Medicine is a challenge. It gives you time to have fun but keeps you home before midnight. It strengthens relationships with future colleagues without taking your independence. It feeds your curiosity, extracts your brilliance, and at the same time, it exhausts you. They say medicine is an art, but for students of CIM, it is PASSION. It is a chance to make a difference. It bridges the gap between science and men.
CIM trains one to be a physician - with a heart of a leader. It does not only prepare students for the health care profession but it opens an opportunity to decide for oneself and eventually, make a change. This can be seen during the CIM Supreme Student Council (SSC) ELECTIONS (Read more here).
The newly-elected officers took oath on August 5, 2014 with the promise to support the institution in molding students to become physicians with a heart. With new responsibilities held in their hands, the CIM-SSC 2014 have their own perception about their Alma Mater and hopes for their future colleagues.
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| CIM SSC A.Y. 2014-2015 (c) Del Carmen |
Stacey Kaye N. Militante, SSC President, envisions CIM to be a family that reaches out to the world - with projects geared towards the benefit of the student body, faculty, and staff (school-wide blood typing and immunization campaign). She aims to conduct outreach programs in partnership with the Share-A-Child Movement and Kythe and establish a CIM Disaster Management Team. She believes that these goals can be achieved with utmost cooperation of the CIM family.
The officers encourage full participation from the students for the activities planned for the academic year 2014-2015. Vice-president for Internal Affairs, Kiara Natalie B. Roble, stated that certain projects will be headed by the students in partnership with the council officers. This will develop their leadership skills and build camaraderie among them.
Elizabeth E. Hernani, Vice-president for External Affairs, considers CIM in the same way she would assess any community for the first time: as a structure with a framework defined by four cardinal features- identity, integration, group norms, and external linkages. Having been in the institution for three academic years, she was asked about the improvements necessary for CIM and how she can be a part of such improvements. She stated that CIM has a strong identity and group norms, and fair integration and external linkages which is compatible with a parochial type of community. She sees it generally as a community on the offensive, with the abilities to identify and acknowledge existing problems, identify and access resources, and implement interventions through collective internal action.
"I've seen many times how this nature has been manifested: when organizing for Sportsfests, Medlympics, Students' Night, outreach programs, etc. In so saying, I think the CIM community can do more to improve integration and external linkages, to upgrade to an arguably better type of community, an integral rather than a parochial one. I think so, too, that my position as VP for External Affairs is a crucial one in enhancing our external linkages. This year, we will strengthen our networks to gain more opportunities for our students, to have timely and adequate access to more resources to supplement our own, to increase, too, our awareness of our society, the world outside," she quoted. It's a lot of work to achieve one goal but from what the VP External emphasized - in time, the generations to follow will see the changes that will have been affected and will always pursue excellence in every aspect.
Written by Dorothy Joy Bacomo of Batch Spectra
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