Guide to this MONSTER e-mail I. CSAE meeting coming up 1/5/03 II. 12/16 meeting minutes A. Follow Up on World AIDS Day meeting B. Fundraising C. Plans for Spring - No Free Lunch, National Convention, website Hey AMSA folks! I. First, just a quick note: For those interested in speaking with the State of Minnesota Board on Health Care (I don't think that is quite the right name, but it's vacation...) on the Clinical Skills Assessment Exam (CSAE--you know the test that will cost medical students at least an additional $1000 where you go to interview patients in front of a panel of people?), please contact Stephanie Stanton at [log in to unmask] This meeting will happen JANUARY 5th so contact her ASAP! II. for those who were unable to make the 12/16 meeting, I just wanted to send out the minutes so you could know what went on... A. Follow Up on World AIDS Day events --people liked Dr. Henry's lecture on "Providing Retroviral Therapy in Resource Poor Settings: The Glass is Half Full" although they felt he was not the most dynamic speaker, people also liked the booths set up that day --people liked the "Women and AIDS: A Conversation" A LOT --the lecture by Dr. Bohanjen was misadvertised, he ended up speaking on his experiences in Haiti rather than "Treatment and Prophylaxis" as the lecture was advertised --in total, our fundraising for a community organization was $235 and we decided we would give it to Open Arms of Minnesota --those who will be around and available next year really wanted to see it happen again, they were interested in planning it earlier and possibly having an HIV positive person come to speak, Todd is going to put together a list of what was done this year so that the planners next year will have it to go from B. Fundraising --we were interested in working at the various sporting events (Mariucci, Target Center, Dome, etc.) to get some $$$$, the ever so lovely Mandee Vossen was doing some research on the Target Center to see when and if we could do it --Quy was interested in doing a "Cultural Show" with SNMA that he envisioned being sort of like a real talent show, people could read things they had written, play musical instruments, etc. --we were also thinking of a raffle, possibly connected to the talent show or on its own C. Spring Activities / No Free Lunch --Aaron, Will, and Phil reported on a meeting they had with Dr. Charlie Muldow about the pharmaceutical industry and the marketing put out to med students, doctors, etc. --many people were interested in focusing on this in the spring, so Aaron requested that we all think about this and what direction we wanted to take with it for next semester --this was not brought up at the meeting, but Caleb (although he doesn't quite know it yet) and I are going to be working on some universal health care stuff, forums, etc. --National Convention-see earlier e-mails Whew-yeee!!! Enough from me right now... Take care, Celia