Current Programs

The OMCA supports the endeavors of many communities within Feinberg each year.  In the spring of 2007, we partnered with the American Medical Student Association (AMSA) to host a dessert social featuring the health of several Chicago Communities.  Nine student groups created posters to showcase information about a community, health condition, or 
experience.  Thanks to: Alternative Spring Break, AMSA, AMWA, APAMSA, Chinatown Clinic, JMSO, LCMA, Q&A,  SAMSA, and SNMA!

First Friday Film Series

All students, faculty, and staff are invited to spend one afternoon a month:

1)     coming together as a community

2)     exploring and learning about current issues in diversity and social justice

3)     dialoguing and developing greater understanding about current issues in diversity and social justice

with the goal of moving ourselves, individually, further along the continuum of cultural humility.  We hope you will join us!
Check out the 2008-2009 schedule

   schedule at a glance

Annual Martin Luther King Jr. Commemoration

The Chicago campus has a DREAM Committee developed through a partnership between NU Law and Feinberg School of Medicine.  Students, staff and faculty from both programs work together to plan a full day of speakers, panels, and events to commemorate the holiday.  All events are free and open to the public.  See the link below for the 2008 schedule.

http://www.northwestern.edu/mlk/index.html

If you are interested in helping with the 2009 Commemoration, please e-mail Sunny Gibson or Anita Munoz in the OMCA.

Minority Student Mentoring Program (MSMP)

Mentoring Program Description
Mentor Profile Form

Purpose: to facilitate connections between students, faculty, and residents that will foster career explorations and development, mentorship, scholarship and collegiality.

Format: Physicians and residents who want to participate submit a profile to the Office of Minority and Cultural Affairs.  Students interested in participating will select potential mentors and set up initial meetings and/or shadowing.  In order to find optimal matches, students are encouraged to continue exploring fields and mentors through shadowing, lab visits, etc.  When a student and mentor agree to work together, the student will be responsible for updating the mentor’s profile page in the OMCA to indicate that s/he has a mentee. 

Logistics: The OMCA hosts mentor mixer events three times a year in early fall (August/September), winter (Dec/Jan), and spring (May).  All mentors from the profile book, as well as those who have not yet enlisted are invited.  Minority housestaff and minority students are also invited to attend.  The events serve as social gatherings fostering community, high yield opportunities to meet mentors and mentees, as well as celebrations of holidays & graduation. 

NEW!  Breakfast with a Mentor
It's really simple - you take your mentor to breakfast on us!  We'll follow up and ask you if the experience was helpful in your career planning and personal/professional development.  Click here for more info.