Minutes
Meeting 8
November 11th
2010
6:30pm
Meeting called by Dale Kalina and Vasco Neves
Attendees: Dale Kalina, Vasco Neves, Stuart Hopkinson, Jon Phillips, Bhavin Doshi,
Shan Keshri, Roshan Photay, Adriano Mendes, Luis Cyrillo, Roye Mauthner
Additions:
President
 GE Money bank account has been opened successfully.
 Elections- President and Vice-President applications are received on
Monday as well as applications for Board members- The deadline for
applications is 28th
November 2010- there will be an email to go
through Helena to all of our students informing them of this.
 Transition reports with an explanation of all of our workings of mimsa
in our respective positions to be completed.
 Dale had a meeting with Prof. Taborska, she is very happy with how
things in O.W went and even happier at the effect we seem to be
having on the students in first year, they are attending all of their
lectures and seem to be working very hard. She suggested that there
might be a way of having tutors for chemistry and that the university
would be willing to pay the students for their services. We believe that
this might result in a bad situation whereby people ill prepared to teach
would do so for the sake of money. We will proceed with caution.
 Prof. Taborska is willing to supply us with venues and supplies for
educational seminars in the future and to assist in clinical sessions.
 Prague pics- Helena would like some pics for advertisement to
Norweigan students.
Social
 Posters for the Futsal tournament are in campus
 A first aid kit will be put together
 Pub quiz problems with venue, likely that it will be delayed until next
semester.
 Cocktail party venues are still being sought out, a raffle for charity has
also being proposed
Education
 Clinical sessions will be split into pre-clinical and clinical sessions this
time in order for students to get the maximum benefit out of them.
 There will be a more involved survey program happening for each
course of the clinical years.
 The proposal of having a check list of tasks a student must be able to
fulfil by the end of specific years to ensure they are well prepared
clinically.
 Language program in conjunction with Czech students may occur. This
is with the primary purpose of making Czech and English students
interact.
 The Physiology Dept. has suggested that the lectures will become
compulsory. This will be challenged as we feel it is our students right to
decide whether or not to go to lectures and will require the dept. to
change the credits for the course which has to happen one semester in
advance.
 There was a proposal made by a 4th
year student this week with
regards to the fact that Helena (to help students with repeated
subjects) bends slightly the rules to give them subjects that they do not
fulfil entirely the prerequisites for (for instance having patho-physiology
without having anatomy III completed). This student is complaining
that a student who had one subject given to him that, he, himself did
not receive should have it removed from his list. His gripe is not that he
doesn’t have the subject himself, he realises he does not have the
prerequisites for the subject and accepts this. His only point and
request is that the other students have the subjects removed from their
list.
 We the mimsa board find this request somewhat distasteful and selfish
given the fact that we are not directly in competition with each other.
We however, will hold a general meeting if he can get the number of
students required as stated in our constitution.