8TH ANNUAL CAREER CHATS EVENT HOSTED FOR UofL MEDICAL STUDENTS
On March 2 nd , GLMS hosted the 8 th annual Career Chats ( Specialty Speed Networking event ) in which young medical students meet with established physicians to discover more about what specialties interest them .
GLMS President John Roberts , MD , welcomed the students to the event and encouraged them to ask probing questions of the physicians who had volunteered their time . The event itself was held at the Abell Administration Building on the U of L School of Medicine ’ s campus . For nearly two hours , students had the ear of leading physicians in the Louisville area .
Reporting to the Board of Governors the following week , Dr . Roberts praised the event . “ We had nine specialties and 34 students present . There was a lot of energy and a lot of excitement . Students often doubled back to talk to the specialties that most interested them . It was a very successful evening .”
Special thanks to the following physicians who volunteered their |
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Dr . Robert Couch |
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Dr . Evangelia Gravari |
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Dr . Kendra Grubb |
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Dr . Mary Barry |
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Dr . Sean Miller |
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Dr . Michael Kommor |
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Dr . Tanika Taylor |
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Dr . Amy Quillo |
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Dr . Michael Salamon |
( Top ) GLMS President John Roberts , MD , welcomes physicians and students to the 8th annual Career Chats event ; ( Bottom left ) GLMS Board Chair Robert Couch , MD , MBA , ( right ) talks emergency medicine with first year medical students ; ( Bottom Right ) Students rotated among 9 specialty tables to learn what areas of medicine interest them the most .
6 GLMS NEWS MARCH 2017