The minutes for the February 1st Medical Society meeting have now been posted.

For more information see http://www.torontomeds.com/medical_society.asp

The 2006 Daffydil website is now up!  Check it out for more information about the show.

For more information see http://www.daffydil.ca/

Bobby Yanagawa, 2005-2006 Medical Society president has compiled a progress report for this year's medical society executive.  Please check it out when you have the chance.

For more information see http://www.torontomeds.com/medical_society.asp

The minutes for the January 4th Medical Society meeting have now been posted.

For more information see http://www.torontomeds.com/medical_society.asp#minutes

The 20th annual Medical Student Research Day was held Wednesday, January 11th in the beautiful new atrium of the CCBR.  The quality and diversity of research was remarkable, with an amazing and record-breaking 113
posters presented by students from all years of the MD and MD/PhD programs.  From the bustling poster presentation session to the oustanding keynote address by Dr. Katherine Siminovitch, MSRD 2006 was a great success!

Congratulations to all the prize winners:
Basic Science Category - Eitan Prisman
Clinical Science Category - Jennifer Hensel
Health Care Category - Peter Ceponis
First Year Category - Sivan Bega
MD/PhD Category - Varinder Randhawa
Overall Best Poster - Eitan Prisman and Jennifer Hensel

For more information see http://dante.med.utoronto.ca/MSRD

The minutes for the November 2nd Medical Society meeting have now been posted.

For more information see http://www.torontomeds.com/medical_society.asp#minutes

The 0T8 Bake Sale held on Tuesday December 6th raised over $700 for the 0T8 class charity - The Stephen Lewis Foundation.  Congraulations to everyone involved!

For more information see http://www.stephenlewisfoundation.org/

Orbital Groove played to a capacity crowd for their 6th Annual Winter Orbital Groove Concert on Monday December 5th at Healy's.  The show was rockin' with tunes like K-CI and Jo Jo's All My Life and Carlos Santana's Maria Maria.  Well over a hundred people were in attendance and most were dancing all night long!  The charity raffle was won by Dave Esho (0T8) at the end of the night, and his chosen charity, the Stephen Lewis Foundation, will receive the $1300 in proceeds collected by the band.  Congraulations to all band members:

joseph krakowski - guitar
helena frecker - bass
rohit pai - drums
rachel mitchell - voice
janice wong - trombone
ben hui - sax
natasha saunders - trumpet
monidipa bhattacharyya - voice
sasha high -voice
kyle waldman - trumpet
melissa tan - trumpet
rebecca colman -sax
joseph barbero -sax
nathan perlis - voice
eric morgen - keys
dave yik - voice
hugh boyd - fiddle

The undergrad students at U of T Medicine have a new place to call home!  Maneesh Gupta (0T8) has created a new web portal for the student body.  Other than a fresh look and feel and new and updated content, some of the useful features include:
The rebirth of a URL: www.torontomeds.com
An events calendar to keep track of all the exciting things going on around the faculty
Listing of student birthdays
The complete redbook, viewable by class or academy
A section for courses where you can upload links and files

There is still lots of work to be done including adding editable profiles and adding an integrated photo gallery.  Stay tuned for more details.

For more information see http://www.torontomeds.com

The minutes for the November 2nd Medical Society meeting have now been posted.

For more information see http://www.torontomeds.com/medical_society.asp#minutes