Melody Lee
President | Fourth Year
Jisu Eom
Vice President | Third Year
Chrissie Alexander
Public Relations | Second Year
Liz Hwang
Missions Coordinator | Fourth Year
Enoch Koo
Treasurer | Fourth Year
Katherine Kim
Fundraiser | Third Year
Terry Lee
Secretary | Fourth Year
Marta Kwak
External Affairs | Fifth Year
Narin Chung
Outreach | Fourth Year
Irene Jung
Outreach | Third Year
ABOUT UCI GMMA
Mentors
Dr. Lee
Mentor | Pharmacist
Dr. Oh
Mentor | Oriental Medicine
Nurse Lee
Mentor | RN
Paul Lee
Student Mentor
Meeting
We meet every even Mondays (2, 4, 6, 8, 10) @7:30 PM in SSH 100. Meetings consist of prayer, worship, a guest speaker, and fellowship afterward. This quarter we plan to have fellow UCI GMMA alumni come and speak about their post-grad experience, a joint meeting with another UC GMMA, and more. Please come and join us!
Week 2: HOLT, Joseph Choi (Hospice Care)
Week 4: Nurse Practitioner Sophia
Week 6: Suturing with Nurse Jennifer
Week 8: TBA
Week 10: Praise and prayer night with Pastor Jinah
Missions
- Sign up here to go on missions to Paraguay! Apps are due April 12 at 11:59 PM!
Updates
- We are sponsoring a child from Korea! If you are interested in donating, please go to the Facebook page for more updates on how you can!
- GMMA Fam has been revealed! If you applied, check your email to find out who your big is!
- We are implementing a “membership” program for the 2018-2019 academic year. “Membership” is $10, but it is NOT mandatory to be a “member” to attend GMMA meetings and events. You may still be a part of GMMA as a general member. The purpose of “membership” is to encourage greater participation and commitment throughout the year. Apply to become a member here
What’s UCI been up to?
Hospice Care with Joseph Choi
Joseph talked about his time in Hospice Care as a Chaplain and the link between volunteers and hospice patients. Instead of focusing purely on the physical aspect of healing, he presented us with the idea of holistic healing and how everyone in addition to physical health has emotional, mental, spiritual, and social health. He believes that one of the biggest lies in the world is the saying that “You can do anything if you put the effort into it; the sky is the limit”. We are all born with physical limitations even though it might not be as obvious. We all have limitations in all 5 aspects of life, but we can always be better than yesterday.
If you are interested in volunteering, go to CareChoices and sign up! If you happen to know Korean and are available Thursdays 10AM to 2PM (you don’t have to be there the entire time), volunteer to be with patients with dementia at Irvine Bethel Church!
- GM #1: Adapted Physical Education Specialist
- GM #2: Post-grad Panel
- GM #3: IV Workshop
- GM #4: Resume Workshop
Welcome to our first GM of Winter quarter! Adapted Physical Education Specialist, Kevin Ma came to talk to us today about his career. He works as a specialist at different schools, always enthusiastic and looking forward to working with kids with special needs. He works alongside other health professionals such as an occupational therapist and physical therapist, collaborating with them in order to better help the children. When he isn’t working at the schools, he teaches VBS at his church. He taught us how VBS really shares the story about the gospel through physical actions, connecting us with those who don’t speak the same language as us.
Here he is teaching some of the moves to a VBS song.
Thank you Kevin Ma for sharing your experience and teaching us some dance moves!
Thank you to everyone who came out to our meeting, especially our grad panelists who took the time out of their busy schedules to share their journey to where they are today! Here are some of the advice that they had shared with us.
