Sunday, February 3, 2013

OTSC Agenda and Minutes 1-28-13


OTSC Meeting Agenda 1-28-13


External Business:

Coordinate a speaker event with PT
  • Ashley Olson, friend of Michelle Farmer, wants to speak to OT and PT on topic of “What I wish I had learned in rehabilitation”
    • Thursday, March 14th, Brown bag lunch at noon (2nd year students will be on externship)
  • Need someone to spearhead & coordinate with OT, PT, and Ashley
    • Alyssa Concha elected to spearhead this coordination for OT
OT collaboration with Dentistry
  • Alison Koop- Dentistry student-other dental schools offer classes on self-care for practitioners and thought it would be a good idea to develop a partnership between the dental school and occupational therapy program at USC
  • Potential collaboration between OTSC, a dentistry organization, and the Ergonomics course
    • Need someone to spearhead this collaboration

Annual Class Gift- review of discussion with Amber Pollard
·       Cohort competition- Cohort who raises most $ gets to plan a “dream party” for EVERYONE in class who donated, budget ~$30 per person
·       CLASS GIFT COMMITTEE:
o   Neutral” liaison: Kristina Fender
o   Cohort A: Megan, Sean, Emi
o   Cohort B: Tara, Erin, Susan
o   Cohort C: Sepi, Amy, Max
·       Determined kick-off and ending dates for the campaign and when to send a heads-up email to the listserves

Nov 8, 2013 is the Occupational Science Symposium: Military and Family life
·       Need 1-2 student representatives on the coordinating committee to plan and execute the OS Symposium
·       Student needs to be enrolled in one of the programs next fall (MA or OTD) and ideally would have a military and family issues interest
·       Commitment: lunch meetings every 4-6 weeks, day of assistance

Internal Business:
Meeting Dates (subject to change):
Monday 2/11, 4:00 - 5:30 p.m., CHP 112
Monday 3/25, 4:00 - 5:30 p.m., CHP 112
Monday 4/15, 4:00 - 5:30 p.m., CHP 112

Fundraising Idea:
  • Shutterfly yearbook for Class of 2013
    Critical to success this semester = forming sub-committee
  • Take initiative to form small planning groups to meet more frequently throughout the semeste
  • Banquet Planning Committee, Fundraising Committee, International Forum Committee- email containing a google doc will be sent to OT classes
  • Added Class Gift Committee
Council Items:
1) AOTA (Sean & Colin):
_X  Discussion
        1) ASD Steering Elections- does OTSC support campainging for encouraging voting, voting drives, voting day, where students bring their computers
        2) Group rates for AOTA Conference- can get a discountis we signup with a group, group created and an email will be sent out to OT students with a current AOTA student membership

2) Faculty Liaison (Jane & Jen S.):
_X__ Discussion
  • Faculty response to OTAC about mandatory student membership- positive and supportive of OTSC suggestion to make this mandatory
  • Group transportation to AOTA with faculty- brought up in the meeting to see how faculty feel about this idea, OTSC members discussed the option of carpooling, public transportation, etc. // look into sending an email to the faculty and gauge interest
  • Suggestion box where students can deliver suggestions to faculty liason and if they have something to have faculty liason ask the faculty- received support

3) Fundraising Chairs (Kristina):
_X__ Discussion 
  • Shutterfly Yearbook Committee: yearbook fundraising committee for the Class of 2013
    • Discussed including just graduating MA1, MA2, OTD, or also include the 1st year MA students, no decision was reached
  • California Pizza Kitchen fundraiser in planning stages.  
    • The event will most likely be held at the end of February or beginning of March.
4) GSG Senator (Max & Casey):
_X_ Update
·       HSC Concerns Updates:
o   Next meeting Feb 5th: Dan Stimmler-in charge of bookstore, transportation, cafeteria food options, etc.
o   TAP cards to be reloaded at UPC (M - Th, 10am - 4pm)
·       HSC Professional Development Week (April 1 - 5, around lunchtime)- resume/cover letter appointments, interview wkshop, int’l student employment

5) Historian (Steve & Amanda):
_X_ Update
  • ·       Helping with the yearbook design and photo gathering.

6) International Affairs (Amy & Anastasia):
_X__ Update
  • ·       Tentative event day 
    •  In process of getting guest speakers’/Fullbright office schedule. 
    •   Discussed with MA-I their input (posters/workshops).    


7) OTAC Representative (Tara & Alyssa):
__X_ Discussion:
  • ·       Memo of OTSC support for mandatory OTAC student  membership proposal was taken to Friday’s 1/25 administrator’s and faculty meeting
  • ‘OTAC Flash’ Monthly newsletter begins in February, so stay tuned
    • Re: OTAC roll out plan: Phase 1: Awareness- in action, Phase 2: Spring Membership Drive- more to come, needs planning.


8) OTD Representative (Bill):
 X  Update
  • Episode featuring me on OT Go To is up.  http://www.otgoto.com/7/  Episode 9 (most recent episode) features Brock Cook, an OT from Australia who specializes in mental health and founder of MH4OT.  Anyone who wants to be on a future episode can go on the OT Go To web site and contact Michelle.
  •   OTalk2US will have some great hosts coming up.  On February 3rd at 4 pm (Super Bowl Sunday), Karen Jacobs (last year’s Eleanor Slagle Lecturer) will be talking about her work as editor of WORK journal.  Winnie Dunn (known for her work of the Sensory Profile) will be hosting on April 7th at 4 pm and her topic is Employing a Strengths Based Approach in a Problem Focused World.  These are great opportunities for USC students to interact with icons in our field and other like minded OT professionals and students.   Hash tag to follow or contribute for this Twitter chat is #otalk2us
  •  To 2nd years- If any prospective OTD student wants to know what it is like to do a residency with an international OT, I am open to answer any questions you may have via email.  It can be a fun, rewarding, and educational experience.  But, it may not be an easy process to get started, especially if you are not an international student.  Since I have a very successful residency experience, however, I don’t mind sharing it in detail for students who might be thinking this direction.
  • Check out http://otalkocchats.wordpress.com/ and http://otalk2us.wordpress.com/ for transcripts for past OTalk/Occhat and OTalk2US Twitter chats
  • Soon-to-be hot OT item- A student from Western Michigan University is planning on designing an official (or two) Mental Health 4 OT T-shirts.  (You can check out the designs on MH4OT group on Facebook.)  Will update when the T-shirts are released... as this may not be a bad T-shirt to wear for your mental health fieldwork placements.
  •  Have asked an international OT about OT-dentistry collaboration ideas.  Some ideas to think about- posture, patient chair’s height, tool modification

9) OT House Liaison (Jen W.):
 X  Update
  • New RA: Piyush Deokar (new contact person)

10) Philanthropy (Paula & Megan):
_X_ Discussion
11) Professional Development (aka PDC) (Erin & Stacy):
Update
  • First faculty dinner this past Thursday featuring Drs. Rafeedi, Thompson, and Uyeshiro
    • 5 more planned for the rest of semester (about 1 a month)
  • In the process of figuring out outreach opportunities & will have more info by next meeting
12) Social Chair (Megan & Clarissa):
Update
  • Color Run this coming Saturday, February 1st. The USC OT team is running at 9:00AM
  •   Planning a Big Bear ski trip for February
  •   Med Prom Saturday February 9th, 9p-2a at Lot 613

13) Treasurer (Susan & Mazelle):
Discussion




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