How I spend my time

Besides for classtime and studying, I've been slowly getting involved in a number of the student groups that they have at Sinai. I thought that I would write them down to get a sense of how I have been spending my time.

I have been spending the most of my "extracurricular" time with Medical Students Making Impacts (MSMI), which is essentially the first-year trip to Belize. I have a feeling that that, along with the Medical Spanish class/elective, will take up most of my free time.

I have also been getting involved in Students for Equal Opportunity in Medicine (SEOM), the Ophthomology Interest Group and the Geriatrics Interest Group, the East Harlem Health Outreach Program (EHHOP) and the Ita Ford Clinic, the American Medical Student Association (AMSA), and the Comunity Health and Health Policy Group. I am not sure how involved I will be in all of these groups, though I have a feeling that for some if may not be more than attending a meeting or two every once in a while. I would like to limit my involvement in comparison to what I did at Columbia, where I took on leadership positions in two of the big organizations on campus. I want to make sure that I don't spread myself too thin. Although other healthcare and medical issues are extremely important, medical school probably merits that I focus most of my time on my schoolwork.