Chancellor’s Installation – 22 March

On the 22 March 2017, the University of Bristol will be officially installing Sir Paul Nurse, geneticist and Nobel prize winner as its Chancellor.

To mark this occasion, Sir Paul would love to meet students and share with some insights into a career in research, drawing on his own experience that would eventually lead him to winning the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine 2001 for his part in the discovery of protein molecules that control the duplication of cells in the cell cycle.

Sir Paul is Chief Executive and Director of the Francis Crick Institute, and former President of the Royal Society. He is the third Nobel laureate to be installed as Chancellor of the University of Bristol, after Sir Winston Churchill (Literature 1953; Chancellor 1929-1965) and Dorothy Hodgkin (Chemistry 1964; Chancellor 1970-1988).

As Chancellor of the University of Bristol, Sir Paul will be the ceremonial head of the institution and play an important ambassadorial role, nationally and internationally. This is a great opportunity for University of Bristol students to meet your new Chancellor and a Q&A will follow chaired by Laura Ho, Postgraduate Education Officer, Bristol SU.

Please register for a place and bring your ticket with you on the day preferably on your phone or printed. Late comers may not be admitted. Please note this event is for students only and you may be asked to show your student card.

This event is in partnership with Bristol SU, Bristol Doctoral College and the Postgraduate Network.

Booking via: https://sir-paul-nurse-life-in-research.eventbrite.co.uk

The Expert Institute’s 3rd annual Healthcare and Life Sciences Scholarship

Each year, the Expert Institute offers a $1,000 scholarship for students who are currently pursuing undergraduate or graduate degrees related to healthcare or the life sciences. Students from the United Kingdom are welcome to apply for the award.
Full information about the scholarship’s requirements, as well as the application form, can be found on the scholarship website located at the following address: https://www.theexpertinstitute.com/writing-contest-medical-scholarship/

 

e-Learning materials on prescribing

Health Education England e-Learning for Healthcare has worked with the British Pharmacological Society to develop an e-learning programme based on the principles of clinical pharmacology that underpin safe and effective prescribing.

“Prescribe” provides e-learning materials to help healthcare students to develop a firm grounding in the principles of clinical pharmacology and use of medicines more generally. The e-learning resource contains both interactive learning sessions and information designed to support students in achieving the relevant knowledge and skills outcomes.

The e-learning programme is intended to complement existing teaching initiatives and is made available free of charge to students registered with UK universities and NHS-affiliated organisations.

Prescribe is based on the learning outcomes set out in Outcomes for Graduates (originally published in Tomorrow’s Doctors 2009). These reflect earlier proposals made by the Safe Prescribing Working Group, convened by the Medical Schools Council in 2007, and are set out in greater detail within the British Pharmacological Society’s curriculum for medical students.

These competencies include the ability to:
• establish an accurate drug history
• plan appropriate therapy for common indications
• write a safe and legal prescription
• appraise critically the prescribing of others
• calculate appropriate doses
• provide patients with appropriate information
• access reliable information about medicines
• detect and report adverse drug reactions.

Prescribe will also provide material that is relevant to UK final year medical students preparing to sit the Prescribing Safety Assessment and is also aligned to many of the competencies highlighted in the recently published Prescribing Competency Framework.

Prescribe can be access at:

http://www.e-lfh.org.uk/programmes/clinical-pharmacology-and-prescribing/

TASME Spring Conference 2017 Saturday 22nd April

The TASME Spring Conference will be taking place on Saturday 22nd April 2017 at Keele University.

This is a one day medical education conference featuring lectures from dynamic prominent keynote speakers, with interactive workshops on topics including career pathways in medical education, simulation, practical teaching skills and medical writing.

Aimed at students, trainees, consultants, GPs and allied health care professionals, there will be something here for anyone with an interest in medical education

There is also the opportunity to submit abstracts for both poster and oral presentations, with prizes being awarded for the best poster and oral presentations.

To view the conference flyer click HERE

For any queries please contact  info@tasme.org.uk.

General Practice: What’s the Prognosis?

Bristol GPSOC are proud to present the FIRST EVER South West GP Society Conference, held in conjunction with the Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP), where we’ll be welcoming delegates from Bristol, Cardiff, Exeter, Swansea and Plymouth Universities!

**General Practice: What’s the Prognosis?**

Do you want to know more about….
* The exciting future of general practice?
* What it’s like to be a GP with a specialist interest/portfolio career?
* How to become a GP entrepreneur?
* The increasing role of technology in primary care?
* Steps you need to take to get from medical student to GP?
* Ways in which the medical curriculum could change to give a fairer representation of general practice?
* What it’s like to be a GP with a diagnosis of dementia?

If so, join us on SATURDAY 18th MARCH at Wills Memorial Building for an exciting, jam-packed day of inspirational speakers and workshops!

And don’t forget, winners of our POSTER COMPETITION will be awarded a PRIZE, courtesy of the RCGP, by Vice Chair of the RCGP, Professor Kamila Hawthorne MBE. Deadline for abstract submission is FEBRUARY 27th (link on the FB event page). Contact Aaron Shaughnessy at as15127.2015@my.bristol.ac.uk for details!

The full schedule can be found here: RCGP South West Student GPSoc Conference- Bristol
**TICKETS WILL BE RELEASED ON THURSDAY 23rd FEBRUARY AT 6PM**
We look forward to seeing you there!
Bristol GPSOC

Interesting snippets from the BMJ last week (dated Feb 11th)

An interesting paper (for a gynaecologist anyway) examined the outcomes of women having two ovaries removed at hysterectomy, as opposed to one. Those with only one had less likelihood of an admission with ischaemic heart disease, and were less likely to die from any cause. They did not mention symptoms arising from pain in the residual ovary, anecdotally a common cause of further surgery.

A US study examined differing outcomes in patients seen and clerked by medical graduates from the US and from outside the US. They found that patients treated non-US graduates had lower mortality rates but higher costs. Readmission rates did not differ between the two groups.

And who has not heard of Heimlich’s manoeuvre? Well sadly, Henry Heimlich died recently at the age of 96. A thoracic surgeon, when he began to think and work on his most famous achievement, death by choking was the SIXTH commonest cause of death in the US. Testing out his theory on anaesthetised dogs initially, he published his recommendations as “Pop Goes the Café Coronary” in 1974 in the Journal of Emergency Medicine.

David Cahill, Professor in Reproductive Medicine and Medical Education, Programme Director for the MB ChB course

Classification of normal and pathological sounds produced by the human lung

A PhD student of acoustics, Angelika Podoła, at Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland is writing a thesis about the classification of normal and pathological sounds produced by the human lung. Angelika is looking for doctors and medical students, who would be willing to fill out a questionnaire, which is based on the assessment and classification of sounds produced by the human lung, recorded by electronic stethoscope. Completion of the survey is a great opportunity to test skills in auscultation. The survey takes about 15 minutes and is completely anonymous.

Link to the survey: http://www.questionpro.com/t/AMPMOZX8Gh

Generally Speaking Student & Trainee GP Conference

On 5 April 2017 MSC will be hosting a joint conference with RCGP for medical students and GP Trainees. The conference will help both organisations formulate their response to the Wass report; ‘By choice, not by chance’ by ensuring the views of medical students and trainees are central to policy development in this area. The conference will address the following questions.

  • What are students’ perceptions of general practice?
  • What can medical schools do within their teaching and curricula to support a positive perception of general practice?
  • What changes does the profession itself need to make to ensure that general practice is an attractive career choice?
  • How can general practice trainees be more involved in training medical students?
  • What is the future for general practice research?

For more information please see the attached flyer: Student-GP-conference-flyer