Carle Illinois College of Medicine students prosecute successful acquisition opportunities extracurricular the classroom, including knowing the needs of the assemblage and responding to these needs done creating service-based opportunities. CI MED students also foster community done a assortment of pupil involvement groups that observe diverseness and inclusion.
Campaña de Salud
Physician innovators from Carle Illinois College of Medicine (CI MED) brought escaped wellness screenings and resources wrong scope for radical facing barriers to care, including cardinal Illinois’ LatinX community.
Exploring Modern Art & Humanism
This CI MED Hispanic Heritage Month Event: Exploring Modern Art & Humanism focused connected the appreciation of creation and its intersection with Hispanic civilization successful an effort to grow taste humility. The lawsuit showcased immoderate salient Latino artists arsenic students to joined successful coating a canvas successful immoderate mode that moves them, whether that reflects the artists' styles, their own.
The lawsuit was hosted by the CI MED Student Groups: Latino Medical Student Association (LMSA) and Student National Medical Assocation (SNMA).
Healing Harvest
On Saturday, October 22, CI MED Teaching Assistant Professors Imanni Sheppard and Lisan Smith co-led a work learning accidental astatine Cunningham Township Solidarity Gardens successful Urbana. The event, which brought unneurotic a concern with Dr. Margarita Teran-Garcia of the Illinois Extension Integrated Learning Program and CI MED module member Dr. Carlos Brown was aptly titled by Cunningham arsenic the Healing Harvest event.
The Healing Harvest gave CI MED students the accidental to supply wellness resources and information, enactment successful holistic wellness practices, and prosecute successful the improvement of assemblage with the radical of Cunningham Township. Six CI MED students participated successful the event: Alexa Lauinger, Dara Nafiu, Jose Beltran, Sanskruthi Guduri, Shreya Rangarajan, and Vedant Jain.
PRIDE astatine Carle Illinois
Carle Illinois College of Medicine students joined respective assemblage organizations connected Saturday, October 1 for the 2022 Champaign-Urbana Pride Fest successful Downtown Urbana, Illinois.
CI MED students, led by the Carle Illinois PRIDE student group, provided acquisition materials and accusation affirming LGBTQ+ wellness attraction successful the assemblage arsenic good arsenic opportunities for attendees to person their vitals checked.
The CU Pride Fest was hosted by the Uniting Pride (UP) Center of Champaign County, which advocates for the equality, wellness, advocacy, and visibility of the LGBTQ+ communities successful Champaign County.
SAMSA hosts Diwali Celebration
The South Asian Medical Student Association, coordinated by students Monica Bhagavan and Mukul Govande, hosted Diwali connected October 30, 2022. Mukul describes the solemnisation and its value successful Asian culture.
Diwali, besides known arsenic the “Festival of Lights,” is from the Sanskrit dīpāvali meaning "row oregon bid of lights.” This festival is 1 of the astir important festivals wrong Hinduism and mostly lasts 5 days and is celebrated during mid-October and mid-November. It symbolizes the spiritual “victory of airy implicit darkness, bully implicit evil, and cognition implicit ignorance.”
At our event, mostly attended by first- and second-year students, we hosted a potluck-styled meal followed by lighting fireworks. It was a joyous clip to punctual each different of the value of the festival and make a location distant from our homes.
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