September is in the books and its time to move on to Ocober! Here is a recap of the October monthly meeting:

First of all congratulations and welcome to all our new members!

For all events you plan on attending please fill out the October Event Registration poll, http://bit.ly/octeventreg, ASAP. It is incredibly important that we have an estimate of the number of people who will be in attendance in order for your guest speakers, workshop and volunteer hosts, and officers to know how much food we need to provide and what rooms we need to book to accommodate everyone.

We are hosting one event this month that has limited space. In order to attend that event you MUST fill out the poll AND email us your RSVP. If you RSVP and do not attend this event, you will be assigned lowest priority for any future events with attendance caps. 

Additionally, we are requiring participation in our Heart & Sole 5K next semester. The event will be held on Saturday, April 22nd. Mark your calendars now! If you cannot attend you can substitute your hours through tabling.

Here's a recap of events and important information covered during our lst monthly meeting:

T-Shirt Contest and Favorite Event of the Month: Ongoing

Vote on your favorite T-Shirt design for the club! Fill out the information here {http://doodle.com/poll/azxrkqfb26p43m74} and help us decide on the best design! You have until the end of this week (October 15th at 11:59 PM) to complete the poll!
Additionally, go to our website, {http://amsaunr.org/polls} and vote on your favorite event for the month of September!

Musical Therapy Club Presentation: Tuesday, October 11 at 7:00PM in SLH 2

The Musical Therapy Club will be hosting a special event for AMSA this Tuesday! Feel free to come learn about this new philanthropic, music-centered club on campus. All are welcome, whether you're interested in joining, want to learn more, or just want to hear some live music!

Air Force Guest Speaker: Wednesday, October 12 at 5:30PM. Room TBA

Come out for a special presentation about medical careers in the Air Force. There be information about careers as physicians, PA's, dentists, psychologists, and many more! 

Tour of the Medical School: Friday, October 14 at 2-4PM: Information provided upon RSVP

We will be taking a tour of the University of Nevada School of Medicine and visiting the anatomy lab and simulation rooms. Kylee Van Horn and Jenny Ha, second year medical students, will be touring us around the facilities and helping us with demonstrations. SPACE IS LIMITED TO 25 PEOPLE so, in order for you to attend you need to RSVP via email and take the event registration poll.

UNR Pre-Med Preview: Tuesday, October 18 from 5-7PM in the JCSU Ballrooms, 4th floor

The University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine’s 2016 Preview  is designed for undergraduate students considering a career in medicine. If you attend you can learn about the admissions process from members of the admissions committee, talk with current UNR Med students about life and learning, meet UNSOM faculty to find out how their academic and career choices led them to UNR Med, and gather information about financial aid, clinical experience opportunities, student pre-health organizations, and more. SPACE IS LIMITED so sign up here while there's still time! http://bit.ly/UNRMEDpreview[bit.ly

MMI Workshop: Friday, October 21 at 2:45PM in PSAC 113

The Multiple Mini Interview (MMI) has become increasingly popular with medical school admissions committees,including the med school here in Reno.
Come out for another MMI Workshop put on by Grace and the Advising Center. It's never too early to start!

Volunteer Fair: Monday, October 24 at 7-8:30PM. Meeting room TBA

The volunteer fair is intended to provide you all with easy access to volunteer opportunities in the community. We will be inviting multiple organizations in the Reno area to table and talk to our members about how you can get involved as a volunteer with their organization. This is a great opportunity expand your volunteering platform or get started with volunteering if you haven't already done so!

Trick-or-Treat Canned Food Drive FLYER HAND-OUT: Saturday, October 22nd at 10-11AM. Meeting place TBA

We will be dropping off flyers in a local neighborhood informing residents that we will be going from house to house to collect cans for to support under served families in need. We will be carpooling to the neighborhood. The more houses we get flyers to, the more cans we can potentially collect! 

Trick-or-Treat Canned Food Drive PICK-UP: Friday, October 28th at 6:30-7:30PM. Meeting place TBA

We will be collecting a many cans as we can at this event. We will car pool down to the neighborhood. Again, the more hands on deck the more houses we can collect cans from!

AMSA Halloween Potluck Party: Friday, October 28th at 8-10PM. Meeting place TBA

After our Canned Food Drive we will be celebrating a successful month of events and the start to the later half of the semester! Please come out to hang out with your fellow members and enjoy some food, music, movies, and good company. 

November Monthly Meeting: Tuesday, November 1st at 7PM: Meeting place TBA

Add it into your calendar now! Our monthly meetings are always on the first Tuesday of every month. Next month we will be having a physician guest speaker present!

Heart and Sole 5k: April 22 - THIS IS A REQUIRED EVENT FOR ALL MEMBERS NEXT SEMESTER.

We are working with the University of Nevada School of Medicine medical students to put on an 5k to raise money for the Student Outreach Clinic. The Student Outreach Clinic is designed to help under served, under insured, and uninsured members of our community by providing health services such as labs; general and pediatric clinics; gerontology and dermatology clinics; women's clinics; discount cards for pharmaceuticals and much more. Their funding was heavily cut back last year and we are working directly with the medical school to, hopefully, make up the costs. 

Although much of the planning has already been done by our President, Vice President, and medical school liaison, there is still more to get done in regard to advertising and event day necessities. Many of you have already reached out to us expressing your interest but please send us an email confirming that you are still interested in being hands on for this event as a part of the Heart & Sole 5K Planning Committee. I will be assigning each of you tasks to complete before a certain deadline as soon as I get a finalized list of who is interested.

Civic Action Committee Position:
Due to the large number of members interested in the newly available civic action committee position we will be moving the interview process to another day in November, TBA, in order to have more ample time to interview each candidate. We are also deliberating how many supporting positions we are going to add to leadership; we will let you guys know what we decide by the end of this month. If you have any questions about what the office entails or are interested in running, please send us an email!

Also, all AMSA members can potentially receive discounts on Kaplan test prep material. In order to receive your discount, you must fill out this quick "What's Next?" quiz at http://bit.ly/sampunr  so that Kaplan knows how to best serve our club in terms of discounts and free courses.

Here is the Event Registration link one more time http://bit.ly/octeventreg.

Hope to see you all soon!