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**I apologize in advance for placing this thread in this category. It specifically deals with the five Philadelphia medical schools which include both MD and DO programs, yet it is targeted exclusively to the class of 2010.**
Hello---I'm trying to organize a bone marrow typing drive (which is an opportunity to become part of the National Marrow Registry) for all medical students in Philadelphia. If you are interested in becoming part of the Registry, or if you are interested in helping organize the drive (which we are planning to do during the week of orientation) stop on over to the facebook group "PhillyMed Marrow Challenge" Thanks - Adam
Here is some more information...
PHILLYMED MARROW CHALLENGE
Who? All Philadelphia Medical Students of the Class of 2010
What? Bone Marrow Typing Drive Medical College Competition (see which school can have the highest % of students on the Registry)
Where? At your institution - run by you and the NMDP.
When? Sometime during the Week of Orientation.
Why? YOU can save a life!
Our Goal: 80% Participation
The procedure is very simple, less than 25 minutes in total, including paperwork. Let this be the first step in your medical career towards service to the medical community at large.
MORE INFORMATION TO FOLLOW - Check back.
If you are interested in volunteering to help out with the Marrow Typing Drive at your school during your school's orientation program, please reply here and I will be in touch with you soon.
HISTORY:
If you are reading this, you are probably excited to start school this fall and may even want to become involved with your school before classes start. I would like to find incoming students who would like to help organize a "Citywide Medical School Bone Marrow Typing Drive. We had a successful typing drive at my undergrad institution, and I have some experience with the planning process. This would be a great way to have a friendly competition among the five Philly Medical Colleges to see which school could enlist the highest percentage of 2010 students. I have already been able to secure the funds with the National Marrow Donor Program (NMDP) so this would be completely free for all donors.
We have the potential to add over 1000 names to the Registry just from Philly med students of 2010. As medical students we have the opportunity to be advocates for health programs and we can lead by our example.
For this plan to work, we need interested incoming students to help from the following Philly schools
Drexel University College of Medicine (approx. 235)
Jefferson Medical College (approx. 225)
Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine (approx. 250)
Temple University School of Medicine (approx. 180)
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine (approx. 145)
The plan is to have the "typing" drive during a 2 hour time slot during orientation. I will be attending Jefferson this August, and have enlisted the help of Jefferson's Student Affairs Office. I am hoping to find other MS1 students to do the same with their adminstration - perhaps a group of 2 or 3 students from each school. Sometime during orientation week, we would have the buccal swab taken and fill out the paperwork, which takes about 20 minutes total. However, we have only about 4 weeks to pull something together.
Organizing entails learning about the process, advertising to students (via email or mailings), working at the typing drive (maybe 3 hours total) and encouraging classmates to sign up. There is no long term commitment here and it will be completely done by the time classes start.
I have drafted a preliminary flyer that could be distributed to all the incoming students. The details could be changed to fit each individual school.
***
Anyone who is interested, please go ahead and reply here. If there is significant interest, we can make this happen.
***
------EXAMPLE FLYER (without Word formatting) ------
PhillyMed Marrow Challenge
Who? All Philadelphia Medical Students of the Class of 2010
What? Bone Marrow Typing Drive Medical College Competition
Where? Atrium Jefferson Alumni Hall Jefferson Medical College
When? Week of Orientation -- Tuesday, August 1st & Wednesday, August 2nd
12noon 2pm, drop in hours
Why? YOU can save a life! Jeff Pride starts here!
Our Goal: 80% Participation or 180 students
We want Jefferson to have the most students in the class of 2010 on the National Marrow Donor Registry of all Philly medical schools. The procedure is very simple, less than 25 minutes in total, including paperwork. Let this be the first step in your medical career towards service to the medical community at large.
Did you know that
Every year, more than 30,000 children and adults in the United States are diagnosed with life-threatening diseases for which a blood stem cell transplant could be a cure.
More than 70 diseases are treatable by a blood stem cell transplant.
The National Marrow Donor Program (NMDP) facilitates more than 170 transplants each month, totaling over 2,000 annually.
The NMDP maintains a registry of over 5 million potential volunteer stem cell donors.
Only 30% of patients find a matched donor in their family. Seventy percent of patients need a blood stem cell or marrow transplant and must search for an unrelated donor.
A Marrow Drive consists of having a buccal swab taken that is sent to the lab to be typed. If and when a match is found, the potential donor (you) will be notified and asked if you would be willing to donate your blood stem cells. If you are able and willing, you will donate your marrow in one of two ways. All costs for the procedure are covered by the recipient. In addition, the normal typing and processing fee of $75 to be added to the Registry has been waived by contributions to the NMDP.
Under the traditional method, marrow donation is performed in a hospital. While the donor receives anesthesia, doctors withdraw liquid marrow from the donor's pelvic bones. A donor's marrow is replaced within four to six weeks. Alternatively, Peripheral Blood Stem Cell (PBSC) donation takes place at an apheresis center. The donor's blood is removed through a sterile needle in one arm, passed through a machine that separates out the cells used in transplantation, and the remaining blood is returned to the arm.
Because tissue type is inherited, patients are most likely to match someone of their same race. There is a special need to recruit more donors who identify themselves as: Black or African American, American Indian or Alaska Native, Asian, Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander, Hispanic or Latino. We want this to be an educational experience in the sense of public health advocacy as well as a community service initiative.
