October 2024 Webinar

What High School Students Can Do Now To Prepare for Medical School

Course Description:

Join us virtually on Wednesday, October 30th at 5 PM PDT/8 PM EDT via Zoom for our 60-minute webinar, “What High School Students Can Do Now To Prepare for Medical School,” which will feature the following speakers:

• Dr. Leila Amiri (the Associate Dean for Admissions at the University of Vermont Larner College of Medicine)
• Tori Rogness (a fourth-year medical student at the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine)
• Yazen Bakri (a graduate from the University of Illinois at Chicago and current 2024–2025 medical school applicant)

Dr. Amiri will lead the first half of our webinar, and then the last half will be a Q&A session with all speakers.

Task for Chapter Secretaries (if you don’t have one, then the vice president should complete this task): Before Monday, October 28th at 11:59 PM, you will need to submit at least three questions (one for each presenter; see above) on the discussion forum called “October 2024 Curriculum: Webinar Questions” on the Connect website, under “Forums,” in the “General” discussion forum. We suggest having your chapter brainstorm some questions together.

Individual Registration: Every member should register individually for this event as soon as possible (see the announcement below), as we are trying to estimate how many will attend.

For those who cannot make the webinar: We will record the webinar and upload it here. Please come back to this course in November for the recording and more!

The AAMC guiding competencies for October’s HSAFP National event:

• Science: Applying knowledge and skill of molecular and macro systems
• Science: Understanding the psychological, sociocultural, and biological factors on health
• Professional: Adaptability and open-mindedness
• Professional: Teamwork
• Professional: Lifelong learning
• Professional: Ethics
• Thinking and Reasoning: Written and Oral Communication
• Thinking and Reasoning: Scientific Inquiry
• Thinking and Reasoning: Quantitative Reasoning

Dr. Hillary Weiss’ bio:

While Dr. Weiss is not a doctor of medicine, she earned her Ph.D. in academic research writing, specializing in scientific writing and communication, and has been creating curriculum for students since 2011. Most recently, Dr. Weiss taught writing to university students (which is a large part of the medical school application process!). Finally, as you will hear in Lesson 1 of this webinar, Dr. Weiss has also assisted 36 applicants in successfully gaining acceptance to medical schools and residency programs across the U.S.