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CMDA 2010 Northeast Winter Conference

January 15-17, (Friday –Sunday)
Sandy Cove Conference Center (Maryland)

for more information and to register:

http://www.cmda.org/Content/NavigationMenu/Conferences/MasterCalendar/2010NortheastWinterConference/default.htm

In an effort to coordinate transportation and carpooling from NYC to Maryland, please send the following information to kelly_siano@nymc.edu if you’re planning to attend the conference:

— Do they have a car and are you willing to drive people (if so, how many)?
— Do they need a ride?

From Brian Yoon:

INVITE EVERYONE YOU KNOW!!!! PRINT OUT THE FLIERS AND PASS THEM AROUND!!! GET THE WORD OUT PLEASE!!!

Thanksgiving Benefit Concert & Praise Night
InterMed/CMDA Invites You to Celebrate and Worship
Guest Speaker: James Winans of the Bowery Mission Presents
“Thankfulness and Community in the Face of Poverty and Suffering”

Plus hear from the Haiti MedMissions Team

Where: NYU School of Medicine, Schwartz Hall E
435 East 30th Street (between First Ave and FDR)
When: Friday, November 20th, doors open at 8:00pm

Suggested Admission: 1 can (or more!) of non-perishable food

www.bowery.org * www.cmdanyc.org
–
Brian Yoon, 2LT, OMS-III
United States Army
Touro College of Osteopathic Medicine – New York
Class of 2011

From Alfredo Ok:

It’s time for the annual Intermed retreat! Join other Christian medical/dental/

healthcare students from around the greater New York City for a brief retreat on December 4-5 at NYMC in Westchester. More information about the retreat and registration is below. We hope to see you there!

In Christ,
-the 2009-2010 Intermed Retreat Team

FOCUS:
“Jesus answered them, ‘It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.’” (Luke 5:31-32)

Evangelism is a critical component of God’s mission in our lives. As students of the health professions, we face unique challenges in following Christ, as well as unique opportunities to engage in ‘missions.’ Join us as we consider what this means to us individually and corporately, both in the context of global missions and within the domestic concerns of our daily lives as students in the New York City area.

GUEST SPEAKERS:
Introduction: Scott Boyles, MDiv (CMDA Northeast Regional Director)
Plenary sessions: Stephen Ko, MD, MPH (pediatrician and student at Gordon Conwell Theological Seminary)
Workshop leaders: David Kim, MD, and more to be announced, including a special dental workshop.

DETAILS:
What: Large-group worship and messages, small-group sharing and devotionals, games and fellowship
Where: New York Medical College in Valhalla, NY (directions to follow, upon registration)
Date: Friday, December 4 – Saturday, December 5
Cost: $20 (pay when you get there)

HOW TO REGISTER:
Registration is online:
http://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=dFdabW9Sc0hjdW1jbXVYY29TTmFhMFE6MA
Please register as soon as you can, to help us plan for food and lodging — our deadline is Friday, November 27, 2009.

QUESTIONS?
Email <retreat.intermed.cmda@gmail.com>, or ask your school fellowship leader.

Intermed Fall Picnic
October 17, 2009
(that’s tomorrow)
10AM to 1PM
***********************
@ NYU Dental – 3rd Floor Seminar Room
345 E. 24th Street, New York, NY

***** Fellowship, Worship, Food, Games *****

Forward this email to all the members of your fellowship! We look forward to seeing you all soon!

From the InterMed Leadership

Welcome to the start of a new school year!  All students are invited to come discuss and pray about what’s in store for Intermed in the coming months at the …

InterMed – Fall Regional Meeting

Friday, September 11

7pm

@ NYU Dental – 3rd floor seminar room

345 E. 24th Street, New York, NY

Things we will be discussing at the meeting:
1) Updates on your school fellowship
2) Fall picnic
3) Annual retreat
4) Monthly Intermed events

Things to do:

1) Make sure your school’s fellowship is represented at the meeting!
2) Be prepared to talk about plans for your school’s fellowship for the coming semester.
3) Bring the academic calendars for 1^st and 2^nd years at your school so we can select dates for our big events.

We look forward to seeing everyone. God Bless,

   – InterMed Leadership ’09-‘10

Held at Uris Auditorium at Weill Cornell Medical School, the 2009 Senior Commissioning Ceremony involved about one hundred medical students, residents, attendings, and guests.  Congratulations to all the fourth-years who now are heading to a new chapter in their lives!  Photos of the event can be found here.

