A.T. Still University School of Osteopathic Medicine in Arizona Annual Report 2010

SSP-Y President – Brandon Abbott OMS-IV Vice President – Joshua Bentley OMS-IV Secretary-Treasurer – Vanessa DeSousa OMS-IV

A Start Upsilon chapter was welcomed into the Sigma Sigma Phi at the AOA National Convention in New Orleans in October 2009 The chapter inducted 23 OMS-III students by recommendation of the ATSU-SOMA Honor Committee

Honor Committee Honor Committee consists of Dean, two faculty members, and four student government presidents They make recommendations by looking at the following for each inductee: Academic performance Community service contributions Commitment to peers via tutoring Leadership and extracurricular involvement Commendation from faculty

A Start Since the first induction in November 2009, there have been a second induction of 3 OMS-IV and 11 OMS-III’s The second induction and thereafter have been at the recommendation by the Honor Committee followed by approval by the SSP-Y membership

Service In order to maintain membership in the SSP-Y members must commit to atleast 80 hours of community service throughout their membership This results in over 4,000 hours of community service performed NATIONWIDE! They track their service via a webform on the SSP-Y intranet site More than 500 hours of community service have been logged nationwide so far!

Service Members have logged community service in anything from coaching youth soccer and football teams, volunteering at health screenings, mentoring youth, fundraising Members are logging service from Hawaii to Brooklyn, from Alabama to Washington They are truly affecting their communities throughout the country

Looking Ahead Sigma Sigma Phi Upsilon (SSP-Y) will be electing their new officers in November The SSP-Y will also be inducting its third class in November, after the officer elections The SSP-Y is also currently working on a formalized Upperclassmen-to-Underclassmen mentoring system as well as an SSP-Y tutoring system