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Hello and welcome to the Pediatrics Interest Group!! The pediatric interest group is committed to improving healthcare, serving the community through charity events and volunteering and providing members with the opportunity to interact with children in a meaningful way in the hopes of guiding their future medical careers. We LOVE kids. We understand that kids are not just little humans, but are in fact their own identity and have their own person-hood. We recognize that kids have a special inner light that makes them unique and blissfully unaware of the troubles of this world. So before going any further, we would like to introduce ourselves to you.

From the left side of the screen to the right:

President: Gabrielle Pina do14.gabrielle.pina@nv.touro.edu

Vice President: Melissa Kelsey  do14.melissa.kelsey@nv.touro.edu

Secretary: Cindy Shieh   do14.cindy.shieh@nv.touro.edu

Treasurer: Maria Tran do14.maria.tran@nv.touro.edu

Our advisor is the AWESOME Dr. Andrew Eisen and you will meet him at our first meeting AUGUST 8TH AT NOON IN LH1. (subliminally urging you to come)

So.. what do we do? We Volunteer… with kids!

Shadetree Is our main volunteer activity. Shadetree is a shelter for battered and abused women and children. We visit shadetree every two weeks and do some sort of arts and crafts with the kids. The kids range in age from infant to teenagers and therefore we try to pick an arts and crafts activity that will attempt to entertain the majority of the ages. As you can see, we’ve colored pages, made stick figures and enjoyed every minute with these kids. Each time we take 10 Touro students from all categories (DO to OT) and everyone has a great time.

Other volunteer activities:

We will be joining UAAO this year to put on a mini med school day at a local elementary school. At this mini med school, these kids will learn where the organs go, what good nutrition and exercise it, how to read an x-ray and many other aspects of being little doctors. They will graduate from the program and receive a certificate authenticating their mini med school achievement. This will require lots of help and lots of energy, so get EXCITED.

We, along with non- pediatric interest group members, are an integral part to keeping the OMM Pediatric Clinic going. The OMM Pediatric Clinic is a completely free Clinic put on by Dr. Claire Galin every other wednesday for 2 hours here on campus. 1st years are grouped with 2nd, 3rd, and 4th year students to learn how to take a history and physical and to learn some higher OMM skills. This is a wonderful way to gain not only volunteer hours, but practice your OMM and PD skills. I recommend that everyone participate in at least one OMM clinic day this year.

This year we are going to try and start another volunteer activity with the autism clinic. This is still in the works so check back soon.

We have meetings twice a semester and have fabulous guest speakers that will inspire you to be more, to be better than you already are… (even though you all are already FABULOUS)!

So… WHO’S PUMPED FOR KIDS? YOU ARE! So join us on club day (August 4th and 5th). Our club costs $15 for the year and its well worth the cost.