–
Brian Nishinaga, an MS II at Einstein:

Albert Einstein’s Christian Fellowship would like to invite you to:
Who: Intermed!
What: Trip to the world renowned Bronx Zoo
When: Saturday Oct. 25th from 1 pm – 4 pm (or whenever you want to be there) The zoo is open from 10am – 5:30 pm and admission is $15.
Why: bc people don’t realize that the bronx offers more than J-Lo and Dunkin’ Donuts

If everyone could please try to get there around 1 pm, then we can randomly split up the different schools into different groups so that peoples can get to know one another instead of clumping together in your school fellowships. Plan on eating lunch beforehand and perhaps we can arrange dinner options at local restaurants for those who are interested.

the website, in case you want to check out what’s going on is:

http://www.bronxzoo.com/plan-your-trip/hours-and-rates.aspx

Access to the zoo is via the Bx12 which you can get to by taking the 1 train to 207th street.

Please forward this email to your respective fellowships and pass the word on to anyone who is interested! Contact me at bnishina(at)aecom.yu.edu to RSVP or if you want more details.

Ted Ferenczy says:

1) Concert!
Shane & Shane, Bethany Dillon and Phil Wickham
When: Friday, December 5th, 7pm
Where: Barnegat NJ
Tickets: itickets
I plan on purchasing tickets on Wednesday evening (Oct. 1) for myself and people who are definitely going. This is a seated concert at a small church with room for 600 people and it’s expected to sell out. You can email me by tomorrow or purchase tickets on your own later on. Let me know if you are going to be able to come and we’ll take a field trip to NJ!!
Barnegat is about 2 hours from the city and we’ll arrange rides as we get closer to the date of the concert.

2) Caroling!
When:Friday, December 12th, 5:30pm
Where: Kings County Hospital, Brooklyn NY
Caroling at the County has become an annual tradition at for Downstate students. Typically we sing on the pediatrics floor of the hospital, but details have not been finalized for this year. Join us in spreading Joy and the Gospel with song! We’ll try to have a social hour with hot chocolate and hot apple cider afterwards as well!
Subway Directions:
2 train to Winthrop stop,
Exit, walk on Parkside Ave. across Nostrand Ave.
Continue on Parkside one block, Parkside comes to a T at New York Ave; take a Right on New York Ave.
Walk down New York Ave. take first Left on Clarkson Ave.
Main entrance of Kings County Hospital Center is 451 Clarkson, on your Left.

Approximately 60 students and 3 attendings from Columbia, Cornell, Mount Sinai, New York COM, New York Medical College (NYMC), New York University (NYU), Robert Wood Johnson (RWJ), Sophie Davis, SUNY-Downstate, and Touro COM, attended this gathering held in Riverbank State Park. We were blessed by a brisk but sunny October day. Worship was led by a couple students and then David Chen from RWJ helped break the ice by having everyone introduce themselves and then have us spray each other with silly string! After grace was said by Dr. Ako Tabetah, a picnic lunch was served. Group photos of those attending were taken and those present broke off to fellowship with each other. Dr. Ali Ko offered spiritual support to the students as well as opportunities to meet with Christian Attendings.

Ted Ferenczy states:

This year, the focus of our weekly bible studies will be examining Christianity as both a family and a community.

Through studying the bible, eating meals, playing games and serving the community together we hope to foster the development of friendships between class years at Downstate.

We’d also like to introduce our students to Christian attendings in the area and provide the opportunity for those relationships to form.

We meet every Thursday night at 5:30pm at the Downstate Student Center, Reading Room at 394 Lenox Rd. Brooklyn, NY 11203. Dinner to follow at 6:45 pm.

Upcoming gatherings:
Thurs, Oct. 2 Dr. Ko; being a Christian attending physician.
Thurs, Oct. 9 Social event: Keith and Sharon’s apt
Thurs, Oct 16 Bible study: Prodigal son; the father
Thurs, Oct 23 Bible study: Prodigal son; the elder brother
Thurs, Oct 23 Bible study: Singleness/relationships/dating

Service Project: (in progress)
Fri, Nov. 7 we are looking into/planning on helping with the “Dine and Learn Healthy Man” Symposium at the Brooklyn Tabernacle.