Another meeting and more progress. Today we focused especially on fundraising. We know the key to a successful lunch lecture series: a tasty, free lunch! In all seriousness, we do need funds to not only buy lunch for our lecture series but also to put our members through formal training in the methods. While some of our members already have been through training and practice various fertility awareness methods in their marriage, we want to be trained as a group to be the most well-equipped to share this information with others. Eventually, we’d also like to set up funds for students to do an away rotation during their fourth year of medical school with a physician that practices the fertility awareness methods exclusively in their practice. We also have dreams of sending someone through the intensive, two week Fertility Care Practitioner training in Omaha, Nebraska. We have lots of supporters and we’re hopeful to raise money quickly to ensure we meet our goals for our group.
Today we had another productive meeting and we’re continuing to plow forward with our mission. We decided to develop a week-long lunch lecture series during the fall to get the word out about these methods. We spent a lot of the meeting today deciding on speakers and topics. There are so many possibilities and we can’t wait to put together an incredible line-up. Also, we’re excited that this has appeal to a wide audience – of course those students interested in women’s health and OB/Gyn, but also students interested in pediatrics, family medicine and global health, as there are applications across all these specialties and interests. We also talked about the idea of having a couple’s panel to talk about their own personal experiences with the methods. We know a lot of couples who have amazing stories about how these methods have enriched their marriages and also helped identify pathology.
There are several other plans we’re looking forward to – a training session for us to become trained in a method, service events and even a research study at nearby Parkland Hospital to learn about our patients’ desire for education in the methods. |
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