Student Taskforce Against COVID-19 (STAC-19)

An international multidisciplinary student taskforce aimed at providing support and facilitating preventative strategies against the COVID-19 outbreak.

[Student Taskforce Against COVID-19 (STAC-19) @STAC_2020]

It’s official! In an attempt to optimise supply chain for PPE and resources to tackle #Covid_19, STAC’s core team built #ProjectAlloy - to help safeguard our #HeroesOfCovid19 at the frontlines! Thank you @JohnsHopkins for the #HonMen! (1/2)

[Saleem Islam @SaleemIslam]

There is a saying that if you want to truly understand someones impact, legacy, and how they are loved - see how many come to their funeral. Morbid perhaps, but true. The large mosque for Amir's funeral prayers was not enough for the people there. RIP & jannati @amirshariffmd

[Mustafa Ali Khan @MAKhan_96]

In our latest in @Crit_Care, we report the status of critical care in 🇵🇰 using a new method of capacity assessment➡️https://t.co/fiZdSf8Jzf

Immensely proud of the work done by the Tele-ICU project and grateful to our leadership: @AdilHaiderMD, @ZainabASamad, and Dr. Asad Latif.

[Adil Haider @AdilHaiderMD]

So proud of incredibly resilient students who appeared for @AKUGlobal entrance tests Today. Surely there were some challenges due to unprecedented rains but so impressed w/students and our great Examiners & Staff who worked tirelessly to ensure each candidate gets their best shot

[Adil Haider @AdilHaiderMD]

Best luck to the thousands taking @AKUGlobal entrance test tomorrow. Make sure you’re relaxed, well rested & have breakfast/ lunch Then take a deep breath and do your best! Before you know it, YOU might be rounding on patients like these awesome Student Docs #AgaKhan #admissions

[Anam N Ehsan @AnamNEhsan1]

First international conference and first-ever research award. Honoured, humbled and inspired to push the boundaries of academic surgery. #ASC2022

[Kaleem S. Ahmed, MBBS (MD), MSAI @KaleemSAhmed]

Proud of my @AKUGlobal classmate and close friend @AnamNEhsan1 for presenting her cutting edge geospatial analysis of critical care access in Pakistan! @AcademicSurgery
#ASC2022

[Ali Aahil Noorali @AliAahilNoorali]

Congratulations to @AnamNEhsan1 on leading + presenting this work from 🇵🇰 at the #ASC2022 - I already know that this would have been a powerhouse presentation.

Still remember the early days of this project, especially the meeting in FOB when it was clear that (1/2)

[World Health Organization (WHO) @WHO]

Media briefing on #COVID19 with @DrTedros https://t.co/UPBPyB2oAe

[Adil Haider @AdilHaiderMD]

What can you and your loved ones do to keep yourselves safe during this #COVID19 #Omicron surge in #Pakistan? Watch to find out:
https://t.co/YdJMHqkW4p

[World Health Organization (WHO) @WHO]

Overloaded by misinformation since the beginning of the #COVID19 pandemic? Want to take part in the fight against the infodemic?

Discover our 'Infodemic Management 101' course on #OpenWHO:
👉 https://t.co/ZnHyGnJw5A

[United Nations @UN]

"The vaccines that are available for #COVID19 work against all variants."

Vaccines are a critical tool for fighting the pandemic, says @mvankerkhove, as @WHO reiterates call for vaccine equity to help bring the crisis to an end. https://t.co/82JmXRgYhJ

[World Health Organization (WHO) @WHO]

"The Omicron variant has been detected around the world. We are seeing a very sharp increase in case numbers with almost 10 million cases reported in the last 7 days." -@mvankerkhove explains why Omicron is transmitting so efficiently and how to contain the spread of #COVID19.

[Adil Haider @AdilHaiderMD]

It’s TODAY! Join us as we celebrate the first anniversary of the Clinical and Translational Research Incubator (CITRIC) @AKUGlobal, MC PK! Tune in at 4 to hear directly from each of the awesome centres under CITRIC and their remarkable impact: https://t.co/xzOsSKM1mZ

[Kaleem S. Ahmed, MBBS (MD), MSAI @KaleemSAhmed]

Would love to hear about others’ experiences from #medtwitter #medstudenttwitter or any critique / advice for better ways to tackle these situations!

[Kaleem S. Ahmed, MBBS (MD), MSAI @KaleemSAhmed]

“Is there a doctor on the plane?”
For the first time, 5 months out of medical school, I was able to raise my hand saying “How can I help?”

@AKUGlobal @AdilHaiderMD #medtwitter #MedStudentTwitter

Key lessons from my experience:

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[Kaleem S. Ahmed, MBBS (MD), MSAI @KaleemSAhmed]

@GovtofPakistan please start designating #Pfizer and other Peds-tested vaccines for children! #DeltaVariant is affecting younger populations severely.

[Mónica I. Burgos, MD @mburgosmd]

Hiii. Me again. Please STOP TELLING ME I shouldn’t apply to anesthesia this cycle because of my boards. They don’t define me. I work with LIVING examples that BOARDS don’t determine how good of a doc you’ll be.

[Chase Anderson, MD, MS (K.C. Ardem) 🦸🏽‍♂️🏳️‍🌈 @ChaseTMAnderson]

If you have things that aren't so great, build your narrative as to WHY those things happened.

And try to make sure that's somewhere in your narrative, essay, wherever you can put that stuff in.

We focus too much on numbers in medicine, not the person.

Not their story.

[Sophia K. McKinley MD EdM @SophiaKMcKinley]

This one's for women, introverts, mothers, children of immigrants, first gen MDs, and anyone who's ever been told they are too quiet or don't otherwise fit into the surgery club. #ILookLikeASurgeon and so do you.

[Adil Haider @AdilHaiderMD]

A huge thank you to the Department of Pathology for inviting me to commemorate #WorldBloodDonorDay. Great to see our faculty and students highlighting the importance of donating blood to keep the world beating.