BRI Student Leaders, the debaters and moderator.
Geoff Wilson
NOTE: This event takes place in the Central time zone. Lunch will be served; RSVPs are appreciated!
ALL are welcome to join us in a Skype teleconference with Dr. Keith Smith, Co-Founder of the Surgery Center of Oklahoma. Dr. Smith is making a special appearance for the BRI-Saint Louis University Chapter and other interested students to discuss price transparency in medicine. We will learn about his pricing model at the Surgery Center of Oklahoma with a question and answer session following.
We also hope to discuss how price transparency will affect the medical field in general and how we can help facilitate free markets in our future profession.
BRI student leaders from Saint Louis University with Dr. Keith Smith, co-founder of the Surgery Center of Oklahoma, via Skype.
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NOTE: This event takes place in the eastern time zone.
The Marian University College of Osteopathic Medicine - BRI Chapter will be pairing up with the Thomas More Society and Operation Leftover to meet and serve the homeless and impoverished in Indianapolis. We will meet at St. John the Evangelist Catholic Church to take canned foods, warm clothing, personal hygiene items, and other appropriate donations to people in need around downtown Indianapolis.
ALL are welcome and invited to join us in an evening of service. Donations are also appreciated.
Park in the parking lot at St. John the Evangelist Catholic Church.
NOTE: This event takes place in the eastern time zone. Food will be served; RSVPs are greatly appreciated by clicking the green REGISTER button top right.
BRI-Mount Sinai and The Arthur N. Rupe Foundation will be hosting a debate and a discussion about the legality of physician aided dying. Please join us to debate the following Resolution:
Dr. Stefan Baumrin
Arguing the Affirmative: Dr. David Leven, Executive Director of Compassion & Choices of New York.
Arguing the Opposition: Dr. Stefan Baumrin (Ph.D. Johns Hopkins University and J.D. Columbia University School of Law) will debate the question of whether physicians should participate intentionally in hastening a patient's death. Following the debate, students will break out into small groups to discuss the issue further. Issues related to physician autonomy, patient wellbeing, and the intersection of ethics, law, and government will be explored.
Moderator: Robert Zimbroff
All are welcome at MCW's Monthly BRI/AMA Journal Club. This month features Spencer Greaves on healthcare system financing, and Matthew Crabtree on the human circadian rhythm and legal and social ramifications of its disruption.
LUNCH will be served, and RSVPs are always appreciated to ensure enough for all.
NOTE: This event takes place in the Mountain Time zone.
All are invited to BRI-University of Colorado School of Medicine's first event for the academic year 2015-2016. Please share this opportunity to hear about Direct Primary Care (DPC) with fellow students and faculty. RSVPs are appreciated. Lunch will be provided.
Dr. Lisa Davidson of Insight Primary Care will be speaking about the overarching concepts and practice of Direct Primary Care (DPC) in healthcare, and her personal experiences with it. 
The mission statement from Dr. Davidson's website sums up many aspects of direct primary care: "Insight is defined as the capacity for accurate and deep understanding of a person or thing. Our mission is to create a medical home for individuals and families that is easily accessible, cost-conscious, encourages collaboration, and promotes wellness. We welcome everyone to our practice regardless of race, religion, culture or sexual identity."
NOTE: This event takes place in the eastern time zone. Lunch will be provided, and RSVPs are appreciated!
Do you want to become a doctor so you can spend less time with patients, be restricted by insurance companies, and fill out lots of paperwork? Neither do we. Come learn about how Direct Primary Care is changing the patient-physician relationship for the better! The Benjamin Rush Institute Health Policy Interest Group invited Dr. Josh Umbehr from Atlas MD, based in Wichita, KS, to talk about this alternative payment model.
"Dr. Josh" has been an advocate and practitioner in the DPC model for many years, and is a frequent speaker at BRI and other free market medicine events. He was a featured speaker at the BRI Leadership Conference 2015 in Washington, DC.
Linda Pan, Dr. Josh, Brennan Wright, and Nic Miller of OSU
ALL are welcome to attend a lecture by Dr. Beth Haynes, Executive Director of Benjamin Rush Institute on the history of government in US medicine. Government involvement in medicine is not a new thing, and policies from the past are currently influencing the healthcare climate today. In what ways are government policies in healthcare beneficial, and in what ways detrimental? And what can be done?
Food will be served with generous donations from Med Council and University Council. RSVPs are greatly appreciated in order to have enough for all.
NOTE: This event takes place in the eastern time zone. Food and beverages will be served, so RSVPs are highly appreciated to ensure there's enough.
Come see Healthcare Insurance from a different angle — an economic angle!
Suyang Li, M2, OSU College of Medicine
ALL are welcome to attend our FREE lunch lecture on the economics of healthcare insurance, delivered by Suyang Li, an M2 student with an economics background. Mr. Li has offered to deliver a lecture on supply and demand for OSU students who might not have gotten an introductory course to micro- and/or macroeconomics. He is then going to tie it into healthcare insurance costs.
All are welcome to attend this free evening lecture sponsored by BRI and East Harlem Health Outreach Partnership (EHHOP). Snacks and appetizers will be served. RSVPs are greatly appreciated! Click here to register, or on the green Registration button, above right.
Dr. Beth Haynes, BRI executive director will discuss the importance of understanding the role and limitations of health insurance. She will detail how improper understanding of insurance leads to poor health outcomes. For each attendee, $5 will be donated to Mount Sinai's student run health clinic.
Please join us for a FREE lunch lecture, featuring Dr. Beth Haynes, executive director of Benjamin Rush Institute. This is an opportunity for students to learn the role of government in American medicine throughout history, and what brought us to this juncture.
In addition, students will learn about various types of medical practices that are being developed to address inefficiencies in our current healthcare system. Food will be served. Please RSVP so that we can have enough for all.
Dr. Josh Umbehr addresses the BRI Student Leadership Conference 2015 in Washington, DC.
Dr. Umbehr will talk to students about his direct primary care business model during a lunch meeting. RSVP is not required. The plan is to give students exposure to and a better understanding of direct primary care. This will prepare them for the ensuing debate that evening about the single-payer health care model. Food provided for this event is generously funded by the Family Medicine Interest Group. Thank you!
