Dear term 5- SGU medical school friends,
Many congrats for finishing term 4!
I wanted to update you about our petition that you have already signed for the remote option for the term-5 students.
Because we haven't received a response from the school administrators, I prepared an email based on your great comments, and I will send it to them. Please kindly read it and send it to the email addresses provided here. We NEED each of us or our supporters in our family to send this email to the administrators politely.
Thank you very much.
Here are the administrators' email addresses:
· Dr. Charles R. Modica; Chancellor
cmodica@sgu.edu
· Dr. Richard Liebowitz; Vice-Chancellor
ouc@sgu.edu
· Dr. Marios Loukas; Dean, School of Medicine; Dean of Basic Sciences
mloukas@sgu.edu
· Dr. Fred M. Jacobs; Executive Vice President
fjacobs@sgu.edu
· Dr. John Madden; Associate Dean of Students
jmadden@sgu.edu
· Dr. Robert Grant; Senior Associate Dean, Clinical Studies
rgrant@sgu.edu
Here is the email we should send. Please feel free to make any changes you may need based on your situation:
Dear SGU Faculty members and administrators,
I wanted to thank you very much for your hard work and your tremendous support over the past two years with the COVID pandemic. Meanwhile, I would like to ask you to kindly give the optional remote opportunity for the reasons stated in the below link just for the term-5 students:
We all know that making two significant moves in 4 months has serious effects on our family's mental health. The packing up & moving to a new country and trying to adjust in 4 months, then immediately packing up and moving back is devastating for many term-5 students, or it could be almost impossible for them! It can negatively affect getting ready to take the step 1 exam, one of the most critical and stepping-stone exams in our career. I wish our great SGU administrators would be more compassionate and understanding towards the concern some Term-5 students have, the same compassion and understanding you're teaching us to show towards our future patients.
Thank you for your empathy, and I really appreciate your consideration.
Best regards,
Your Name ….