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The School of Medicine Graduate Student Association was created in 1973 as a student government
body to represent all graduate students on the Health Sciences Campus
of USC.
The SMGSA
Board is composed of five Executive Officers (President, Vice-President
of Executive Affairs, Vice-President of Social Affairs, Treasurer,
and Secretary), along with seven Department Representatives (Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, Cell and Neurobiology, Microbiology & Immunology, Pathobiology,
Physiology & Biophysics, PIBBS and Preventive Medicine). Elections are held at the end
of each Spring semester and students are notified of events by flyers
and emails.
Any
Master's, Ph.D. or M.D./Ph.D. student can be a part of SMGSA!
Our yearly events include: Fall/Spring BBQ, Monthly Happy Hours,
Graduate Student Gatherings, and Bioscope.
To enhance
each graduate student's social and academic experience, SMGSA serves
to:
- Provide a forum for discussion
of issues of concern to graduate students and provide guidance
to direct action, when appropriate and necessary, to protect
graduate students' rights as well as responsibilities.
- Act as a political voice for graduate students
with the University by facilitating the exchange of ideas
and implementing goals regarding policy development affecting
graduate education.
- Foster communication between the
graduate students on the Health Sciences Campus (HSC) and
the University Park Campus (UPC) through membership in the
Graduate & Professional Student Senate (GPSS).
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- Host social and educational activities
to encourage professional as well as personal interaction
with peers, post-doctoral fellows, staff, faculty and administration.
- Assist the Office of Graduate Student Services
& Scientific Affairs with student registration, health
insurance enrollment and account settlement.
- Distribute to each department
an allotment of the student activity fees paid by every
graduate student each semester, based on the number of students
in the respective program.
- Select the graduate student speaker for the
School of Medicine Commencement ceremony each year, based on an open audition
of all eligible graduating students
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