AEROSPACE MEDICINE SOCIETY (AMS)
As future physicians, we must train ourselves to remain curious, and there is no greater “why” than the infinite realm of space above us.
The duration of space flights has evolved from hours to multiple months. Great progress has been made in space flight duration, and we are not so far from long-term stays such as missions to Mars.
But still, our knowledge about the long-term effects of outer space on human physiology and development is very limited.
The Aerospace Medicine Society (AMS) aims to integrate the dynamic field of medicine with the ever-changing domain of aerospace. By doing this, we hope to inspire curiosity in medical students at St. George’s University (SGU) and foster students’ interest in aerospace medicine.
The AMS exists to sustain students’ interest in aerospace medicine throughout their basic sciences and clinical years, with the goal of providing students with valuable knowledge and opportunities to benefit them throughout their careers. The AMS will also focus on service to the Grenadian community through fundraisers, community service, and volunteering opportunities.
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AMERICAN MEDICAL STUDENT ASSOCIATION (AMSA)
As an international chapter of the American Medical Students Association, this group promotes active improvement in medical education, world healthcare delivery, and the enhancement of social, moral, and ethical obligations of the medical profession. The St. George’s University chapter has, on average, 600 AMSA members, making us one of AMSA’s largest chapters.
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BUSINESS IN MEDICINE (BIZMED)
The Business in Medicine Club aims to integrate the world of business and entrepreneurship with the field of medicine. There is an increasing need for physicians to adapt to the growing relationship between the medical industry and the business industry to which it belongs. This club will encourage all medical students to understand the logistics and management required to run a medical practice, establish their role in the hospital setting, or even obtain a position on a medical board.
We aim to highlight and develop the pivotal skills of professionalism, ethics, public speaking, entrepreneurship, knowledge about health insurance companies, and the government’s impact on medicine. Additional areas of focus consist of developing team-building and leadership skills, which encourage students to provide a comfortable workplace environment. Emphasizing the importance of knowing when to lead, when to let others lead, and having the ability to inspire others to lead will provide a better cohort of future physicians.
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COMPLEMENTARY AND ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE (CAM)
The mission of the Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) Club is to foster an understanding and awareness of the multitude of complementary and alternative medical practices. The club hopes to allow students an outlet to critically review and discuss new research and to develop these abilities into clinically relevant and useful skills. The club will allow students to interact with peers and lead discussions about CAM practices. This knowledge will enable future physicians to apply skills in a clinical setting.
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DERMATOLOGY INTEREST GROUP (DIG)
The Dermatology Interest Group (DIG) was nationally founded with the purpose of providing support for students considering a career in dermatology. It will provide opportunities for students to form productive relationships with other students, residents, and program directors on topics pertinent to a career in dermatology, as well as foster a forum for communication and accurate information exchange.
The chapter at St. George’s University School of Medicine is dedicated to the recruitment, success, and retention of students interested in dermatology as a specialty, subspecialty, or area of research. Contributions will be made to the surrounding community through the utilization of members’ training and subsequent skills.
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EMERGENCY MEDICAL CLUB (EMC)
Students from a variety of backgrounds choose to join the EMC to learn more about emergency medicine, help the local Grenadian community, and get a jump start on their clinical years through several hands-on workshops. The club regularly invites guest speakers to talk with students about the field of emergency medicine, obtaining residencies, and recent advances that have been made in the field. All students are welcome to join.
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HISTORY OF MEDICINE CLUB (HOM)
In medicine, we truly are standing on the shoulders of giants. It is important to recognize the pioneers who inspired us, their contributions, and to re-assess and re-evaluate their theories to allow us to think deeper and more critically as physicians. But history also teaches us humility because there were many dead ends and mistakes made in the past by extremely brilliant people. People have fallen many times, only to get back up and prevail. By allowing students to explore the history behind the science and all of its controversies, it will only further promote students to become better critical thinkers by employing the skills of the great scientists, historians, and philosophers before us. We aim to create a community at the St. George’s School of Medicine to further study and evaluate the history of medicine and the role it plays in developing critically thinking yet empathetic physicians today.
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IOTA EPSILON ALPHA HONOR MEDICAL SOCIETY (IEA)
The society is a non-profit educational and humanitarian institution. The purposes are:
a) to promote the pursuit of academic excellence and integrity in scholarship and research.
b) to recognize outstanding achievements in the study, practice, and science of medicine.
c) to encourage the highest standards of character, conduct, leadership, ethos, and compassion.
d) to improve the overall morale of medical students and graduates locally and worldwide.
e) to promote and, where possible, provide for the public health and welfare of the underprivileged and medically indigent, locally and worldwide.
