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Good luck to our newest clerkship students on their first week on the wards! You’ve got this!

Please join our cultural affinity groups in celebrating the diversity that PSOM has to offer during Diversity Week from August 31 to September 4. See email for more details.

PSOM MS1s, welcome week is still ongoing! Please engage with the remainder of the events including “Really Cool Stuff”, the Activities Fair, happy hour, Cultural Affinity Week, and the Barnes Foundation Tour.

Please help support VotER initiatives led by PSOM students. These students are striving to increase voter registration in Philadelphia and throughout Penn Associated Hospitals(PAH). Submissions by @tzoniaa

MSG runs internal elections and serves as a point of contact for PSOM admin when open positions affecting the whole student body need to be filled. We strive to be transparent, fair, and involve several relevant student groups. Please see how we navigate these responsibilities.

The past few months have highlighted important issues in medicine and society. We are proud to support two new PSOM student groups that are addressing some of these issues. Please read more in our July Newsletter(sent yesterday).

A piece of our July Newsletter emailed out today. Thank you to SNMA, LMSA, and FGLI representatives for productive discourse about how MSG can be more accessible/representative. We hope these policy changes will be meaningful first steps toward achieving that.

A priority for us has been to appoint faculty advisors to help mentor MSG. Huge thanks to SNMA, LMSA, FGLI, and co-chair representatives for their help during the process. Please join us in welcoming Dr. Childs and Dr. @akweissMD as co-faculty advisors. Excited to work with them!

A piece of our upcoming July Newsletter highlighting the past year of the PSOM Impact Fund. We are particularly thrilled to have been able to fund over $5,000 towards projects aimed at supporting student response to COVID-19 and combating racial inequities.