Each month, a speaker from a different pediatric subspecialty will speak and take questions during a lunch meeting. A shadow program is in the works, and students may contact Marc Natter 01 about volunteering in the playroom. The idea is to provide additional meaning to the hours spent in lecture and lab, and help us re-focus on our reasons for entering the medical profession. Currently programs in Neurology, Psychiatric Emergency Medicine, Obstetrics and Gynecology, and Internal Medicine are underway, and more specialties are forthcoming. The S.M.I.L.E. program is designed to give medical students at Stony Brook a unique opportunity to serve their community by becoming friends with a chronically ill child.
Students are responsible for meeting with their little sibling on an individual basis.
In addition, S.M.I.L.E. will organize bi-monthly group activities such as a Halloween party, movie night, and an afternoon at Sports Plus. Medical students will also meet every other month during lunch time to discuss their experiences with each other. There is an executive committee for those interested in helping to organize the members of our group. The Student National Medical Association was established in 1964 because of a need to produce an increasing number of particularly sensitive and excellent physicians to serve minority and indigent communities. There are currently over 100 medical school chapter affiliates in this national organization.