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Medical Student's Perspective: Tips for Rocking 4th Year

Read the following tips from a fourth year medical student on how to rock your fourth year of medical school. This article relates the students own experiences and opinions, as learned through failures, successes, and may not represent the norm.

Medical Student's Competitions at the TXACP 2012 Annual Meeting

Six student members presented their clinical vignettes in conjunction with the annual meeting on Saturday morning. Outstanding presentations were made by Nicholas Perez, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio; Kershaw Patel, University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston; Sannya Hede, Baylor College of Medicine; Vijay Giridhar, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, Myrna Wallace-Servera, University of Texas Southwestern Medical School; and Charity Idowu, Texas A&M Health Science Center College of Medicine.

Kershaw Patel won first place in the competition with his vignette, "Bloody Bowels: The Source Runs Deep." Kershaw will automatically advance to San Francisco to compete at the national level during the ACP Internal Medicine 2013.  Charity Idowu won second place with her vignette, "Sacking the Diagnosis." Congratulations to all of our winners and presenters in the competition.

Seventeen students competed in the student poster competition. Taking first place in the medical student's poster competition was Scott McCord, from Texas A&M Health Science Center College of Medicine, with his poster, "aCYSTance Required." Akanksha Sharma, from UT Southwestern Medical Center, placed second in the competition with her poster, "Schisto in the Spine: A Rare Case of Neuroschistomiasis in Texas." Congratulations to all of our winners and presenters in the competition.

Special thanks goes to Karen Szauter, MD, FACP, and Eugene Stokes, MD, FACP, who serve as committee chairs and organize all of the student's competitions for the annual meeting.

TXACP Annual Meeting On Being a Doctor Essay Winner

Congratulations to the OBD winner, Kristin D'Silva, a student from UT Southwestern for her winning essay, "Lessons from my Father". The theme for the 2012 competition was "The new doctor: The impact of generational shifts and a changing medical educational environment."

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Medical Students ACP Benefits

As well as providing free membership to medical students, ACP offers valuable benefits for members, including an additional array especially for Medical Student Members.

• Medical Student Abstract Competitions
• Mentoring Database
• IMpact (a monthly online newsletter for medical students)
• Internal Medicine Interest Group Sponsorship Program (for information about careers in internal medicine)
• Free admission to the annual Internal Medicine Meeting

Free online access to ACP publications, including:

• Annals of Internal Medicine Online (includes electronic access to ACP Journal Club)
• ACP Journal Club PLUS
• PIER® Online (Physicians’ Information and Education Resource)

Special student member discounts on educational products, including:

• MKSAP for Students 4 and Internal Medicine Essentials for Clerkship Students 2 package
• Internal Medicine Essentials for Clerkship Students 2
• MKSAP for Students 4

 General Internal Medicine Statewide Preceptorship Program  

The General Internal Medicine Statewide Preceptorship Program (GIMSPP) places students with internists across the state for three or four-week preceptorships during the student's summer break. Students from all nine of the Texas medical schools participate -- most are first and second year students, however, third and fourth year students are also eligible.

  Student Interest Groups at Texas Medical Schools  

BCOM'S STUDENT INTEREST GROUP
UTMB'S STUDENT INTEREST GROUP
UTHHSC'S STUDENT INTEREST GROUP
TX A&M'S STUDENT INTEREST GROUP
PAUL L. FOSTER'S STUDENT INTEREST GROUP

 Texas Chapter of the ACP Resource Center 

A collection of Texas medical and general medical links useful to our Medical Students, general membership as well as visitors.