Medical College of Wisconsin APAMSA

Yesterday we had our Summer APAMSA Volleyball Tournament!🏐 Teams battled it out on Bradford Beach and enjoyed the beautiful summer weather. Thanks to all the teams who participated and a big CONGRATULATIONS to our winning team on the third slide!!

Happy 1st Day to all the M2s! Come visit our booth at the student organization fair until 5pm! We can’t wait to meet all of the M1s and grow our APAMSA family💚

And that’s a wrap on our NMDP Bone Marrow Registry Week! Thanks to everybody who came out and registered. (If you haven’t yet and want to- contact us!). With your help, we can help save the lives of patients throughout the country. We cannot thank our registrants, volunteers, and Keesha Mason from NMDP enough.

We will be announcing the winners of the raffle very soon!! Stay tuned!

SNEAK PEAK of some of the cute bone cookies that we’ll be decorating today to KICK OFF our Bone Marrow Registry Drive Week! Join us to learn more about the impacts of bone marrow donations + how to register at our informational talk AND decorate cookies w/ us!

Stop by our tables at Third Floor Hub + Alumni Center to register and receive a chance to win a $15 amazon gift card! Swipe for more details >>>>

🦴BE THE MATCH🦴 This week, APAMSA in collaboration with LMSA and SNMA will be hosting a bone marrow registry. Come see us at the alumni center and 3rd floor hub and join the bone marrow registry! 2 lucky winners will receive a $15 AMAZON GIFT CARD! Want to learn more about bone marrow donations and get trained to swab participants? Join us on Tuesday 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm in Discovery and decorate bone shaped cookies!!🍪

We can’t wait to see you all! And don’t forget … you can BE THE MATCH!

DR. FRANCO + FREE FOOD + LEARNING ABOUT HEPATITIS B IN THE AANHPI COMMUNITY? Join us as Dr. Franco discusses the disproportionate burden faced by AANHPIs in Hepatitis B prevention, diagnosis, and access to care. This event will be taking place Friday, May 10th in Bolger auditorium from 12:00pm-1:00pm. Lunch WILL be provided starting at 11:45. Please RSVP with the above QR code by Monday, May 5th to reserve your spot. RSVP also linked in our bio!

Join us for HOLI!!! Come celebrate the festival of spring, this Saturday from 2-4 in the MCW courtyard! Wear white clothes and watch as they turn bright with color powders! We will have powder for all friends along with some refreshing Mango Lassi! Brought to you by MCW APAMSA and AAPI!

APAMSA x ADSO collab at the HAPI Health Fair🩺🦷

We had a fantastic time tabling with ADSO today at the Health Advocacy in Pregnancy & Infancy (HAPI) Health Fair at the MKE Women’s Shelter! We gave blood pressure and glucose screenings, and dental kits out (MU ADSO, you’re the best!)🥳 Thank you, HAPI for hosting such a meaningful event!

HI everyone!! We are excited to announce another event for our week long celebration: Asian Mental Health Zoom Talk with Dr. Agrawal! Dr. Agrawal will be discussing the unique stressors that can be faced by Asian-American immigrants and their children. This will be taking place on Thursday, May 2nd at 4:00 pm. Please join us in learning about this extremely important topic!

Access the Zoom link through our bio!

We are excited to announce our collaboration with the HAAPIE Initiative in our “Taste of HAAPIE-ness” event🧑‍🍳 A fantastic Zoom event where you can cook along with Chef Youa Vue to make Hmong Egg Rolls! While we cook, learn about the role of food in Hmong culture and intergenerational healing.

RSVP at the link in our bio or use the QR code above to sign up and receive your ingredient list which you can get FREE OF CHARGE. There will be in-person and virtual options. If you are in the Milwaukee area and participating virtually, an address will be emailed to you to pick up your ingredients prior to the event! Those outside of the Milwaukee area will be reimbursed with receipt proof.

If you’d like to join us in person, we can’t wait to see you and will send location of event in the coming days.

We hope to see you there!

✨APIA CULTURAL CELEBRATION BANQUET✨
Join APAMSA x OSID/OID as we celebrate APIA culture for AANHPI Heritage Month. With food, dance performances, panels, and more … what else could you ask for? Then after all the fun, socialize with MCW students, residents, and faculty and get to know our community better!

Tickets are $8. Access the RSVP via our QR code above or through the link in our bio. Every admission ticket comes with 1 raffle ticket for our great prizes including APAMSA merch and gift cards! Get additional entries by attending our events earlier in the week! (1 additional raffle entry given for each event).

Dress Code: Cultural Wear or Semi-Formal

We can’t wait to see you there!

