekses Clifton aclifton2@wisc.edu McPherson

Ian Flyke flyke@wisc.edu McPherson

McKenzie Bruce mabruce2@wisc.edu Middleton

Sherry Tang ytang69@wisc.edu Middleton

Nina Mirabadi mirabadi@wisc.edu Middleton

Erin Curtis ecurtis3@wisc.edu Middleton

HOUSE MENTORS Pamela Ryan, M.D. pmr@medicine.wisc.edu Sam Lubner, M.D. sjlubner@medicine.wisc.edu Carol Diamond, M.D. cadiamond@pediatrics.wisc.edu Jacquelynn Arbuckle, M.D. arbuckle@surgery.wisc.edu Chris Hildebrand, M.D. christopher.hildebrand@va.gov

IMPORTANT DATES FOR JANUARY

04 RSVP Deadline for Operation: Education 11 Introduction to the COMPASS Passport 12:00-1:00, 1306 HSLC 11 Operation: Education 5:30-7:00pm, Atrium 11 GHHS Rounds 6:00-7:00pm, TBA 17 Writing Your Honor Code 12:00-1:00, Cluster Rooms 25 Honor Code Signing Ceremony 12:00 1:00, 1306 HSLC

The COMPASS In August, 2016, M1s were introduced to the COMPASS (Collaborative Map for Personal Awareness and Student Success), a tool for guiding and ex-ploring areas that are important to you during your medical school ca-reer.

The COMPASS was developed by medical students, staff, and fac-ulty and focuses on six key destinations: -Career -Meaning & Purpose -Relationships -Environment -Restore & Refuel -Healthy Body &

Healthy Mind

Within these six destina-tions students become aware of areas they want to investigate or strengthen by attending extracurricular program-ming offered through SMPH.

Through regular attend-ance at these programs, medical students under-stand how to successful-ly care for themselves in

order to be excel-lent doctors who can care for others.

The Passport On January 11th, M1s will meet with their House Men-tors to learn how to use the Passport as an interactive tool and guide for reflec-tion and for building their curriculum vitae (CV) .

The Passport as Guid-ing Tool The Passport allows you to have interactive con-versations with fellow students, mentors, and colleagues as you en-counter challenges and make decisions about your career in medicine. It serves as a point of direction and reflection for extracurricular aware-ness, self-care, and sup-port

The Passport Builds Your CV The Passport allows you to upload important doc-uments such as re-search abstracts or pub-lications. Your work can be tagged with a variety of standard tags (or cre-

ate your own) and for-matted into a functional CV.

The Passport Prepares You for Interviews Medical students who utilize the Passport to reflect, discuss, con-verse, and build a body of their work will discover that they have created a path to powerful re-sponses for common questions asked during residency interviews.

The Passport Serves You in Residency and Beyond You will always have access to your OASIS Passport where you can continue connecting with mentors as well as revis-ing and refining your curriculum vitae.

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Map Your Career With The COMPASS Passport

Resources for Students

Student Services studentservices@med.wisc.edu

Gwen McIntosh Assistant Dean for Students 608-263-4920

Christopher Stillwell Director of Student Services 608-262-7543

Jodi Sherman Student Services Coordinator Disability Access & Accommodations

608-263-7135

Terri Dolan Clinical Schedules/OASIS 608-263-4923

Academic Support Sharon Marks Student Academic Support 608-263-8280

Stefanie Cristopher Student Academic Support 608-265-5030

Dual Programs Chelsea Hanewall Medical Scientist Training Program 608-262-0736

Dipesh Navsaria MD-MPH Dual Degree Program 608-262-7180

Mindy Schreiner PRIME Coordinator 608-263-2298

Debra Siegenthaler Paths of Distinction Coordinator 608-263-3036

Community Service Programs Kristi Fossum Jones 608-262-4204

Student Ombudsperson Lynn Maki 608-263-2525

Introducing The Passport to M1s Wednesday, January 11th

12:00-1:00 (includes lunch) 1306 HSLC

Please Watch Your Email for Details and Pre-Program Preparation

As students look forward to residency, there are three great ways to strategically create and examine your path to one of the most sig-nificant decisions you will make.

Passport Use OASIS to develop your COMPASS Passport and Curriculum Vitae (CV).

House Mentor Connect regularly with your House Mentor for advice, guidance, and referrals to resources.

CiM Website Use the Association of America Medical College’s (AAMC) Careers in Medi-cine (CiM) website.

The CiM web resources are free to U.S. medical stu-dents. Just sign in with your AAMC account.

