UAA AMSA Club

Tanya Charoonsophonsak, a first-generation Alaskan and UAA’s fall 2021 commencement speaker, is encouraging her class to continue making transformational changes that will not only impact them now but for generations to come.

Charoonsophonsak said she’s watched her parents make big, daring decisions, and that their resiliency inspired her commencement speech. Motivated by her parents and the risks and sacrifices they made to provide opportunities for a better future, Charoonsophonsak invites her classmates to do the same.

“I took their story and idea and related that to our class's journey currently — as graduates in 2021,” Charoonsophonsak said. “We’re all resilient; that can’t be stated enough. But for those who continued and didn’t take a break, we’re making transformational change for ourselves. And we may not see it directly right now, but our future generations will, just like my parents did.”

UAA will celebrate the fall Class of 2021 on Sunday, Dec. 12, at the Alaska Airlines Center (ticketed guests only) and online. For details, visit uaa.alaska.edu/commencement.

Physician/Nurse talk
Joining us tonight will be Kimberly, an RN who graduated with her BSN from UAA in 2018 and current works on the inpatient floor at ANMC. Also Joining us will be Dr. Maddox, an internal medicine osteopathic physician affiliated with numerous hospitals in Anchorage to include ANMC.

Feel free to bring any questions to the table that you have for our guest speakers tonight. One of the key points in having a nurse and physician join us, however, is to hear from providers more about the vast variety of options that exist in the healthcare world and what led them down the paths they chose. Especially nowadays since COVID, shadowing has become incredibly difficult to come by. Shadowing is normally the route that us pre-healthcare professionals take to get an understanding for where we will best fit in the system of healthcare, so I hope that this opportunity helps to answer some questions for all of us in that regard.

The meeting tonight will begin at 6:30 PM! I hope to see you there!

Good afternoon! Don’t forget to come to CPISB room 120 this afternoon at 6 for our next AMSA meeting. Our agenda is as follows:



Neuroscience minor

We will be bringing you information regarding the details of the new neuroscience information including requirements, how to register, why to consider it, and contact information.



PNWU DO recruiter notes

A Pacific Northwest University recruiter stopped by UAA a couple weeks ago and I had the opportunity to speak with him so I would like to present all of the information that I can regarding their medical programs.

COVID-19 Current events

As pre-healthcare professionals, it is important that we stay up to date on current events in the healthcare world so this is why we would like to present and discuss some of the medical and ethical happenings of today.



Application overview

Mathew and I will be presenting tips and tricks of the application process, things we wish we knew before applying, and things that you can start doing now to prepare for your application no matter where you are at in the process.

Free food again!!

ORCA has graciously offered to supply us with free food for our meeting so I hope to see you tonight!