📢ANNOUNCEMENT REVEAL📢 Hello APAMSA family! We’re excited to finally reveal our big announcement: AANHPI CULTURAL HERITAGE WEEK🥳 AANHPI Heritage Month is observed annually during the month of May. Since 2021, the official themes have been centered around advancing leaders. This year, the theme is “Advancing Leaders Through Innovation”. This entails paying homage to the trailblazers who have shaped our AANHPI history and influence our collective future.

Here at MCW APAMSA, we want to give the MCW community and beyond a chance to help us celebrate and bring community together. We will have a week filled with activities. This year’s heritage theme of “Advancing Leaders Through Innovation” will culminate at our banquet by hearing from some accomplished AANHPI faculty at Froedtert & MCW.

More details of each event to be posted on our instagram this week. See you then❤️

Yesterday, our MCW APAMSA students were able to help take blood pressure and glucose screenings at the Milwaukee Consortium for Hmong Health’s 6th Annual Health Conference. This event occurs annually to promote and advocate for Hmong health. The Milwaukee Consortium for Hmong Health works diligently to engage the Asian American community for positive change regarding chronic diseases and cancer health and wellness. For more information on their organization, please visit mkehmonghealth.com

We’re always so excited to take part in this event and we cannot wait until next year!

Happy Hmong Heritage Month!

Wisconsin has the 3rd largest Hmong population in the United States. In 2021, it was signed that April would officially be known in Wisconsin as Hmong Heritage Month. Here at MCW APAMSA, we work to honor, celebrate, and serve our Hmong population. We would like to acknowledge their unique culture, history, contributions to Wisconsin, and sacrifices they have made.

Recently, a bill was signed to require Hmong American and Asian American history to be taught in Wisconsin schools. We hope for the continuation of Hmong advocacy in the state leading to more Hmong-language media, better healthcare access, better representation by state representatives, and more Hmong history education in school curricula.

Thank you Medical College of Wisconsin Medical College of Wisconsin APAMSA for providing Vital Screenings at MCHH's 6th Annual Health Conference.

APAMSA x ADSO social🦷🩺 thanks to everyone who came out to hang out with us!! We can’t wait for future collabs between our organizations🫶🫀

Also please see the last 3 posts for very real absolutely not staged action shots. (We’re students not actors okay).

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Hi everyone!! Do you want to come hang out with APAMSA and Marquette ADSO students? Join us at Third Street Market Hall for games, drinks, and food. The form to RSVP is linked in our bio. We hope to see everyone there😊

*Free to attend. Food and drink for purchase at Third Street Market Hall*

WOW! What a turn out and all thanks to our incredibly impressive panelists. We’re so thankful for everyone who was on the Zoom tonight and we had a great time💓 Stay turned for more events from APAMSA and everyone have a good night! We love you all🫶

🚨PANELISTS FOR M4 RESIDENCY MATCH PANEL JUST DROPPED🚨 Come hang with APAMSA next Tuesday and get to meet all of these incredible M4s! Diverse specialties and residency locations and time to ask any questions you may have!! We can’t wait🥳🥳 see previous post for details. Click the link in our bio for Zoom access.

(**Did I post the wrong unfinished graphic yesterday? Yes. Did the president have to hack the instagram to delete it? Also yes. Let’s all forget that happened and pretend this is the first time you’re ever seeing this.

Love you all and oops my bad

-Cali**)

Looking for something fun and informative to do next Tuesday?? Join us on zoom for an interactive session! Our M4 Residency Match Panel will have multiple panelists (announced soon!) who are going to diverse specialties and residencies. And anyways…what’s better to do on a Tuesday than to hang out with APAMSA and some of our incredible M4s? Click on the link in our bio to enter the Zoom.

Some highlights from our March edition of the APAMSA Monthly Newsletter! First newsletter is brought to you by our co-president To see more, just head on over to our bio and click on our link! We now will be posting sign ups, our newsletters, and more information about us all in one place! Click our TapLink to find out more.👀

What a month we had making a difference for the AANHPI community here in Wisconsin. We have so many more events planned for the future and cannot wait to share it with you all! Keep an eye out on our stories for a panel coming up soon🤫

~ 2024 National APAMSA Conference ~

Our chapter was so excited to strongly rep MCW at our national APAMSA Conference in Las Vegas, NV this past weekend! This year’s theme was “Blooming in the Desert”- we loved learning about how to advocate and serve our AANHPI community!

We want to thank for hosting, and shoutout our faculty advisor Dr. B Li for being a featured speaker this year. Congratulations to our fellow M4s Ming Lin for receiving this year’s President’s Award and Joyce Lee on wrapping up her National President term soon. We are SO proud of you all!

So I am in charge of the instagram and feel weird saying welcome to myself😃🫶

Next up we have ERIC!! Yay welcome Eric!! He let me pick the song so I hope he likes it🫣

Nice guys don’t always finish last because ANDREW is our new Hmong Community Outreach Chair!!!🙊

And our Hmong community outreach chair is….MAYA!!🏆 Welcome Maya!