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INTERNATIONAL FEDERATION OF MEDICAL STUDENTS’ ASSOCIATIONS (IFMSA)
The International Federation of Medical Students’ Associations (IFMSA) is an independent, non-governmental, and non-political federation of medical students’ associations worldwide. IFMSA-Grenada joined the international body in 2009 and is the forum for medical students in Grenada to the worldwide IFMSA community, which represents more than 120 different member chapters comprising over 1 million medical students to the United Nations and the World Health Organization.
IFMSA-Grenada helps our medical students lead initiatives that positively impact the communities we serve and raise concerns about Grenada on a global platform. IFMSA builds capacity through training, projects, and exchange opportunities while embracing cultural diversity so as to shape a sustainable and healthy future.
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INTERNATIONAL MEDICINE CLUB (IMC)
The Internal Medicine Club (IMC) at SGU is aimed at exposing students to the practice of internal medicine as well as the many subspecialties it encompasses. The organization acts as an educational resource to members by providing career guidance, hosting guest lecturers, and conducting clinical skills seminars. One of the goals of the organization is to familiarize students with the general field of internal medicine and its many medical subspecialties in order to provide better insight into what career the student wishes to pursue. Through our clinical skills seminars focused on physician-student interactions, we plan to better prepare SGU students for their third and fourth years. By learning about the different training paths offered through internal medicine, it is hoped that students will be aided in thinking about future career goals.
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INTERNATIONAL STUDENT SURGICAL NETWORK (INCISION)
To promote safe, accessible, affordable surgery for all through the tenets of advocacy, education, and research.
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MEDICINE, EDUCATION, AND DEVELOPMENT FOR LOW-INCOME FAMILIES EVERYWHERE (MEDLIFE)
Our mission is to empower future physicians and future public health professionals to become advocates for change in their communities by facilitating equal access to medicine and education for all communities, along with the development of sustainable infrastructure. MEDLIFE will engage students in medical and educational volunteering both locally and globally.
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MEDICAL ETHICS STUDENT ORGANIZATION (MESO)
The objective of the Medical Ethics Student Organization is to promote a safe and inclusive environment where students can learn how to approach, break down, and discuss medically relevant ethical questions and scenarios. This will not only allow students to become familiar with common ethical situations they may face as physicians but also allow them to hear from educators and experienced physicians.
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NUTRITION MEDICAL CLUB (NMC)
The mission of the Nutrition Medicine Club (NMC) is to provide more opportunities for students to learn and participate in nutrition science. The organization acts as an additional opportunity to further our knowledge of nutrition in medicine. Our club provides a forum to discuss current nutrition research and nutrition practices, presenting research reviews through social media, hosting guest lecturers, and workshops aimed at increasing knowledge of the practical application of nutrition medicine. By expanding our knowledge in nutrition medicine, it is hoped that experience in NMC can be used as another tool for patient care.
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ORTHOPAEDIC SURGERY CLUB (OSC)
Our mission is to allow every student interested in orthopedic surgery to have a safe place to share their dream where they are met with encouragement and guidance instead of stigma and rejection, as well as introduce students to the field of orthopedics early in preclinical years and provide opportunities for them to get involved early.
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PEDIATRICS CLUB (PEDS)
To provide valuable experience and education to prospective pediatricians currently enrolled as students of SGU. Thus, the club aims to provide students with pertinent information that will support decisions regarding postgraduate specialty. The club aims to educate students with valuable and timely technical teaching provided by clinically active physicians. As an SGU student organization, the club will conduct educational seminars, as well as physician shadowing, volunteering, and fundraising operations that aim to benefit the local Grenadian community.
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PSYCHIATRY STUDENT INTEREST GROUP (PSYCHSIG)
Psychiatry Student Interest Group’s (PsychSIG) mission is to contribute to the overall mission of St. George’s University’s commitment to a diverse international education while fostering intellectual curiosity and addressing popular cultural disparities in the field of mental health by nurturing creativity and professionalism, with a focus on psychiatry. PsychSIG is committed to expanding knowledge within a multicultural biological, psychological, and social structure.
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RADIOLOGY CLUB (RC)
The Radiology Club of St. George’s University, hereafter referred to as RC, exists to represent the School of Medicine students in all human academic and non-academic affairs pertaining to their education of medicine, in particular in the field of radiology, and to their physical and emotional well-being. It is the vision of RC that all concerns that may come before the RC will be addressed with the goal of improving the general well-being of the entire St. George’s University (SGU) community and the students in particular. It shall be the aim of the RC to uphold the SGU Honor Code and maintain the highest ethical standards in all that it does.
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ST. GEORGE’S UNIVERSITY CARDIOLOGY CLUB (SGU C)
Our mission is to increase awareness and educate medical students on cardiac diseases and treatments that affect both adult and pediatric patients. We pledge to serve as a liaison for cardiology between St. George’s University and Grenada by cultivating community outreach through volunteering and donations.
