Become a Committee Leader

Hello and thank you for your interest in becoming a committee leader and joining the AMSA ARC/UCD conference planning team. As a committee leader, you will have an opportunity to help plan the next conference, October 6-7, 2012, carrying on its tradition, and improving its dynamics. Working on the conference will also help you gain leadership experience and help hone your personal and professional skills. Areas you will be able to help with will include: Logistics, programming, public health fair, workshops, deans panels, meals. Besides MD and DO professions, we’ve added programs of public health, dentistry, nursing, physician’s assistant, and pharmacy to our conference.

Please read the following, and when you are ready:

APPLY HERE: http://amsaarc.confapp.sgizmo.com/s3/

Deadline to Apply: January 22, 2012 at 5:00 pm PST.

Interviews: January 28, 2012, 8 am to 1 pm, at the UC Davis School of Medicine.

Who Can Apply?

AMSA ARC/UCD is looking for self-motivated individuals to carry tradition of the conference forward into the next year and beyond. You must be at least 18 years of age and able to meet the minimum requirements defined below.

We require that you reside within a 45-minute drive to the Davis/Sacramento region and that you make yourself available for meetings from January to October 2012 (including the entire summer).

What if I don’t have any work experience?

Whether or not you have work experience, you should apply. Though work experience shows us that one has firsthand experience in the business world, it doesn’t always tell us the work ethics or professionalism of the individual applicant. In the history of the conference, there have been committee leaders, with no formal work experience, take on important responsibilities and work up to becoming a board member in as little as one year. The amount of success you gain is proportional to the amount of effort you put into the conference.

When are the conference planning meetings?

The committee leaders and board members meet once a week, ever Sunday, and individual committees sometimes get together outside of these meetings. Meetings for next year’s conference have already begun and will continue until the weekend of the conference. Sunday meetings typically run from 5:00pm-7:30pm, but may last longer. One to two Sunday meetings will be replaced by a workday, usually running from noon-6:00pm, instead of the regular time.

What is the minimum amount of time I need to spend working on the conference?

The track record for the conference has proven that those who spend more time on the conference will get more out of it. The same goes for anything in life. Even though we would like everyone involved to go above and beyond the minimum expectations, there is a definite set of minimum requirements that need to be understood upfront.

Committee leaders are required to attend, and arrive on time to, all meetings. Missing more than 85% of the planning meetings will result in a dismissal of your service from the conference. Work and planning crucial for the success of the conference occurs at these meetings. If you miss meetings then you won’t be able to stay knowledgeable about the planning, which won’t allow you to be effective in helping, and you won’t be trusted with important responsibilities.

In addition, it’s expected that committee leaders will complete tasks they are responsible for within the agreed upon time frame set when the task was assigned to them. Some tasks come with a position and others are assigned to committee leaders on an as needed basis. Basically, it’s your responsibility to do what you say you will do. If you can’t complete a task within the agreed upon time frame, it’s your responsibility to let the board know or get help on the task.

Keep in mind that many of the current and past committee leaders have put a significant amount of time into conference planning, beyond meetings, while taking a full load of classes, working, and/or doing research. So if you accept a task, it’s expected that you follow through to its completion.

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