...a changing of the guard...

It's been a year already since some of us started our roles in LMSA. We've been a very productive student group, I feel. These are a list of our accomplishments this year:

• We continued our successful high school tutoring program at ASPIRA
• We added tutoring for younger kids this year as well
• We hosted high schoolers who came to visit Drexel Med and we gave them some, hopefully useful, tips for college and beyond.
• Our members attended 2 conferences this year
• DUCOM LMSA is officially the BEST LMSA student group in the Northeastern Region
• Carla won an Outstanding Community Service award
• Micah, Claudia and Victor were elected to the LMSA National Board

Yesterday, we handed over responsibility for continuing our great club to the rising 2nd years. Congratulations to the new officers:

• Co-President – Max Oran
• Co-President – Charlie Trujillo
• Treasurer – Kiran Guthikonda
• Secretary – Madie Ramirez
• Membership /Alumni Chair – Isabel Eisner
• Community Outreach Coordinator – Evan Smith
• Spanish Table Coordinator – Dante Marconi

There's a lot to look forward to as we head into the 2011-2012 school year and we welcome the class of 2015. Some things we'll be working on next year include:

• Bringing back a Medical Spanish Class, possibly culminating in a CEAC standardize patient session at the end of the course
• Attracting more Latino medical school applicants by attacking the problem from three fronts,

1. an LMSA member in the admissions committee
2. LMSA presence at college recruitment fairs
3. establishing a broader internet presence for the LMSA blog/website so that applicants can easily find Drexel LMSA and read about our many exploits and how awesome we are!

Of course none of this could have been done without the work of our two Co-presidents, Katie and Carla and the contribution of our excellent members. To cap off the meeting, we had a cake and a picture:

Good work LMSA!