25TH SEPTEMBER MEETING MINUTES

MINUTES OF PRE-MEDICAL SOCIETY MEETING
TAYLOR’S UNIVERSITY COLLEGE
25H September 2008, 4:00PM, LECTURE THEATRE 1


President : Lek Ken Vin
Vice President : Lavnya Balenderan
Secretary : Hani Nadhrah Zakaria
Deputy Secretary : Adelynn Lim
Treasurer : Nicholas Lee Hon Mun
Deputy Treasurer : Victor Chow
SAM Representative : Sam Ye Han
Press Officer : Chen Chin Jun
July 08 Rep : Neo Soon Yap
July 08 Rep : Ridhwan Firdaus

Up Coming Events

Charity visit to Rumah Juara
Date : 18th October 2008
Time : 9 a.m- 1 p.m
Venue: Rumah Juara, No 1 & 1A Jalan 1/546000 Petaling JayaSelangor Darul Ehsan
No. of members: 15
Fee: RM15

St. John / First Aid training
Date : 24th October 08
Time: 4-5.30 pm
Venue: Lecture Theatre 4
Speaker: Mr. Murugan Naigu Panditha
Honorary Secretary PBSMM Selangor.

Visit to Hospital –AIDS patients
Date : 25th November 08
Time: To be confirmed
Venue: Hospital Sungai Buloh
47000 Sungai BulohSelangor Darul Ehsan
Transport: Provided

Visit to International Medical University (IMU)
Date : 6th December 2008
Venue: IMU
Time: To be confirmed
Fee: RM10

Those who are interested, do drop an email at premed.taylors@gmail.com before 8.00 pm on the 28th September 2008

Announcements:

Taylor’s First Annual Mental Health Week
(The Counselling and Psychological Services Centre)
Date: 13 – 15 October 2008.
Venue: Taylor’s University College, Main Campus
Time: To be confirmed
Aim: To increase the awareness of various issues related to mental health among the students, staff, and the public.

Gossip Project
Date: 24th-26th September 2008
Venue: Asian Café
Time: Whole Day

Screening of Medical Videos
Heart surgery and colon cancer

There was no further issue discussed and the meeting adjourned at 5:00pm

Reported by,
Hani Zakaria
Secretary of PremedSociety

PreMed General Meeting

Attention to All PreMed Club Members, there will be a general meeting this Thursday,25th of September, at LT2(Lecture Theatre 2) from 4pm to 5pm.

We will be discussing the following events and matters during this general meeting :
-Introduction of our Mr.Bala, our newly joined Teacher Advisor
-Screening of videos of medical related area(surgery,etc)

-Upcoming Events
*MAC(Malaysian Aids Council) Event
*Charity Visits
*Visits to IMU
*Visits to Aids Hospital
*First Aid Training

14th AUGUST GM report

MINUTES OF PRE-MEDICAL SOCIETY MEETING
TAYLOR’S UNIVERSITY COLLEGE
14TH August 2008, 4.00PM, LT 2


President : Lek Ken Vin
Vice President : Lavnya Balenderan
Secretary : Hani Nadhrah Zakaria
Deputy Secretary : Adelynn Lim
Treasurer : Nicholas Lee Hon Mun
Deputy Treasurer : Victor Chow
Press Officer : Chen Chin Jun
SAM Representative : Sam Ye Han

Malaysian AIDS Council Facilitators Club (MFC)

-Presentation of slides to promote MFC
-A paper was passed around to recruit new members
-If interested, please submit:
Name, class, student ID, IC number, HP number, and email to
premed.taylors@gmail.com
New members were recruited

Gossip Project

Presentation of slides to promote the Gossip Project
- in planning

New Committee Members
-the post for 3 new committee member was open up.
-a list was passed around for those who were interested.
- interview of candidates still in planning

Meeting ended at 5.00pm

reported by,

Hani Zakaria

Secretary of PreMed Society

EVALUATION REPORT ON "LIFE AS A DOCTOR" TALK

laughing about being a doctor ?? ^.^

here you go.. thanks for talking to us!

Event : LIFE AS A DOCTOR TALK
date : 12TH JULY 2008
time : 3.00pm – 5.00pm
Venue : TUCMC LT2

Overall Evaluation

- 35 copies of “LIFE OF A DOCTOR” were sold at cost price (RM 15)
- A total of 104 students and parents/visitors attended the event..
- Event was very well chaired by Ms. Lavnya Balenderan. (VP of society)
- A euthanasia video by 0801PM1 (CAL) was shown to let students ponder about medical ethics.
-Speaker shared about his personal experiences while in medical school, a junior doctor and a specialist. (work life, personal views, and quotes from other doctors).
- Students and parents responded very well in Q&A session.
- A souvenir was given to the speaker.

Achievements/ milestones
- The session was very interactive and informative.
- Overall, all students and visitors agreed that the talk gave a different perspective about the life of a doctor and a medical student.

What we have learnt
- Students and visitors now have a deeper understanding of the medical ethics, medicine as a career, the life of a doctor (career, income, personal life), and the life of a medical student ( subjects studied during MBBS and further post grad – specializing ).

submitted by,
organizing chairman
Adelynn Lim

*ps : The LIFE AS A DOCTOR book can be purchased from MPH or Unipress at RM20.

MERCY CHARITY TALK

Professor Dr.Mohamed Ikram giving his speech!

Families of MERCY Taylors?

Full attention! Is the Video Presentation time!!

Everyone is concentrate on the video! Cool !!



EVALUATION ON MERCY TALK
PRE-MEDICAL SOCIETY
11TH JULY 2008
3PM-5PM


Overall Evaluation

- Arrival of students at LT3 on 3pm.
- There are 30 attendees including 5 EXCO members.
- Arrival of Professor Dr Mohamed Ikram, the Vice President of MERCY Malaysia.
- Short introduction to the speaker.
- Brief overview of MERCY and role of them in Malaysia.
- Experience shared by professor regarding guidelines and role of MERCY in charity event and worldwide disasters.
- Ways and pathway of MERCY in helping victims of disasters.
- A video is played to the students.
- The video generalized the community and history of MERCY, documentary of helping victims in countries such as Iraq, Myanmar and Indonesia.
- Souvenir is given to the Professor.
- Group pictures were taken in Lt3.

Achievements/milestones

- Have a good relationship amongst member of Pre-Medical Society.
- Have a good relationship with Professor Dr Mohamed Ikram.
- Have a better understanding of role of NGO in a society.
- Have a better understanding of guidelines and role of MERCY in charity event and worldwide disasters.
- Learned to make use of our own ability to help people in need.
- Experienced the hard life of victims and how they struggle to survive.
- Life of victims after a disaster.

What we have learnt

- Make use of our own ability to help the people in need.
- Appreciate what we have.
- Love and care for the others.
- Helping victims in many pathways including physical, mental and religion support.
- Think positively.



REPORTED BY,

VICTOR CHOW

VICE-TREASURER