Regardless of whether you have a specific specialty in mind or multiple career inter-ests, CiM provides a variety of tools for exploring your interests, forming questions

that you can discuss with your advisors and mentors, and developing short– and long-term plans as you make decisions along your career path.

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Careers in Medicine

RSVP Now for Operation: Education

Electronic Residency Ap-

plication Service

Association of American

Medical Colleges

Careers in Medicine

Fellowship and Residency Electronic Interactive Da-

tabase

Arnold P. Gold Foundation

Financial Information, Re-sources, Services and

Tools

Student Financial Aid Amy Whitford amy.whitford@finaid.wisc.edu

608-262-3060

University Health Services After-Hours Mental Health Crisis Services 608-265-5600 (option 9) After-Hours Nurse 608-265-5600 (option 1)

Let’s Talk Travis Fox, Psy.D. trfox@uhs.wisc.edu

McBurney Disability Resource Center Mari Magler, Director 608-263-2741

Wisconsin Medical Alumni Association Karen Peterson, Director 608-263-4913 WMAA FaceBook

The Wisconsin Medical Alumni Association (WMAA), in conjunction with the Wis-consin Medical Society Foundation (WMSF) will host its 11th annual Operation: Education program on Wednesday, January 11, 2017 from 5:30 – 8pm in the Atrium of the HSLC.

It’s a great opportunity to speak with local practicing physicians about their prima-ry, specialty or research ca-

reer paths. Ask questions of physi-cians – including residents – and learn more about various fields of practice.

You must RSVP for this event by Wednesday, Jan-uary 4th. Sign-up sheets are on the front desk in the Medical Alumni Office on the 4th floor.

Here is our fun and interac-tive plan for the evening:

5:30 p.m. Registration and Buffet Dinner Register, grab a bite to eat, and sit at any table you wish; all tables will have

signs noting an area of prac-tice. This is a good time for informal discussions with physicians, although MDs will be trickling in until 6pm official start time.

6:00 p.m. Opening Com-ments

6:10 p.m. Physician-Student Visits After a brief welcome, stu-dents visit with physicians for approximately 15 minutes and then move to another table. Each student has the opportunity to visit with five different tables.

7:30 p.m. Operation Com-petition End the evening with laughs and fun! Students and physi-cians compete for prizes by playing a few rounds of the Milton Bradley game OPER-ATION®

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Current M3s can look forward to vot-ing in the upcoming months for class-mates they believe demonstrate the qualities of integrity, excellence, com-passion, altruism, respect, empathy and service.

The Gold Humanism Honor Society (GHHS) was started in 2002 by the Arnold P. Gold Foundation, to instill a culture of respect, dignity, and com-passion for patients and profession-als.

GHHS has grown as a national or-ganization devoted to building a net-work of advocates for compassionate care and now has more than 25,000 members in training and practice.

The GHHS SMPH Chapter, estab-lished in 2006, accepts no more than 15% of the rising M4 class each year and; our chapter members join a growing network of medical students, residents, and faculty who are equally dedicated to practicing and promoting humanistic values.

The current GHHS members will be visiting M3s at the February 17th Core Day to discuss the nomination and induction process. GHHS induc-tees are recognized on ERAS as well as the Medical Student Performance Evaluation (MSPE, aka “Dean’s Let-ter”).

Your voting ballot will come through OASIS after 3pm on February 17th. .

If you’d like to learn more about GHHS, contact Jodi Sherman (jodi.sherman@wisc.edu) or attend the next GHHS discussion on Wednesday, January 11th at 6pm (location TBA).

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2017-18 Gold Humanism Nomination Process Begins Soon

M1s: Writing and Signing Your Honor Code

The Honor Code is an important part of being a medical student at SMPH. Each M1 class writes a part of the Honor Code which is then published, signed by the authors, and displayed prominently on the 2nd floor of the HSLC.

On January 17th M1s will work with their House Mentors to craft and re-flect on their Honor Code and who they will become as physicians. This will be followed on January 25th by an Honor Code signing ceremony for M1s.

Writing Your Honor Code

Tuesday, January 17th 12:00-1:00

(includes lunch)

House Cluster Rooms

Honor Code Pre-work will be provided at the end of the

January 11th Passport Session

Honor Code Signing Ceremony

Wednesday January 25th 12:00-1:30

(includes lunch)

1306 HSLC

Please wear your white coat to the Honor Code Ceremony

The 2nd Annual Holiday Sweater Contest sponsored by IHC featured some crazy and unusual entries this year. Our creative medical students never fail to amaze us! And how about that awesome i-fire?

Please Join Gold Humanism Honor Society

Wednesday, January 11th 6:00-7:00pm

Watch your email to RSVP for dinner and discover the discussion topic

for January Rounds.

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