Another Busy Week at Salus: Week of August 3, 2018

Students, Faculty, Residents, Staff, Alumni, Board Members and Friends,
 

It’s been another busy week at Salus. Here are some of the highlights:

For those of you on campus today, Student Council’s August Open Meeting is scheduled from 1 p.m to 3 p.m. in S305. I would encourage you to attend.

Our Physician Assistant students completed a pediatrics exam workshop on Thursday, August 2, that helped the students provide initial exposure to the pediatric patient population, prior to the start of their clinical rotations coming up in September. Great way to get ready for “the real thing”!

On Monday, July 30th, the Learning Resource Center hosted four-legged friends for students and faculty to come pet to de-stress from finals. If dogs aren’t your thing, there will be yoga with kittens on Saturday at the Hafter Center!

One of our original plans when helping to open a primary care clinic in The Eye Institute was to facilitate student rotations in the clinic. As the City Life Clinic recently marked its one-year anniversary, it also celebrated the success of our pilot program where one of our PA students completed a first hands-on clinical rotation at the facility. These rotations will continue as the clinic evolves.
 
This week we hosted Donna Frisby-Greenwood, the Lighthouse Award recipient to be honored at this year’s Looking Out For Kids Annual Charity Fundraiser on 3 November. Ms. Frisby Greenwood serves as the first president and CEO of the Fund for the School District of Philadelphia and has previously served as the director of college and career awareness for the School District of Philadelphia and program director for the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation where her work focused on retaining talented people and expanding economic opportunity in the city. Donna has a love for teaching and has made a significant impact in the lives of many of Philadelphia's underprivileged young people. We’re extremely honored and proud that she will be this year’s honoree.
 
Finally, just a reminder about our $100 to commemorate 100 years of PCO challenge I mentioned last week. We’re beginning to pick up some steam on this so if any of you are so inclined, especially our alumni out there, please give. These donations are being used for important scholarship dollars we need to help off-set tuition driven by the high cost of providing world-class clinical training programs. I’d like to see each of our prior graduating classes compete to see who comes out on top! Personally, I’m pulling for the PCO Class of 1980 - let’s get this moving!
 
Looks like half of the weekend will not be rainy so I encourage you all to get out and keep moving! Summer is passing quickly and before we know it, we’ll be shoveling snow! Have a safe and relaxing weekend!

Mike