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ST. GEORGE’S UNIVERSITY ANESTHESIA CLUB (SGUAC)
Provide a means for SGU students to actively pursue a specialty in anesthesiology beginning in their basic science and clinical rotation years of training. In order to pursue this goal as a group, we will focus on the following core ideals:
Plan events and workshops with a core emphasis on introducing the practice of anesthesia to its members, with a focus on providing hands-on opportunities to learn techniques and procedures that are relevant to the practice.
Provide members with detailed information regarding physiology, anatomy, biochemistry, biology, pathology, and behavioral science that is not offered in core science classes. The purpose of this goal is to help provide our members with information that can help them during clinical rotations and PGY years that non-club members may not have been introduced to.
Invite SGU and non-SGU physicians to come speak to the student body in two presentation forms: video conferencing and in person. An emphasis will be placed on history, research, advancements, and standards of practice.
Conduct question-and-answer sessions with senior medical students, residents, and faculty.
Help members with residency applications and connect them with faculty and alumni for shadowing and research opportunities.
Aid in the ability to access information and experiences about the profession and its associated environment.
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ST. GEORGE’S UNIVERSITY FAMILY MEDICINE INTEREST GROUP (SGU FMIG)
The mission statement of the SGU Family Medicine Interest Group is:
To increase awareness and educate medical students on the diverse roles of family medicine. Assisting in residency searches and understanding the matches.
To provide opportunities for mentorship, networking, and leadership development for medical students.
To cultivate community outreach by raising money for local non-profit health-related organizations and increasing volunteers at health clinics.
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NEUROSCIENCE SOCIETY (SGUNS)
The mission of SGUNS is twofold:
Firstly, it exists to foster and sustain students’ interest and involvement in neurosciences throughout their basic science and clinical years, with the goal of providing students with valuable knowledge in neurosciences and insights into medical and research careers within the domain of neurosciences. However, the organization is also intended for students with interests outside neuroscience.
Secondly, it is designed to provide knowledge, exposure, and valuable and enjoyable experiences from neuroscience-related activities to local schoolchildren and the community. The goal is to stir interest in today’s young students and steer them toward scientific endeavors in the domain of neurosciences that will excite them and benefit humanity.
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SGU SPORTS MEDICINE CLUB (SMC)
The Sports Medicine Club at SGU is a student organization that aims to integrate sports and medicine. With the wide variety of specialties that can aid in keeping a team healthy, our goal is to highlight the path to becoming a sports medicine physician. By going into the Grenadian community, we are able to give back and spread awareness of safe athletics. With the help of guest speakers and hands-on training workshops, we will be able to shape the future of sports by keeping athletes healthy. This group provides students with the opportunity to explore the specialty of sports medicine. It is founded to educate others through lectures, guest speakers, and workshops in the field of sports medicine. The club strives to create strong relationships with local sports teams in Grenada while promoting volunteering and community service.
The aims and functions of the organization are to provide the following:
a) Opportunities to attend lectures given by qualified professionals within the field (sports medicine physicians, sports medicine orthopedic surgeons, PM&R physicians, family medicine physicians, athletic trainers, physical therapists, nutritionists, and veterinarians).
b) Volunteer experiences through relationships formed with surrounding sports teams in Grenada.
c) Host a philanthropy event to raise money for a charity chosen by the club and related to medicine.
d) Opportunities to attend workshops related to sports medicine such as imaging, joint injection, concussion management, injury prevention, treatment on court/field, and many more.
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STUDENT NATIONAL MEDICAL ASSOCIATION (SNMA)
The Student National Medical Association (SNMA) is committed to supporting current and future underrepresented minority medical students, addressing the needs of underserved communities, and increasing the number of clinically excellent, culturally competent, and socially conscious physicians.
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SGU PATHOLOGY CLUB (SPC)
The SGU Pathology Club functions to increase medical students’ exposure to the field of pathology and to provide targeted support for students pursuing pathology careers. Such exposure to the field will help increase students’ awareness of the functions of the pathologist within the healthcare team, as well as provide educational opportunities for medical students to explore the field of pathology.
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SURGERY CLUB SOM (SURGERY)
The Surgery Club was established for SGU students with an interest in general surgery or any of the surgical specialties. We provide early exposure to the surgical sciences through education and workshops. We also focus on service to the Grenadian community.
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WOMEN IN MEDICINE (WIM)
WIM is a committee that advocates for the interests of women in medicine, particularly physicians-in-training. We promote women’s health, emphasizing well-being and autonomy, and we work for the inclusion of women’s health issues in medical school curricula and continuing medical education. We also work to affirm the basic right of reproductive freedom and to educate women to become full participants in their own healthcare. For example, as part of community education, we participate in community health fairs and offer breast exam screening, self-exam instruction, resources, and referrals. There are many workshops, guest lectures, and activities planned during each semester to benefit students, staff, and the community.