Recent successes from anatomy students and staff

Dom Mahoney a medical student from Bristol took part in the fifth National Undergraduate Neuroanatomy Competition at the University of Southampton (8 Apr 2017) and received a distinction award. https://twitter.com/NatNeuroComp/status/856785925975756800
 
Katie Lloyd a final year medical student from Bristol attended the International Joint Summer Meeting of the British & European Associations of Clinical Anatomists at the University of Warwick, 4-6 Jul 2017. She did an oral presentation entitled, ‘How to tackle ‘Neurophobia’: a student led approach‘. This was about work on a series of near-peer neuroanatomy revision sessions, designed, set-up and run by a group of fourth year students at Bristol. Katie was awarded one of the two Conrad Lewin prizes for BACA members, for best oral presentation by an early career anatomist at the conference.
Dr Matthew Boissaud-Cooke, one of this year’s anatomy demonstrators, attended the International Joint Summer Meeting of the British & European Associations of Clinical Anatomists at the University of Warwick, 4-6 Jul 2017. He did an oral presentation entitled, ‘A 5-year update on ‘Bridging the Gap’: Bristol’s applied anatomy revision training days for Foundation Doctors‘. Matthew was awarded the BACA 40th Anniversary prize for best oral presentation by an early career anatomist at the conference.
 
Dr Sarah Allsop attended the International Joint Summer Meeting of the British & European Associations of Clinical Anatomists at the University of Warwick, 4-6 Jul 2017. As a member of the council of the British Association of Clinical Anatomists, she was invited to chair the education session on day two of the conference.

Student Saturday at the IBF Congress

The UK Balint Society is host for the International Balint Federation Congress at Keble College, Oxford from 6th to 10th September 2017. On Saturday 9th September, medical students are invited to join the congress.

You will have the opportunity to meet other medical students and have time to talk with 8 -10 others about your experiences with patients in the safety of a Balint group*, facilitated by experienced Balint leaders. You will also be invited to join the main participants of this international congress in attending a lecture, presentation or workshop. Winners of the Ascona international medical student essay prize will be presenting their papers during the afternoon.

 The day is suitable for students with some clinical experience. It is not necessary to have been in a Balint group before.

For more information please see: https://balint.co.uk/student-saturday-at-the-ibf-congress/

Become involved with a new basic life support near-peer training initiative in the Medical Programme

From September 2017 we will be training our year 1 Medical Students in Basic Life Support and Automated Defibrillation and all students will gain a European and UK recognised resuscitation qualification. Working together with RMD Birmingham (Resuscitation for Medical Disciplines), RMD Bristol is looking for enthusiastic staff and students to become instructors on our course in Bristol for 2017-18. These volunteer near-peer instructors will work together to train over 250 students in life support skills. We will be one of only two schemes of this kind in the UK, as many medical schools train their students but very few gain them a qualification.

For more information and to apply to become part of this exciting new initiative please complete the google form via the link: https://goo.gl/forms/Q5eG94HlLKzlFTKx2

British Association in Forensic Medicine Student Prize 2017

The British Association in Forensic Medicine (BAFM) offers an annual prize of £250 to medical students from the United Kingdom for what is judged to be the best project on any aspect of forensic pathology carried out during an elective period or short study module.

The closing date is 1st August 2017. For more details and for how to apply please download the flyer: BAFM student prize 2017 flyer

Complete a short MSC survey for the chance to win £350!

Shift Learning has been commissioned to conduct some research to better understand perceptions around different medical specialties and where these might be formed.

They would like to invite Bristol medics to take part in a short online survey and as a thank you for your time you will be entered into a prize draw to win £350. Click on the link below to take part in the survey: https://shift-learning.researchfeedback.net/wh/s.asp?k=149140159020

Closing date: 15 July 2017
Completion time: 10 minutes
Prize draw: £350
If you have any questions about the research, please contact Elsie Lauchlan at elsie.lauchlan@shiftlearning.co.uk or you can call 0207 253 8959.

RHCN prize for best SSC 2016-17

On Friday June 30th, 6 students were shortlisted to attend the RHCN Prize presentations and present their work, for the prize of being the best in the year (and money and a certificate) .

After a tough competition, Clemmie Stebbings was the victor, with her presentation on “The science of the lambs: creation of an artificial womb”, which was engaging, thought-provoking, educational  and entertaining.

ASME Annual Meeting, Exeter, 2017

 

This year’s annual meeting was held in Exeter 21st – 23rd June. There was a very good turnout from Bristol Medical School and its associated academies.

We had two workshops

TEL Creating simple and effective e-learning quickly and easily, run by Jane Williams and Kat Butcher and Escape Room at ASME ASM 2017 – Learning clinical skills and human factors in a fun environment, run by Phil Davies and the Gloucestershire team.

There were 24 oral presentations from Bristol at the three-day conference and

There were 47 posters. The themes covered by the posters were:

  • Simulation based teaching / training 19
  • Clinical Care 14
  • Clinical Skills  6
  • Portfolios 4
  • Death  3
  • Service evaluation 3
  • Resilience 3
  • IP working  2
  • Games, Prescribing, Mentoring  1

 

GP Question Time & Speed Mentoring for Foundation Doctors

Considering a career in general practice? The Royal College of General Practitioners are holding an event on 15th August exploring the endless possibilities a career in general practice has to offer with questions answered by current leaders of primary care.

If you are unable to attend, you can watch the panel discussion live and join the conversation remotely on www.facebook.com/rcgp.org

For more information please visit: Http://www.rcgp.org.uk/learning/membership/student-events/foundation-year-doctors-question-time-and-speed-mentoring.aspx

Great honour bestowed on a member of Bristol Medical School

Debbie Lawlor is a renowned epidemiologist and translational research expert whose interests span understanding how biological (including genetic), social and environmental exposures from across life affect the risk of disease and how, therefore, disease can be prevented and health improved.
In the Queen’s birthday list, she has been elevated to be a Commander of the British Empire. This is excellent news for her and her team.