GRADUATE STUDENT ASSOCIATION

All students enrolled in degree programs, i.e. matriculated, at GSBS are considered members in the Graduate Student Association. The group's objectives are to cultivate interest in the biomedical sciences and to encourage mutual assistance, social involvement, and other activities vital to a wholesome environment for graduate studies.

The Graduate Student Association (GSA) is made up of masters and doctoral students and provides them with a forum to discuss issues relating to student affairs and graduate student education. The GSA organizes trips to local scientific meetings, invites guest lecturers, and provides new students with mentors to help them adjust to life as a graduate student. In addition, the GSA sponsors social events including student-faculty softball games, bowling nights, and trips to local sporting events.

GSA Officers:

Prospective Physician Association (PPA)

An Affiliation of the Graduate Student Association (GSA) of Stratford

The Purpose of PPA:

To create an effective communication link between the students of the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences and the multiple schools within the University Medicine and Dentistry New Jersey community. This would allow those students of GSBS, who want to pursue a higher medical education, a chance to engage in a forum that focuses on medical careers. This organization would concentrate on inviting guest lecturers, collaborating local events with surrounding medical schools, organize physician shadowing programs and providing new students with a mentorship program to help them transition from a graduate student to a potential medical student. Along with the promotion of higher integration within the GSBS, this organization also functions to increase socialization within the UMDNJ family.

For information about the current PPA Events, please contact any one of the officers listed below OR go to the following myspace account for the PPA: http://www.myspace.com/prospectivephysician.