WISCONSIN SOCIETY
OF MEDICAL ASSISTANTS
AN AFFILIATE OF THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF MEDICAL ASSISTANTS
Events & Meetings
Fall PDAs
Saturday, October 26, 2024
Chula Vista Resort,
Wisconsin Dells
Call 608-678-3119 to make your room reservation by 10/3 for discount. Group ID: K47421 WI Society of Medical Assistants. $129/night.
Spring PDAs
Saturday, February 22, 2025
Fairfield Inn & Suites in Wausau. 7100 Stone Ridge Dr, Weston, WI 54476
Phone: (715) 241-8400
2025 WSMA Conference
April 10-12, 2025
Ingleside Hotel
Pewaukee, WI
More details to come!
The WSMA President has selected the Waukesha Chapter – Blessings in a Backpack as the Community Outreach Project recipient for 2024-2025. Feel free to donate on their website at any time. At our Fall & Spring PDAS events we will have a table to donate where all funds will go towards this project. A food drive and a table where attendees could write cards of encouragement that are handed out with weekend food bags will be available at the WSMA Annual Conference in April 2025.
Blessings in a Backpack does accept donations of NEW backpacks or drawstring bags. Unfortunately, they cannot accept satchels, roller bags, messenger bags, or clear or mesh backpacks.
Waukesha Chapter – Blessings in a Backpack
Every school-aged child in America has the nourishment needed to learn and grow. Blessings in a Backpack mobilizes communities, individuals, and resources to provide food on the weekends for school-aged children across America who might otherwise go hungry.
Blessings in a Backpack has provided 23.5 million hunger-free weekends (bags of food) for more than 838,600 kids nationwide!
News & Announcements
Scholarships
Congratulations to our 2022-2023 Memorial Scholarship winners! Braeley Pettigrew is a young woman from Bryant & Stratton College who shows dedication and enthusiasm. Braeley's instructors also praise her on her attentiveness to details and eagerness to learn. Not only is she a great student and role model to other medical assistant students, she is a mother of two, volunteers as a parent ambassador at her son's school, and is a strong advocate for the RADD (recreational advocates for developmental disability) program. Braeley has such a beaming personality and shows so much dedication to the medical assistant profession already. We cannot wait to see her name as an active member on the WSMA and volunteer on our committees. Braeley was able to accept her award in person at our 2024 WSMA Annual Conference Awards Luncheon.
Mary Bixby is a dedicated student at Madison College who displays exemplary writing and verbal communication skills. Mary's instructors have no doubt she will be a successful medical assistant and serve her community well. Her goal in the medical assistant profession is providing care by assisting in the rehabilitation of introducing imprisoned people back into society. This requires such patience and strength. Her passion is helping patients succeed and providing the best tools and resources and it shows strongly in her volunteer efforts. The WSMA is proud to present her with this scholarship and cannot wait to see what trails she will blaze in the future.
Again, congratulations to these strong individuals. We had 3 other exemplary candidates that applied. It was a very close vote and wish we had the opportunity to present all applicants as winners. We can see what the future medical assistants look like and they all shine. Keep it up!
The WSMA is so proud of each and every one of you. Best of luck on your success! If you or know a current medical assistant student who would be a great recipient of the Memorial Scholarship, please complete an application. Each applicant is presented with a check in the amount of $1,500. Applications are due February 15, 2025.
TECHNOLOGY UPDATES
WSMA has a new Facebook page. Please follow our new page at WSMA - Wisconsin Society of Medical Assistants.
Follow us, share us, + tell your friends about this new update! Due to some technical difficulties, we needed to make this our new page. We are still loading great content, so be patient.
We do not currently have an Instagram account, but are also working on getting this completed. Will update you when this goes live.
The Executive Committee emails are also getting some much-needed updates. The current WSMA emails are not valid. Please contact us through the website or Facebook in the meantime until we can get our emails up to date. Please be patient as we work through this new process.
PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE
It is a great honor to be representing the WSMA as the 2024-2025 President. I became a certified medial assistant in 2011 after graduating from Waukesha County Technical College. Immediately, I became an AAMA member and continue to this day. For the past 13 years I have been working for Froedtert and the Medical College of Wisconsin. Throughout the year, our society will offer two Professional Development and Advancement Seminars (PDAS) and one state conference.
I am very excited that the state conference will be held by my home chapter at the Ingelside Hotel in Pewaukee, WI. These sessions will all offer opportunities for CEUs to maintain AAMA credentials as well as opportunities to network with other medical assistants throughout the state. Thank you for entrusting me with the responsibility of leading this society.
I look forward to seeing you at one of our upcoming events!
Kelly Emmons, CMA (AAMA)