Medical Student Section

This year's Medical Student Section Program will be held on Saturday, September 21st during the the TPS Annual Meeting at the Moody Gardens Hotel in Galveston Texas.   The Medical Student Section moderators are currently developing this year's agenda.  The 2012 agenda is listed below for a sampling of what our section program usually covers during the annual meeting.   If you would like to join TPS as a Medical Student Section member click here.

 

8:45 – 9:00

Welcome and Introductions:

  • Christine Krier, MS4 & Jennifer Landau Rossen, MS2
  • Ryan Van Ramshorst, MD, UTHSC San Antonio

9:00 - 9:30

Importance of Pediatric Organization Membership &
How to Make the Most of Your Membership:

  • Steve Whitney, MD - TPS President
  • Kim Avila-Edwards, MD - TPS President-Elect
  • Thomas K. McInerny, MD - AAP President-Elect
  • Ashley Lucke, District 7 coordinator of the AAP Section on Residency

9:30 – 10:30
  • The Future of Children’s Health in Texas and the US & how it will affect your future as a physician. - Gary Floyd, MD

10:30 - 10:45

Break

10:45 – 11:30

Pediatric Specialty Mentoring Panel-Exploring Specialties

  • James Lukefahr, MD- Child Abuse- UTHSC San Antonio
  • Charles Macias, MD-Emergency Medicine- Texas Children’s Hospital
  • Zora Rogers, MD-Hemotology/Oncology-UT Southwestern (tentative)
  • Joan Hebeler, MD-UTMB-Mental Health
  • Jose Gonzalez, MD- Endocrinology & Administrative Medicine-Cook Children’s
  • Alice Gong, MD- Neonatology- UTHSC San Antonio
  • Susan Sugerman, MD –Adolescent Medicine-Dallas

11:30-1:00

Awards Luncheon with TPS General Membership

1:30-2:30

Interviewing for your Residency-How to get in to the Residency of your choice  

William H. Dirksen MD

Director of Medical Education

Driscoll Children’s Hospital

2:30 - 3:30

If I knew then What I Know Now:

Tools to be the Best Medical Student and Pediatric Resident You Can Be

Monica Huff, UTMB ; Bianka Soria-Olmos BCOM /TCH; Alaina Pyle, UT Southwestern

3:30 – 3:45

Break

3:45-4:45

Life After Residency-

Creating a curriculum vitae, finding your first job & when to start looking, managing student loan payments, and avoiding common pitfalls in the life of a physician. Panelists-

Valerie Smith, MD; Laura Johnson, MD; Kimberly Avila-Edwards, MD

4:45-5:00

Discussion & Wrap Up
 
 

The program is designed especially to meet your interests.  For more information, contact: Amy White, Director of Special Progarms and the TPS Foundation  or call her on 512-370-1519.