INTERN RESIDENT COMMITTEE

Chair: Lance Bezzina, DO
Vice Chair:
Secretary:
Past Chair: Stanley Forfa, DO

The MOA Intern-Resident Committee is a free-standing committee of interns and residents within the MOA who participate in all MOA activities and functions. If you are interested in serving on this committee or would like further information, please contact Shelly Madden, Manager of Membership, at smadden@mi-osteopathic.org.

The Intern-Resident Committee is comprised of the following sub-committees:

Information Technology
Membership
Convention Program (& exhibitors)
Convention Program Raffle Prizes

View list of committee members

Goals of the Committee
 1. Improve communication between Intern/Residents and the MOA
2. Increase Interns/Residents’ membership in the MOA
3. Address issues pertaining to Interns/Residents with respect to the MOA
4. Develop Intern/Resident positions on the AOA/MOA resolutions
5. Participate in the MOA House of Delegates as voting members
6. Send four representatives to the AOA House of Delegates as voting members
7. Develop educational programming for Interns/Residents at the MOA Convention
8. Address issues pertaining to young physicians
9. Develop a network with practicing physicians
10. Become politically active at the local, state and federal level
11. Interact with the AOA/MOA’s Young Physician’s Committee

2008-2009 Meeting Dates
All meetings are held at the MOA in Okemos beginning at 6:30pm. Meeting materials will be available approximately 1 week prior to scheduled meetings.

Wednesday, September 24, 2008
Wednesday, December 3, 2008
Wednesday, March 4, 2009
Wednesday, May 27, 2009

(Intern-Resident Convention program is Thursday, May 14, 2009 1:30-4pm, Hyatt Regency, Dearborn)

MOA House of Delegates
The Intern-Resident Committee was formed to create a voice for interns and residents at the MOA and AOA House of Delegates. Interns and Residents have 3 votes at the MOA, and 1 vote at the AOA. Our goal is to have representation from each hospital, which will attend our quarterly meetings and represent their respective hospital. To be active in the osteopathic community, your voice is important.

Intern-Resident-Young Physician Program at the MOA Convention-2008
Getting “Fit for Practice”
The MOA hosted an educational program for interns, residents, and young physicians on Thursday, May 15, 2008, during its 109th Annual Postgraduate Convention & Scientific Seminar. Nearly 100 interns, residents and young physicians attended the program on getting “Fit for Practice”. The Intern-Resident program “Fit for Practice” included topics on Case Study: Risk Exposures Identified (American Physicians), Balancing Work & Family (Laura Mohr) and Employment: Finding a Good Fit (Susan Sanford). New to the program, were two exhibitors who mingled with the young physicians: MidMichigan Health and Wyeth Pharmaceuticals. Various prizes were raffled during the program. The program was generously sponsored by the MOA and American Physicians.

MOA Intern-Resident Hospital Orientations
The association anticipates 394 new educational members as they schedule time to present information about the MOA to the new intern-residents of all osteopathic training hospitals. Letters were sent to DMEs requesting the opportunity to present a brief PowerPoint presentation highlighting the benefits of MOA membership for interns and residents during their orientations, which will take place the last two weeks of June, 2008. MOA is scheduled to present at 24 hospitals, which include Bay Medical Center, Botsford, Community Health Center, Garden City, Genesys, Henry Ford Macomb, Henry Ford Macomb-Warren Campus, Henry Ford Wyandotte, Hillsdale Community Health Center, Huron Valley-Sinai, Ingham Regional, Kalamazoo Medical Center, Mercy General Health Partners, Metro Health, Mount Clemens, Munson Medical Center, Oakwood Southshore, POH, Providence, Sinai-Grace, Sparrow, St. John Health Osteopathic Division, St. Joseph Mercy Oakland and William Beaumont. MOA Past Presidents will be paired with intern-resident committee members, allowing the association to structure peer-to-peer recruitment. Membership applications will be disseminated to the new interns and residents during their orientations, alerting them to their eligibility to a complimentary MOA membership during their graduate medical education training. New interns will also receive a copy of “On-Call: Principles and Protocols”, as a gift from the MOA for joining.

Click here to see the PowerPoint Presentation

Download the latest Intern-Resident Committee Minutes
Previous meeting minutes

Links

AOA: http://www.osteopathic.org
DO Online: http://do-online.osteotech.org
MSU Statewide Campus System: http://www.com.msu.edu/scs/index.shtml
SOMA: http://studentdo.com/
Opportunities: http://opportunities.aoa-net.org/
Medfools: http://medfools.com/