1. A.T. Still University School of Osteopathic Medicine in Arizona Annual Report 2011

2. SSP-Y President – Christopher Chin OMS-IV Vice President – Darpan Patel OMS-IV Secretary-Treasurer – Cody Christensen OMS-IV

3. Continuing forward 25 of our inaugural class members graduated in June 2011 The chapter inducted 5 OMS-III and 9 OMS-IV students by recommendation of the ATSU-SOMA Honor Committee

4. 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

5. Continuing forward The second induction and thereafter have been at the recommendation by the Honor Committee followed by approval by the SSP-Y membership Voting process by membership is anonymous A modification to previous induction process, students were informed about their consideration for induction and allowed to list a select number of activities or community service events they have been involved in

6. Service In order to maintain membership in the SSP-Y members must commit to at least 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 1000 hours of community service have been logged nationwide so far!

7. Service Members have logged community service in anything from coaching youth soccer and football teams, volunteering at health screenings, mentoring youth, fundraising Our members have are involved in projects at each of their community sites that range from recruiting tomorrows physicians to syringe exchange programs They are truly affecting their communities throughout the country

8. Looking Ahead Sigma Sigma Phi Upsilon (SSP-Y) will be electing their new officers in November The SSP-Y will also be inducting its fifth 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 SSP-Y will be working on requesting more funding to fund future projects