Karo, third year (D.O):
- School
- 1st and 2nd year is mostly in the classroom while 3rd and 4th are clinical rotations
- Work with a different specialist each rotation
- Schedule varies based on the doctor or whatever the hospital has sent to you; typical hours are from 9-5
- Why he chose his field
- Enjoyed biology and chemistry classes
- Explored different fields with volunteer opportunities and lab and found himself as a natural fit
- Enjoyed working with the clinicians
- Advice
- Take what you learn and apply it to the real world
Audrey, gap year (Pre-med):
- Wants to do medicine and law
- Dermatologist (own products and patent)
- Postdoc at UCLA for science classes
- Currently a medical assistant at a cardiologist clinic; gets 40 clinical hours a week
- Why she chose her field
- Passionate about what she’s doing
- Loves reading, writing, makeup and skincare
- GMMA mission trip helped her; hoping to go on more mission trips in the future
- Passionate about what she’s doing
- Advice
- Dream big, if you want to do something, go for it
- Think broadly and be creative with what you want to do in the future
- Think longterm on what you’re going to do in the future; be passionate about it
Serena, first year (PT):
- Currently doing mostly didactic courses
- Why she chose her field
- Went into undergrad thinking she would become a doctor
- Did an internship for different careers
- Ultimately chose PT to have a relationship with her patients and to continue to be active
Eveline (Nurse):
- Got license as a nurse and is currently working as a patient caregiver (personal nurse for the family)
- Why she chose her field
- Originally wanted to be a pediatrician but saw how the nurses were the ones who were interacting and taking care of the patients
- Didn’t want to do all the years of school if she were to pursue pediatrics
- Many options that comes with nursing
- Business, teaching
Joanne (DH):
- Dental hygiene program at USC; overall hygiene and health of her patient (health of mouth, gums, oral health)
- 2 year program; Associates, Bachelors, or Masters
- Currently applying to DDS
- Why she chose her field
- Originally premed (pediatrician)
- Took intro to Occupational Therapy and enjoyed it; wanted to become an OT but her parents were not okay with it
- Liked the aspect of helping older adults
- Initially forced into dentistry, but gave it a try and volunteered and shadowed dental students
- Advice
- You can go into the health field even with a bad GPA! You may have to work harder and it may take longer, but it will be okay!
FELLOWSHIP
A couple of our members and post-grad, Audrey, went to UTC for fellowship!
Nurse Eveline Jho and fellow UCI alum taught us how to do an IV injection, one of the more simple injections that nurses have to do. We provided insulin, alcohol swabs, needles, and oranges in order to practice giving the injection. She demonstrated by:
- Taking the cap off the needle provided and injecting it into the insulin
- Carefully putting the cap back on the needle by putting the cap on the table or a flat surface and scooping it back on the needle. Once the cap is on the needle, push it down and secure it.
- Use the alcohol swab to clean the orange
- Take off the cap and make sure there are no bubbles, if there is, tap the needle on the side until there are no more bubbles
- Inject the needle into the orange
- Once insulin is injected, put the cap back on in the same fashion stated in step 2.
- You’re all done!
Here are some pictures of our members giving in injection to their “patients”
Thank you Nurse Eveline for teaching how to do an injection!
Kwang Kim gave a presentation about how we should format our resumes, what activities we should put, what we should exclude, and even showed his very own resume!
- GM #1: Post Grad Health Panel
- GM #2: Suturing
- GM #3: IV Workshop
- GM #4: Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrician
For the first meeting of Spring Quarter, we will be having a grad student health panel! In addition, the new board members will be revealed and March mission testimonies will be shared! Click here to RSVP
November Mission Trip
Missions testimonies:
Diane Hong (3rd year, Anthropology Major) : Even though Mexico is so broken and torn apart the people continue to find ways and reasons to keep smiling. They choose to look at the good over the bad, and always find the silver lining in every situation. Every single child and patient that I interacted with made me realize how thankful I need to be for God because even in our brokenness he loves us endlessly and continues to pour onto us. He never stops stirring that fire in our hearts. Irene Jung (1st year, biology): From this mission trip, I could realize how big is our God’s love. Seeing this ordinary family building and running a clinic to serve the entire community! How can this happen without God’s amazing grace and love?! I am so grateful that our God is loving and caring God, and we are all his children 🙂 Runrong Kuang (1st year, biology): Going on mission trip to Sileo allowed me find my faith for the first time. It was such a powerful experience, for I had grown spiritually stronger and stronger as I get to know God more. To top off the whole mission trip, I was able to interact with health professionals, which solidified my goals for the future. *check out the photo gallery below for more pictures!
2018 Fall GM #1: Medical Missions
Come out to GMMA’s first general meeting! Dr. Sarah Oh, DDS will be speaking about her experiences on both the mission field and in a clinical environment. We will also be sharing more about the upcoming missions trip as well! Click here to RSVP 😀
General Meeting #2
We had Nurse Jennifer come and speak about her journey in becoming a nurse. Afterwards, we had the Nursing Organization come and help us with vitals!
