Meetings
This club meets regularly on alternate Wednesday A-blocks or as determined by the club sponsor.
Email
Email is definitely the best way to get in touch with us. Please feel free to email us with any comments, suggestions, questions, or concerns you may have. You can email us at tjmedicalsociety@gmail.com
Stop By
The officers meet every other Wednesday during lunch on weeks we don’t have MEDSOC in room 123 (Dr. Uston’s room). If you need to talk to us in person or have an idea you’d like to give for a future meeting, please stop by!
Dr. Uston
Our amazing sponsor, always willing to let us use her room, is located in room 123. If you have any questions about the club, don’t hesitate to ask her or leave a note with her for us.
Ideas?
The officers of MEDSOC are constantly trying to come up with new and interesting meetings for you all. However amazing we may be, our fountain of creativity sometimes does run dry. Do you have any ideas for interesting meetings? Do you have any good resources? Is your father the Surgeon General of the United States? If so, please email us NO LATER THAN a week before our scheduled meeting. We also want ideas for fundraising.
-TJ Medical Society
The second of our series of videos graciously provided by Sid Bhatia showcases a further application of robotic surgery, which is able to correct an aneurysm (thinning and bloating of the blood vessel) in the spleen, an organ necessary in the filtration and production of blood. Robots allows doctors to perform these operations with greatly shortened recovery times owing to their minimally invasive nature.
-Dennis Wang (video courtesy of Sid Bhatia)
A rather interesting video showing the use of the innovative and minimally invasive “Da Vinci Surgical System,” a medical advent originally funded by DARPA on behalf of the government, and later the Stanford Research Institute. This shows some of the latest technology being developed in the medical field, which will be improved as time goes on. One of the greatest current applications for the technology is its use in prostatectomies in prostate cancer patients.
-Dennis Wang