AREOSPACE 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.
Duration of space flights 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 mission to mars.
But, still our knowledge about long term effect 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 everchanging domains of aerospace. By doing this, we hope to inspire curiosity in the medical students at St. George’s University (SGU) and foster the students’ interest in Aerospace Medicine.
The AMS exists to sustain students’ interests in Aerospace Medicine throughout their basic science and clinical years, with the goal of providing students with valuable knowledge and opportunities to benefit them throughout their career. The AMS will also focus on service to the Grenadian community through fundraisers, community service, and volunteering opportunities.
AMERICAN MEDICAL STUDENT ASSOCIATION (AMSA)
As an International chapter of the American Medical Students Association, this group promotes active improvement in medical education, world health care 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.
BUSINESS IN MEDICINE (BIZMED)
The Business in Medicine club aims to integrate the worlds 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 business industry that it belongs to. This club will encourage all medical students to understand the logistics and management required to run a medical practi¬¬ce, 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 impact on medicine. Additional areas of focus consist of developing team building and leadership skills, which encourages 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 altogether provide a better cohort of future physicians.
COMPLEMTARY 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 amongst peers and lead discussions about CAM practices. This knowledge will enable future physicians to apply skills in a clinical setting.
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 between 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 a field of Dermatology as a specialty, sub-specialty, or area of research. Contributions will be made to the surrounding community through the utilization of members’ training and subsequent skills.
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 jumpstart 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.
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 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 done 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 imploring 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 strength it plays in developing critically thinking yet empathetic physicians today.
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.
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 of over 1 million medical students to the United Nations and the World Health Organization.
IFMSA-Grenada helps our medical students lead initiatives that impact positively the communities we serve and raise concerns about Grenada in a global platform. IFMSA builds capacity through training, projects and exchanges opportunities, while embracing cultural diversity so as to shape a sustainable and healthy future.
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 sub-specialties 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 sub-specialties 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 3rd/4th 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.
INTERNATIONAL STUDENT SURGICAL NETWORK (INCISION)
To promote safe, accessible, affordable surgery for all through the tenets of advocacy, education, and research.
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 through 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.
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.
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.
ORTHOPAEDIC SURGERY CLUB (OSC)
Our mission is to allow every student interested in Orthopaedic 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 orthopaedics early in preclinical years and provide opportunities for them to get involved early.
PEDIATRICS CLUB (PEDS)
First and foremost, to provide valuable experience and education to prospective Pediatricians currently enrolled as students of SGU. Thus, the club aims to avail students with pertinent information that will ultimately 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 ultimately conduct educational seminars, as well as physician shadowing, volunteering and fundraising operations that aim to benefit the local Grenadian community.
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.
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.
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.
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:
1. 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.
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. Conduct question and answer sessions with senior medical students, residents and faculty.
5. Help members with residency applications and connect them with faculty and alumni for shadowing and research opportunities.
6. Aid in the ability to access information and experiences about the profession and its associated environment.
ST. GEORGE'S UNIVERSITY FAMILY MEDICINE INTEREST GROUP (SGU FMIG)
The mission statement of SGU Family Medicine Interest Group is/are:
1. To increase awareness and educate medical students of the diverse roles of Family Medicine. Assisting in residency searches and understanding the matches
2. To provide opportunities for mentorships, networking, and leadership development for medical students
3. To cultivate community outreach by raising money for local non-profit health related organizations and increase volunteers at health clinics.
NEUROSCIENCE SOCIETY (SGUNS)
The mission of the SGUNS is twofold:
Firstly, it exists to foster and sustain the students' interest and involvement in neurosciences throughout their basic science and clinical years, with an endpoint of providing students with valuable knowledge in neurosciences and provide insights into medical and research careers within the domain of neurosciences. However, the organization is also intended for students of interests other than in neurosciences.
Secondly, it is designed to provide knowledge, exposure, and valuable and enjoyable experiences from neuroscience related activities to the local school kids and community. The goal is to stir interests in today's young students and steer them toward scientific endeavors in the domain of neurosciences that will excite them and benefit humanity.
SGU SPORTS MEDICINE CLUB (SMC)
The Sports Medicine Club at SGU is a student organization that aims to integrate sports in medicine. With the wide variety of specialties that can aid in keeping a team healthy, our goal is to highlight the path on 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 groups provides students with the opportunity to explore the specialty of Sports Medicine. Its 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 Orthopedics, 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 that is 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.
STUDENT NATIONAL MEDICAL ASSOCIATION (SNMA)
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.
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 of the field will help increase students’ awareness of the functions of the Pathologist within the health care team, as well as provide educational opportunities for medical students to explore the field of pathology.
SURGERY CLUB SOM (SURGERY)
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.
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 health care. For example, as apart 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.