Bristol medic published in the BMJ

Philippa Walker-Smith, a year 4 student, was doing her dermatology in the BRI when she came across an unusual inflammatory lesion on a young man’s cheek. It turned out to be due to a relatively new organism, Arthroderma benhamiae, which was isolated after culture. Well done to her for spotting this and for getting it published in the BMJ last Saturday (http://www.bmj.com/content/357/bmj.j2007.long ).

Associate Membership of NACT UK for Trainees or Medical Students

NACT UK would like to offer an Associate Membership to any trainees or medical students who would like to be involved in a leadership role in Medical Education.

This membership would enable you to network with like-minded people; learn from Leaders in Education throughout the UK, have access to valuable resources, attend educational meetings at a reduced cost and much more.

The cost of this will be £35.00 per annum and run from January – December annually renewable.  As a personal membership, this can be claimed against tax.  For further information, please contact office@nact.org.uk or Tel 01908 488033 for more information about MACT: http://www.nact.org.uk/

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

As part of both organisations’ response to the Wass report ‘By choice – not by chance’ the Royal College of General Practitioners and MSC have been working together to develop a survey of students’ career aspirations. The survey asks students what is important in terms of your future careers and how you view GP as a career as well as what has influenced your views. There are also questions that investigate views on how medicine will change in the future and how you think that will impact on your careers.

The survey can be accessed via this link: https://shift-learning.researchfeedback.net/wh/s.asp?k=149140159020  The survey closing date is 15th July

Further information can also be found on the poster downloadable via this link: Survey information

Summer school for training & research experience in neural dynamics (TRENDs)

The Faculty of Biomedical Sciences, University of Bristol, are offering twelve fully funded positions on the Welcome Trust sponsored summer school for training and research experience in neural dynamics (TRENDs). See link below:

http://www.bristol.ac.uk/neural-dynamics/information/trends/

For successful applicants all costs to attend the course, including travel expenses within the UK, accommodation and food will be covered. Overseas travel expenses will be considered on a case by case basis.

Deadline Monday 29th May, 2017  Please send a completed application form, along with a cover letter, a copy of your CV and one academic reference to elaine.sparey@bristol.ac.uk

University of Bristol Oncology Society (UBONC)

A huge thank you to all the 1st year medical students that attended the University of Bristol Oncology Society (UBONC) element 8 and 9 revision session on the 30th of April. We had a huge turnout with over 140 people attending the session. Our aim was to simplify the more complex topics of Immunology/Cancer Biology and provide you with some practice questions. Hopefully the revision lecture, MCQs and revision notes provided will help you in your upcoming exams. The feedback you gave us was very positive and it was a pleasure teaching you all. Certificates will also be provided from the session.
Regards, Jonathan Martin (UBONC President). Many thanks also to the other people that helped out in the session this included: Hannah Freer, Camilla Hickish, Zara Dyar, Sam Miller, Dolcie Paxton, Natasha Lakin and Matthew Carr.

UHBristol wins big at the BMJ Awards

Well done to UHBristol for winning two 2017 BMJ awards.

Professor Karen Forbes and team won the Palliative & Hospice Team of the Year for an innovative project that has measurably improved palliative care for patients or their carers and UHBristol also won the Prevention team of the year which recognises teams whose work shows the benefits of early detection from birth through to old age.

Read more about this fantastic achievement in the BMJ here: http://thebmjawards.bmj.com/BMJ/media/uploaded/EVBMJ/event_187/Awards_brochure_2017_final__3_.pdf

Annual South West Obstetrics and Gynaecology meeting

On Friday May 5th, several of our students (Laura Medhurst, Curtis Wright and Callum Hunter) attended and presented at the Annual South West Obstetrics and Gynaecology meeting, held this year in Plymouth. Pictured below, they presented on topics of Female Genital Mutilation, Cleft lip and palate, and prophylaxis against HIV. As has happened every year now for the past 4 years, they came away with silverware – Curtis Wright came away with the runner up prize for best poster. Congratulations to him!

Laura Medhurst presenting her talk

Callum Hunter with his poster

Curtis Wright and his prize winning poster

Call for Papers – Opportunity to Speak at Health Through Peace 2017

The Health Through Peace conference is running between 4-6th September 2017, at the University of York.

Medact and the IPPNW are bringing together health professionals, students and peace activists to debate, discuss and discover how to confront global insecurity as an international health community.

They’re inviting researchers, speakers and organisations to present on a range of topics, from militarisation and violence to the refugee crisis and climate change.

Submit an abstract by 31st May for the chance to present your research.

At this stage, they’re particularly looking for papers that explore the public health link across:

  • Climate change and conflict
  • Racism, misogyny and the rise of the Right
  • Gender, violence and conflict
  • Arms control and disarmament

Put your paper in by 31st May.

Any enquiries can be directed to  ippnw-2017@york.ac.uk.