Community Service Directorate
Overview
The Community Service Directorate aims to enhance the quality and awareness of various student-led initiatives in YLLSoM. The directorate works closely with the community service projects in YLLSoM behind the scenes to ensure that the needs of the projects are being met on various fronts, such as finances and publicity, to list a few. Ultimately, the directorate plays an essential role in the vibrant and ever-changing landscape of community service projects in school.
What we do
Commserve Summit
The annual flagship event of the Commserve Directorate is the Commserve Summit. The aim of the summit is to help connect freshmen to the myriad of community involvement projects (CIPs) in school. At the Summit, all actively recruiting community involvement projects (CIPs) will be invited to showcase their project highlights to freshmen. The summit helps the freshmen to get a better understanding of the nuances of each project so that they can better match their interests accordingly. Simultaneously, the recruitment efforts of various projects will also be expedited, since there is greater exposure to their target audience in a centralised location.
Commserve Huddle
The Commserve Huddle aims to bring CIP leaders together in order to promote potential collaborations, provide a safe space for an annual project review, as well as to celebrate the efforts of the different projects in serving their respective causes.
Past Initiatives
Project Registry
We leave no project behind.
And while our projects work hard to serve the communities out there, we work hard to support them in their efforts.
The CommServ Project Registry charts key information from all of our MedSoc projects, and maps out their needs, initiatives and outcomes. This Registry will then be used as a guide for the Directorate to plan more targeted events and initiatives for our projects, and to represent them to our partners and stakeholders. In addition, the Project Registry will also be used for key marketing initiatives by MedSoc, to establish new partnerships and procure more funding.
Run by our Clusters and Mentorship Department, the Project Registry is also a platform for projects to update us on their plans and needs, to allow the CommServ Directorate to assist them in whatever means possible.
Doctors' Recruitment Drive
Many of our projects require the expert advice and guidance of practicing doctors, be it as short-term volunteers or long-term mentors. However, some of them may face difficulties in reaching out to and recruiting doctors interested in their cause.
Here at CommServ, we strive to bridge this gap and allow our MedSoc community service projects grow and succeed. Through our partnerships with the various Sponsoring Institutions in Singapore, we helped local and overseas CIP projects such as the Neighbourhood Health Service, Public Health Service, Project Lokun, Project Sothea and Sabai Vision reach out to multiple doctors and residents from the various restructured hospitals in Singapore.
Departments
Past Events
CommServ Summit
CommServ Summit is an annual event that aims to showcase our various MedSoc project, as well as to provide them with a platform to publicise their projects to the incoming batch of M1s and our peers from LKC Medicine and the Alice Lee Centre for Nursing Studies. The Summit hopes to inspire freshmen to engage extensively in community service, and join their batchmates and seniors in pursuing these meaningful causes and to give back to society.
In addition, Summit has also engaged established speakers such as Dr Liow Chee Hsiang (previous Chairman of General Management Team of Bless China International) and Dr Angeline Tey (previous head of Tri-generational HomeCare) to share their experiences with us, and to provide invaluable advice to our project leaders!
Service Leaders' Huddle
The Service Leaders’ Huddle is platform for all of the project leaders of our MedSoc community service projects to share their experiences with one another. Through this, we hope to facilitate the sharing of best practices and problem-solving methodologies with one another (especially between closely-related projects), and to find out more about the challenges and difficulties our project directors are facing to tailor our future CommServ initiatives.
Beyond this, we also hope to foster greater collaboration and partnerships between the different MedSoc community service projects, and to create a support system in which project leaders will know who they can approach in future should they face any difficulties in future.
In the past 2 runs of Huddle, we have also invited speakers fromthe National Youth Council, Chua Thian Poh Community Leadership Programme and Magical Light Foundation, as well as project leaders from established and older MedSoc projects to share their invaluable experiences with us!
Screening Guidelines Workshop
The annual Screening Guidelines Workshop aims to educate pre-clinical project committee members and volunteers on the indications of various screening modalities in Singapore and the interpretation of results from health screenings that they conduct. Conducted by senior medical students in their clinical years, we hope that pre-clinical students can get a better understanding of the screening practices in Singapore and pass on accurate and relevant knowledge to the beneficiaries they screen.
The inaugural Screening Guidelines Workshop was held in March 2017 in partnership with the NUH Division of Family Medicine, and reached out to more than 85 project committee members across Phase I and II. This year, we covered topics like Why we do screenings, and shared about the epidemiology, pathophysiology, risk factors, indications for screening and interpretation of results for a multitude of conditions such as hypertension, dyslipidemia, diabetes mellitus, colorectal cancer, breast cancer and cervical cancer.