GM #3 (@Biola)
Did you guys have fun with our Biola sisters, Rachel and Janice, at Irvine Lanes last night?! If you’d like to join us next Monday, Nov 7th at Biola to support our sister chapter, please let us know ASAP! Rides will be provided. It’ll be a great opportunity to review your vitals checking skills AND meet our GMMA brothers and sisters! See you there~
GM #2 (Week 4, Oct 17)
FREE VITALS TRAINING AND VALUABLE RESOURCES ON WHAT KIND OF MEDICAL JOBS YOU CAN TAKE AS AN UNDERGRAD??!? What is this you ask? Join us next Monday, Oct 17th at SSPA 1100 to find out more! Missions applications are also coming out so you won’t want to miss out! https://www.facebook.com/Post-meeting:
Hey guys! Hope everyone is studying well for their midterms! Enjoy this little clip highlighting our meeting yesterday 🙂
2017 Health Panel
UCI GMMA will be hosting a mini health panel TONIGHT (10/6) @ 7:30PM at SSL270 with the following health professionals who graciously took the time out of their super busy schedules to come to our campus and meet you guys: – Oncologist- Dr. Choi – Anesthesiologist- Dr. Michelle – Podiatrist- Dr. Charles – Family practice/Urology- Dr. Michael – 2 medical students- Simon Kim and Alex Nam
GMMA Fellowship Night
We are having a fellowship night on October 2, 2017 at 7PM. We’ll be introducing the board members and what we do as a club. We will also be playing a lot of fun games and the winner will get a yummy surprise (You also get free food). Come and join us! Please RSVP by Sunday, October 1, so we can have an accurate head count of who’s coming. P.S. Don’t lose. RSVP HERE!
Post Fellowship Night
Thank you to everyone who came out!
Fellowship night
The punishment for the losing team during fellowship night
General Meeting #1
Hi! We’re having out first general meeting on 10/9 at 7:30PM in SSL 270! We’ll be discussing about the history of GMMA and what we do as an organization. We will also be having mission testimonies from the recent trip to Cambodia. If you have any questions, please refer to the facebook page, thank you!
Post Meeting #1
First general meeting! (10/9)
Our VP Liz
Thanks Bryan for coming out and talking to us.
First general meeting
Thanks to everyone for coming to our first general meeting! We had our past president Bryan Yi give us wonderful advice on what to do to prepare for post-grad.
GM #1 WINTER QUARTER (Week 4, Jan 30th 2017)
The man behind it all, DOCTOR SANG HOON AHN, AKA Doctor Jimmy, AKA Jimmy Hyung, is speaking on our first general meeting of winter quarter 2017! In case you don’t know, Doctor Ahn is the president of the student chapter. But to get to the point, he’s HILARIOUS. He’s an amazing doctor who SPOILS us…a lot. (If you went on mission with Dr. Ahn as the leader, you know exactly what’s up). Everyone really loves this guy, and we’re extremely excited for him to come all the way from LA in his super busy schedule to come and share his insights of his career and how God carried him and continues to carry him in his life. RSVP on our facebook event page! https://www.facebook.com/events/242512599507274/ Location: Social Science Hall 100 Date & Time: January 30th, 2017. 7:30 PM See you guys there!
GM #1 (Week 2, Oct 3)
Post meeting:
“What is the most important thing in your life? Some people may say God, but what is the second most important thing? Your spouse to be. If your spouse is messed up, your whole life will be messed up. So forget your profession. Forget everything. Start praying for your spouse to be.” Important life tips from Dr. Choi, our very own love guru :’) Thank you to those of you that came out today! Come out to GM #2 to start vitals training with our one and only President, Bryan who was an Emergency Medical Technician and now works as a Medical Assistant! #cyamonday
2018 Spring GM #3: Dentistry
For the third meeting of Spring Quarter, we had Joanne Lee, a dental student and Chris Kang, a dentist come and teach us about the world of dentistry! The members were then tested on their knowledge by playing a game of Kahoot. Congrats to the winners, Rachel Lim, Marta Kwak, and Terry Lee!
2018 Fall GM #3: Chiropractic Care
Come and join us for our 3rd general meeting of the quarter to meet Dr. Sean Kim, a skilled chiropractor who recently went on the Guatemala missions trip! He will be sharing his testimony about being a chiropractor and about his experience on missions. Also, join us for practical tips on pursuing healthcare and chiropractic care, to learn some helpful stretches, and for everything you need to know about chiropractic! **NOTE TO MEMBERS: Please plan to stay a little after the meeting! We will be going over tips for pre-health majors at UCI so you can hopefully avoid the mistakes we made. Come out with any questions about classes, schedules, professors, resources, etc.! Click here to RSVP!
GM #3 (Week 8, Nov 14)
Our very own GMMA members, along with UCLA just came back from Mexico! Diane Hong, Irene Jung, and Runrong Kuang are sharing their mission testimonies, as it’s some of their first time going on a mission trip! Pastor Justin from Bethel English Church is also speaking on what it looks like to be a Christian healthcare professional in today’s world. Pretty heavy stuff! He’s an amazing pastor and a really loving mentor. He’s extremely excited to meet with you students, so I hope you’re excited to meet him as well =) https://www.facebook.com/Post-meeting:
Live-stream of mission testimonies and special sermon by Pastor Justin! https://www.facebook.com/bryan.yi/videos/vb.1077300424/10209214046403038/?type=3&theater
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