Hello---I'm trying to organize a bone marrow typing drive (which is an opportunity to become part of the National Marrow Registry) for all medical students in Philadelphia. If you are interested in becoming part of the Registry, or if you are interested in helping organize the drive (which we are planning to do during the week of orientation) stop on over to the facebook group "PhillyMed Marrow Challenge" Thanks - Adam
Here is some more information...
PHILLYMED MARROW CHALLENGE
Who? All Philadelphia Medical Students of the Class of 2010
What? Bone Marrow Typing Drive Medical College Competition (see which school can have the highest % of students on the Registry)
Where? At your institution - run by you and the NMDP.
When? Sometime during the Week of Orientation.
Why? YOU can save a life!
Our Goal: 80% Participation
The procedure is very simple, less than 25 minutes in total, including paperwork. Let this be the first step in your medical career towards service to the medical community at large.
MORE INFORMATION TO FOLLOW - Check back.
If you are interested in volunteering to help out with the Marrow Typing Drive at your school during your school's orientation program, please reply here and I will be in touch with you soon.
HISTORY:
If you are reading this, you are probably excited to start school this fall and may even want to become involved with your school before classes start. I would like to find incoming students who would like to help organize a "Citywide Medical School Bone Marrow Typing Drive. We had a successful typing drive at my undergrad institution, and I have some experience with the planning process. This would be a great way to have a friendly competition among the five Philly Medical Colleges to see which school could enlist the highest percentage of 2010 students. I have already been able to secure the funds with the National Marrow Donor Program (NMDP) so this would be completely free for all donors.
We have the potential to add over 1000 names to the Registry just from Philly med students of 2010. As medical students we have the opportunity to be advocates for health programs and we can lead by our example.
For this plan to work, we need interested incoming students to help from the following Philly schools
Drexel University College of Medicine (approx. 235)
Jefferson Medical College (approx. 225)
Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine (approx. 250)
Temple University School of Medicine (approx. 180)
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine (approx. 145)
The plan is to have the "typing" drive during a 2 hour time slot during orientation. I will be attending Jefferson this August, and have enlisted the help of Jefferson's Student Affairs Office. I am hoping to find other MS1 students to do the same with their adminstration - perhaps a group of 2 or 3 students from each school. Sometime during orientation week, we would have the buccal swab taken and fill out the paperwork, which takes about 20 minutes total. However, we have only about 4 weeks to pull something together.
Organizing entails learning about the process, advertising to students (via email or mailings), working at the typing drive (maybe 3 hours total) and encouraging classmates to sign up. There is no long term commitment here and it will be completely done by the time classes start.
I have drafted a preliminary flyer that could be distributed to all the incoming students. The details could be changed to fit each individual school.
***
Anyone who is interested, please go ahead and reply here. If there is significant interest, we can make this happen.
***
------EXAMPLE FLYER (without Word formatting) ------
PhillyMed Marrow Challenge
Who? All Philadelphia Medical Students of the Class of 2010
What? Bone Marrow Typing Drive Medical College Competition
Where? Atrium Jefferson Alumni Hall Jefferson Medical College
When? Week of Orientation -- Tuesday, August 1st & Wednesday, August 2nd
12noon 2pm, drop in hours
Why? YOU can save a life! Jeff Pride starts here!
Our Goal: 80% Participation or 180 students
We want Jefferson to have the most students in the class of 2010 on the National Marrow Donor Registry of all Philly medical schools. The procedure is very simple, less than 25 minutes in total, including paperwork. Let this be the first step in your medical career towards service to the medical community at large.
Did you know that
Every year, more than 30,000 children and adults in the United States are diagnosed with life-threatening diseases for which a blood stem cell transplant could be a cure.
More than 70 diseases are treatable by a blood stem cell transplant.
The National Marrow Donor Program (NMDP) facilitates more than 170 transplants each month, totaling over 2,000 annually.
The NMDP maintains a registry of over 5 million potential volunteer stem cell donors.
Only 30% of patients find a matched donor in their family. Seventy percent of patients need a blood stem cell or marrow transplant and must search for an unrelated donor.
A Marrow Drive consists of having a buccal swab taken that is sent to the lab to be typed. If and when a match is found, the potential donor (you) will be notified and asked if you would be willing to donate your blood stem cells. If you are able and willing, you will donate your marrow in one of two ways. All costs for the procedure are covered by the recipient. In addition, the normal typing and processing fee of $75 to be added to the Registry has been waived by contributions to the NMDP.
Under the traditional method, marrow donation is performed in a hospital. While the donor receives anesthesia, doctors withdraw liquid marrow from the donor's pelvic bones. A donor's marrow is replaced within four to six weeks. Alternatively, Peripheral Blood Stem Cell (PBSC) donation takes place at an apheresis center. The donor's blood is removed through a sterile needle in one arm, passed through a machine that separates out the cells used in transplantation, and the remaining blood is returned to the arm.
Because tissue type is inherited, patients are most likely to match someone of their same race. There is a special need to recruit more donors who identify themselves as: Black or African American, American Indian or Alaska Native, Asian, Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander, Hispanic or Latino. We want this to be an educational experience in the sense of public health advocacy as well as a community service initiative.
