University of Limerick Medical Society
Minutes – 2016-2017
Meeting Location: GEMS 1-015 Meeting Time & Date: 7:30 pm / Oct 6, 2016In Attendance: Meghan, Homai, Norah, Becca, Shawn, Jordan, Jamie, Jess, Julianna
Regrets: Alfie
Recorder: Homai
President – Meghan
· GEMS clothing: events committee will take over dealing with clothing and admin has approve the updated logo
· Meeting with the heads of all the GEMS student interest groups
· Meeting with Cardio group to discuss GEMS clothing
· GeekyMedics potentially coming to UL and open to ideas
o Maybe doing it with SurgSoc to plan it during one of their workshop
o OSCE workshop
o Workshop on interpreting and the tricks of some exams
· Cultural festival first week in spring term – celebrating all the cultural diversity in UL and asked if GEMS might want to get involved since we are very diverse à fundraising for charity that helps migrants in limerick
· Ski trip:
o Have cut down some on the cost
o No airlines have a group deal so each person will book their own flight and just have a set time to all meet at the bus that will take to lodge
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Vice President/Secretary – Homai
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Treasurer - Ahmed
· Out of the 10,000e floater money that needs to be passed between years of MedSoc, we’ve used 2000e of it à need to be careful not to use too much of this floater money and making sure to break even in events
· New Month à great for financially – made profit
· Pay Sophie for the pegs bought for catch me if you can
Irish New Student Liaison / International New Student Liaison - Jamie & Juliana
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Health and Safety Officer - Norah
· Doctorials: Jamie’s and Emily’s lectures went well working on cutting down Emily’s lectures to 3hr max
· Dr. Deniman’s lecture went very well and GEMS covered the snacks and refreshments
Charity Officer – Jessica G.
· Movember
o Looking for sponsors for calendar
o Johnson and Johnson contact for donations
· SoUL week
o On Wednesday of that week à Jess will post about getting volunteers
o BP clinic and looking for other ideas
o Ideas for name of clinic – “are ya well?”
o 12:30-2:30 during that week Oct. 26 à Jamie and Homai will attend
Public Relations Officer – Rebecca
Sports Officer - Alfie
Events Officer – Killian T.
· New month: great turnout
· Medball:
o Medball tasting
o Going with the band (playing for 2hrs) and then DJ all night
o Contacting wine company for sponsorship
· Movember:
o TAG tournament and poker
o Potential idea: last weekend in November do the oldies vs. babies as fundraising event for men’s mental health or for Movemeber
Year 3 Representative - Jordan
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Year 4 Representative – Shawn
· Fourth year yearbook à working with Kerrie Hennigan and potentially MedSoc to work on pricing and getting yearbook out
· New Month turnout for 4th years wasn’t too great but will try to get them out more in future events